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Woodall Replacement, Support Trump or Lose

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I can’t lie.  During the disquieting Obama years, I found myself further distressed by the fact that my 7th District US Representative, Rob Woodall, did very little, in my opinion, to resist the 44th President’s efforts to turn America into a third world country and destroy the US Constitution domestically, while executing illegal regime change operations across the world in countries such as Ukraine, Libya and Syria.  I remember attending an open forum and asking Congressman Woodall why he did nothing visibly to resist Obama’s policies. He responded that the “Article 1 Congress” was powerless to resist the “Article 2 President” from doing anything he wanted to do, and that “we,” the American people, were complicit with Obama’s actions by electing him .  I did not buy that then, and Woodall’s statement has proven false noting the extent that Democrats in Congress have successfully resisted the initiatives of President Trump over the first two years of his presidency.  And as the 2016 e

The Real State of the Union

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When for the first time in history the Speaker of the House failed to honor America’s President to visit the House Chamber to offer his appraisal of the state of the American union, I decided that responsibility must fall upon anyone who might possess an opinion of that condition, and also the opportunity to share it.  Since I have both, of sorts, perhaps you will indulge my poor judgments for a short duration. Now any attempt to describe the state of a “union,” necessarily implies a union exists.  Well, does it?  What is a “union” anyway?  In mathematics a union is that part of a set of objects common among two or more sets.  In politics, however, instead of objects, we might think of common ideas, viewpoints and intentions.  And instead of sets, we might talk of political groups.  So if a political union really exists, certain members attributed to one of those political groups must share some degree of uniformity of thought with members of others.  That requirement furthers the ques