A CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD

Times sure have changed. Or maybe I have just been naive. Never in my life have I seen such hate and disrespect for our leaders and elected officials. And a lot of the disrespect is emanating from some of those elected officials.

We just learned that the Democrats in Congress have advised the IRS that they have until April 24 to hand over the last six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns both personal and business. Or else. Or else what? First of all, it would be illegal for the IRS to hand over those returns to anyone as they are private and privileged information. So, it ain’t gonna happen. The Dems know they will not get the returns. So, what is this all about? It’s about harassment and power. It’s about resistance.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who reads these columns that I am a Republican but mostly I am an American, and as an American I am concerned that the Democrats are destroying their party. We need a two-party system. But we need what used to be known as “the loyal opposition.” A two-party system keeps everybody honest. A single party becomes a dictatorship.

It appears that the political parties are more concerned with their party than they are concerned for the country. That’s a recipe for disaster. Today the Democrats are attempting to weaponize other agencies of the Federal Government. They are attempting to get the Attorney General to break the law regarding the Mueller Report. They want the IRS to break the law with regard to Trump’s taxes. How far would they go?

Because of malfeasance and mismanagement in the recent past, the Justice Department, the FBI and the IRS have been tarnished in the eyes of the American people. We need those agencies and we need for them to be squeaky clean. We’re not some banana republic or some third world country. We are the light of the world. We are the city on the hill and we are looked to by the rest of the world to maintain that image. Two-bit power-hungry politicians need to understand that this is all much bigger than them.

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and third in line for succession to the Presidency by the way, seems to have lost control of her party. Now I don’t care that they are going to lose big in the next election, they deserve it, but I do care that the destruction of the Democrats might be irreparable. The far left “progressives” are pushing them to socialism and the American people are not going to go for it.

So now we have a wagon load of Democrats who are going to be fighting it out to be their party’s candidate in 2020. If things go as they have in the past, it will wind up being a circular firing squad. Millions will be spent attempting not to create a favorable image for themselves, but instead to destroy the opposing candidate. From the looks of things they are already trying to out socialism each other. Free stuff for everyone. Don’t worry about the cost. We’ll just tax the rich and make them pay their fair share. Free health care should be a right. A free college degree should be a right. A living wage, whether you work or not, should be a right. Venezuela should not be our example. We will have much better dictators.

Well guess what Democrats. America will never be a socialist country. We earn our living. We earn our wealth. We earn our prosperity. We believe in and follow our Constitution. By virtue of the Second Amendment we are armed and we will never give up our guns.

The Democrats need to get on board. Perhaps a rereading of our Constitution might be helpful. At any rate, it couldn’t hurt. May God continue to bless America.

Ron Scarbro