Jack of Harts

A good Presidential debate should show us the candidates so we know what we are voting for. This was a good debate. We got to see the two leading candidates for 90 minutes and we got to see how they think and talk over that time. And today the same mainstream news services and Democrat activists, but I repeat myself, are saying they are shocked and horrified at how badly Old Joe performed. Do not believe them. They have been covering for him for four years. Hiding his mental and physical impairment and telling us with straight faces that he is so energetic and on top of things that they can’t keep up with him. All while he has demonstrated again and again on smaller stages just how impaired he really is. They have been lying to us for four years, and today everyone has seen the truth. This was a good debate because anyone with eyes can see the lies they have peddled.

It’s Debate Day and what do we have to look forward to? We still don’t know whose crack it was they found in the White House, so who knows what the docs are pumping into Old Joe. And Big Don is still under a gag order so who knows what all he can say about when the question of his recent court case comes up. I don’t expect the moderators who have compared him to Hitler in the past to play nice with him on that point, so we’ve got that going as well. Now the rules say that they’ll cut the mikes so Old Joe can’t interrupt people like he has in debates for decades, but how well will that work out for him? What will Old Joe say, all alone, in front of a mic, with no audience to distract him? We know Big Don can talk big, but what will he say, all alone, in front of a mic, with no audience to feed on? Enquiring minds are going to find out…

Another 1913 Amendment, the Seventeenth changed the election of State Senators from being performed by the State Legislatures to being selected by popular vote of the citizens of the State, like the House of Representatives. The original Constitution had granted that power to the State Legislatures with the intention of granting the States direct control of their representatives to the Federal government. This would give them some power to keep the Federal government from growing out of their control. The combination of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments granted the Federal government the power to largely break free of this State influence to follow the path of Federal Supremacy we know today.