Really, Really Good Secret

 

  As you have probably surmised from the above title, today’s flash of brilliance concerns something, well, really, really secret.

If you ever turned over a medium to large size rock, you may have noticed critters scurrying and slithering hither and yon. That is because those critters felt safe and secure beneath that rock which served those creatures well as a means of protection.

I dare say some of those creepy crawlies included centipedes, earthworms, earwigs, poly-polys, and probably a slug or two, maybe even a salamander. Those are largely harmless to humans, but are scary-looking to novices who rarely turn over rocks. And why would you turn over a rock in the first place?

After all, those rocks provide a safe haven for the creepy crawlies; they largely live under those rocks to feast heartily on microbes and such in the soil, efficiently converting their prey into fertilizer to promote vegetation growth in order to continue the cycle of life. And so life goes in nature.

Until something disrupts this near flawless cycle. That something happens to be picking up the rock.

You see, before that rock was moved – maybe years since its last disruption – hidden was this secret world that seemed to not even exist, but it did and still does under other undisturbed rocks.

Which is where we enter today’s world of amazement. This amazement is not much different from the way our greasy, sleazy politicians have been using free-flowing taxpayer dollars for many, man years. Let’s examine this Capital Hill subterranean diner.

For decades, USAID – the United States Agency for International Development – has been funded to get politicians re-elected and re-re-elected, re-re-re-elected, and re-re-re-re-elected by appearing to be beneficial.

Unfortunately, that give-away money is taxpayer dollars – the taxpayer dollars that hardworking Americans (probably just like you) are forced to pay under penalty of imprisonment. Yeah, those same taxpayer dollars that former president Joe Biden harped about you stingy louts of “not paying your fair share.”

Goading Americans into gleefully stuffing billions of dollars into the guvment t-shirt cannon, USAID proved equally generous spending the $40,000,000,000, they received in 2020. Just where did these precious tax dollar go? Let’s inspect this legal shell game.

It seems everyone needs money for something, and this is where USAID excels. They disburse their funding toward agriculture, food safety, democracy, education, environment and climate change, global health, humanitarian assistance, water and sanitation, plus working in crisis and conflict; those are only a few wonderful ways their billions of dollars listed on the USAID website are spent.

If you’re thinking, “Wow! How great is that?” you’re right. It’s unfortunate, though, that those monies are freely spent in Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

Notably missing from this list is North America – namely the United States. Perhaps that’s because USAID doesn’t believe or know that needy people and situations exist in America. Perhaps it’s because these generous handouts to foreign nations and ungrateful people translate into palm grease.

For you novices, palm grease denotes a “tip” or “bribe” for a position, product, or service, that makes such ‘transactions’ possible.

If you are in doubt, witness the goings-on in Washington, D.C. This is the seat of government where politicians feel they are exempt from the law, rules, regulations, and something called “the truth.”

Where else can a gaggle of misfits, aka: politicians – grifters unable to hold a job where hard, honest work is required – gather to reach into constituent's pockets for mo’ money? Many of these pols have roots so lengthy they actually believe they have a right to your cash.

In the event you don’t believe me, you might want to check the USAID list of goodies the civil servants at USAID are doling out.

Gay and homosexual-oriented plays; lesbian coloring books; condoms for Africans; an anti-religious campaign in Europe; land distribution in Ethiopia; helping Indonesia fight forest fires (anyone hear about California’s and Hawaii’s forest fires?); and achieving sustained, measurable improvements in learning outcomes and skills development, all while American school kids are unable to read and write.

These are a few of the outlandish projects our politicians have snookered Americans into funding, often in perpetuity. And why not? These saviors of the world have generally exempted themselves from the very rules and regulations they foisted upon us.

Take, for example, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), whistle blower protection, anti-discrimination training, the Freedom of Information Act, and record-keeping requirements for workplace injuries and illnesses. Those are just some of the exemptions from which Congress has thoughtfully excluded themselves. Very thoughtful, indeed.

But the really, really secret part of the USAID is that Congress’ connection remains secret. Democratic politicians, namely: Maxine Waters, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy, Chuck Schumer, Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, Adam Kinzinger, Cory Booker, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are just a handful of the 41 irate politicians who are adamant that USAID’s foreign agenda is far more important than our domestic plan.

