Don's Tuesday Column

          THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   11/01/2016

        Trump’s plan; Hillary’s scandals

My, and Doug LaMalfa’s, ballot recommendations are summarized at the end of the column. For anyone wanting to help with some phone surveying to help the Trump campaign, stop by Republican HQ at 710 Main St, at the corner of Pine. It’s easy; you’ll feel good about it.

Before being challenged to make a positive case for Donald Trump, it was my plan to do so today. It is not hard to do for anyone who has availed themselves of available material. Look up https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/CONTRACT_FOR_THE_VOTER.pdf and you can satisfy your own curiosity. It includes “6 measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC,” an additional “7 actions to protect American workers,” and “5 actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law,” for his first day in office.

He intends to work with Congress to enact legislation for: Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification, End Offshoring, American Energy & Infrastructure, School Choice And Education Opportunity, Replace and Repeal Obamacare, Affordable Childcare and Eldercare, End Illegal Immigration, Restore Community Safety, Restore National Security and Clean up Corruption in Washington—all in his first 100 days.

Roger L. Simon summed it thusly: “If the Election Were about Trump’s Gettysburg Policies, He Would Win in a Landslide” (10/22).

Trump’s economic, tax and regulatory goals will accomplish what both Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy did to produce booming economies and growing revenues from said growth. The largest Keynesian economic experiment since the Great Depression—which was extended by 7 years due to FDR’s policies—has shown over the last 7 years of supposedly stimulative deficit spending that you cannot tax and spend your way to prosperity. Trump’s business tax reductions will move America back to its rightful place as the world’s business and economic leader.

Either Trump or Clinton will bring 3,000 appointees, multiple Supreme Court justices and a multitude of lower federal court nominees. I trust that Trump’s choices will reflect pro-American, pro-freedom, pro-Constitution and stronger military policies and decisions.

This brings us back to Clinton corruption, scandal and lawlessness—well, laws that apply to everyone else, anyway. Events of the last several days fill me with cautious optimism that a majority of voters may ultimately see clearly the predictable potential crisis to come from electing Hillary Clinton under the greatest cloud of criminal suspicion America has seen since Nixon.

Just to clearly state the criminal culpability involved in compromising national security documents and communications: Military, National Security Administration members and contractors have been accused, prosecuted, tried and jailed for doing far less than sending literally hundreds of classified emails as was done by Hillary Clinton over her unsecured private server.

Now James Comey has revealed that thousands of “.gov” emails were on a laptop shared by Hillary aide Huma Abedien and Anthony Weiner. This is from the FBI Director James Comey that arbitrarily absolved Clinton of wrongdoing based on the specious claim that she had no “intent” to compromise America’s security protocols. “Intent” is irrelevant in the criminal justice investigation, says former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, who just wrote “Comey Is Not the One Whose Unorthodox Actions Are Casting a Cloud over the Election.”

Here’s a roundup of outrages: The Department of Justice has attempted to interfere with a multiple-city FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation in a thinly-veiled attempt to weaken efforts to get to the bottom of corrupt “pay to play” schemes. Almost half of those polled by Morning Consult said the Clinton email scandal is “worse than the Watergate scandal.” Headline: “Colorado Dems Complain Clintons ‘Sold Country Down River’.”

Also, “Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside” (John Kass, Chicago Tribune reporter). Kass asks, “Has America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after Friday’s FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her emails while secretary of state?”

“What happens when a former Democrat congressman makes sexual Twitter advances to a minor causing the FBI to seize the computer of his wife, the Democrat presidential candidate’s aide and a woman with ties to radical Islam, and the said computer is found to contain emails that potentially exposed classified information to our enemies so that said candidate could hide her likely influence peddling?” (Andrew Klaven, pjmedia.com) What happens, indeed? Defeat?

“The truth is, neither one of our leading candidates for president is a paragon of virtue. But only one of them has already made a habit of flouting the law while in office, selling favors and escaping the consequences, and only one of them is likely to be able to pull it off from the White House. And that’s the problem. If Secretary of State Clinton, serving under a president and with an eye on winning a second term in the White House, wasn’t constrained by the rules, who will constrain her if she’s president?” (Glenn Reynolds, USA Today)

Howie Carr nailed it: “Nice try, Democrats, but this thing ain’t really over yet, is it?”

My voting choices—explained in prior column—are: “No” to both school bond measures (J for RB High School, and H for Shasta College); “Yes” to increasing the Supervisors’ salaries (County M); “No” to 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 67—all are one iteration or another of liberal tax, spend, debt, soft-on-crime, anti-gun, pro-pot and anti-rural environmental agendas. “Yes” on 52, 53, 54 and “Yes” on 66 for timelier implementation of the death penalty.