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Senator Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, gets a salary of $193,400 from the U.S. taxpayer. But he fails to do his job. Consider the oath of office that McConnell, and every civil servant, takes:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Well, it seems McConnell fails to "faithfully discharge the duties of the office." Here are four notable cases.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending so much money on television spots across the country, $119 million so far, that it’s causing ad rates to soar.
With such a naked attempt to buy the election, news like this isn't all that surprising.

Today, Tulsi will reach her $1 million campaign warchest goal for "keeping competitive" with the rest of the Democratic candidates in the early primary/caucus states. As of right now here is the total:

Will 2020 Bring Better Vision?

Here we go into the second decade of the third millennium (that is if you start counting time when they say we should). If I could define a clear yearly vision it would start with an end to the wars and coups the US perpetrates to enhance global corporate/capital power. Then with both the monies saved and return of our veterans, we rebuild and create a new paradigm. Imagine locally produced power, food, transportation, parks, ecosystem restoration, and water capture and purification. Imagine the end of the fracking industry, which has never been profitable except as a con. Use the last of current fossil fuel production to create a fossil fuel free world and then end it...no new wells nor coal mines. I can continue by dreaming of a new food production system not focused on grains and soy which are driving so much of our ill health, but focused on neighborhood market producers, and humane animal production using regenerative farming. Eating well (which would require an examination of current (mis)guidelines plus a re-education program) would reduce the chronic disease epidemic. We need universal health care for all, but first we need accurate health advice. The big problem of the future is said to be the loss of jobs to AI, but we will always need teachers, park rangers, librarians, ecologists, climatologists, hydrologists, solar specialists, electric car mechanics, restoration ecologists, farmers, herders, ranchers, welders, carpenters, plumbers, and on and on. There's plenty of work for all but we haven't developed a system of value for our ecosystem nor one another. It is time. It is past time.

All three are involved in Trump’s impeachment.

During his July 25th call with Ukraine Pres. Zelensky, Trump urged Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General William Barr to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Humter.

Something/Someone Old

In college, I used to love the poet James Wright.

Reporter: So you wouldn't comply if you were subpoenaed to testify in an impeachment trial before the senate?

Biden: [stabbing finger into the table, gnashing teeth] Trump's going to get away..! and Putin and his bots don't want me to be president!pic.twitter.com/VW4ZVr7bUW

America is number one in several categories, such as incarcerating our poor people and mass shootings.
In 2013 we were number one in global threats to peace.

Lest you think propaganda was invented by David Brock, consider what I was taught in elementary school. There, not necessarily promoted as an idea to be emulated, was the American Exceptionalism (AE). Beginning before the Revolution but encouraged by it, AE found its first political enactment of the Monroe Doctrine.

The justification of this keep out of OUR hemisphere was of course AE.