Impeachment: There's a Season for All Things

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Autumn leaves are glorifying landscapes from the East to the West coast; gathering in colorful carpets on forest floors where whispers of impeachment ride the winds of change.

A winter of discontent, like no other in American history, is sending shivers down the spines of common citizens struggling with issues like health care, and immigration reforms. 

Hopes for any helpful legislation are buried beneath a layer of polarizing rhetoric so toxic the nation is hopelessly divided. The government is crippled. An orange ape is sitting in the oval office shitting on every law of the land.

This apocalyptic winter is fraught with challenges, from increasingly severe temperatures because of global warming, to the sundering of a nation once united.

The bitter business of watching and hearing a president out of control is weighing heavily on the national soul. Consciences are colliding with the very real efforts of Trump to overthrow our democracy daily.

Brazen efforts to obstruct justice, and Trump's abuse of power, is causing showers of condemnation by a stricken nation seeking relief after nearly three years of chaos. 

Trump and his corrupt cronies stand in the eye of the storms ahead. How they weather them is up to popular opinion forcing senate Republicans to renounce his power grab. 

Polls show the appetite for impeachment is growing during this turbulent Autumn. The winter ahead promises to be a bitter one for Trump supporters. Impeachment is a certainty in the House.

The final battle will be in the Senate this winter, or possibly next spring. That's when we'll find out if we're a Republic, or a monarchy.

There's a season for all things. This Autumn it's impeachment.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Tucker Carlson Didn't Really Say That About Trump... Did he?

                                      Good Day World!

The rumor is true.

Tucker Carlson, Fox's talking head with no brain, dissed his master Trump in an op-ed! I know... it's shocking.

Is it a sign that even Trump's supporters are gradually slipping away and going back to their basements and hidey-holes? I'm not so sure.

So here's what the right-wing media star said, along with another headcase, Neil Patel (the co-founder of the Daily Caller), in an editorial published on 10/3/19:

"Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden. Some Republicans are trying, but there's no way to spin this as a good idea.

And this: 

"Like a lot of things that Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top. Our leader's official actions should not be about politics. Those two things need to remain separate. Once those in control of our government use it to advance their political goals, we become just another of the world's many corrupt countries. America is better than that."  

How about that?

Does this op-ed mean there's trouble in Trump propaganda land? Is a number one minion jumping ship? I don't think so. It could be a new tactic to defend our liar-in-chief, according to one political analyst;

NBC's, Benjy Sarlin, thinks the op-ed was a "...pretty massive signal to pivot away from defending the behavior (which has been a brutal slog so far for those who've tried) and instead toward arguing impeachment goes too far."

Still, I'm surprised. I never seen a political hack of Carlson's ilk say something sane... (and dare I say truthful?), even for a few sentences.

I know Carlson will continue to carry Trump's bucket of piss. He's got viewers to please and propaganda to spread. 

I think we can properly conclude Carlson's sudden foray into truth-telling was just a mirage in a desert of deceit.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Americans Are Unwilling Participants in Trump's Reality Show

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I don't want to be in Trump's reality show.

I suspect millions of Americans feel the same way.

Our nation is facing widespread corruption by a lying egomaniac. Open corruption with impunity by a wannabe dictator who is defying everything America stands for.

His deluded base thought (and many still do) that Trump is draining an allegorical swamp. The rest of the world isn't drinking that Kool aid.

A majority of Americans are now for Impeachment after just two weeks of revelations describing Trump's underhanded dealing with foreign countries. They're tired of Trump's shitshow.

This moment in history, where Americans are once again looking at getting rid of an elected president, is a result of Trump's reality show since slithering into office. 

His supporters are more than glad to live in the current alternate universe Trump has created. That includes the Republican Party which is enabling this travesty of an administration.

Republican senators who normally would side with America against Communist China, are looking the other way as Trump openly colludes with our longtime communist foe, asking for dirt on his political opponents.

I hate the fact that Trump has pulled me into his alternate universe where I have no choice but to call the president of the United States a traitor.

