Where Is The U.S. At With The Coronavirus? Part 1: Scared?

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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has crippled the United States of America over the last few months.  We have well over 30 million unemployed in the U.S.  What about the spread of the coronavirus?  Each day, there is conflicting news circulating.  Politico offers a nightly update on the coronavirus.



Here is an excerpt from the Newsletter on Wednesday night to think about:

FEAR FACTOR — Today’s signs that Covid is far from being contained in the United States: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tested positive for Covid; Walmart, the country’s largest retailer, is requiring masks in all its stores; and Maryland's second-largest school district said students won’t return to classrooms until 2021.

Just how scared should we be right now?

The virus isn’t going away — Halfway through July, the situation is actually worse in many parts of the country than at the start of the pandemic. Daily Covid deaths are at their highest levels in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Texas and other states, according to the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Last week, Covid Exit Strategy, a group tracking state progress in meeting Covid containment goals added a new shade, “bruised red,” to its color-coded map to signify states where Covid is spreading uncontrollably. Nearly 20 states are now colored deep red.

About 7 to 9 percent of the population, or 23 million people, have been infected to date, estimates Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Minnesota. He said transmission won’t slow until at least half of the population becomes infected. If cases continue growing at today’s pace, even with a lower death rate, he projects that about 800,000 people will die before any sort of herd immunity kicks in. Plus, he added, a shortage of crucial drugs like remdesivir and maxed out hospital capacity could start to reverse progress that clinicians make in treating Covid patients. And young people with common underlying health conditions like obesity aren’t immune from the worst effects of the virus.

“It’s like a big giant forest fire that’s looking for human lives to burn,” he said about the virus. “This is going to last for many months and it is going to get worse.”

We are still unprepared — Unlike other countries now comfortably opening businesses and schools, the U.S. wasted valuable time during its lockdown, said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The positive test rate is in double digits in many states, a sign that the virus is spreading faster than it can be controlled through testing and contact tracing. “What I am continually seeing in these states is that they keep making the same mistake in not being able to do the core elements of public health,” he said. The problem, in his view: Testing supplies are limited, test results are too slow to be useful in guiding behavior, there are still too few contact tracers and many states don’t have a handle on who is actually infected. Until state or federal officials can fix those problems, hotspots will continue to emerge around the country.

There’s some hope — Some states like Maine, Hawaii and Rhode Island have been able to contain the virus and its fallout.

We know what works, Osterholm said. Physical distancing, avoiding crowds and indoor spaces, and wearing masks all decrease risks of transmission to varying degrees. We also know to be less scared of socializing outside and of catching Covid from surfaces like doorknobs and delivery packages. Essential workers and others may not have the luxury of working from home. But keeping hospitals from overflowing can keep mortality rates lower.

“The message here is that none of us should be scared,” Osterholm said. For Father’s Day last month, he met his five grandchildren in person outdoors. He hugged them each for 30 seconds and gave them a kiss. “I felt that was an acceptable risk,” he said.

There are quite a few people in the US who believe that the coronavirus is just another version of the cold flu.  Which to some extent it is.  But don't take that out of context, please.  The coronavirus is deadly, as shown already, and should be taken very seriously.  The above message should serve as a reminder that the United States is not out of the woods at all.  There is no vaccination.



When I hear people around me complain about being quarantined, I think the following thought.  Where are we at as a nation compared to 3 months or 4 months ago?  What have we learned?  There have been scientific advancements in the front of combating the coronavirus. 



Although, the reality is that NO VACCINATION exists yet.  That leads us to the second reality: opening up the economy now is no different than keeping the economy open when the coronavirus hit initially.  Therefore, opening up the country would only expose a large number of innocent people to a deadly virus.



In a previous blog post, the alarming statistic of masks blew my mind.  Namely, that in Hong Kong, there is a 98% mask compliance (a month ago).  The resulting COVID-19 related deaths in Hong Kong (a month ago) -- 4 total.  What?


Masks work.  Simply stated.  Protect yourself and others with the simple method of reducing the spread of the COVID-19 virus.  Just follow this simple rule!