Not Al Roker

Why else would these seasoned elected officials publicly rail – even scream – when addressing the immediate defunding of the USAID? It’s not as though poor American children are going to starve, or those same underprivileged kids are going to continue to be unable to read if USAID funding goes cold.

Is a $20,000,000 award “to a non-profit called Sesame Workshop” to produce a show called “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” necessary to “Promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious and sectarian groups,” per Fox News, somehow critical to the future of the United States?

Evidently the very public rabid Democrats mentioned above think so. Why else send precious tax revenue across international boundaries to satisfy politician’s wants over constituent’s needs?

Take the above-mentioned Maxine Waters. She’s a Democrat Congressclown representing the 43^rd congressional district of California, whose territory includes Los Angeles; she has been in that position since 1991. Quick ciphering makes her length of tenure 34-years, not a paltry amount of time.

If you recall, California just weeks ago experienced historic, catastrophic forest and wildfires. Those fires destroyed billions upon billions of dollars of property, taking precious memories and irreplaceable mementos, not to mention dozens of human lives.

Yet Waters and her misplaced generosity found her constituents’ tax dollars funding USAID projects instead of programs aimed at making her Los Angeles district safer and more conducive to helping fellow Americans over misfit foreign nations. I’ve got my fingers crossed that she gets reinstated during the next election cycle.

In any case, let’s harken back to the aforementioned rock.

Elon Musk, is a hand-selected member of President Donald Trump’s speed dial list, has proven himself to be a brilliant inventor, and entrepreneur, plus the richest person in the world. Those qualifications have pointed Musk toward sniffing out United States guvment waste with aplomb.

President Trump and Musk’s creation of a fictitious agency, DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), has been waving a cost-saving hatchet around sacred federal government agencies and programs, alike, since Inauguration Day. Among those useless entities run by hapless government employees is USAID.

Screaming before news cameras, frantic pro-USAID Dems may finally be realizing their rock has been overturned to reveal them scurrying, crawling, slithering, and now sweating, since their sleazy grifts have been suddenly exposed to the world.

It would be sensible for a rational representative to cater to the proverbial hand-that-feeds-them theory, along with an apology. Rather, those newly exposed creepy-crawlies are suddenly doubling down, producing what they only know how to produce: disdain for even thinking about cutting their pet projects, and subsequent fertilizer.

Which begs the question: Who would be against opening this USAID can of worms so that reckless and wanton spending of money the guvment doesn’t have – such as $14,000,000 for condoms for members of the Taliban?

Perhaps the very same type of people who would buy a $500,000 Hunter Biden masterpiece painting that may, along with a crude, childlike painting, also buy presidential access and influence.

And now the really, really good secret is out.

Forty-seven

 

  Many of us have heard a term that probably needs to be defined before we continue. Today’s word is “banshee.”

A banshee, according to Irish folklore, is a woman who grieves the death of a family member through loud wails, screams, and shrieking. These eerie noises, according to lore, emanate from forests of Ireland from whence banshees inhabit.

In the likely event you have seen death reporting, or mayhem on television, you probably have seen an American version of banshees during interviews of the mothers of carjackers, dope dealers, or other hoodie-wearing miscreants who succumbed to a timely meeting with St. Peter during their failed respective crime.

Howling to denote a loss of life that now affects the family of the criminal as much as that of the victim, society is fully expected to feel the pain of the bad guy every bit as much as the quickly-forgotten victim. But is the directional pain and suffering from a manufactured situation really well placed?

In November 2024, former president Donald J. Trump was handily elected to serve as President once again. With a respite of four-years filled by Joseph Robinette Biden, Trump spent much of his time fielding lawsuits begun under his stewardship from 2016 through 2024.

Most of those lawsuits were antagonistic in nature, and none were likely based on merit to do little more than hamstring and financially break President Trump, number 45 on the President’s List.

Beginning a new era in 2025, being sworn-in on January 20^th, Trump will probably end up with a wrist brace to soothe his carpal tunnel syndrome from signing one Executive Order (EO) after another to unravel the Gordian Knot of laws established by Biden, his predecessor.

