Barry Kelly | Facts and Fictions

I was never a big dollar donor to the Republican Party, but I was regular. Not anymore. President Trump was remaking the Republican Party into a populist/national party. I was and am very comfortable with that goal. The leadership of the House and Senate was not. President Trump was rattling too many fiefdoms. That annoyed the big money people. You know the people that brought us the “rust belt.” Unfortunately many of the Congressional leaders were regularly funded by big tech and the Wall Street gang.

Certainly the leaders of the House and Senate remained true to their traditional funders. McConnell in the Senate and McCarthy in the House gave lip service at best to the President while the Special Counsel witch hunt was going on, followed by the tortured first and second Pelosi impeachment process. Follow the money is still a good strategy when you want to know the facts.

The real insight into the leadership of the House and Senate occurred after it appeared that President Trump had lost, legally or illegally, his try for a second term to a man who should not have even been in the race. Both of these leaders jumped at the chance to blame Trump for the incident at the Capital Building on January 6th. The recent FBI report showed that was not true. But, it was too late. Trump was out and the profit at any cost crowd were back in power and pushing American manufacturing back into very unfavorable trade agreements. What happened to energy independence in America?

But back to the question is the Republican Party a vital part of the two party system? I think for now the two party system is gone. Any Democrat who takes the time to look into a political mirror will see an image of a socialist looking back at them. The clear Socialist goal is to make America a one party political system. “The Republicans don’t know what they are. How can they support a Republican Congressman like Tom Rice from South Carolina who voted with Nancy Pelosi to impeach a Republican President on clear bogus charges? He said it was a mistake. I’ll say it was a giant stupid mistake. He represents my district. But not I hope after the next election. But here is a clear case where the Republican Party should have disciplined him by removing him from the Party. No way. They don’t have the guts. Without courage you cannot have a winning Party.

The recent FBI report on the January sixth demonstration at the Congressional Building stated it was not a pre-planned event and it was not organized or directed by Trump or anyone in his Administration. The FBI leadership showed political courage by issuing their investigative findings. I do not believe the Justice Department leadership and rank and file workers agree with this report.

While I hope the FBI is returning to its legendary past of being the best law enforcement organization in the World, the Justice Department is still filled with an anti-Trump conservative bias. Never-the-less it is good to see movement back to the FBI’s creed of following the evidence no matter where it leads. Now, let’s see some honest investigation of the alleged corruption surrounding the pay for play activities of Hunter Biden. Both the President and the public need these charges to be prosecuted or dropped.

All citizens are equal under the law does not mean all people are equal in ability, wealth, or intelligence. The Socialists would have us think that democracy cannot exist until we have equality of ability, wealth, and brain power. That is an insane goal that does not exist now and never will. And never should because it requires that the ‘rule of law’ be abolished before you can enforce a “wok” equality, real or pretended.

The politicalization of the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, Homeland Security, and law enforcement that has occurred over the last few decades is now well established. It will not go away easily. A massive reconstruction of these organizations under a very strong group of elected leaders will be necessary. I do not see that happening soon for a simple weeding out of corrupt politicians will not re-establish the ‘rule of law.’

The DOJ, FBI, CIA, HMS, STATE DEPARTMENT and a few other government organizations need a drastic makeover. These critical organizations are not controlled by a few political leaders of the ruling party. They are controlled by an entrenched civil service cadre who have been in power for decades. They were appointed once and never left. They have spent years hiring and promoting like-minded workers until they now are more powerful than their leaders. These people decide who to investigate and punish.

President Trump’s big mistake was to trust the civil servants, especially those in DOJ and the Intelligence Community. It is a mistake to believe the security and well-being of America depend on an entrenched bureaucracy and their political leaders. The survival of Democracy depends upon constant renewal of the civil service with fresh appointees who leave when their party is defeated by a legal voting process.

Without a real ‘rule of law,’ there can be no freedom. The Constitution depends upon equality of law. The Bill of Rights does not exist without equality under the law.

I certainly have. It’s worse than I thought it would be, and is getting worse every day.

I hope some legislator gets a bipartisan bill passed that would authorize the building of a toy White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It would have a teleprompter in every room and an extensive library containing the President’s personal collection of plagiarized articles. Razor wire would be needed to separate it from the real White House that would be re-staffed with people who knew what they were doing. No need for a fence to keep the public out. President Biden could get away from all the stress and move in immediately.

If it were only so.