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Trump Changes NEPA Rules to Speed Up Industry Projects on Federal Lands

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The United States has millions of acres of land on which projects by corporations are carried out and reap massive profits.  Do those corporations care about destroying the federal property?  Your land? My land?  Not compared to boosting earnings to shareholders of their respective corporations.  This is why news from the Trump administration has potentially increased their share prices.



Reporting from Politico Energy states briefly how the changes to NEPA will help streamline corporate projects on federally owned land:

TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE FINAL NEPA CHANGES: During a visit to a UPS airport hub in Atlanta today, President Donald Trump will unveil final changes to the National Environmental Policy Act — the bedrock permitting law that requires agencies to conduct detailed environmental reviews for major projects. Trump has lined up on the side of industry groups that contend NEPA has been weaponized by greens to sideline pipelines, highways and other infrastructure projects. The new regulations will provide certainty for project sponsors and speed up the environmental review process for U.S. projects spanning roads, bridges and highways, a White House official told ME.

The policy overhaul delivers a major win to the energy industry on the heels of a series of blows to nameplate energy projects that were driven by the 50-year-old environmental law, including court setbacks for the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast project.

If the changes hew to the version proposed from January, project proponents can expect strict, short deadlines for environmental impact statements that agencies must conduct before construction can begin, and a broader scope to the types of projects that can be excluded from NEPA reviews altogether, such as those that receive little federal funding.

One of the key anticipated changes surrounds how broadly federal agencies should weigh the effects of things like greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed version suggested that agencies no longer need to consider the "cumulative" impact of permitting decisions — language that environmentalists say would all but eliminate consideration of a project's contribution to climate change.

Expect a fight from green groups and Democrats, who say changes to NEPA would undercut protections for environmental justice communities that are often subject to the effects of the most significant development projects. Democrats from both chambers last week urged Trump to reverse course on the NEPA changes, arguing they "would further endanger the very communities that have faced the greatest burdens of legacy environmental injustice and structural racism."

Environmental groups have challenged rules concocted by the Trump administration over the last few years, which aim to undo Obama era regulations.  The challenges have resulted in numerous court battles -- some of which are still ongoing today.  The Trump administration has had quite a struggle trying to support corporate destruction of environmental laws enacted under the Obama administration, which is good.



Now, some of the existing environmental laws are outdated.  How many compared to those which are still safe and essential?  No idea.  Although, the Trump administration is trying to hide under the veil of 'updating laws' to really help corporate projects such as oil pipelines, oil drilling, large infrastructure projects which are destructive to the environment.



This is why the current changes to the 'environmental review process' could potentially expose the environment to even more destruction.  The changes will end up in court and result in a ruling which protects the environment.  At least, that is the current aim of environmental groups and many members of the Chambers of Congress.  Stay tuned.



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Ralph Nader: The Enduring Case for Demanding Trump’s Resignation

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The Supreme Court ruled that New York State Attorney General could have access to President Trump's taxes for criminal prosecution.  President Trump thus far has escaped conviction (due to being President) in a court of law.  That protection is fading away as the election nears.  Of course, the case needs to be made to prosecute the President for campaign violations along with other offenses.  Should President Trump continue to lead this country (i.e., be re-elected)??



Ralph Nader makes the case for President Trump's resignation with the ruling of the Supreme Court on obtaining the taxes of the President by New York and Congress:

The Enduring Case for Demanding Trump’s Resignation

Today’s New York Times headline boldly exclaimed, “PRESIDENT IS ‘NOT ABOVE THE LAW,’ JUSTICES DECIDE.” But then the Supreme Court majority found a way not to apply the law to Trump’s defiance of Congress.

Didn’t this question get decided in 1776 and more formally in 1787 by our Founders?

In obtaining information for overseeing the Executive Branch, the plenary power of Congress neither needs affirmation by the courts nor can tolerate years of judicial delays. It is time for the illogical Justices, who find few limits to vast Presidential powers either domestically or in pursuit of undeclared wars of Empire, to stop shredding Congress’s constitutional authority.