It seems as though Biden, on his first day in office in 2021, he gleefully signed one EO after another until he ran out of ink. Using these EOs as payback to environmentalists and other pink slip holders, Biden essentially began a trip that surprised only a few people who did not really know him.

Growing deep, deep roots in the Senate Office Building while spending nearly a half-century there reaching into the pockets of Beltway Bandits and constituents, alike, Uncle Joe stayed busy lining his own pockets with “lobbying monies” and “tips” until his wallet was filled. And life was good.

But this time, Biden was firmly buckled into the driver’s seat that quickly veered to the Left and never stopped. Spending taxpayer cash ever faster day-by-day, the U.S. Bus to Perdition was, as the name implies, heading nowhere good.

Joe Biden thinking about his upcoming perp walk

Outlawing oil drilling, natural gas ranges, gasoline-fed yard equipment, as well as protesting, Biden happily pointed The Bus toward paperwork. That paperwork was in the form The Constitution – the law of the land that has been the bible of tenets for an entire nation, the United States of America, since 1776.

Biden, on the other hand, felt it was necessary to contort any and all mention of criticism targeted toward Biden and his minions. Suddenly, that pesky First Amendment – the one related to many freedoms – was under attack from Biden’s sty of sleazy attorneys and aides.

To set the record straight, here is what the First Amendment says:

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

It’s not as complex as the guvment’s lawyers would have you believe. In other words, you can be as vocal and annoying to whomever you want. Except under The Biden Administration, that is.

Prohibiting anyone from talking about the COVID-19 virus or its vaccines, Biden lackeys almost instantaneously quieted opposing views, thoughts, ideas, treatments, prophylaxis, or comments, under the threat of arrest or dismissal from a job. Amen.

To help with Democrat voting, Biden opened the Southern Border to any and all who made it across the areas where the Biden Administration stopped the construction of the barrier to keep lawbreakers away. With literally millions – an estimated 15,000,000 unknown aliens illegally crossed – were now in a position to receive gifts o’ plenty from Biden and his organized crime network.

Included in the gift bags were cell phones, maps, vouchers for sustenance and housing, debit cards, food coupons, and instructions on how to avoid and ignore interference from Customs and Immigration officials. What a great country! But I digress.

Being summarily removed – electronically – from social media platforms, Trump was unable to state his thoughts to help stem the tide of a world-wide virus. Aided by a complicit media, Trump and all his supporters were hushed by virtually erasing The First Amendment throughout Biden’s smarmy term.

Lying about anything and everything, Biden, along with his press secretary – whose personality could be likened to an aluminum folding chair – kept Americans in the dark to better conduct their shady dealings out of plain view.

Regularly banging the dais with his fist, Biden insisted the “rich need to pay their fair share” in taxes in order to keep his wild spending spree going. Unfortunately, it would take a payment of $100,000+ from each man, woman, and child in America to cover the debt incurred under Biden’s term.

It’s rather unfortunate that Biden’s son, Hunter, was discovered to have failed to pay his fair share in back taxes. Oops. Too bad the media missed that story and subsequent trial which found Hunter GUILTY. Double oops.

With The Bus gaining speed, Biden was lured into a proxy war with Russia through a deal with a Ukrainian comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president. Since Russia’s incursion into Ukraine in 2022, Biden has sent over $200,000,000,000 in cash and arms and munitions to Zelenskyy.

Of course no one was allowed to mention this attempt to drag us – with our fingernails tearing the dirt from beneath peace-loving Americans – lest they be chastised and removed from social media, too – into another endless foreign war. But it was too late. It seems as though nothing with which Biden disagrees is off-limits. Hope you didn’t forget the Afghanistan war which Biden fumbled badly. Badly.

Following rubbing the noses of hard-working, blue-collar individuals in the dregs of Biden’s elitist cultural and foreign wars, he discovered he could garner more votes from college students by paying their tuition costs. Of course, Biden wasn’t paying anything. Taxpayers were.

(As an aside, my father informed me I was destined for factory work because we didn’t have enough money for me to attend college. As such, I worked for cash to pay my own way through college, and now absolutely refuse to pay for the higher education of someone else. Period.)

