I have a plan

A billboard in Louisville tells it all

With all the confusion and nonsense going on in American politics, it's difficult to figure out what is going on and who might be winning and wondering how rational people are going to sort it all out. Then in a moment of lucidity, I thought of the old adage to plan for the worst and hope for the best, and I think I have a plan for working through the present stalemate. First, consider the effects of an impeachment.

As much as I would like to see the #fakepresident run out of office, if we rush into an impeachment now, we can expect it to win in the House but that's only the charge, like an indictment. The actual trial takes place in the Senate where Mitch McConnell could probably stop it cold. If that happens, Trump gets to ride into the election on a wave of victory and claim a national mandate to continue to destroy the country and be free of any further charges until he leaves office and he faces some criminal charges that evidently can't be brought against a sitting president.

    So, while these debates rage, subpoenas fly and tweets clutter the net, let's let the slate of Democrat candidates sort themselves out while we concentrate on the congressional races so that if he is re-elected in that scenario, his second term begins with Democrat majorities in both houses which could stalemate him.

   For now, we should continue with the investigations under way and keep his simple mind occupied while holding off with impeachment until, say, next May to July. Given the speed at which Congress acts that could carry the impeachment process right through Election Day and keep Trump preoccupied during the campaign, shouting "witch hunt" until his head explodes, and, we can hope, sabotage his own race.

    Even if he should somehow win, if we can gain control of the Senate along with the House, let the impeachment process continue, then, with a chance of sending him packing. The fallback from that is even if impeachment should fail, he still has to deal with a total Congressional majority lined up against him.

The end game of both, is Trump neutralized and even if the country has to slow down for four more years perhaps the #fakepresident can be prevented from doing any more harm and the repairs can begin before the 2024 election.

In the meantime start enforcing those subpoenas from the ongoing investigations in the House. Put a couple of those sanctimonious jerks behind bars and watch the rest of them crumble when they realize if they continue fronting for Trump they will face serious prison time. Nixon finally gave up when Republicans began deserting him, many fearing implication. Given the moral fortitude displayed by so many GOP legislators it shouldn't take long for the rats to begin deserting the sinking ship.

Below are the Senate races next year. We only need three turnovers (more if we want an impeachment conviction or a veto-proof majority), but McConnell is the key, turn him out and we stop a lot of the obstruction going on now and again bring on enough senators to find the #fakepresident guilty in an impeachment trial. I would also like to offer Alaska's do-nothing Trump-worshiping Senator Dan Sullivan as a sacrificial lamb. Besides being an in-line Trumpster, he is in cahoots with Alaska's new governor who has shown all the marks of being a Trump Jr. He has spent most of his term under the desk in his basement office anyway. The only times he shows up around here are when he can attach his name to a noncontroversial issue linked to Alaska. (Example. He is a strong supporter of the Alaska fishing industry except in the case of a proposed mine that would threaten the largest red salmon fishery in the world.)

 If none of these works I know of three Alaskans willing to surround the White House and maintain the siege until the #fakepresident leaves.

Republicans

Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee)

Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia)

Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana)

Susan Collins (R-Maine)

John Cornyn (R-Texas)

Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas)

Steve Daines (R-Montana)

Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming)

Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)

Cory Gardner (R-Colorado)

Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Mississippi) 

Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) May not run

Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)

David Perdue (R-GA)

Jim Risch (R-Idaho)

Pat Roberts (R-Kansas)

Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota)

Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska)

Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)

Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina)

Democrats

Cory Booker (D-New Jersey)

Chris Coons (D-Delaware)

Dick Durbin (D-Illinois)

Doug Jones (D-Alabama)

Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts)

Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)

Gary Peters (D-Michigan)

Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island)

Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

Tina Smith (D-Minnesota

Tom Udall (D-New Mexico)

Mark Warner (D-Virginia)