The very conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, in his dissent, addressed the futility of Congress employing the courts to obtain information by subpoena for legislation, for example, strengthening the President’s financial disclosure obligations. The maximum congressional strategy for securing presidential documents is through the use of its impeachment authority, he wrote.

An article of impeachment was voted against President Nixon in 1974 for defying a congressional subpoena that was not validated by a court. Trump has defied scores of subpoenas, dozens of formal Congressional demands for information and testimony by Executive Branch officials. Yet, apart from the Ukraine impeachment in December 2019 by the Democratic House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has kept eleven other serious ongoing impeachable offenses by Trump and his lawless regime on the shelf. You can read these impeachable offenses compiled by constitutional law experts, Bruce Fein, Louis Fisher, and me, and presented by Congressman John Larson (D-CT) in the December 18, 2019, Congressional Record H-12197.

Absent a robust defense of our democracy by the Supreme Court or Congress, the citizenry must mobilize a mass demand for Trump’s resignation – for all of America’s sake. Whether the case is made for the rule of law or against disastrous, dangerous, and delusionary policies from Trump’s Wall Street over Main Street White House, the support should be treated as non-partisan and as the essence of patriotism.

On June 5, 2020, the Portland (Maine) Press Herald called for Trump to resign, urging Trump to ask himself – “Can the country take five more months like the last five?” The editorial asserted that “your shortcomings are unleashing historic levels of suffering on the American people.”

When this staid newspaper took this position, it did not evaluate the prospect of success. That is not its responsibility. Nor should any such prejudgment of Trump’s rejection of resignation inhibit hundreds of Congressional lawmakers, civic group leaders, columnists, and editorial writers, who have made the overwhelming case against corrupt Donald Trump in great documented detail. But, unfortunately, most of these people have failed to reach the obvious conclusion from their convictions.

The case for Trump’s resignation should never be withheld by weighing the odds of that happening. The demand itself is the necessity of our times. Here are some reasons:

1. Trump’s ignorance and ego-driven bungling and obstructions of professional scientific management of the Covid-19 pandemic occur daily and often in open sight. After weeks of delay fatal to tens of thousands of Americans, his continuing abandonment of presidential leadership in assuring supplies, facilities and critical coordination for the states warrant removal of this flailing, failing, careening so-called chief executive. America cannot wait to stop the irreparable destruction that will occur from now until January 20, 2021.

2. The mass resignation demand highlights in an organized way the case for Trump’s removal (supported by 60% of women in a November 26, 2019, CNN poll) that Congress possesses and has failed to pursue in both the House and Senate.

No one so guilty of violating the basic laws of our land, so corruptly selling our government to giant corporations while asking CEOs for campaign contributions should disgrace our White House any longer. Trump’s increasingly shrill bigotry, pressing for selective voter intimidation and suppression, and incitements to violence illustrates what Alexander Hamilton meant by citing the “abuse of the public trust” as an impeachable offense.

3. The widespread discourse and debate pursuant to a mass resignation demand will highlight the specifics of Trump’s damage to our country. He arbitrarily declares another “economic emergency” so as to make corporate crimes worse by literally stopping enforcement of consumer, worker, environmental and economic protections. Big corporations over people again.

The resignation demand highlights his abuses against women over the years, his regime’s leaving young people defenseless against rapacious commercial universities and student loan exploiters, his support for freezing a $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage and other anti-worker slams that are all under-reported.

4. Because Trump doubles down on his many outrageous refusals to “faithfully execute the laws,” spending monies not appropriated by Congress, pursuing nine wars undeclared by Congress, giving his cronies lucrative government contracts, all the while daily distracting with his new-cycle-dominating foul-mouth tweets and personal attacks, the media has become jaded to the larger questions of why this madman is still in the Oval Office.