For readers baffled by the word “father,” that is a male figure that provides half the formula for creating a child. Combined with a “mother,” who is the female other half, they were traditionally married before the conception of offspring. But then, things change.

And so, it went for four Biden years, shredding The Constitution, buying resources from foreign adversaries, incarcerating Americans who merely protested, all the while ‘gimmes’ signaling their displeasure that Biden wasn’t doling out enough to steer this runaway bus over the cliff to end the misery.

Driving the economy into parallax territory, Biden, along with a compliant Congress, Senate, and media all conspired to hide this subversion of a just and free country. Ardently attempting to financially break the back of our nation’s economy, all the while lying about its impact on our citizens, this cabal seemed intent on trading our sovereign nation to a foreign entity out of spite.

We’re now entering a new era – again – under Donald Trump, and can only hope for rectification of the tragic, failed policies hidden under a smokescreen of lies, lies, and more lies.

A feeling of fresh air appears to be silencing the banshees’ screams and hollering, largely due to the deaths of their loved ones having only been contrived. Those perceived losses were merely a grift to extract more and more freebies off the backs and out of the wallets of today’s and tomorrow’s generations.

President Donald J. Trump, Numbers 45 and 47, promises to rectify the wild ride of the Biden Bus. It’s time to off-load the passengers, the navigators, along with the driver, and hand the wheel to someone who wants to take us all back to sanity, safety, and prosperity.

God bless President Donald Trump.

Not Enough Money

 

  It’s been a while since we’ve had a quiz, and now is as good a time as any.

Q: What tax is most hated by ANY politician?

I’ll wait a few minutes until you can look it up on the interweb or conjure up a correct answer on your own.

A: None. It was a trick question that was designed to lure you in to the smarmy world of pious politicians who love your money and think it belongs to them.

Using the WABAC (Wormhole Activating and Bridging Automatic Computer) to take a ride into the past to catch a glimpse of days gone by, we’re on our way to 2013 in the People’s Republic of Maryland.

Sandwiched between Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this diminutive state prides itself on the Blue Crab, Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Ravens, Chesapeake Bay, and excessive taxes.

Maryland is run by ultra-liberal Lefties who fancy themselves on seemingly competing with New York State, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, for being the most intolerant place to live in America, and they are running neck-and-neck in this competition.

Finding themselves quickly running out of pockets containing any more constituent’s money, the overly creative Maryland politicians invoked a plan to create a new, innovative source of income through charging a “storm water management fee,” a polite way to say “yet another oppressive tax.”

This brilliant idea was designed “to generate revenue to fund remedial measures to limit the amount of pollutants entering the Chesapeake Bay,” per taxfoundation.org. How great is that?

Glad you asked.

In reality, this “rain tax” was a plan to extract blood from a stone, legally. As an example, if you live in a house, you get the privilege of paying the rain tax.

Most people see rain; politicians see money

According to Maryland officials, your house sits on land that, when it rains, prevents the rainwater from entering the ground beneath your house. Rather, it runs off into the Chesapeake Bay, along with copious chemicals, fertilizers, and other pollutants. If you also have a driveway, you earned the right to pay even more tax because the driveway also acts as a rainwater diverter. So, there!

Condominium owners get charged with a $15 tax, – uh, I mean fee, to help protect The Bay. Shopping centers, on the other hand, pay thousands of dollars because of their massive parking lots and rambling stores covering the earth below, according to taxfoundation.org.

This is an ideal exercise in civil engineering, as well as grifting a hapless populace who are happy to call themselves Marylanders. But the story actually begins here.

And so it was with interest that I read an equally brilliant story on a website, theconversation.com.

Climbing aboard the WABAC machine once again, we make our way to 2022. This fast forward action helps us get the information behind a story entitled, “France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution,” from theconversation.com.

Not wanting to steal their thunder, the above article is readily accessible and chock full of facts and ideas. Please have fun with it.

In any case, a number of other entities, to include Michigan State University, and Disneyland Paris, are running full steam ahead on these solar panel projects.

Which begs the question: what about runoff of rainwater that is clearly washing copious chemicals, fertilizers, and other pollutants into waterways putting local aquatic creatures and migratory birds at extreme peril?