I hate the fact that the world is watching the chaos Trump has created with trepidation. Countries are worrying they may suddenly incur Trump's wrath and be hit with unjustified tariffs.

For those of us who live in the real world, the last three years have been exhausting, and discouraging, watching the guard rails of democracy collapse under Trump's relentless assaults on our Constitution.

Like it or not, we are in an impeachment mode based upon the urgent need to stop a runaway president from selling out our country.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Pence's Penance: Repent and Hope America Forgives Him

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Vice President Mike Pence was once a godly man by some accounts, before he signed up with the devil Trump.

The way the story goes Pence was walking along a road with a few right-wing pals when a vision of Trump on a cloud of smog appeared before the startled conservatives.

Just the day before the infamous Hollywood Access tapes were released, and minions in Trump's orbit were panicking about Trump bragging about grabbing "pussy's." 

That night, Pence and his wife prayed about what to do. Should he support the son of Satan, and thus achieve great power on earth as the second most powerful man on the planet? Or, what?

The next morning, after praying again, Pence went out to seek The Donald to pledge his undying allegiance. The rest is history.

Today Pence is on the precipice of political ruin because of his association with Trump. Like everyone around him at some point, Pence will become political fodder for the maniac in the Oval Office.

Breaking story from Business Insider... Trump used Pence to tell the Ukraine the U.S. would withhold military aid while demanding that it investigate corruption

Related: Pence Defends Trump Ukraine Call

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Pence's troubles are just beginning. 

His credibility, and career as Trump's henchman, are going to leave him with the mark of the devil... Donald J. Trump. As everyone knows, when you dance with the devil you have to pay the price. 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

New Program this Fall Promises to be a Hit - Impeachment TV

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I'm running out of popcorn!

The impeachment drama starring Trump is only in it's second week, and I'm on the last bag of my popcorn stash for the entire year. 

What's happened, is I've increased my popcorn consumption recently while watching Trump trying to drag down every segment of our government into his swamp.

I'm going to have to re-stock my popcorn supply at a lousy time because of Trump's stupid tariffs, that are now officially pissing people off.

I've witnessed some of the greatest political dramas of all time, from the impeachments of Nixon and Clinton, to the Iran-Contra scandal under George Herbert Bush's watch.

But the impeachment of Trump is on entirely different level. It's the Super Bowl of Scandals. A lot like watching a sporting event on TV, and hoping the home team wins.

What a glorious political spectacle for this Fall's lineup of TV watching. An ex-reality TV star overreaches his performance as the president of the United States, and is now being indicted for his corruption.

Variations of Trump vs America videos will jump from the mainstream media outlets into the morass of the Internet, where reality can be twisted into an illusion perpetrated by trolls with no souls.

No one knows how this drama is going to end. Will Trump waddle into 2020 still our president, seeking re-election?

Will Mike Pence be our next president? Or, will Mike Pence be impeached too? 

Are we going to start the New Year off with a woman president - Nancy Pelosi - steering the ship-of-state into a general election?

Stay tuned.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Another Whistleblower Emerges: Claims Misconduct in Presidential Audit Program

                                      Good Day World!

In Trump's world there are "dog whistles," and whistleblowers.

Sending subliminal messages to his restless base is one of Trump's super con man powers. It just takes key words. He likes dog whistles because they're very effective with racists, white supremacists, and uneducated people. 

In other words, the majority of his base.

As for whistleblowers, Trump loathes them with a mob mentality that calls for execution. Truth is his garlic, or cross, that threatens his very existence. 

Americans have been following the growing Ukraine whistleblower scandal numbly. Some are starting to react after a week, as evidenced in the rising numbers for impeachment proceedings in the polls.

There's a feeling in the air in Washington, according to aging pundits, "very reminiscent of Watergate," and the fall of Tricky Dick. 

Another whistleblower has surfaced claiming misconduct in a Presidential Audit Program that happened months ago.

Here's the August 21, 2019 article on an alleged coverup in the IRS. This story has been simmering in the background of the Ukraine scandal, and is finally getting a renewed look.

