“An eye for an eye makes both people blind.”
— Sen. John Neely Kennedy, R-Louisiana.
The indentured servants run to the flickering b&w Philco like it is spitting casino coins whenever is heard the honeyed tones of Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. (We watch more C-Span these days because we like our Metamucil straight from the cow.)
You can smell the corn meal frying in the lard when Senator Kennedy speaks. He’s today’s Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and Bill Maher but with committee chairmanships.
Senator Kennedy is out with a book — the title alone demands its New York Times best sellers listing: How to Test Negative for Stupid (and why Washington never will).
Now in his 10th year in the U.S. Senate, the author “learned pretty fast that in Washington DC., normal is just a setting on the clothes dryer.”
How to Test Negative’s 212 book-club friendly pages explains the making great of American again for Woke dummies so that a 5-year-old could understand. Equity? It’s “socialism in a tuxedo.” With rhetorical beignets sugar-sprinkled on every page. A colleague is not only eloquent, he “could talk a dog off a meat wagon.” Dedicated? “He works harder than an ugly stripper.”
Most books begin with an “Introduction.” His really does. Book’s first words: “My name is John Kennedy. That’s’s really my name. I’m a United States senator, though I have tried to rise above it.” Yeah, there’s some aw shucks. Makes a point that he still lives in a small town with two dogs and his first wife. But the senator does not poor mouth his staggering schooling: magna cum laude at Vanderbilt University; U of Virginia Law; Magdalen College, Oxford. He aced HIS tests.
Trigger warnings everywhere
“For as long as I can remember, one thing has been true about me,” Kennedy admits. “I have the right to remain silent, but not the ability.” The senator recounts the disdain Biden showed toward Supreme Court rulings (See: school loan forgiveness) and the lawfare waged by his administration and partisan state prosecutors. Unlike reverse TDS sufferers, Sen. John N. Kennedy has the independence of mind and respect for the Constitution to call fouls even on the home team.
Trump has reason to mistrust some of the institutions, given that a few members of those institutions tried to impeach him, take all his money, and put him in jail. … That’s why it was important to me that the second Trump administration not confuse rooting out the bad actor with retribution — that it not confuse righting the ship with continuing the rabid cynicism of the Biden years. …
Trump can be cruel, sometimes he is wrong … we are alike in our appreciation of candor. However, I don’t always say what I’m thinking. .. Trump, on the other hand, grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought … The President and I are both willing to work near a hot wire but the President sometimes touches the wire.
Kennedy finished writing in mid-2025 but his warning — that this democratic republic cannot be ruled by executive order — still flashes red.
Like every president in modern history, [Trump] has tried to expand and consolidate his power at the expense of Congress and the courts. Our Founders anticipated that presidents would do this … which is why they created our Madisonian system of checks and balances. … Our grand experiment with democracy is working well but still fragile. Most countries die from suicide, not murder.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Madison being the writer of the Constitution, for the non-platinum subscribers who failed Senator Kennedy’s test.
How many Supreme Court justices
should attend the State of the Union address?
All 12 or none? (Testing!)
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