Today is Thursday, September 7, 2023. Finally, a voice of reason has slammed his own party, the repugnican party, for hurling the party into total oblivion by irrationally trying to impeach President Joe Biden for nothing. The person saying this is Republican strategist Mike Murphy who was interviewed for an article for HuffPost entitled “Republican Strategist Shreds ‘Incredibly Stupid’ Move That May Wipe Out Party,” by Lee Moran.

Murphy minces no words when he states that Republican attempts to open impeachment hearings against Biden could lead to a collapse of the party at the ballot box next year. I say if they do not steer off course – and I think they’re incapable of doing that – then I say, “Bring it on!”

The former adviser to Senator Mitt Romney (Utah) and the late Senator John McCain (Arizona), Murphy said, it’s an “incredibly stupid idea” to MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.

Speaking the truth, Murphy said this about how fucked his party is if it continues this downward spiral into obscurity, “It’s not in the Republican party’s interests if they want to not get wiped out next year at the polls in November.”

As for how other “sane” voices in the repugnican party are not being heard like that of deranged Marjorie Taylor Greene who has led the calls in the House to impeach the sitting president. She’s repeatedly made unfounded accusations about corruption in the Biden family.

Last month, Marjorie “Jewish Space Laser ” Greene slammed colleagues who fail to jump on the impeachment band wagon when she inquired stupidly: “What the hell is wrong with Republicans who aren’t moving to investigate President Joe Biden?” This comment was made by a ranking House Republican who should know better, but she’s too far gone to ever realize her mistakes.

Despite there not being anything of substance in Republicans’ claims of corruption existing within the Biden family, there remains a most unsettling percentage of registered voters – 52 percent – who feel that former president Donald J. Frump “has a strong record of accomplishments.” Huh! Should these voters be shackled to “Jewish Space Laser” Greene and all of those other delusional Republicans? It would seem the answer is yes. The results of this most recent shocking poll are included in an article for The New Republic by Timothy Noah entitled “How on Earth Can Voters Think Trump Accomplished More Than Biden?”

This poll comes out of The Wall Street Journal which was released on Monday. Considering what the results say, it’s probably best not to even publish it! Just kidding! As for the economy, 58 percent of those polled say the economy has gotten worse over the past two years.

Noah breaks that down, disputing that claim, saying “that’s objectively untrue.” The true facts behind the economy, he points out, are that “inflation did rise to 9.1 percent in June 2022, but it fell over the past year to 3.2 percent, and by June and July, hourly wage increases exceeded inflation for the first time in two years.” Unemployment is 3.8 percent, which is very low. One of Biden’s most recent accomplishments is pushing a law through Congress permitting Medicare to negotiate drug prices for at least 10 major medications for all Americans, something Democrats (and some Republicans, including, briefly, Trump) sought, unsuccessfully, for a generation.

Another accomplishment enacted by Biden includes a proposed regulation from the Biden Labor Department that would extend eligibility for time-and-a-half overtime pay to 3.6 million more salaried workers.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is projected to create (according to the Bank of America) 86,000 jobs based on investments announced thus far, and the 2021 infrastructure bill is expected to create (according to Moody’s Analytics) another 660,000 positions.

What is truly shocking of this poll are the numbers who believe Dumpf “has a strong record of accomplishments.” I’m betting the moon that not one of those polled can mention any one significant accomplishment made by Frump during his single disastrous term.

Here the article unleashes a hefty dose of realism in assessing Frump’s “many” accomplishments as the commander in chief. In no certain order, Trump did lower taxes on the very rich in corporate and capital gains tax rates and a reduction of the top marginal tax rates for households earning in excess of half a million dollars (a threshold that has since risen to $578,100). This increased the budget deficit by somewhere between $1 trillion and $2 trillion. And you want Dumpf back in the White House to increase it even more?

Another “good” accomplishment of the former president is his weakening or eliminating dozens of health, safety, and environmental regulations at the behest of corporate lobbyists.

The third “accomplishment” is his separation of children from their parents at the border, prompting an outraged public reaction that persuaded him finally to stop. But, as of February, hundreds of children remained separated from their parents.

His biggest accomplishment that will be enshrined for years – sadly – is his installment of an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court, now dubbed the “Extreme” Court. Does anyone want this felon to nominate more right-wing jurists to the Extreme Court if he ever squeaks in again?

Frump did try (and failed) to pass an infrastructure bill.