I won't be surprised to see even more whistleblowers despite Trump's threatening reaction to the Ukraine whistleblower's allegations. He's openly trying to intimidate witnesses and Congress is not going to stand aside and let him get away with it.

As Trump's presidency careens down the toilet, he's coming to a reckoning in his life... for the first time. 

The consequences of a life of lies and greed are going to be terrible, and humiliating. Especially, for the biggest egomaniac on the planet.  

Time for me to walk on down the road...

New National Pastime: Counting World Leaders Trump Has Bullied, or Colluded With

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By jerking the Ukraine's new leader around like a rag doll for political reasons, Trump's proven he's lawless, and brazen. 

Even more interesting, we're discovering Trump's foreign policy is nothing more than an extortion machine on steroids.

News that another leader has been taking shit from Don the Con broke yesterday, when it was disclosed Australia's Prime Minister was pressured by Trump to help AG Barr with his mission to look for dirt on the origin of the Russia probe.

Both his call to the Ukraine, and Australia, demonstrated how much Hilliary Clinton still lives in Trump's birdbrain, and how much he fears his most likely Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

It should be interesting in the days ahead as we hear about Trump's telephone conversations with Putin, and bin Salman, that are reputed to be on a super secure server.

Don't be surprised however, if there's been other world leaders that Trump has bullied, or colluded with in just less than three years.

I've been scouting the internet looking for on-line betting parlors that might give odds on the next world leader whose name surfaces in connection with Trump's corruption.

I doubt if I would take any odds on Kim, or Xi however. They would be the next two most obvious of Trump's favorite dictators.

There's a lot of other world leaders that Trump has slimed on out there. Guessing whose next is rapidly becoming a national pastime.

BTY: Give me fair odds, and I'll bet Turkey's dictator Erdogan is on the list.

If you're interested in betting if Trump will be impeached in his first term this website has all you need to know if you want to bet your dough! 

Better get on it quick, because the odds of impeachment went up to 71 percent this week!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Clear and Present Danger: A Rogue POTUS Threatens America's Security

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To set the plate this second week of impeachment proceedings against our pathetic POTUS, I highly recommend reading George Clancy's novel - A Clear and Present Danger.

The movie adaptation came out in 1994.

Fiction, however, has trumped Clancy's wild imagination as Trump's administration has been caught red-handed protecting Trump, after he sought political dirt on former vice president, Joe Biden.

This is real world; The president of the United States was caught bullying our ally Ukraine to dig up dirt on Trump's main political opponent for the 2020 election.

But Trump didn't conspire alone. 

We're starting to find out the identities of some of his key conspirators. Trump's attack dog Rudy Giuliani leads the pack. 

Attorney General, William Barr, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and vice president, Mike Pence, are intertwined in the conspiracy to intimidate Ukraine's leader. 

It's just the tip of the iceberg. Watch what happens this week. The majority of Americans say an impeachment inquiry into Trump is necessary, according to CBS poll yesterday.

Those numbers are mounting after just one week of Trump and minions being exposed by a whistleblower, and the country being informed of what was happening.

Critics say things are happening too fast. I'd say they're not happening fast enough. This is a matter of our nation's security. 

"Urgent and credible," we must not forget the whistleblower's warning. Why should we wait for more crimes to unfold before our eyes in real time?

There's a new Trump train rattling down the tracks to impeachment, and I'm betting more Americans get aboard before the articles of impeachment are formally voted on in The House.

Not even the great thriller writer, Tom Clancy, could have come up with a bigger shocker than this near fall of American democracy.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trolls for Trump: Hunt for Whistleblower to Discredit is Top Priority

                                      Good Day World!

The same trolls that crawled out from beneath their rocks in 2016 election (with Russia's help) to promote Trump are on the offensive again.

The movement to impeach Trump is on steroids right now, and his supporters, big and small, are panicking. The far right corners of the Internet have launched a wanted poster for the mysterious whistleblower whose threatening the Trump regime.

Moving on...

Here's a guide to sort through the shitstorm of false claims by Trump and his minions.

