If you were asked a year ago, would you have predicted that Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont, would be giving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heartburn? And NO ONE would have seriously postulated that Donald Trump would be this close to wrapping up the Republican nomination for POTUS as we headed into Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Make no mistake about it: Donald Trump is a bigot of the highest order. How else can one explain his refusal to denounce the support of the Ku Klux Klan and that organization\u2019s former Grand Wizard David Duke?<\/p>\n Yeah, I know, Trump eventually did dismiss the KKK and their former leader, but only after a full day of waffling and insisting he didn\u2019t know anything about the Klan, and that he had to do some research on the group, and that he didn\u2019t know who David Duke was. Don\u2019t buy the bull puckey: The Donald knew exactly who David Duke and the KKK were, despite his insistence to the contrary. There\u2019s this thing called video, after all.<\/p>\n Seriously Donald? You don\u2019t know what the Ku Klux Klan is?<\/p>\n Yet all of the outlandish, despicable, and outright disturbing things that Trump has said on the campaign trail apparently doesn\u2019t bother at least one local member of Congress: Duncan Hunter (R-50).<\/strong> The vaping congressman threw his support behind Donald Trump in a San Diego Union Tribune op-ed<\/a>, after having previously backed former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who dropped out of the race.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the national game of politics, he\u2019s got a winning message and the backbone to see it through,\u201d Hunter wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cWith the stakes so high, a Trump presidency stands to provide the right leadership to unleash the power of the U.S. economy, secure the borders, and revitalize the armed forces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Hunter also noted that a Trump presidency is \u201cnot an idea fancied by some Republicans, but they\u2019ll need to get over it and determine what about Trump is attractive to them and what about Trump has generated so much support among voters.\u201d<\/p>\n So, in other words, if you like policy screeds that entail in totality \u201csomething terrific\u201d; an anti-Hispanic message; an anti-black message that has earned the full-throated support of white nationalist groups; blatant disregard for the First Amendment and freedom of religion; misogyny; a campaign a middle school playground would cringe at; then yes, Donald Trump is your man.<\/p>\n Being president of the United States is a serious job, and apparently Duncan Hunter thinks a reality TV star who has debased the entire campaign by tacitly inciting violence against anyone who disagrees with him is a serious candidate.<\/p>\n Last month, President Obama forwarded a plan to Congress that would once and for all close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n The plan would consider 13 different sites within the United States to take in the remaining detainees. The detention center has been a source of consternation since popping onto the national radar shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has been a major recruiting tool for terrorist organizations around the world. Meanwhile, thousands of terrorists are currently incarcerated in facilities throughout the U.S. without incident.<\/p>\n Darrell Issa (R-49)<\/strong> compared any potential order by Obama to close the facility to the Trail of Tears<\/a>, the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s to Oklahoma, in which 4,000 people died.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an old example,\u201d Issa told Fox News, \u201cbut Andy Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party, in the Trail of Tears defied the Supreme Court and marched Native Americans to their death.\u201d<\/p>\n So closing a detention center that houses roughly 100 \u201cenemy combatants\u201d is somehow comparable to the tragic and unfortunate treatment of Native Americans over 180 years ago? I\u2019m not seeing it.<\/p>\n On the other side of the aisle, meanwhile, Susan Davis (D-53)<\/strong> noted in a press release<\/a>that \u201cwith about 2,000 personnel watching over 91 detainees, Guantanamo is a fiscally irresponsible approach to this issue and it will cost significantly more over the long term to keep detainees there than transfer them to a U.S. facility. Furthermore, our judicial system has a proven record of trying and incarcerating terrorists, with over 500 terrorists currently being held in U.S. prisons.<\/p>\n \u201cCongress should lift the restrictions that have prevented the president from closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n![\"congressional_watch\"](\"http:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/congressional_watch.png\")
<\/a>Yet that\u2019s exactly where we are. An avowed \u201cDemocratic Socialist\u201d is making waves on the Democratic side of the race and an apparently proud xenophobic, narcissistic billionaire racist is running away with the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n