The People’s Republic of Maryland clearly saw the dangers of rain runoff to severely financially penalize their taxpayers; France, Michigan State University, and Disneyland Paris, are blind to any dangers. Just who is right?

I dare say you need to ask the greedy politicians who will never repeal taxes under the guise of fees. After all, they realize money solves all problems, and even then, it’s not enough. Uh, huh.

Final Report Card

 

Although things have changed dramatically over time in the education system and scholastics, I dare say the powers-that-be still use report cards as a barometer to measure the effectiveness of both curricula, as well as students themselves.

This is where we find ourselves attempting to make sense of the recent past, plus making corrections to avoid future issues. At the same time, we can embrace the successes while deflecting failed practices.

As such, we are now able to look into the rearview mirror and grade both the successes and failures of the performance of our pupils. In this case, our one particular pupil is none other than Joseph Robinette Biden.

Our criteria for America is as follows: Geography, History, English, Math, Economics, Government operations, Camaraderie, Physical education, and Candor.

Let’s jump right in to see how Biden fared throughout his four-year position as President of the United States.

Geography: F Joe did a wonderful job of finding countless foreign countries around the globe to which he could send literally trillions of dollars in order to better allow those nations fight the systemic crisis: climate change. Lest we forget he discovered – not unlike Christopher Columbus – a new nation, Ukraine. To Ukraine, Joe has sent roughly $200,000,000,000, unaccounted for dollars.

History: F Recalling all the fatalistic missteps of years ago – under the failed James Earl Carter administration which punished America from 1976 until 1980 – Biden appeared to emulate Carter’s hapless stint whose asinine policies raised fuel, food, housing prices, and subsequently inflation by double digits. He also ignored the results of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift from Cuba that brought tens-of-thousands of criminals and mentally ill Cubans to America; this caused a genuine problem for our nation. For this subject he earned a “D” because Biden’s brain is too fragile to blame entirely.

English: F An F is in order for English largely due to the fact Biden had terrible difficulty expressing himself in his native tongue. With professional writers and reporters finding themselves at sea after listening to Biden give speeches and off-the-cuff remarks, his responses often wound-up being fodder for comedy routines rather than finding their place as official news.

Math: F This subject is a bit difficult to grade, largely because we are unsure as to whether his calculator batteries had any life left while ciphering. Yet, Biden seemed to feel math was something that had no rules or boundaries; for example, when financially helping foreign nations, he clearly felt American dollars could be used without limits. More about this under “Economics.”

Economics: F Biden, once again, failed to see the connection between printing money and spending money. He regularly printed more money that he needed for his hare-brained wild spending sprees causing out-of-control inflation unrealized since the Carter Era. All the while, Biden freely spent freshly printed money for vote pandering along with suspected kickbacks to line his Biden Organized Crime Family’s pockets. Additionally, Biden freely allowed upwards of 12,000,000 illegal aliens into our sovereign nation causing a serious drain on our already overburdened $34,000,000,000,000 debt.

Government Operations: D This is the crux of Biden’s job – not something unfamiliar during Biden’s 50-year government service career. throughout those five centuries, Biden should have learned about the mechanics of The House and The Senate, as well as the functions of the seemingly endless government agencies. Unfortunately, Biden regularly massaged “the system” to accommodate his desires and policies by circumventing the pre-structured, established rules.

Camaraderie: D Here is another sticky subject at which Biden was clever enough to use the ‘bully pulpit’ along with ‘the court of public opinion’ as he attempted to circumvent regulations, even the Supreme Court, to eliminate any legislative roadblocks in his sleazy effort to handily redistribute wealth through such initiatives as college loan forgiveness, in addition to renewable energy boondoggles and scams.

Physical Education: F Phys Ed is not an area in which Biden excelled. He has fallen off his bicycle, fallen up stairs to Air Force One, fallen on a national academy stage, and appeared to regularly shuffle – rather than walk in steps – readily visible on video. He actually had a contingency of aides surround him to prevent prying press eyes from capturing his unsteady gait.

Candor: F Under this subject, Biden earned a solid “F.” He willingly lied on countless occasions to create an atmosphere of untrustworthiness. From lying about driving a tractor-trailer, having a key to a train, to signing a trillion-dollar bill intentionally mislabeled as an inflation reduction tool, Biden repeatedly told one whopper after another with aplomb. In fact, his falsehoods about the COVID-19 debacle gripped a nation through fear and threats, all without any remorse.