It's looking like Trump's ruthless attacks against everyone may come back to haunt him.

Here's video summation of the four phases of impeachment.

Not so fun fact: Every day Trump remains in office, America's security is at risk!

What to watch for in the next week:

Another scandal involving the NRA and Russian. A report details that the NRA lied about a 2015 Delegation trip to Moscow. The NRA agreed to provide access to American politicians in return for Russian business!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Congress is Cornering Trump's Enablers on the Road to Impeachment

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Let's pause for a moment, take a deep breath, and thank a mystery whistleblower.

If not for the yet unnamed whistleblower, our democracy was on the verge of total destruction.

The end of a Republic, and the rise of a monarchy would have been accomplished in less than three year's under Trump's corrupt regime.

We now know he planned on rigging the 2020 election and after that? The sky was the limit. Remember some of his jokes about a third term?

America has faced over two centuries of challenges to our system of government, and the Constitution, but nothing like it faces today.

We know that Trump was using taxpayer money to force a country - the Ukraine - to go after his main political rival Joe Biden.

We know that Trump's attempts at exhorting a country that we're supposed to be supporting against our main enemy Russia, is a direct violation of the Constitution.

This last week unveiled a criminal conspiracy in the White House. Trump wasn't acting alone. 

We know AG Barr was involved because of Trump's personal henchman, Rudy Guiliani's assertion that he was working with the state department. And, Barr's name comes up in the phone call that jump-started the impeachment inquiry.

We know VP Pence canceled his visit to the Ukraine as Trump was putting pressure on the Ukraine's leader.

Yesterday, we found out that Trump's and his corrupt cronies - as in high officials in the NRA knew Russians were using their ties to the gun rights group to try and bolster their status with lawmakers, or the winner of the 2016 election.

We also found out that Trump's right wing media diet has become a factor in the impeachment inquiry. 

Congress is not taking a planned break to pursue this urgent threat to our country. Trump has to be stopped before he does any more damage and the House members know that.

News is coming in so fast this daily blog can't keep up. I'm doing the best I can to document this momentous moment in our history.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Snap! No Trump - You're Not Above the Law

Time Magazine- "Ignore. Deny. Attack. Faced with an impeachment investigation, will Trump's longtime playbook fail him?" Photo Illustration by C.J. Burton

                                     Good Day World!

It's Friday, and I'm feeling fatigued.

This week I watched, along with the rest of the world, Trump melt down under the pressure of the gathering whistleblower scandal. 

His response has been typical. Deny. Divert reality.

But it's more than that. It's something deeply ingrained in Trump's reptile brain, where he believes his own lies when he repeats them enough.

Now, Trump's bruised ego is seeking revenge for being exposed, and he's outright threatened the unknown whistleblower with death for treason. He doubled that up with threatening the people in the report by calling them spies.

I don't care how partisan a person is; set aside politics for a moment, and just be an American who loves democracy. It's under fire right now by the most corrupt president in this nation's history.

He's openly defying the Constitution because he thinks he can get away with it. He knows he got off the hook with the Russia investigation because he was able to obstruct justice with no consequence. 

It showed him that he could get away with bullying a foreign power to help bring down his political rival Joe Biden in 2020. 

Trump was so encouraged and swollen with his power, the day after declaring victory on the Mueller report he turned to another nation to help him get re-elected. 

This time, he bullied the Ukraine's leader to get dirt on his political rival Joe Biden. But with the help of a whistleblower, a very real threat to our nation's security has been exposed... just in time.

There's also a very real threat daily from a deranged narcissist who is being backed into a corner. He's trying to marshal his minions to fight back against the evidence that's being exposed in The House and Senate hearings.

Americans are watching the depths of depravity that our commander-in-chief goes to further his own personal gains. I hope every American follows this impeachment process closely. That's important.

History will harshly judge those lawmakers that chose not to impeach our corrupt leader.

I'm looking forward to seeing if justice can finally happen in the era of Trump.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Don the Con's Case is Collapsing Under the Weight of Evidence

                                        Good Day World!

