Green Eagle

Just a few of today's atrocities: Well, Trump and his Republican colleagues have succeeded in one of the most corrupt, hateful act in the entire history of the United States- making a criminal, lying, racist, white supremacist the Attorney General of the United States.  Not much more to say about that, but I'd like to quote one of the money passages from the now-infamous Coretta Scott King letter, sent to the Senate when Reagan tried to make him a federal judge, and which Republicans managed to keep out of the Senate record until they took on a true hero, Elizabeth Warren: "I write to express my sincere opposition to the confirmation of Jefferson B. Sessions as a federal disctrict court judge for the Southern District of Alabama. My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts....

And now, further news of this forgotten incident , from Consortium News: "A Russian government report, which corroborated allegations that Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign interfered with President Jimmy Carter’s Iran-hostage negotiations in 1980, was apparently kept from the Democratic chairman of a congressional task force that investigated the charges a dozen years later." Yes, Americans, here is the truth about our "democracy:" Neither of the two "presidents" who sent our country on the road to economic, military and social disaster was actually elected in a fair election. Bush was placed in power by the greatest act of Supreme Court corruption in our nation's history, and Reagan took power through what is not a figurative, but a literal, actual act of treason. When you look about you at the open corruption of Republican elected officials, backed up by the ignorant insanity of the teabaggers, the endless parade of vicious demagogues ...