There you have it. A long-awaited report card grading the outgoing President of the United States, who used his power to benefit him and his family at the expense of an entire nation has arrived in Biden’s final days of his ability to damage America and its hard-working taxpayers.

The only benefit of this evaluation is that hopefully Americans are now able to refer to this rating to as an aid to avoid future boneheaded elections.

Golden Fleece

 

  It’s been decades since American politics has seen someone with as much character as the late Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire (D).

Born in 1915, Proxmire’s formative years were based in the Great Depression of the 1920’s and ‘30’s. As with most people living during those times, Proxmire lived his life as though every penny was precious – and they were.

Newspapers cost 2¢, apples were 3¢, gasoline was roughly 18¢, cars went for a lofty $600, while a modest house could be had for $1200, in 1932. Those were Proxmire’s formative years when annual incomes were $1300 for a bus driver, $3100 for a college teacher, $2400 for a dentist, and just over $900 for a construction worker. Throughout the 1930’s, the federal tax rate – based on income – was about 5%.

Times were definitely different nearly 100-years ago, and those tough financial times were not unlike our lives today under a layer of manure called “Bidenomics.” With a complicit media and overly willing Democrat Party lying to the entire world about the economic state of America since 2021, we find ourselves mired waist deep in a stinky mess.

Senator William Proxmire brought something into the federal government during his term from 1975-1988. Throughout those thirteen years he became a celebrity of sorts by exposing unbelievable waste of guvment resources in the form of precious tax dollars.

Senator William Proxmire

Publicly handing out awards meant to shame the wasteful guvment agencies, Proxmire used his position to garner wide publicity for his Golden Fleece Awards.

He handed our 168 of those awards in an attempt to curtail his squandering fellow politicians’ carefree ways of pandering via financial redistribution. Taking scarce tax money from one person to appear beneficial to another is, at best, smarmy. And Proxmire led a campaign to help stop this folly.

In 1975, Proxmire gave a Golden Fleece Award to the Federal Aviation Administration for spending $57,800 ($289,209 inflation adjusted) to study the measurements of 432 airline stewardesses, including the ‘distance from knee to knee while sitting’ and measuring the ‘length of the buttocks,’” per The Washington Post.

Further, The Post stated: “In 1978, The National Institute for Mental Health earned a Fleece award for its $97,000 ($400,489 inflation adjusted) study on the activities inside a Peruvian brothel, where the researchers said repeated visits were made in the interests of accuracy.” You betcha. Wink, wink.

Another look into the sleazy world of guvment via The Washington Post, “In 1977, Proxmire gave an award to the Justice Department for spending $27,000 (119,938 inflation adjusted) to determine ‘why prisoners want to get out of jail.’ In 1979, the Pentagon was recognized for a $3,000 study ($11,123 inflation adjusted) to determine ‘if members of the military should carry umbrellas in the rain.’”

All this sad truth brings us to early 2025, on the cusp of the swearing-in of President-elect Donald J. Trump. Making regular tours across the nation before and since his resounding election in November 2024, Trump has been touting his proposed agenda to help all people while reducing the monumental federal budget deficit and debt.

With critics laughing and giggling while Biden is currently attempting to hamstring Trump’s efforts to save our United States dollar, and subsequently our indebted nation by regaining control of our current economic abyss, America has suffered for the past four-years awaiting Biden’s guaranteed departure from office.

Joining “outside” (read: volunteer, unpaid) forces with brilliant, successful entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, these three are talking about creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take axes to reduce and/or eliminate waste á La Senator Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award shaming, although with teeth as well as public humiliation.

We’re very close to the reckoning of these plans, and innocent parties are excited. On the other hand, greasy politicians “on the take” are squirming in their oversized leather chairs awaiting their time to exit before their disgrace begins. Of course any public trials will only cement accusations before their prison terms.

There you have it. Senator William Proxmire, long-forgotten crusader for the “little guy” has his true character finally revealed just in time for DOGE and a new, more honest era. I hope he’s watching over Donald Trump, as well as his clean-up crew.