Wait To Impeach?

We can’t assume Bob Mueller is going to save us. The success record of special prosecutors is anything but encouraging.

A sitting president wields enormous power — indictments against Donald Trump could remain sealed until he leaves office. His handpicked attorney general and Supreme Court Justice have suggested he’s immune from prosecution.

And we can’t assume that Donald Trump won’t be reelected.

The Russians will meddle to help him again and the FBI could again make false, last-minute charges that destroy his opponent. The advantages of incumbency, and the shredding of the popular vote by the Electoral College could guarantee a second term.

Our best defense lies in the Constitution and our power to impeach.

President Trump

did side with Vladimir Putin against U.S. Intelligence’s unanimous verdict on Russia’s rigging of our elections

did did fire Comey and force Sessions to resign during Russian investigation

did conspire with Manafort, Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, Stone, Cohen, Corsi

did divert campaign money to silence sexual partners

did discredit CIA findings linking Saudi Prince with murder of U.S. based journalist

did lie to undermine 2016 vote count, accusing millions of voting illegally

does profit personally from foreign powers, Emoluments Clause

did break pledge to show tax returns

did make thousands of false and misleading statements

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Lisa Jean Baker (Copy of original)

You will be spending the night with Liza Jean.

You’ve already had quite a day.

Some sort of medical thing has been addressed by a surgical team. Something was implanted or shifted or removed. Things monitored and modulated.

Thanks to the anesthesiologist whose team kept asking your date of birth, you’ll awake in a room equipped to receive you.

Liza Jean Baker is a bedside nurse in a post-op surgical unit. She works the Dracula shift, 7 pm to 7 am, Friday and Saturday nights. She visited us at our coffee shop recently.

Her job is one of the most demanding in nursing. She wrestles with swelling, bloating, stomach gas, nausea and people experiencing acute pain for the first time. She learned about post-surgery pain firsthand when her wisdom teeth were removed.

Liza Jean Baker hadn’t planned to spend weekend nights on a post-op floor. But those particular hours pay a premium which helps with student loans. She maintained 3.98 GPA while earning her BSN and submitted 102 applications before going to work.

Sleeping gets turned upside down, of course. Liza Jean says she eats her way through her night shift and follows with a good breakfast. Then she sleeps. Socializing can be a bit complicated.

Her father, an orthopedic surgeon, discouraged the pursuit of medicine, demands outweighing rewards and all that.

But her mother, a career pediatric nurse, whispered into her other ear. It wasn’t until her mother stopped encouraging her that Liza Jean took the step. Now the nursing profession is a bond between them.

Medical technology will give Liza Jean real-time readouts as you are stabilizing throughout the night. Just as important, she’ll lean in to fuss over you and to ask if you need help with pain, and if you might like to sit up for a while.

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Lisa Jean Baker

You will be spending the night with Liza Jean.

You’ve already had quite a day.

Some sort of medical thing has been addressed by a surgical team. Something was implanted or shifted or removed. Things monitored and modulated.

Thanks to the anesthesiologist whose team kept asking your date of birth, you’ll awake in a room equipped to receive you.

Liza Jean Baker is a bedside nurse in a post-op surgical unit. She works the Dracula shift, 7 pm to 7 am, Friday and Saturday nights. She visited us at our coffee shop recently.

Her job is one of the most demanding in nursing. She wrestles with swelling, bloating, stomach gas, nausea and people experiencing acute pain for the first time. She learned about post-surgery pain firsthand when her wisdom teeth were removed.

Liza Jean Baker hadn’t planned to spend weekend nights on a post-op floor. But those particular hours pay a premium which helps with student loans. She maintained 3.98 GPA while earning her BSN and submitted 102 applications before going to work.

Sleeping gets turned upside down, of course. Liza Jean says she eats her way through her night shift and follows with a good breakfast. Then she sleeps. Socializing can be a bit complicated.

Her father, an orthopedic surgeon, discouraged the pursuit of medicine, demands outweighing rewards and all that.

But her mother, a career pediatric nurse, whispered into her other ear. It wasn’t until her mother stopped encouraging her that Liza Jean took the step. Now the nursing profession is a bond between them.

Medical technology will give Liza Jean real-time readouts as you are stabilizing throughout the night. Just as important, she’ll lean in to fuss over you and to ask if you need help with pain, and if you might like to sit up for a while.

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Days Without Lies

Most Americans of voting age know that false and misleading statements are a part in politics.

But Donald Trump’s lies are different in their number and purpose.

Like the Putins, Kims and Bolsonaros he admires, Donald Trump uses lies to disorient, discredit and dominate. They keep the electorate angry and uncertain.

His ‘alternative facts’ double back on themselves, becoming more and more incredible in an effort to give cover to his earlier lies.

Impeachment can be triggered by a wide range of abuses under Article II, Section IV of our Constitution. Fact-checking organizations confirm that Donald Trump has given us thousands of reasons to start the process.

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Unbelievable Trump Billboard

Within just days of taking office, Donald Trump told his most dangerous lie.

It was all the more dangerous because the Republican-controlled 115th Congress let him get away with it.

The newly inaugurated president went before the nation and lied that three or four million illegal votes had been cast in the presidential election. Never happened.

Donald Trump was willing to poison our trust in our electoral process because he was in a snit after losing the popular vote by an embarrassing margin. He went as far as creating a bogus commission to investigate voter fraud state-election authorities officially certified did not exist.

The danger is that Donald Trump’s lie was a practice run and that he’ll use it again in 2020. Unbelievable.

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