The reliance on the election in November afflicts many civic groups from pressing for Trump’s eviction now. “Me Too” activists still go after powerful misogynists but have given up on the 800-pound elephant in the room – Trump. Other citizen advocacy organizations cite their condemnatory reports, their press releases, and their lawsuits against Trump. The failed gambling czar laughs at all this, even when the media reports on these meritorious efforts.

Trump will get away with everything until January 20, 2021, unless he is removed from office, whether by impeachment and conviction, or a massive public resignation demand that sinks his poll numbers, leading him to quit because he can’t stand losing the election.

5. Trump himself will nourish community-level resignation demands by his increasing interference with the rights of voters, leading the GOP to daily clashes with election officials, civil rights groups, and the people’s notions of fair play.

Already underway in GOP controlled states are pernicious efforts to obstruct voter registration such as the closing of precincts in minority areas, purging of certain voters, and crazed harassment of low-income voters, such as requiring notarized mail-in votes or launching inappropriate challenges of signatures. There are neither prosecutors nor judges who can stop these and other dictatorial ravages in time for November 3, 2020.

With Trump still in office, prepare for an embroiling election crisis, as he unleashes street violence and harassing lawsuits before favorable judges citing the results as “rigged,” a “hoax,” and “stolen,” no matter his margin of defeat. With the pandemic of Covid-19 still taking casualties, why not try to get him out of the office and in the process inform and arouse the public? Genuine conservatives and current and retired military people are seething against Trump acting in their name and taking them for granted. They are ready to join the effort to protect our democracy and the rule of law.

The history of the Democratic Party, losing repeatedly to the worst Republican Party ever at the national and state levels, is not propitious for the coming months. Are Democratic operatives up to either a pre- or post-election day Trump and his unscrupulous GOP fanatics? The stakes are too high to rely on the Democrats.

It is our obligation as citizens to organize and demand Trump’s resignation and focus millions of voters on turning out the Trumpsters and their four-year Dark Age that is wrecking America.

Well stated Mr. Nader!!

Turns Out That President Trump Is Not Great As He Brags To Be...

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Many books have already been written about President Trump and his administration.  A common theme is a chaotic scene inside the White House due to inexperience with operating inside the government.  Politicians are politicians for a reason.  President Trump is clearly not a politician.  Nor is he the honest leader that he leads on to be.



The video below produced by MSNBC introduces the new book by Dr. Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist titled "‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" about President Trump.  Dr. Trump's book differs from others because she is the niece of President Trump.  Which offers an insider portrait of the President.   Watch the video below, and stay informed.

Dr. Mary Trump's book is yet another pillar of evidence of the inexperienced administration (and President) running our nation.  As if we needed more evidence?  This book will certainly solidify the ground of support on which the evidence stands.  Have a great weekend.

Ralph Nader: Trump and Pence – Step Aside for Professional Pandemic Scientists and Managers

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The COVID-19 virus has taken over the economy and the world.  On top of that realization, leadership up top (i.e., the White House) is out to lunch at the moment.  Ralph Nader points the obvious out in his weekly newsletter.  That is, the Coronavirus should be run and discussed by scientists -- who are actually running the show and collecting the data.



Ralph Nader points out in his weekly newsletter that scientists should be consulted instead of President Trump and Vice President Pence:

Trump and Pence – Step Aside for Professional Pandemic Scientists and Managers

Major changes in society can be accomplished by a fast-emerging, broad-based civic jolt so obvious and persuasive that it overwhelms the entrenched powers. The most urgent job is for people to organize to get Trump and Pence to step aside from their bungling, making-matters-worse mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic. The White House should let a professional pandemic control specialist with public health experience and an appreciation of science replace the current and ongoing Trump horror show.

Many Republican operatives watching the daily Trump virus spectacle are terrified by how the President fabricates, fantasizes, confuses, and endangers the country. As Trump lowers his and their poll numbers, Republicans would welcome such a replacement.

“We the People,” are seeing the failing Donald Trump over-riding his own scientists and paralyzing any federal leadership and coordination of state efforts, as he measures all moves by his delusional ego. The citizenry must quickly mount irresistible pressure for Trump and Pence to step aside. Let Trump focus on the November election, which is all he cares about anyway, apart from watching Fox News for hours each day, lying to the public and endlessly tweeting slanders and insults.

