Not many things are certain in politics, especially these last few years.
Likely the closest thing to near-certainty we have is that a president's party loses House seats in midterm elections. That's happened 90 percent of the time in modern days.
The next closest thing to certainty is newer. It is that if Democrats erase the current razor-thin Republican House control, they will try to impeach Donald Trump again, at least once. Maybe twice, as they did during his first term.
The GOP controlled the Senate in those days. So both impeachments went no further than Nancy Pelosi's gavel. But GOP Senate control is much narrower this term.
To make things more ominous, Republicans have a longstanding reputation for not showing up to vote in midterm elections.
If the clowns in the party of no-new-ideas gain control of both chambers of Congress in this November's elections, it is virtually certain that we would face an historical crisis, the potential ousting of a sitting president.
That could turn our form of government into something more resembling a parliamentary system, where opposition parties can overturn an elected government at any time through, in effect, a vote of non-confidence.
In our case, that would not force a new national election. It would elevate the vice president into the presidency, assuming everything worked well. A large assumption, it would seem these days.
Trump inhabits Democrats' brains, such as they are. They instinctively oppose virtually anything he does. And his presence motivates them strongly.
That's what this week's audio commentary is about. You can hear it by clicking here:
This week's Sunday column was not the one I had originally planned. Saturday's stunning, swift, and surgical capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife to stand trial on drug trafficking charges topped all news.
Based on my experience covering the previous capture of a Latin American dictator (in Panama) accused of drug trafficking, I wrote an historical analysis of President Trump's latest bold foreign policy move, how it fits into U.S. presidential history, and the 47th president's foreign policy goals.
The vault-tight secrecy surrounding Trump's coup was extremely impressive, given as how the operation involved thousands of planners and participants on two continents and an aircraft-carrier task force over the span of several months.
As one important result, complete mission success and not a single United States casualty.
The most recent audio commentary examined the latest in a long and growing list of moves by California progressives to guide their beautiful state down the drain of political failure.
You see, they're spending many billions more taxpayer dollars than they have, not a new concept to that crowd. It's the same sort of thinking that caused them to successfully urge Joe Biden to spend some five trillion dollars the government did not have. So, it simply printed new money.
That's how we got the historic 9 percent inflation that President Trump has helped steer back down to the more normal 2-3 percent annual inflation level.
The only logical solution in the minds of California progressives is not to drastically scale back their spending dreams to a more realistic level.
It is, of course, to follow the money. That means to find a new tax to levy, a whopping new tax on the wealth of billionaires. These are the innovators and inventors who have created so many thousands of jobs, often in Silicon Valley, but also around the country.
They'll be asked to fork over 5 percent of their fortunes, many millions of dollars. The beauty of the plan is that there aren't enough of these rich folks to vote out the state's liberal super-majority.
The bad news is, with so much money in hand and at stake, these people can easily afford to move anywhere they choose. And there are already nine states that impose no income tax. These are states that, not coincidentally, are mostly experiencing population growth.
Imagine that!
Editor's Note: This article was updated post-publication for clarity.
