An Awful August                                   - Sunday evening -

   We have two revolting developments in five days.

Awful No. 1 - On August 10 the U.S. Senate with the cooperation of 19 Republican senators passed a super-expensive bill crafted solely by Democratic operatives. Marxist Dems must be laughing in their beer. The by-partisan friendship they got for the first of two bills are liable to bankrupt the country and destroy everything our founders stood for. Voters didn't have a say.  

   We can't count on Republicans to block the next bill, all told, $12.5 trillion for a little infrastructure and a lot of government power, including the estimated $6 trillion Biden budget for the upcoming fiscal year. That's more money than we spent on all wars from the beginning.   

   Got $1,000 in savings? How much will that buy next August? Not worried? Call me a year from now and let's talk. There are more ludicrous, harmful threats on the horizon, but we'll get on with...

Awful No. 2 - Did you see the sad photo of our president sitting alone at Camp David, "on vacation." looking across a huge table at a Zoom meeting. Really? 

   Biden recently said the Afghan capital - if overrun - would hold out for maybe three months. Soon it was three weeks. Then it was three days...and the final score? Six hours. 

   Most Americans wanted out. Trump was planning an exit. I've had doubts since a couple years after they dispatched Osama bin Laden, which Vice Pres. Biden opposed as too risky. Our troops have prevented another 9/11 maybe; now it's back to pre-9/11 times, including bin Laden's Al Qaeda.  

   Shame on so-called leaders of this Republic who thought they could negotiate with the Taliban, as if those rascals have an ounce of honor. Shame on those who assumed the Afghan army would stand and fight. Shame on an Administration, if they had to do it, for choosing the summer season when the Taliban is in full force.

   So, they blame Trump, while women are carried off to become wives - no more education - and heads of our Afghan interpreters roll. 

   This is worse than Vietnam. Our word means little, and who could be happier than the Communist Chinese? 

         Jimmy

    We didn't forget our awful border crisis