By Nathan Barton
This current crop of new congresscritturs makes us realize one of the strongest arguments for unlimited terms for them is the difficulty in getting them trained o- the-job. (Not that such an argument comes anywhere close to outweighing all of the many reasons to limit them to a single term.)
But we can quickly see (and not just in the headline-grabbing poster girls) that most of these people are totally unprepared to do the work that they are expected to do. Often, it is clear that they lack basic knowledge about such things as legislative procedures, budgeting and finance, taxation and especially a solid (or ANY) understanding of constitutional government.
The Price of Liberty 
Trump’s latest – eh?
by Nathan Barton
Mainsteam Media continues to portray The Donald as all sorts of evil, including much that he is definitely not guilty of, while mostly ignoring his real evils.
The list is long: the Never-Trumpers (Dem, GOP, and whatever) claim that he is homophobic, racist, misogynist, anti-immigrant, a militaristic warmonger, and a serial abuser of women. The list could go on.
At the same time, we hear little, or almost nothing, about many of his serious character defects, including his inability to keep his pants zipped, his constant lies, his treatment of his own subordinates, and his boastfulness. His checklist of both “serious” and “venal” sins seems to get filled repeatedly.
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