Mueller questions, term limits and insult diplomacy

Presidential question suggestions for Robert Mueller, Rick Scott’s term limits crusade and a potential Trump peace prize are topics from The Buzz that had South Florida talking this week. (More) Mueller questions

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions for President Donald Trump aren’t as interesting as the ones that didn’t make it into the New York Times. Yes, it’s intriguing to get a peek at dozens of potential presidential questions that on Monday leaked out of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling.

But here’s my list of suggested non-Russiarelated questions for Trump — at least the ones I hope Mueller gets answered:

1. What did Mexico ever do to you, Mr. President?

2. How did you convince so many women to vote for you after demeaning so many women during your campaign? And after they heard a recording of you describing your genital-grabbing approach to greeting beautiful women? No seriously, how did you do that?

3. How does a billionaire with his name on golf courses, hotels and resorts around the world make himself relatable to middle-class voters?

4.Why is a New Yorker so fond of Confederate statues? And if you think they are so beautiful, why not move them all to the grounds of Mar-a-Lago?

5. Before Twitter, did you just write a lot of insulting, racially-insensitive letters?

6. Will your talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un include opening a Trump International Golf Course in Pyongyang? And will you set your ring tone to Elton John’s “Rocket Man” just to mess with him?

7. If you could pick between locking up Hillary Clinton or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, what prison would you pick for her?

8. When you speak before attendees at the National Rifle Association’s convention this weekend, are you concerned that the blood on their hands will muffle the applause?

9. It’s been two years, come clean. How surprised were you on election night?

10. If you get impeached, does that mean you can focus on making “The Celebrity Apprentice” great again?

Term limits politics

Gov. Rick Scott thinks so little of those working in Congress that he can’t wait to go join them.

And he’s betting that championing term limits is his ticket to the U.S. Senate.

Scott’s TV campaign ads feature the governor at a wipe board saying that most of America wants term limits for Congress and he’s just the man to make it happen.

Scott’s not just running against Sen. Bill Nelson. He’s also running against every long-serving member of the gridlocked Congress that so often disappoints us.

But if elected, how would Scott convince his career-politician Republican Party leaders — let alone the Democrats — to get behind term limits? Maybe the answer is hidden on the other side of the governor’s wipe board.

Polls show term limits are certainly popular with voters, but these are the same voters who keep sending the same people back to Washington.

Aside from the political difficulty of actually imposing term limits on Congress, to do so would mean admitting that voters can’t be trusted to oversee our democracy.

Instead, voters should get better at using the term limits they can already impose every time they cast a ballot. They can start in November, by either sending Nelson home after three terms in the Senate or by setting Scott’s Senate term limit at zero.

‘Rocket Man’ results

Could President Donald Trump insult his way to the Nobel Peace Prize?

Just a few months after the president traded insults with North Korea ruler Kim Jong Un, North and South Korea are on the verge of a peace deal.

Does that mean Trump’s teasing of “Rocket Man” worked?!

Back in September, it seemed reckless for Trump to fire insults at a dictator so willing to fire missiles. But perhaps Trump’s Elton John-inspired name calling was just what this 65-year-old international standoff needed.

On Friday, Kim walked into South Korea and pledged to pursue a “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” Reuters reported.

This comes after Kim already said he would suspend his nuclear and long-range missile testing and remove a nuclear test site.

While North and South Korea have flirted with peace deals in the past, seeing the two countries’ leaders strolling handin-hand across their heavily guarded dividing line offers a new hope.

We don’t know what prompted Kim’s supposed change of heart on nukes, but it could be that Trump’s insult diplomacy did the trick.

And now some of Trump’s fellow Republicans are even suggesting he should be up for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yet Trump doesn’t get all the credit for this North Korea breakthrough.

Don’t forget that during the years before Trump took office, there was another American leader using a different approach than name calling to make diplomatic progress with North Korea.

Dennis Rodman, thank you for your service.

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