Numskull of the Week

There are always a lot of candidates waiting for the Numskull of the Week award.

We could start with the 300 priests from Pennsylvania that attacked children and caused pain that can never be fixed. Sure, the priest didn't or won't receive punishment for their crimes, so who is the numskull, maybe it is the politicians that wrote the laws that put a statue of limitations on crimes committed on children.

The bishops and cardinals that hid the Pennsylvania priest should be counted as numskulls, but they probably got help from up above when it came to this issue. There is a consistent pattern in the Roman Catholic Church when it comes to the crimes committed on children and it is hard to believe that each diocese came up with the same ideas of how to handle the priest crisis.

In Wisconsin politics, there is the Richard Uihlein spending almost $11 million on Kevin Nicholson to beat Leah Vukmir. Kevin Nicholson wanted Tammy Baldwin's job, but he didn't even make it through the primary round. The money didn't help and Vukmir ended up winning by a nice majority.

These people have nothing on Donald Trump. As a person, he excelled at doing numskull things, but as president, he had taken his game to the next level. He thought last week's moves weren't good enough, and with more secret tapes playing on the airwaves, well, he panicked and decided to take away from someone that used to work for Obama.

Trump is the winner for revoking form CIA director John Brennan's security clearance in what appears to be an attempt to show that just because Donnie has small hands it doesn't mean he isn't the biggest numskull in the business.

This move is unusual considering the reasoning is Brennan's "erratic behavior" that only the president seems to notice.

Brennan has publicly disagreed with Trump, and that might be why Trump took the chance with his numskull move of the week.

On paper, the move makes sense because of the fact Brennan has credibility and knows what is going on in the world, and any comment that questions the president in a negative way could also undermine any credibility Trump had or has on foreign policy. 

Taking away Brennan's security clearance will not silence him or stop him from using Twitter to call the president out for unpresidential and erratic behavior that seem to occur daily in the Trump White House.

This move is really the equivalent of Donnie taking his ball home because of Brennan wouldn't lob a soft pitch his way. The ball probably was a good ball and everybody liked the ball.