Something To Think About Archive

While some judges may have overstepped their jurisdictions in issuing injunctions against actions taken by the Trump Administration, they do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses, an action created for malfeasance, not policy disagreement. Rather than calling for impeachment of these judges, certain to have an unlikely outcome, Trump should let it play out in the appeals process as the Founding Father’s designed. As someone who himself was a victim of spurious impeachment actions, you’d think he’d be more hesitant to use that as a weapon.

“Tomorrow is a new day;” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered by your old nonsense.”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” Maureen Dowd

Mark Twain — ‘Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.’

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alan K. Simpson “There is no “slippery slope” to loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.”

What you expect of yourself will be closely linked to what you accomplish.

George Washington said: “It is our duty to make the best of our misfortunes.”

As New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell once noted: “A fellow doesn’t last long on what he has done. He’s got to keep on delivering as he goes along.”

Former GE CEO Jack Welch said: “Any time there is change, there is opportunity.”

Medal of Honor recipient John J. McCloy believed that “Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.”

Using The DOGE team to ferret out wasteful government spending has yielded some pretty interesting boondoggles and has the potential to create some real savings. What to do with that money is the big question. Rather than send out “dividend” checks to the American people has Trump has suggested, possibly fueling inflation, 100% of it should go to paying down the National Debt since all that spending really used borrowed money; and then, the budgets of those agencies and departments permanently reduced to create a balanced budget going forward. That would make us less dependent upon foreign governments buying our debt and ensure our fiscal viability.

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

The late Michael Landon believed that “Right from the start, we are dying. Live to the limit every minute of every day. Whatever you want to do, do it now.”

Famed baseball player and manager Leo Durocher said: “Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot.”

According to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan: “The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.”

Theologian Nathaniel Emmons once noted that “Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”

Dropping charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams who has been accused of graft and pardoning convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and then signing an Executive Order allowing U.S. companies to bribe overseas officials in order to get business is just wrong. We understand that some of this is a rebound on the lawfare that was practiced against Trump, and some is a quid pro quo for cooperation with I.C.E., but it’s a step, or three, too far. Bribing state officials here and abroad is wrong. Period. Finally, we note that four of the past ten Illinois Governors served time for fraud or corruption. Some people deserve to be prosecuted and go to jail.

Writer John Steinbeck believed that “People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.”