OUR GRUMPY PRESIDENT

In his press conference following the mid-term election—the same one where a reporter threw a female intern to the ground and stomped on her face (according to the White House, sort of)—Donald Trump declared victory, as he is wont to do.

That's right, he's sitting on top of the world, everything going his way!

Okay, maybe a couple of glitches coming out of the Democrat-controlled House, starting this January.

Trump was asked if he could compartmentalize events from the House, let those guys start investigations of him and still act in a professional manner when legislation came his way.

He said he would not. If the Dems attack him, he would apparently refuse to do his job.

Now, I'm no expert of Constitutional law, but that grumpy fellow might have right there committed an impeachable offense.

How can he refuse to be president and expect to remain president?

I don't know if he was asked about the impending tax break for middle-income folks, but he seems to have stopped yapping about it during chopper-talk moments. Before the election, he kept saying they were going to "put it in."

I think he meant there were going to put it into a big wooden box so it could be stored in that warehouse where they keep the Ark of the Covenant.

We'll probably never hear about it again.

(At least, not until just before the 2020 election.)

He's also quieted down a lot about the impending migrant "invasion" from Mexico. (This was the subject the reporter was asking about when he took a moment to strangle the young intern and hide her body in the White House basement, thereby losing his library card and the persistence discount on his car insurance. Pretty sure that's what Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.)

Didn't get him everything, but for all we know, the Republicans picked up a couple Senate seats out of Trump's shameless fear-mongering speeches about the mounting threat from the South.

(The Republicans pulled the same trick a few years back, when they promoted a world-class [and award-winning] lie in an attempt to sink the Affordable Care Act, insisting the legislation included "death panels" to decide which members of our elderly population would get treatment.)

As I've said before, the best way to keep folks from crossing our southern border is to make Mexico an economic paradise nobody would dream of leaving.

Along those lines, one thing we'd have to do would be to create a US that is free of foreign drugs. If there wasn't so much money to be made supplying Americans with dope, Mexico would not be terrorized by gun-happy entrepreneurs.

Good news! We're already making a start on this: homegrown (and legal) pot is making its mark (despite federal laws), plus Big Pharma is stepping up to flood the market with tasty opioids for our citizens to nosh on.

Not willing to wait for this process to do its job, Trump is still insisting Congress fund the building of his border wall. (He no longer mentions the requirement for Mexico to pay for the thing.) As he's made clear in the past, he's prepared to shut down the government unless he gets his way.

Fold this position into his petulance over a Democrat-ruled House, and we may be in for a couple more years of turmoil and inaction.

Exactly what the doctor ordered—for China and Russia.