Proud of my country early this week for approving military aid to Ukraine, delayed too long by partisan bickering. In the end the vote was about 75% in favor in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. I had withheld comment on any other subject since March for whatever good my little blog might do in bring support to our friend and democratic partners in Ukraine and western Europe. Speaker Johnson should be commended for his research, soul searching, courage and prayer in doing the right thing. Let’s keep going in the right direction and find a bipartisan solution for the southern border.
Of course I was appalled by Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th. The insane and barbaric attack against civilians and Israel needs rightly to retaliate and drive Hamas out of Gaza forever. No country can tolerate terrorism from within or at it’s borders. BUT, 35,000 and climbing dead civilians in Gaza, Israel itself has become the monster. The cause is just but the proportionality is all wrong. Americans have difficulty understanding the very difficult position of a country (Israel) where a terrorist can jump out from behind a corner or blow up a bus at any moment. But they cannot themselves turn into monsters, bomb diplomatic compounds and set the whole region and world on fire. In this last matter, Iran had to respond and only the combined anti-air capability of Israel, the U.S and allies prevented a full scale war.
And that really bad smell, yesterday the Supreme Court heard Donald Trumps claims of presidential immunity regarding his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Supreme Court did not even need to hear this case. All the lower courts have ruled without question that the president is not immune from prosecution for attempts to overturn an election. However several of the justices seemed more concerned with hypothetical examples of possible wrongful prosecution of future presidents and may well send the case back to the lower courts. This would most likely deny the people and the country the opportunity to hear the charges and evidence before the 2024 election. This smells really bad.