A good con man keeps up his act until the moment when he's arrested by authorities.

Trump is a world class con man whose lies have been so blatant that the whole world is finally recognizing them and challenging him. The House of Trump is on fire!

It's been amazing watching the impeachment proceedings in the last 72 hours. 

Todays Full Whistleblower hearing

Things are happening so fast that it's incredible. I've never seen the Democrats so focused. The time  has finally arrived to hold Trump accountable for his many high crimes.

No matter how the Republicans try to spin this scandal, they're just sinking deeper into the tarpit with Trump.

Impeach!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Day Three: Impeachment Moves Forward!

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We're in Day Three of what will someday become an historic week in American history.

The wheels of justice have started rolling.

Today

Transcript shows Trump Prodded Ukraine Leader To Help in Biden Probe.

Also: House Launches Impeachment Inquiry after transcript release.

Also: Read Trump's Phone Conversation with Ukraine's Leader 

Also: Giuliani "directly involved at nearly every stage" of the whistleblower scandal. 

Yesterday

"No one is above the law" Nancy Pelosi said, explaining why the House had to pursue impeachment.

We also discovered that Trump told officials to withhold military aid to the Ukraine a week before his call with the Ukrainian president, who he urged to investigate his top political rival's son for corruption... despite the fact that it was a proven lie.

I expected to hear shouts of "Seig Heil!" from the front row (where Trump minions were positioned) at the UN Assembly meeting yesterday, where Trump told world leaders globalism was bad and that all countries should become nationalistic and to stop immigrants from distilling the purity of each race.

Afterward hearing 16-year old Greta Thurnberg speak to the UN Assembly about Global warming, Trump showed why people think he's an ass by mocking her.

Fun Fact: Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, was spotted sleeping during Trump's stirring speech to the UN.
 

As if this whistleblower scandal wasn't enough, it looks like we're heading for another government shutdown over funds for Trump's dream wall.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Day Two: Gathering Whistleblower Storm Picks Up More Energy

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Today is day Number Two for really holding Trump accountable for abuse of power. 

(2 p.m. PST) BREAKING NEWS: House Moves Forward on Impeachment

This is the point where historians will count every day towards what led to Trump's impeachment. It will be noted as another milestone where truth and justice saved our democracy.

That may sound dramatic, but look what's happening, even as you read this post. Trump and minions are once again stonewalling truth and giving false narratives to deflect Trump's treason. 

The Director of National Intelligence has been ordered to break the law and not release a "credible and urgent" whistleblower complaint.

When White House Trump minions like Mike Pompeo and Steven Mnuchin embraced a conspiracy to deflect the charges against Trump, you know our democracy has been violated and abused.

The scary thing is Trump has clearly demonstrated there's nothing he won't do to protect himself. After deflecting the Mueller report's evidence about Trump's ties to Russia (with AG Barr's help), he feels emboldened.

In Trump's mind he's beaten Congress by working around it with illegal tactics, like ignoring subpoenas and abusing his executive privileges and the Constitution.

Day Two's Gathering Storm in the news today:

** Trump's GOP primary challengers all agree: Trump's acts were treasonous "Pure and simple."

** Trump has already admitted everything you need to know about the Ukraine drama.

** Former Republican Ohio governor John Kasich, called on Republicans in Congress to push the administration to turn over the whistleblower complaint to the House Intelligence Committee.

** Rank-and-file Republicans who have been dodging questions about the whistleblower account are now rallying around a false narrative Trump is trying to sell about Biden's son Hunter.

** Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has turned up the pressure on Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell today, to investigate the claim's that a whistleblower's complaint was unlawfully suppressed by Trump. 

** Read Nancy Pelosi's letter to Congress on the whistleblower complaint.

** John Avlon breaks down the implications of the Ukraine scandal surrounding Trump.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Dear Congress: This Is 'Day One' For Holding Trump Accountable

                                         Good Day World!

The world is watching today, as Congress reacts to Trump's latest corruption scandal.

