SCOTT LUDWIG: Getting the administration on the same page

The knee-jerk reaction of Donald Trump bombing Iran is unsettling. Let’s just skip over the fact that the Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war. So it wasn’t even the president’s call to make. Not on his own, anyway.

However, with the immunity bestowed on him by the highest court in the land – believe it or not, that would still be the Supreme Court — Trump essentially has carte blanche to do whatever the hell he wants … whenever he wants to do it.

The proof is in the pudding. Despite anything and everything he’s ever done to MAHA – Make America Hate (Healthy? Puh-leeze.) Again – he’s never spent a day behind bars, been impeached, or ran out of Washington D.C. on a rail like any other candidate with a comparable track record would have been.

But dropping bombs on another country just because he was upset that no one came to his big, beautiful $45 million birthday party? (Let’s be honest: You know it’s true.) This time he may have gone too far. Once again, there have been numerous calls for his impeachment.

And, once again, I wholeheartedly agree he should be impeached – only this time I’m not holding my breath. I’ve already been fooled twice, so shame on me.

Getting back on track, who remembers this comment from Trump in last year’s presidential debate with his opponent? “If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.”

I’m pretty sure that if peace was a round hole, then a bomb would be a square peg. At some point during his presidential campaign, Trump said that if Kamala became president, our country would be at war within six months. Trump did it in five.

To be fair, Harris said the same thing about Trump if he became president: that he would lead us into war within six months. (#nailedit!) I was so upset with the whole situation that I couldn’t hold back from posting this on social media:

— J.D. Vance: “Our view has been very clear that we don’t want a regime change.”

— Pete Hegseth: “This mission was not and has not been about regime change.”

— Marco Rubio: Regime change is “certainly not the goal of what we’re working on here.”

— Donald Trump: “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘regime change,’ but if the current Iranian regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a regime change?” (MIGA?) Abbott and Costello called. They want their bit back.

A friend — scratch that, a former friend — chimed in with “and what do you want to happen?” My friend — again, former friend — proved to be the perfect straight man, as he set the stage for the perfect answer. In fact, coming up with it was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel: so easy that I’m sure it’s already run through some of your minds. Here it is: Gee, I don’t know. How about the administration all getting on the same page? That would be a start.

At first, I thought it was the perfect comeback. Then, after thinking about it for a moment, I looked at what I’d written and realized I didn’t think it all the way through. After all, it’s impossible for anyone to get on the same page with someone who has never read a book.

Scott Ludwig is an Albany Herald columnist and independent writer/author who lives in Senoia. All of his books can be found on Amazon.