And then Moore took a lead that grew into the mid-twenty thousands; “Ugh.” And then the urban votes started coming in and Moore’s lead shrank - and shrank - and shrank. Dead even. And by God there was Jones; he’d rounded the final turn and heading into the homestretch he was in the lead - and pulling away. Finally Wolf Blitzer called it for Jones. “Yes, yes, yes!!!,” I screamed at the TV. The only reason I wasn’t jumping was the cast on my leg. It’s three days later and I have a post-election hangover. Back to reality.
The party’s over and now it’s time to get back to abnormality. Jones’ victory as great as it is, has been overshadowed by the Republican Party’s agenda of subverting democracy, backing a failed and failing President and brazenly performing fellatio on Wall Street.
Let’s see:
Mitch McConnell is willing to seat Doug Jones, but not before Jones turns 90. McConnell will throw up smoke screens, put up barriers and fill a series of moats to keep Jones cooling his heels back in Alabama.
Lindsey Graham is rattling his sabre and laying odds on Trump waging war on North Korea.
Despite 80% of Americans opposing it, the FCC led by Ajit Pai, Trump’s whore to the telecommunications sector, voted to end net neutrality. The FCC has now put the telecom industry on an honor system. Since when have business and honor been compatible?
Despite polling that shows a deep unpopularity for the Republican tax scam, it looks like the House and Senate Republicans are getting in line to pass the bill and gang rape the American working class, the poor, children, the sick, immigrants, their aunts, their uncles and all of their pets and anyone else who doesn’t have a million dollars or more in the bank.
Is it just me or shouldn't a government of, by and for the people be listening to the voice of the people? Or is Democracy dead? I'm having nightmares of the grim reaper sneaking up behind Lady Liberty.
It looks like Trump and the GOP are laying the groundwork for handing Bob Mueller his walking papers. Trump is apparently so upset about the Russia investigation that it never gets brought up in briefings and cabinet meetings because it can send the whole session into a ditch when Trump loses his shit. Why is this depressing? Because it reminds me of the history books that I read describing Hitler’s generals avoiding topics that would enrage their Fuhrer.
Once again we’ve been witness to the shit show that’s the Trump Administration. Take Omarosa - please. She been making 180,000 dollars a year for doing N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Nobody seems to know what the hell she’s done beyond disrupting the disruption by trotting her wedding party into the White House. Scuttlebutt is that the White House fridge works harder than Omarosa. Anyway, she’s headed out the door ala the old comedy routine.
“You’re fired!”
“You can’t fire me! I quit!”
“You can’t quit because I just fired you!”
Beyond Omarosa there’s the judicial nominee Matthew Petersen who scored a 0 on his oral interview by GOP Senator John Kennedy. It was an embarrassing exhibition as Petersen failed to answer some basic legal questions. I was expecting Kennedy, in a vain effort to get an affirmative answer, to ask, “Have you ever watched reruns of Law and Order?” As Kennedy later said on CNN, “You can’t walk into a Federal Court for the first time and say ‘Here I am, I want to be a judge.’” And while Kennedy admitted that Petersen was sadly out of his environment the Trump White House strenuously objects your honor. They stand by his nomination.
Am I just being greedy? Shouldn't I see Jones as the light at the end of the tunnel? I do actually. I'm just afraid that the tunnel will collapse before the light emerges.
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