Juan, check out Jack

 

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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 14, 2024

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It’s about time, because this “lawfare” has been devastating for the rule of law. It’s banana republic stuff!

This is what we hear from Smith:

Special counsel Jack Smith is planning to resign before Donald Trump enters the White House, a report claims.

The federal prosecutor’s two cases against the president-elect are on the brink of being closed.

Sources close to Smith told the New York Times he wants to finish his work and avoid being fired ‘within two seconds’ of Trump being sworn in on January 20.

The two complex investigations into Trump have cost the taxpayer around $50 million. 

One involved classified documents the former president kept after leaving office following his first term.

The other focused on Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead up to January 6.

There you go. Hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more, as the song goes.

To paraphrase Professor Jonathan Turley, the 2024 election was the biggest verdict in U.S. history. The voters said “enough is enough. Stop these tactics of using our courts to prosecute political opponents.” The voters know that these cases were rooted in politics, not law, and the public smelled that rat quickly.

The next question is: what about Judge Juan Merchan in New York? When will he get the memo? I don’t know if the judge has the courage to dig himself out of the hole, but let’s hope.

Juan, talk to Jack and get out of the way. My good guess is that New Yorkers would rather have their courts prosecute the street criminals terrorizing their communities.

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1851: "Moby Dick" is published

Some of us saw the movie first and others read the book.    No matter what, Moby Dick is a great read or movie.   It was written by Herman Melville and published on this day in 1851.    

The movie version is also great.   In 1956, a movie with Gregory Peck was released.   Many of us saw that version growing up.

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Democrats should take a page from the Nixon book

Down in Florida, and now Georgia, we have more evidence that the Democrats are engaging in the worst kind of chicanery about counting votes.  They want all votes counted while suggesting that they have not been.  In fact, the votes were counted, or at least the ones that were legally cast under the rules.

As in the 2000 election, the Democrats are playing games without regard to what all this does to a democracy.  The Democrats’ partisan words mean that the winner will walk into the job with half of the state believing that he is illegitimate.  

How many more of these moments can we have before we become a banana republic?  Not many.  The beauty of a democracy is that the loser accepts results and wishes the best to the winner.  Anything else is poisonous!

My suggestion to Democrats is to put the country first, as the late President Richard M. Nixon did after a very close election.

In 1960, the country voted and we did not know the verdict until the next day.  Eventually. VP Nixon lost to Senator Kennedy by 114,000 votes (out of 76 million cast) and 303-219 in the Electoral College.

Many years later, I was taking a political science class and we looked back at that election.  My professor said two things that I’ll never forget:   It was closer than close and thank God for VP Nixon’s mature response.

Let’s remember that amazing election and the day after:   

The New York Times called the election for then-Senator Kennedy just before midnight on November 8, 1960. 

NBC News didn’t call the race until 7 a.m. the following morning. 

All night, the newly empowered national television networks had forecast that Kennedy was leading, but in a race that was too close to call.

That’s correct.  It was too close to call into the next morning.  Many people fell asleep watching a close election and woke up with the same reality.

None of that happened in Florida and Georgia.  We had candidates declared winners and some even conceded.  Now, the losers are taking back their concessions.

Nixon had many arguments about the voting in Chicago, Texas and other areas.  He could have easily thrown the country into political chaos by refusing to accept defeat.   

He did not and that’s the lesson that some Democrats should learn today.

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