On Thursday, Trump's Acting Spy Chief, Joseph Maguire, will go before Congress in an open session to testify why he hasn't turned the "urgent and credible" whistleblower complaint over to Congress, according to law which states, "He shall..." turn it over to them.

Today is the first day that must lead to exposing Trump's toxic obstructions of justice, and accountability for going after a political opponent (who he fears) by bribing a foreign government to investigate Biden's son.

Our government's credibility is on trial today. Lawmaker's have to stand up for the truth, no matter how painful. The nation is facing the biggest threat in it's history - a rogue president who truly believes he's above the law.

If the Democrats allow Trump to weasel his way out of this latest scandal, they'll lose all of their moral high ground, not too mention momentum for impeachment.

This textbook demonstration of obstructing our laws must not end in another political quagmire bogged down by the courts in a never-ending cycle of presidential stonewalling.

What America is facing today is not a partisan threat.

It's a very real direct threat to democracy, and our Constitution. Trump's attack on American values and traditions are without parallel.

His constant attempts to divide the country will never end. 

His attempts to sell alternate realities for political gains are threatening our national security.

His attempt to weaken truth by telling constant lies and denying reality has stressed out millions of Americans, in-and-out of government. 

To Nancy Pelosi: 

It's time to quit playing games with Trump. You know he cheats. You know he lies. You know he's obstructed justice countless times since slithering into office. You also know you can break the court deadlock of investigations into his corruption with the powers of impeachment.

It's beyond a political choice now. It's a matter of justice and trusting the American people will do the right thing when presented with evidence of Trump's wrong-doings.

There's a time for all things. Now is the time to stand up for everything that means being a patriotic American.

Good luck Nancy. I'll be rooting for you to rise to the occasion.

Time for me to walk on down the road...  

Has Trump's 'Day of Reckoning' Finally Arrived?

Ukrainian President (left), Volodymyr Zelensky, was concerned when the promised aid - $250,000 million - didn't come despite Congress giving it the green light.

                                       Good Day World!

The earth shifted slightly 48-hours ago, and it had nothing to do with Global Warming.

Impeachment is in the air this fall as Congress confronts the biggest scandal in American history... 

A president that has been abusing laws - often right out in front of everyone - and who also has no trouble going to a foreign country to collect dirt on his political opponents.

The nation is facing a Constitutional crisis with a president's overwhelming abuse of power that everyone can see... but the Republican Party.

When the whistleblower story broke the response was crickets from Republicans in the House, and Senate. Still is. Lawmakers have been seen running through Capitol Hill to avoid reporters questions about the whistleblower's report.

Trump's most loyal minions at Fox, and his crazy aging attack-dog, Rudy Giuliani, quickly jumped to Trump's defense with the usual response; divert-lie-divert-deny-discredit-lie...

This scandal playbook is not going to work this time, because there's a gathering juggernaut of corruption charges. They're led off with Trump's latest attempt to hurt his political opponent by making a deal with a foreign leader.

Trump reportedly asked the new president of the Ukraine to open corruption charges against Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, while dangling foreign aid from the U.S. to the Ukraine like a carrot.

As soon as the Democrats can verify the accusations against Trump by viewing the mystery whistleblower's charges, the gloves should come off and Nancy Pelosi needs to formally call for an impeachment hearing. If she doesn't, this scandal will end up like the rest - buried in the courts for years.

If what Trump has done here, once again trying to collude with a foreign government (like last time with the Russians in 2016) to get dirt on his political enemies isn't enough to tip the scales and spur Congress to act... then nothing ever will!

The American people are watching history unfold as the president of the United States acts of corruption become clearer by the day at home, and abroad.

This is the moment that should be seized by the Democrats if they are serious about stopping the corrosion and damage to our nation and democracy.

Come Monday, I expect impeachment to be on the table as more information comes in - and, it will.

On Sunday morning, the House Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said impeachment "may be the only remedy" to Trump's refusal to make public the whistleblower's complaint.

9/22/19 -Related: Ukrainian Leaders Feel Trapped Between Warring Washington Factions

Time for me to walk on down the road...