ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

People who consider Trump's claim of an absolute right to control the Justice Department a threat to Robert Mueller, just are not looking deeply enough.  The potential threat is to the nation.  If the "absolute control" resides in one man, that man can control who gets investigated and who does not; who gets indicted, for Federal crimes and who does not; and since the Federal Bureau of Prisons is operated by the Justice Department, who serves hard time and who does not.    

WHY JESUS NEVER MENTIONED ABORTION

Jesus never mentioned abortion because the preferred method of population control, in those times, was infanticide.  

Abortion was more dangerous than bringing the pregnancy to term and trusting in the providence of God to provide for the sustenance of the infant, in the wilderness.  

HOW THE TAX CUTS WILL WORK

The methodology of how Trump's tax cuts will work  to improve the middle class has been demonstrated by recent actions, of some corporations, to provide bonuses and salary increases.  The corporations ingest large amounts of taxpayer money, assimilate it and then pass it on, through their droppings, to their employees.

The Trump Administration contends that this is the traditional method of wealth distribution, and they do not wish to disturb it.

BETTER OFF DEALING WITH MUELLER

Based on glimpses into Mueller's investigative processes. and Trump's attorneys' reactions, I have arrived at a conclusion, albeit tenuous, that Trump's attorneys will do everything in their power to prevent Trump from firing Mueller.

There are no attornies, in Washington, so naive as to believe that any man will prevent his tax returns from being made public because "they are under audit".  They know, even if they are required to defend their client, that there is something damaging in those returns and they have to assume Mueller has access to them.

They also know that no one in the law enforcement community will ever buy the story that "he fired the F.B.I. Director because he was investigating a hoax".  The additional firing of a special counsel will not enhance the credibility of their client.

Mueller has "rigged" the system so that if he is fired, the investigations will continue under New York State law and that state's attorney will have access to Mueller's files.  

At some point, Trump's lawyers may have to enter into negotiations for leniency for Trump and his family.  If Trump fires Mueller, he can expect none.  Trump is better off dealing with Mueller than Mueller's replacement.

G.O..P. GIVES UP ON TRUMP?

Has the G.O.P. given up on any hope of winning, in the future, either the Presidency or majorities in the House or Senate, with Trump in office?  

A case can be made that they are preparing the groundwork for a situation that will be so dire it will leave the next Administration, which they expect to be Democratic, with almost insoluble problems.  While the Democrats labor to extricate the U.S. from the maze, Republicans can sit back and relax, enjoy the profits of their most recent tenure in office criticizing the new Administration for not resolving the problems more rapidly.  That way, they indicate, each party can do what each does best, Republicans create problems while Democrats resolve them.  Democrats have become pretty adept at cleaning up the mess; Republicans are getting faster at creating messes.

RUSSIAN EMAIL LAUNDERING

There may be something ironic in the fact that lawyers of a man who begged the Russians to illegally hack 30,000 of his political rival's emails are now complaining that 10,000, I presume legally obtained, emails, in the course of an investigation, is tainted.  I presume that they were legally obtained because the complaint has not been made to a judge who would normally decide their status but to an extra-judicial political body.

It would appear, now, that any emails obtained, in the course of an investigation, should be laundered through the Russians, before having validity in an American court of law.

ROY MOORE WON'T CONCEDE

It is rumored that Roy Moore will not concede the Alabama Senatorial Election until Vladamir Putin gets a chance to review his appeal and rules on whether Russia will intervene on Moore's behalf.  Only when appeals to the highest court in the land, in election matters,  are exhausted, will Moore concede.