What Profit A Man......?

So, as the impeachment hearings go on and plow toward their inevitable conclusion - you really think the Republican majority in the Senate will review the facts honestly? - I have been wondering what comes next.

Well, I have come to some conclusions. I suggest you print out a copy of this blog and put it in an envelope to put under your Christmas tree next year. Then, we’ll see how accurate I was, and you can have some egg nog if the results are too painful to deal with sober.

Here we go.

First, the most obvious ones. The Republican majority in the Senate will vote not to impeach President Trump. They will call it a great victory. The Democrats will sulk, but not do very much.

Mitch McConnell will go back to doing what he does best - blocking votes on proposals that come out of the Democratic majority House of Representatives.

Donald Trump will start running advertisements on television explaining how wonderful things have become in America. He probably won’t use his daughter, Ivanka, as an example of upward mobility, even though she is only 38 and has managed to build a fortune estimated at $300 million. 

Mitch McConnell will pray a lot, and think a lot, about mass shootings. Every time another one happens, his thoughts and prayers will go out again. President Trump will find lots of people to blame for the shootings, as long as they are at least 300 miles away from the United States Senate.

Those things were simple to predict.  Now, some harder ones.

Congress will meet in 2020, and once again fail to vote on a full budget. There will be threats to shut down government, and there is a good chance it may happen.

Mitch McConnell will talk about the need for bi-partisan co-operation, and hold meetings with Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives. Any agreement they reach will be shot down by President Trump.

Republicans will, on their own, come up with some proposals to deal with the rising cost of health insurance and with the growing problems of global warming. They will be modest, but they will be shot down by President Trump, whose name was not on the bills.

Several Republican Senators who were not sufficiently supportive of President Trump will face grass-roots primaries, from radical Trump supporters. President Trump will say he had nothing to do with them, but will then wink at the crowd. Ted Cruz will charge that he was betrayed, but no one will care.

Mitch McConnell will suddenly realize that he has only one job - not to block legislation passed in the House by Democrats, but to do what President Trump tells him to. “You should watch your tweets more,” the President will tweet to him.

As the election season heats up, President Trump will announce that he will be proposing another round of tax cuts to prop up what has become a slowing economy. He will talk a lot about how much it will help everyone, but not provide many details. Democrats will complain, and a lot of voters will say it’s all too complicated to understand, but that they like tax cuts.

In September, word will leak out that Trump’s new tax cut plan will involve giving a 20 per-cent increase to the tax cuts in his last plan. When people complain that it will raise the deficit, he will find at least four experts to say they are wrong. One will be Jared Kushner.

To celebrate Thanksgiving early, Kim Jong-un will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile over Hawaii in a demonstration that he will call “The Rainbow Bridge of Free People.”

Donald Trump will claim the missile launch was in his honor, and Mitch McConnell will agree that the President knows more than anyone else, especially those generals who never knew the missile launch was coming.

Florida will once again vote to elect Donald Trump as President. When he wins, he will immediately show his concern for the budget deficit by cutting Social Security by 20 per-cent.

Mitch McConnell will call a press conference to say no one asked him about making that kind of budget cut. The only reporter who will show up will be from the Bluegrass Weekly. The only question he will ask is “Where’s the free coffee?”