"Thank goodness for Trey Gowdy and people like him who are never intimidated."
I haven't followed it, but I'm for keeping politicians as honest as possible.

If you don't know Gowdy, then you aren't much of a Hillary fan either. He's been the number one burr under her saddle, and justifiably so. He was the chairman of the House Oversight Committee in charge of investigating Benghazi.

Thank goodness for Trey Gowdy and people like him who are never intimidated.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. Donald Trump

Trump: "I'm not cutting services, but I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education," Trump says. "I believe Common Core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be--you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education."

Clinton initially responded to the question about how to fix the U.S. educational system by praising Common Core. She then said that families today are too "negative" about the current system, a system Clinton described as "the most important non-family enterprise" in the country. After noting what she described as "unfortunate" opposition to Common Core, Hillary Clinton also dismissed the concerns of Common Core opponents by saying they just "do not understand the value" of the controversial top-down curriculum.

Perhaps he will be more effective as a prosecutor .
I think that he will be recruited.

I don't know Gowdy. Sasse wrote a book about how kids needs to have more rights and responsibilities. I wholeheartedly agree with him on that. On this board people said we're treating kids as pansies needing safe spaces, and I rejected it as rightwing nonsense. I was completely wrong. My kids were babies yet. Now I realize we have a national crisis. What Khaling told me was right. We're teaching kids to be paralyzed unless they have someone telling them what to do. Sasse's writing speak to this. I'm registered Democrat, more of a Hillary Clinton Democrat. If it were between a Bernie Sanders socialistic Democrat and Sasse, I would be completely for Sasse.

Seems pretty obvious, right? But we keep accepting the garbage and by disregarding allow it to eat away at society's sanity.Clean out the swamp? Start at the source. Those teachers who say science and societal progress through individuality is crap should be winnowed out and fired for teaching nonsense as fact, and teaching that the creators of and implementors of the world should be shut down. We won't need Atlas to shrug. The world he holds up will disintegrate in his arms.

"Which is easier to control, a bunch of idiots or bright moral, people cognizant of their duties and how to implement them?"

Spot on!

Sasse's lesson on the constitution and how it should be implemented as contrasted to how it is Being implemented is an almost perfect example of what is being taught in today's colleges and universities. When ever you hear of someone spouting ridiculous ideas, reasons, or outlandish conclusions, your tendency is to write them off as nutcases. But it is now time to take them seriously. Sasse's lesson is to show us how far away from original intention these ideas are. It's called Post Modernism. In other words everything we have learned since the Dark Ages is just so much crap and must be trashed. The very thought of it is so stupid that most of us tend to disregard it. That is a big mistake. The idiocracy is one big joke -- until it becomes real.Just take the Constitution on any given subject, factor in the Post Modern interpretation as a serious concept and Boom! you have the idiocracy playing out and running your life. Why? Because a stupid electorate elects a stupid legislature which also elects a stupid executive and court. Which is easier to control, a bunch of idiots or bright moral, people cognizant of their duties and how to implement them? At the last tally, it was discovered that 90% of bureaucrats are unneeded but they are the instillers of the Post Modern disease. I've been dieting and have lost 40 pounds so far, the least the Washington swamp can do is to trim at least that much fat with an ongoing intention of keeping to slice away until only those who have real jobs remain employed.

I do agree that Cruz and Sasse were spot on in their speaking on this matter. Let us not forget however both are also as much a part of the problems and less a part of the solutions in Washington. Don't expect much to come out of any of this blather.

The best public servants are those who serve out of duty, not out of profit motive for sure! Too bad there aren't many to go around.

Don't I KNOW IT (that's he's stopping).

The stench is just too much for him, but THAT is the kind of leader we need. I just hate that he can't stand it any more.

Except that Gowdy is stepping out of public office. I think the blatant hypocrisy all around him finally got to him. I would have loved to have seen him as head of DoJ.

Between him and Gowdy? I dunno. Love'em both. That would be a difficult vote for me.

the supreme court is not respected due to it's lack of an objective philosophy...they and the legislature are a joke....unfortunately, we have to live under their oppression...

Me Helen would also support that.

I would argue rather that the Supreme Court has at times been represented by a majority of ideologues - and a majority is all that is needed to radically affect public policy. FDR was the first to recognize this - and implement it - during his infamous tenure.

Of course if the Legislative Branch were to do its job instead of relegating rule-making to unelected bureaucrats, one can argue that the Supreme Court would have very little to do in the first place!

The Supreme Court is a cabal of communist thinkers...none of them has demonstrated an understanding of why and for what the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution were written...

Me dino would support that. (-:

"Now me dino has an even higher appreciation of The Donald demanding that two regulations be canned for each new one added."

Yes! The mandate to start dismantling the regulatory burden on individuals and businesses can temporarily be done through the Chief Executive setting terms on the bureaucracies, but in the long run, what is needed is for Congress to act and demolish the bureaucracies wholesale.

My vote would be for a Constitutional Amendment that says that any federal bureaucracies beyond State (includes military and CIA), Treasury (includes borders and customs and IRS), and Law Enforcement (includes FBI) must be established by Constitutional Amendment - not by Legislative action.

Due to that speech, me dino has a better understanding how too many legislators manage to be reelected for lifelong careers ending with fat pensions~none of which they have earned or deserve.
I've often heard of "kicking the can (an issue) down the road." Today came the revelation of how a can can be kicked upstairs to the judiciary or laterally passed over to a bureaucracy to sort out into a new regulation.
Ah! New thought! Now me dino has an even higher appreciation of The Donald demanding that two regulations be canned for each new one added. .

The Democrats consider the Constitution constraining and outdated and would like nothing more than to gut it. The phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ..." is a direct affront to them because it disavows the very elitism they want nothing more than to inflict on the American people. The Democrats of today would have been the Tories of that day.

Sasse's speech was printed in the WSJ. He was spot on, not that anything will change or any Senator will take his words to heart.

Impeccably well spoken on both counts. I pray America is listening.

I would like Sasse for president.