Kremer’s Corner: It ain’t over until it’s over

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It is amazing how many people are still talking about this election, even though it is officially over. 
No matter where I go the issue of Trump against Clinton keeps cropping up and most of the time the talk is in hushed tones. 
I have a few thoughts about this post period and what is about to happen or not happen.
I wish President–elect Trump would stop saying he won the popular vote because there were 3 million illegal votes for Hillary. 
We are a very mature country and no one in their right mind believes that with the exception of the people who still yell “lock her up” at the rallies and wear those red baseball caps.
I wish Mr. Trump would stop tweeting around the clock. 
It’s time for his baby sitter, Kelly Ann Conway, to take him by the hand and tell him to stop denigrating the office of President. 
I am guessing that anyone who tweets day and night has some type of problem and the country can ill afford an incoming president who shows signs of instability.
I am watching the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan offering his opinions on every subject, without thinking about the fact that there are two legislative bodies that have to deal with his master plans. 
The idea that passing a bill to repeal Obamacare and then pass something three years later, is an absolute farce. 
His plan and that of Sen. Mitch McConnell, will cause every major insurance company to cease covering millions of people well before there is a new plan. 
Many of those people are the ones who scream “build the wall” at Trump events.
I can’t help thinking, with a touch of glee, what will happen when the House of Representatives is asked to dramatically revise Medicare. 
Back in the old days we used to refer to Social Security as the “third rail of politics.” 
That means that messing with any major and popular entitlement program is a prescription for disaster. 
I can’t wait to see those 200 plus Republican House members being asked to scrap Medicare and voting yes. 
If anything will revive the Democratic Party it is a plan to revise Medicare and replace it with a voucher system. 
I don’t ever remember a presidential cabinet with so many generals. 
There is no doubt that we have a lot of former military men who are brilliant on the subject of war, but when you put three or four generals in a room it has to be chaos. 
The last thing America needs  is a hot head or two in the White House, who itching to settle an old score with some country. 
Come Jan. 20, the first challenge will be the dictator in North Korea, when he threatens to launch rockets that can reach California. 
We are about to hear the Trump solution to erasing any conflict of interest. 
He says he sold his stock in June but how about all those planned hotel projects around the world that need a slight push? 
You can’t convince anyone that the new President will not be faced with conflict issue after conflict issue, while he is serving. 
The investigative reporters are going to have a field day.
Our new president ranted and raved during the campaign about the abuse of executive orders by President Barack Obama. 
There is no doubt that by the end of week one in the White House, Mr. Trump will have signed a dozen or so undoing things that President Obama signed. 
I guess it’s true that every politician reserves the right to be inconsistent — once in office.
Oh yes, and do you remember the final Trump campaign commercial? 
It referred to Wall Street as the swamp and showed graphics of Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and a few other fiscal giants. 
Come January we will have at least three billionaire investment bankers planning our country’s financial future. 
So has the swamp been drained or has it just been cleaned up for the next group of inhabitants?
I have to wonder what the Trump diehards will be thinking come June of next year, when so many of the 2016 campaign promises will have been a distant memory? 
 

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