The 365 Day Hangover - Happy New Year - Drive Carefully

Today is the last day of 2019 and I have a monumental hangover - a hangover that everyone in the country is suffering from - a hangover that's lasted 365 days.

To be accurate, this binge started on January 20th, 2017. Although a case can be made that it started on June 16th, 2015 or November 4th, 2008 or decades earlier on April 12th, 1861 or July 4th, 1776 or August 13th, 1619.

For practical purposes, and in the interests of brevity, I will credit January 1st, 2019 as the date it began. For those of you who like to correlate dates to Bible verses, I urge you to read Jeremiah 1:1-19.

I'm obviously not speaking about a drug or alcohol induced hangover. I am speaking about the kind of experience you have when buried alive after an earthquake or washed away during a tsunami - a feeling of total disorientation - like what you feel during an alien abduction.

Donald Trump has finally been impeached. 2020 is an election year. The year will start with mayhem and go rapidly downhill from there.

That's Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and all the other Senate Republicans in all those car insurance ads. They're setting the stage for the Impeachment trial by throwing everything they have at the American people in an effort to distract us from arriving safely on November 3rd, 2020.

Nancy Pelosi is driving the car at the moment. She has allowed Mayhem to take over the backseat. After doing everything she could to prevent an Impeachment to take place, she was finally forced to allow the House to move on Impeachment.

If Nancy seems a bit unnerved, it's because she, arguably, has waited too long to begin the Impeachment journey and she has not taken adequate provisions. She is now following in the footsteps of the Donner Party.

The Impeachment journey should have started in May after Mueller released his report on Russian interference in our elections. Mueller handed in a ready to go, thoroughly researched Impeachment package.

Mueller had also completed several successful criminal prosecutions that could have provided cooperative witnesses in an Impeachment hearing. Oh well!

Hey, I'm not even mentioning all the Emoluments violations that warranted their own Articles of Impeachment. The Trumps are nothing if not exploiters and opportunists.

Don't get me wrong. I totally support what the House Democrats have done with the two Articles of Impeachment they approved. I totally support what Nancy is now doing in delaying turning over the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. Let's face it, Trump is now between a rock and a hard place.

I just hope we don't end up stuck in the snow and turning to cannibalism to survive. Although, we are already seeing evidence of cannibalism. People are already threatening to revolt and have a second Civil War.

The debate over the Senate trial has to do with witnesses being called and evidence being presented. I'll make this simple. All of Trump's people are willing to stonewall and support Trump from afar. None of them are willing to commit perjury for him.

Which explains why Trump pardoning Stone and Flynn is now being discussed in the media. Trump has to find a way to reassure witnesses who commit perjury on his behalf that he will be there when the time comes.

Somehow, the car Pelosi is driving will be cloned many times. Mayhem will still be in the backseat, but other drivers will take the wheel and try to get us safely to Election Day.

Sadly, all these cars will be on the road at the same time. There are cars for all of the primaries and for each of the candidates and for all of the conventions and for all of the elections that will take place across the country.

Here's wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

Personally, I will not be ingesting any mind and/or mood altering substances. I'm staying stone cold sober, focusing like a laser and voting Blue No Matter Who in 2020.

Holy Moly!