Trump is so cruel and out of touch that he is letting his henchman cut nursing home safety regulations, end health and safety protections for workers, consumers, and communities, and pursue the end of Obamacare by stripping 23 million Americans of their health insurance. Doing this in the middle of a worsening killer pandemic is sheer madness. We have a president at the helm of a careening ship of state acting worse than Captain Queeg.

Would any community tolerate, in Maureen Dowd’s words, such “chaos, cruelty, deception and incompetence,” in their local public safety officials?

To be sure, there have been thousands of articles, columns, editorials, and TV/radio reports of the grotesque delays, perverse actions, quackery, and faking over the grim realities by Trump and Pence. All this takes place against the backdrop of his blundering son-in-law who is overseeing and furthering corrupt corporate bailouts. But, inexplicably, reporters and columnists avoid the conclusions that should stem from their own convictions and writings. One exception is the Washington Post editorial in May 2020, calling for Trump and Pence to step aside and let people who know what they’re doing take the reins.

The country simply cannot wait until Inauguration Day, January 21, 2021. Every day the Trump virus spreads further, while its presidential enabler is making sure sick Americans are left unprotected, and workers are left unemployed. More and more innocents are paying the ultimate price for this public health and economic disaster.

The failed gambling czar, selected to be our fake president by the unelected Electoral College, crazily gives himself a “ten” rating, admits no mistakes, and refuses to learn from other nation’s comparative successes against the virus.

Putting health professionals in charge of the “war” against the Covid-19 pandemic has worked in Taiwan, New Zealand, Thailand, Uruguay, and Canada’s British Columbia and other countries with sane leadership. These countries are showing far, far superior life-saving results and fewer economic convulsions.

Mr. Trump, if you’re not going to resign for America’s sake, at the least, step aside for your own political campaign’s sake. A coordinated civic jolt and a laser-beam demand from the people can make you and the alarmed GOP realize you are not capable of doing the job that needs to be done.  Of course, if Congress wasn’t a rubber stamp, our first branch of government could stop this lethal incompetence by mandating professional pandemic management.

For those doubters of this happening, remember the ringing statement by the demanding abolitionist Frederick Douglass – “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”.  Trump is a paper mache figure who hides behind bluffs and snarls. A civic jolt can displace him much like the statutes of slavers. 

Start your “step aside” demand by calling the White House opinion phone number 202-456-1111. Urge your friends to do the same. There is no time to delay.

John Bolton: "The Room Where It Happened" Book Interview - Worth Watching Before The Next Presidential Election!!!!!

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The recent news has been filled with what seems to be constant chaos around the United States.  Why is that the current situation?  How are other countries handling the pandemic sweeping the world?  Yes, the Coronavirus or COVID-19.  We have President Trump, who sounds defeated by the epidemic.  Our Nation is also battling a race issue that has been brewing over time and time again.  Young black Americans are being killed in the streets of America.  America is calling out for police reform.  President Trump sits in the highest office of the land. Alone in the White House running a chaotic nation.  There is no order in the White House.  Just listen to the former National Security Advisor John Bolton below.



Below is the interview of Former National Security Advisor John Bolton by USA Today's Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, which is just under an hour in length.  Every American should watch the video below before the next Presidential election:

Wow!  Over the past few weeks, Readers will note that the blog posts have been filled mostly with commentary (mostly video) from leaders and generals of the past.  There is a reason that these people have been featured. That is to give a voice to normally silent people of our Nation.  I usually say, because, these high ranking individuals (i.e., Generals, Security Advisors, Chiefs of Staff, etc.) How are American citizens faring at the moment?  Especially amidst the pandemic?  The economic collapse?  The racial injustice protests?



It is important to hear different voices that do not usually speak up to the public.  What do their voices mean? Notably, at a time like this?



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Ralph Nader: Congress Must Hold President Trump Accountable!

