The House of Representatives has a new Speaker: Mike Johnson. If you didn’t know of him before don’t feel too badly. In fact, he probably won’t be around long enough to be worth knowing. If he goes beyond another six weeks I’ll be surprised.
Republicans in the House have proven, over and over again, that they lack the ability to govern. They can’t even keep or elect a speaker it doesn’t bode well for anything else they may want to do. When you have the majority electing a speaker is the easy part.
Should any of Mr. Johnson’s wishes somehow get turned into legislation it won’t go any further than the House. The Senate and Executive branches will kill it. This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise. If you elected anti-government people into office you end up with people who don’t know how to do the job.
It takes all three branches of government to pass laws in this country. A small minority in the House has been allowed to gum up the whole works. Normally that would be an inconvenience. With the world currently in crisis, it’s a tragedy. Decisive action needs to be taken and we are stuck with legislative gridlock.
-Sixbears
Personally, I've been buying silver almost on a daily basis. That's how positive I am about our future in this country.
ReplyDeletePlus I just bought a new Sig Sauer p238 pocket gun...
A Sig and precious metals is not an irrational response to these times.
Delete6 Bears the founding fathers feared "Decisive Action" AKA Kings Decrees and Presidental EO's. (BTW the EO isn't in the Constitution).
ReplyDeleteThey had just overthrown a King's rule. They already saw the troubles of Strong Man Rule in various European Countries.
The French Revolution didn't just start on Bastille Day. Strong Man/Mob rule in the face of weak French King leadership was already in the streets.
THAT'S WHY All 3 Branches were created, to prevent a Strong Man (or a single party throwing their weight around) from simply establishing what Orwell's 1984 called THE PARTY.
Have you read 1984 6 bears? Bears a lot of resemblance to the "Current Thing".
I've read 1984 and this ain't it. Some days it's a lot more like Fahrenheit 451. Ignorance is promoted.
DeleteThe three branches of government only work when people actually want to govern.
You've read 1984?
Delete“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Ignorance of Fahrenheit 451 isn't limited to that excellent book.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic."
Let us ask the various Jews and Arabs in America about this sudden media driven hatred that seems raging around America the "melting Pot".
While we are at it lets discuss the "NEED" to melt down Robert E Lees statute in a secret place as to destroy some history.
So, you can say to me while sober that today's craziness and destruction of history is nothing to do about 1984?
I know, I know your too smart to strongly dislike Trump because You'd never be driven by media.
It's getting ugly out there and so far, today the lights are ON, the electricity and internet is working, food seems ample enough if you have the funds.
As someone that works at a food bank every week the NEED is always increasing. Bloomberg reports that US Credit card debt is at a new high of well over a trillion dollars AND the % of that debt for Gasoline, and Food is over 30%.
Debt that is PAID off isn't included in the rolling 90 day total of debt so spare me the "Convenience" of using credit vs cash.
I use my CC for nearly everything BUT I PAY it off every 28 days.
Soon enough terrorism will be inside America.
EVERY Freaking Weekend some Blue City has mass shootings, sometimes like yesterday 3 mass shootings but they are NOT in the Media's Page 1 BUT One mental Health Know to the FBI freakout IS.
I suppose as long as it's SOMEWHERE Else you and I cannot worry about it, yes?
Neighbor it is coming out our way.
Yes it not only is coming our way, it has been here for some time now.
DeletePersonally I stand in the center.
I use cash , if at all possible. Yet like you Michael, when I must use a cc , it is paid off in total every month.
Debt accumulated by both parties , will be the primary downfall of our nation soon.
Either melt down all the statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and the rest of those slavery-defending traitors who fought against the United States, or erect statues to Gen. Howe, Benedict Arnold, Santa Ana, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hideki Tojo and Ho Chi Mihn.
ReplyDeleteEither way works.
Did a little research about Lee. Not that a Comrade cares about facts.
DeleteSince you're not a native, it might interest you to know that General Lee spent his few remaining years after the war working toward reconciliation. He was influential in convincing other Confederate leaders to let go of the war and avoid a long and bloody guerilla conflict. He was one of the first to take the amnesty oath as an example for others. His stature in the eyes of all Southerners was such that many people agreed to the path of peace and put down their arms.
Also, the erecting of statues to Civil War veterans occurred many years after the war was over. It was seen as a way to honor the deceased on both sides and acknowledge that the war was over and we were one country again. Tearing them down now can and will be seen as a total rejection of the "one country again" belief, instead we are now in a brutal fight against an anti-American public that wants a scorched earth war with what's left of traditional American life.
Not a native but a 40+ year resident and recent escapee of the commonwealth and I agree with Comrade Misfit, Michael.
DeleteIf what you posit is so there should have been statues of U.S. Grant and Sherman ( okay, and maybe Ambrose Burnside or George Meade) in Richmond and maybe Lee and Jackson in Detroit or New York. There aren't. A telling symptom of how it wasn't one country when the statues were erected and is still a work in progress is the naming of roads in Virginia. I was surprised when the first U.S. government office I worked at in the 1970s had a street address on Jefferson Davis Highway. That would be like the Bundeswehr HQ being on Adolph Hitler Strasse.
The area west of Fairfax in the DC suburbs and west / southwest into some very nice country was called by history/tourism boosters the Mosby Heritage Area. Mosby (as in John Singleton) led a group of confederate terrorists called Mosby's Rangers who ambushed Union patrols and terrorized the local population, black, white, and everyone in between. Everyone who cares to pay attention knows that the massive resistance to school integration in Virginia was through the 1970s and voting rights are just about as recent and tenuous. In the county where I lived the statue on the lawn of the county court house " to Civil War veterans..." was for Confederates and the point was not subtle. It's gone now and some road names are changing but it takes time. Let's check it out in another 150 years or so.
While it's nice you agree with Comrade Misfit, your apple to pineapple comparison is irrelevant.
DeleteGovernments didn't place those statues, Common People PAID for them (or at least the bulk of them).
If you feel so inclined feel free to raise the funds to place your statue of choice as you see fit.
You also seem not to address the REASON that I value Lees statue. His stature and honor PREVENTED the South from falling into guerrilla warfare for generation.
You *might* notice that tends to happen in Civil Wars across this globe.
You MIGHT want to LOOK UP What Political Party created and supported the KKK and various Jim Crow and Segregation efforts in the whole USA.
Today I refer to them as THE PARTY.
Yes, COMRADE!
ReplyDeleteThe PARTY APPROVES!