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Another Republican “Witch Hunt”

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  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump ordered investigations of President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. He frequently made allegations about Hillary Clinton, encouraging his “basement dwellers,” (the term Trump uses to describe his supporters,) to chant, “lock her up.” His latest baseless and facetious attacks are focused on Barack Obama, a man who has never been suspected of a single misdeed: unique among America’s presidents. Trump’s fellow criminal, Attorney General Pam Bondi, is bowing to her Fuhrer’s demands and ordered federal prosecutors to begin an investigation related to the 2016 election. Without any proof, and knowing that the FBI and other national security agencies confirmed the undeniable fact that Putin was aggressively involved in aiding Trump in the election, the orange buffoon is alleging that President Obama manufactured the facts about collusion between Trump and Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Most recently, early in 2024, the FBI once again warned the America...

Since 1993, Democratic Presidents Were Forced to Rescue Our Economy from the Failures of Republicans

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Op-ed by TheWiseOld Fart   In 1989 Reagan left office. Our country was in debt for more than one-trillion dollars. His ludicrous fiscal policy of “supply side economics,” better known as “trickle-down economics,” put money in the pockets of the super-rich, while stagnating the economic growth of the working class. This led to a huge national debt thanks to diminshing tax revenue from those who could most easily afford to pay their fair share.   His Republican successor, Vice-President George H.W. Bush, continued this failed policy and was subsequently forced out of office after one term.   Enter Democrat William Jefferson Clinton in 1993. When he left the White House in 2001, the national debt was eradicated, and America’s national treasury experienced a surplus of funds.   His successor should have been Vice-President Al Gore, who would have continued efforts to grow the economy for all Americans, but a politically biased Supreme Court illegally interfered in the ...