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There is no doubt that there is a lack of leadership in the White House at the moment.  We are a nation without leadership.  Or what seems to be.  Further, Congress has chosen to not do anything to correct that deficiency.  Below, Ralph Nader points out the obvious.  That is the number of events recently which disqualifies the Trump administration to lead the Country.



In his recent newsletter, Ralph Nader states that Congress must hold President Trump accountable:

Congress Must Hold President Trump Accountable!

Here is an abridged version of a letter sent on June 22, 2020, by me and two constitutional law experts Bruce Fein and Lou Fisher, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerald Nadler, and the Committee’s Vice Chairman, Jamie Raskin. It touches on where Congress has not exercised its constitutional authority to hold Trump accountable under the law.

Dear Madam Speaker, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Vice Chairman:

Former national security adviser and ultra-hawk John Bolton’s disparagement of the articles of impeachment voted against President Donald Trump as “impeachment malpractice” in The Room Where It Happened may be viewed as a rebuke to Congress for failing to discharge its duty and powers to enforce constitutional observance (e.g., impeachment, stiff fines for flouting congressional subpoenas) that has fortified limitless executive power which Mr. Trump recklessly brandishes daily. Impugning Mr. Bolton’s motives does not impeach his impeachment facts or testimony revealing Mr. Trump’s serial impeachable offenses.

We had urged a broader 12-count article of impeachment indicting the full spectrum of Mr. Trump’s alarming extraconstitutional behavior which Congressman John Larson printed in the Congressional Record – H 12197 on December 18, 2018.  Among other things, the proposed article assailed presidential violations of the Declare War Clause, the Treaty Clause, the Appointments Clause, the Take Care Clause, and the Appropriations Clause, in addition to crippling the plenary congressional power of oversight and investigation.

Book excerpts printed in The New York Times reveal credible evidence of several additional impeachable offenses requiring House subpoenas to Mr. Bolton and Mr. Trump to testify in public under oath to unearth the truth.  According to Mr. Bolton, President Trump solicited illegal foreign assistance for his 2020 presidential campaign by asking the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, to purchase billions of dollars of wheat and soybeans from American farmers to win their political favor (52 U.S.C. 30121).  Mr. Trump asked for that foreign assistance from President Xi in exchange for Mr. Trump’s desisting from sanctions against Chinese officials under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act because of China’s persecution of Uighurs, which constitutes bribery under 18 U.S.C. 201.

Mr. Trump obstructed justice in interceding to lighten penalties against ZTE for flouting sanctions against North Korea, among other things. These impeachable offenses are probably only the tip of the iceberg.

In our capacity as citizens of the Republic, is it too much to expect the House to enforce constitutional observance though the powers of impeachment, subpoenas, contempt, or otherwise?  At a minimum, the House should subpoena Mr. Bolton and Mr. Trump to testify about the foregoing new impeachable offenses and others if they surface in the interim. Mr. Bolton volunteered to testify before the Senate at Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial but was not called.  He did not agree to testify before the House during its impeachment investigation because of pending litigation. The House inexplicably neglected to subpoena him. The law and precedent are clear. In conducting an impeachment investigation, the House has a right to every person’s evidence whether of the President, of the incumbent or former White House officials, or others.

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted an article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon for flouting a subpoena.  The article would have been approved by the full House absent Mr. Nixon’s resignation precipitated by his anticipated certain conviction in the Senate. (The United States Supreme Court also held that presidential tapes were fair game for the judiciary in the United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)). President Gerald Ford testified before the House Judiciary Committee about his pardon of Mr. Nixon to dispel suspicion of a quid pro quo for President Nixon’s resignation.

What your stewardship of the Constitution requires is manifest. With dismay, we have witnessed too many Executive Branch and congressional defectors from the Constitution. You should lead them back. Regular constitutional order must be restored, including curing the multiple violations enumerated in our proposed 12-count impeachment article (H 12197).

“We the People of the United States” deserve leadership, not spectatorship. Our constitutional handiwork is in peril.

House hearings are urgent.

We need a change at the national level.  Simple as that!