One other huge accomplishment was Frump promising to build a wall, paid for the Mexican government, across the 1,954-mile southern border, but ended up mostly just replacing existing fencing, with a net addition of 52 miles where no fencing had been before. Neither the replacement fencing nor the new fencing was paid for by the Mexican government.

Frump tried and (thankfully) failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

One other area where Frump almost succeeded, and we can’t forget that, is his failure to enlist Ukraine’s president in a partisan scheme to discredit the son of his 2020 presidential opponent, as he withheld U.S. aid to apply pressure. For this “noble” act, Frump was impeached the first time.

The most significant of Frump’s accomplishments during his term in office was his bungled mismanaging of the COVID-19 epidemic, with the result that 400,000 people died from the disease on his watch, a much higher death rate than in other wealthy countries, none of them as wealthy as the United States. I also attribute Frump’s unnecessary politicizing of the virus that resulted in less than half of all Americans getting the COVID vaccine when they should have. As a consequence, when Frump left office, the unemployment rate was 6.3 percent (compared to the 4.8 percent rate when he entered office).

Oh, and let us not forget, when Frump lost the election, he attempted to overturn the results, a crime for which he is now being prosecuted in two jurisdictions. He also encouraged rioters to block the counting of ballots in Congress by urging them to march on the Capitol and then by remaining silent, for hours, while they committed acts of violence and vandalism there. This raises some question about whether he’s eligible, under the Fourteenth Amendment, to appear on the presidential ballot in 2024.

In spite of all of these misdeeds and failures, a narrow majority of voters polled by the Journal agreed that this former president had a strong track record of accomplishments. So why is there such a disconnect here?

The reason is that voters haven’t had the time to absorb the good news, according to Jim Messina, who managed President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection. He writes in a new 22-slide presentation for Democrats, “Research shows voters’ views on the economy are baked in by June of the reelection year.” Now the White House has 9 months to change these voters’ perception. Let us hope that Messina’s prediction does bear fruit in the near future rather than now and that voters listen to reason this time before they respond to a poll seeking their input as to who they feel are the better candidate for president in 2024. If they still tap Frump as the better candidate, they are hallucinating.

Today “Gym” Jordan received a scathing response from Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis who has indicted Frump and 18 codefendants in a sprawling election subversion scheme as he vainly tried to interfere in her prosecution of his Dear Leader, and it’s a priceless piece of prosecutorial censure directed to a repugnican baboon in the form of the fashionably maladroit Gym Jordan. Her response was scathing, according to an article in an online CNN article by Annie Grayer and Sara Murray entitled “Fulton County slams Jim Jordan’s investigation into her prosecution of Trump and his allies.”

In her 9-page letter to the befuddled Republican from Ohio, Willis slammed him for trying to “interfere with an active criminal case.” She condemned Jordan’s investigation into her case against Frump and his acolytes. She said the Jordan probe’s “obvious purpose is to obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous partisan misrepresentations.” She argued, “there is no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter, as you attempt to do.”

In this passage, Willis strikes out at the nonlawyer who is trying to intervene on behalf of his Orange Hemorrhoid, knocking him down a peg or two, by saying, “Your job description as a legislator does not include criminal law enforcement, nor does it include supervising a specific criminal trial because you believe that doing so will promote your partisan political objectives.” At one point in her withering letter, Willis advises the unprofessional repugnican to read some book on RICO law. She also points out that Jordan’s letter to her “makes clear that you lack a basic understanding of the law: its practice, and the ethical obligations of attorneys generally and prosecutors specifically.” Ouch!

Here she delivers the coup de grace to the ignorant repugnican, by advising him to buy a copy of a book that explains RICO statutes, which is $249. She said his understanding of the indictment against Trump and his allies is “misinformed.” Willis termed Jordan’s suggestion that the former president and his allies should not have been prosecuted as “offensive.” She says, “Here is another reality you must face: Those who wish to avoid felony charges in Fulton County, Georgia . . . should not commit felonies in Fulton County, Georgia.” Touché, Ms. Willis!

If I were “Gym” Jordan, I’d hide under a rock now after being humiliated by Fani Willis in front of the entire nation.

Oh, today was a good day for the scales of justice as Frump’s former trade adviser, Peter Navarro, has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena in the January 6 Select Committee investigation. He is an arrogant son of a bitch from clips of him talking to Ari Melber on his MSNBC program. He obviously believed he was above the law and he was told by a grand jury – who deliberated about 4 hours (I’m surprised it took even this long!) – that he’s certainly not!

Stay safe and be well.