Bob Maistros“Well, nobody said ‘whore.’ She inferred ‘hooker,’ but I meant ‘slut.’” — Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher
Your correspondent has described the American electorate as “ADD-addled” and “brain-dead.”
Sorry. I really meant “Stupid.”
Stupid Voters and The Stupid Party™ have together delivered the Stupid Government both deserve.
Stupid Voters have indeed committed the mind-boggling blunder of rehiring the drunk driver who actually caused the catastrophic economic, fiscal, social and national security wreck from which Donald Trump tried to rescue them.
Rewarding Democratic demagogues and fellow TDS sufferers who’ve prolonged the Iran conflict — and thereby the higher gas prices reportedly enraging voters — by offering aid and comfort to our enemies in pursuit of political points.
And validating those evil forces’ “prolonged siege” this commentator predicted after the 2024 election. Including 900(!) lawsuits, two government shutdowns, 50-plus attacks targeting Tesla dealerships, and the sacrifice of adherents’ lives in fully funded ICE obstruction. All to foment chaos that unsettled voters and bottled up the president’s agenda.
Meanwhile sniveling, spineless Stupid Party legislators sat on their hands — even though they were handed working majorities and handfuls of receipts of wasteful and fraudulent government justifying sweeping reform.
The foremost example of conscientious House efforts systematically stalled in the Senate: the SAVE America Act, which might have saved a couple of states for the GOP. (Like maybe Texas?)
Empty-suited Senate Leader John Thune repeatedly claimed he “didn’t have the votes.” Poor baby. The caucus boss’ job is to find the votes or another way around. (See Pelosi, Nancy/Obamacare and McConnell, Mitch/confirmations).
Not to mention Republicans’ own own handwringing obstructionism. At least 17 Quislings torpedoed Trump on Iran. Now joined by new Groyper in Chief J.D. Vance, who blamed the GOP collapse on his boss’ Iran policy.
(A veep openly opposing Trump? How did that work out for the last guy?)
Other Uniparty backstabbers fault economic damage from Trump’s “tariffs.” You mean like the recent surprise monthly gain of nearly 170,000 jobs, a continued surge in reshored manufacturing positions, bustling third-quarter GDP growth and exploding business investment?
But never mind. The Stupid Voters and Stupid Party have bought two years of Impeachment and Impediment. Plus upcoming show votes on billionaire taxes, Medicare for All, and ditching data centers and the AI economy — as the Chinese laugh up their sleeves.
Plus this headline: “Elizabeth Warren’s Power in New Senate Is a Wall Street Nightmare.” An eventuality corporate America might have considered before its extended “trash-talking tariff temper tantrum” that kneecapped Trump.
Yet … amid these stupidity-seeded dark clouds is a bright silver lining: The president is now fully unleashed to triangulate, Clinton-style, with the DSA and GOP losers, and “go to the mattresses.” Backed by newly installed “wartime consilgiere” Stephen Miller.
Goody. Here are four elements of a refreshed battle plan for Trump and his paesans, armed with pen, phone and executive branch control, to counter Impeachment and Impediment and put the DSA on its heels:
Impoundment: Here’s a constitutional fight worth having: pick a nice round number — DOGE’s $2-trillion waste-and-fraud estimate might have been a tad ambitious, but what the heck? — and announce that target for impoundments in the FY 2028 budget. Set aside a percentage for probable fraud, zeroing in on Democrat-favored programs and perhaps zeroing-out a few: SNAP. Medicaid. Obamacare. CHIP. TANF. DoEd. The model: the successful administrative whacking of USAID.
Zap corporate welfare (take that, anti-tariff business interests). Then impose a global spending freeze other than defense.
Indictment: Vance’s current fraud task force is small potatoes. Mimic Biden’s Department of Justice and FBI —which massively diverted DC-based resources for their Jan. 6 witch hunt — and devote the entire department’s might to hunting for and prosecuting possibly trillions in fraud. Follow the thread to policymakers (see Walz, Tim and Omar, Ilhan) who are certainly complicit in theft or covering it up.
Actually go after electoral fraud hammers-and-tongs as well. And don’t buy the “no evidence” BS. Remember, statistical evidence is evidence. Sweat local election officials associated with suspicious tallies and get them to turn on higher-ups, as in serious prosecutions, not the nothing-to-see-here oles of the past.
ICE Enforcement: Don’t back off or kowtow to boss girls’ and girlie men’s squeamishness. Step deportations up — also diverting resources (e.g. DHS grants to blue states) to fund it if necessary. Prosecute money men mobilizing organized anti-ICE violence. And address concerns that enforcement is “too tough” by taking Trump’s immigration “Gold Card” “down-market” with the affordable Silver and Bronze “brand extensions” so brilliantly proposed on these pages by serial entrepreneur Lee Lorenzen.
Instillment: Continue the process of re-instilling American influence and power projection around the globe. Finish the Iran conflict, even if — after infinite patience aimed at preserving the nation’s energy production capacity — it requires “obliterating” that capacity in addition to the next levels of leadership. And fully implement the inspired plan for Gazan resettlement — making the Strip a permanent, unoccupied demilitarized zone instead of a terror base or target.
Mr. President and Mr. Miller, the American people and your ostensible partisans have demonstrated that Stupid is what Stupid does — and votes.
So now you have the opportunity to unilaterally demonstrate what smart, unfettered and undeterred leadership can do. Go get ‘em, Tigers.
Bob Maistros was chief writer for the historic 1984 reelection campaign and speechwriter for three U.S. senators and numerous prominent business and political leaders worldwide.
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