The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee Chairman, when asked why no one wanted to work in the White House, said he didn’t expect Trump to finish his first term in office and that his ‘clients’ should look forward to Vice President Pence’s ascension to the throne. Why? Because, he said, no one wants to work for ‘crazy’. This is harsh news for the Prez. More faux news, maybe, or just another Republican calling the kettle black, hard to tell.

But the buzzards are circling, Donald, and not just the FBI. Who knows, maybe they’ll drag you out in a strait jacket, not handcuffs. You can plead insanity. If I were on that jury, and please, God, put me on that jury, I’d find it a plausible defense. I might be inclined toward leniency, something like 20 years of public service. Real public service, Mr. President, not Self Service. But I wouldn’t bet on my fellow jurors feeling so compassionate. Treason, after all, even if it’s only for profit, not politics, is a vile crime and when you’re hauled in for those Russian payoffs, you and your son-in-law and a few accomplices, don’t count on me to step in front of the lynch mob arguing that they should pity you because you’re batshit crazy.

No, high crimes and treason do not engender compassion or forgiveness. You fooled a lot of us a lot of the time, but those times are over soon. I don’t really know how federal prison works things, but maybe they’ll let you Tweet once a day. You can profess ignorance, you can cry foul, you can howl that justice was not served. You can hire the best attorneys money can buy. You can hope to get your case taken to the Supreme Court where you got a Justice or two on the bench. But it won’t help. Crazy, isn’t it?

We’re taking down some of the statues in the South of all those Rebel heroes, maybe about time after 150 years since the Civil War. Kinda sad news for the folks who still fly the Confederate flag back up the dirt roads where history got written a little differently. Stone Mountain, the second largest chunk of granite next to Gibraltar, has those 4 generals on horseback large as the presidents on Mt. Rushmore. Yankee presidents, to some.

I’m all FOR putting those Civil War statues in a museum somewhere in Mobile or Vicksburg or Chattanooga. After all, they are historic. But as heroes? I can’t say the folks who fought for slave-holders should be honored any more than the Grand Wizards of the KKK. Call me politically correct and slap me with a New York Times Sunday edition, but c’mon, the South needs to accept defeat with that much touted grace they claim as theirs. I know, Washington and Jefferson and the boyz had slaves too. And they’re on Rushmore. And we should all acknowledge their part in perpetuating the stain on this country. The Constitution, that document the Supreme Court originalists wants to cling to like lichen to a hard rock, deemed blacks as only partially human. Women, not even a mention.

Maybe there’s too many statues anyway. Obscure generals, folks we’ve long since forgotten even though the statues were spozed to help us remember them into perpetuity. We live in an era where fame is fast and furious, about the length of a mayfly’s mating period. Wouldn’t bother most of us if we replaced them with People Magazine’s Sexiest Man of the Year or the Academy Award winners for best actress and actor. Or just vote on Facebook, see who gets the most Likes, then put statues up in Times Square or the Washington Mall.

And just to make it interesting, we could put a few Shaming Statues up too. Course, that might mean keeping those Reb generals around a little longer….