From South Carolina to Florida, Southerners are familiar with the Palmetto bug, a large crafty creature that is nearly impossible to control. A relative of the more modest roach.

Some are as big as a small mouse although flatter. If encountered they have more moves than a running back. They are swift and dodge in unexpected ways. When you think they are dead they suddenly run again. They apparently thrive on anything and operate freely in the dark. If you annihilate a batch there is another battalion pressing forward in just a few days.

​I have a horrible feeling that the idiot Joe Biden and his evil handlers are going to stumble into a nuclear war that will wipe out most of the living. I imagine that the tough Palmetto Bug will survive and flourish. I suppose that could mean that the South finally has won the war, though not in a satisfactory way.

​Of course, none of this will happen, even if it would make the Republicans wildly popular. Congresspersons collaborate with the federal bureaucracy and party leadership more than they do with their own constituents. And Republican Congressmen tend to be ignorant, egoist empty suits.  

• A 10% cut in the pay of all federal employees making over $100,000 a year and a 20% cut in all making over $200,000 a year. This should include pensioners, the military, and the judiciary (except judges who are constitutionally protected). And stop filling federal jobs that become vacant. 
• Apply the many millions in savings to the federal debt, which has mortgaged the life of our children and grandchildren. First pay off the foreign debt holders at the lowest cost possible. Perhaps repudiation should be considered. Then, as soon as possible, the wealthy domestic debt holders. These are people who have never done anything for their country. They are getting risk-free, tax-free bonuses from the taxpayers - a longstanding scandal. Then seriously study getting rid of the debt - which of course will include an elimination of deficit spending. 
• Abolish the Department of Education, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other agencies that can be identified as performing functions (often useless or destructive) that are no business of the federal government. 
• The internet moguls - Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Google, etc. are public utilities and should be regulated as such - like oil, banking, fire departments, insurance, television and radio, telephone, etc. 
• Immediately vacate all federal district attorney positions. (The few good ones can be reappointed.) Fill the positions with men and women who will actually enforce the law. They are there, but finding them will be a major challenge that cannot be left to Republican party hacks. 
• Pardon all the January 6 protestors, some of whom are still being held as political prisoners and prosecute the policeman who murdered an unarmed female citizen in cold blood. 
• Strictly enforce all the immigration laws and remove all personnel who fail to do their full duty in this regard. This includes keeping all illegal immigrants in detention for deportation. 
• Prosecute Antifa and BLM for every instance of violence and corruption. 
• Withdraw from NATO. The Europeans can defend themselves and handle their own affairs.  
• Stop financing a war against Russia and renew Trump’s efforts at peaceful communication. 
• Stop orchestrating coups against foreign governments like Syria, Ukraine, etc. It was CIA meddling that created Osama bin Laden.  
• Deeply reform the CIA and the FBI. This will take wise and forceful action that can only be possible with the authority of genuine law respecting patriots. 
• Withdraw from all the 80 or more military basis in foreign lands that are not directly concerned with defense of the Western hemisphere. 

The most difficult tasks for a new conservative administration will be correcting errors of the past. 

• A blue-ribbon commission of honest Americans should thoroughly investigate the Covid-19 event with special attention to government wrongdoing. Whether he is President or not, Trump should openly apologise to the American people for the Covid episode. He was misled by the supposed official experts. Those “experts” who have damaged the health of citizens should be prosecuted, including the impostor Fauci. 
• Federal agents who murdered unarmed women and children at Waco and Ruby Ridge should be identified and prosecuted if they are still living. 
• We should admit that the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan were badly mistaken, partly as the fault of persons in high office who lied to the people and who wasted American lives and resources on those lies. 
• Apply a family-centered moral code to the licensed mass broadcast media.

If there is any interest in a true reform platform, we have a lot more suggestions. Alas, the first instinct of Republicans is to avoid all ideas and issues that might label them as not being respectable and moderate. They avoid anything controversial that might deprive them of their power, profit, and perks. 

The Republicans are now using Trump’s troubles as a money-raising gimmick. They will do as they always do. Use Trump’s troubles to raise money, and then do nothing for him but give it to his enemies in the party. And there are still enough affluent stupid Midwesterners (and I fear some Southerners) who will fall for the con game.