Strange Days in WDC and the Mask Comes Off

Strange Days in WDC and the Mask Comes Off.  As we proceed into the last two years of the Obama Drama, political life in our nation’s capital is becoming more surreal.  If you please, consider a few comments on some current events.

Senator Rand Paul is from my home state, but he carries no “homer” cred with me.  There is no doubt in my mind that he is an egotist, a glory seeker, and is fully unqualified to be President.  However, I stand firmly with him on his NSA surveillance stance.  This government has absolutely no credibility or trust at this time and I have no faith that a database of citizens’ personal information, if compiled and managed by our government, will not be abused for reasons other than national security.  I, for one, am willing to accept the inherent risk that the removal of the program entails and reside instead on the personal freedom from oppressive government that this nation was founded upon.  In that same vein, I admit amusement at the trade authority debate where we find Obama in bed with Boehner and McConnell, Paul Ryan trumpeting the value of legislative secrecy, and Nancy Pelosi giving the Prez the cold shoulder at the ballpark and dissing him publicly.  Bottom line: If you cannot deal with this legislation openly, honestly, and transparently; it does not merit passage.  Kudos to the Dems in the House for their opposition.

I continue to be amazed at the Democratic loyalty to Hillary Clinton.  Her shameless approach to an astronomical level of corruptness is apparently overridden by the Dem’s hopes that she can retain the White House for their party.  She may be a scoundrel; but she is their scoundrel.   As things stand now, it is difficult to imagine that, short of nominating a complete idiot (and there is one or two readily available), the Republican Party is lining up to control all three branches of government beginning in 2017.  Prepare for the political pendulum to begin swinging a bit rightward.

Not sure what the “white girl who wants to be black” in Washington state is thinking, but perhaps she is prepositioning herself for a prime apartment in one of HUD’s new “wealthy neighborhood” complexes.  After all of its many billions of dollars spent and marvelously effective social programs, our brilliant government wants to coerce states and municipalities to insert certain racial populations into certain racially-specific neighborhoods through the use of government-assisted housing projects.  Now will this be restricted to placing poor blacks into rich white neighborhoods, or will it extend to placing rich blacks into poor white neighborhoods?  Will we perhaps see dedicated gay housing units placed in “religious right” communities, or Muslim housing in traditional Protestant neighborhoods?  The government continues to insist, from its position on the most forward point of the curve, that the best way to improve racial harmony in our nation is to increase the emphasis on racial differences.  Let’s see…their foreign policy is stunningly successful, the economy is booming for all, government accounting and accountability is something to behold; so why not take a stab at some old-fashioned social engineering? 

As Obama proceeds with his “_uckit list”, we should all brace for some more strange headlines.  I am quite certain that by the end of his second term, we will see Guantanamo emptied with all of its reformed inmates serving as upstanding world citizens, free and readily available health care for all, jobs aplenty with high salaries, and world peace as we have never seen it before.  I am also confident that FIFA will receive an international award for integrity, Roger Goodell will take a new job with the New England Patriots, and it will be a snowy Fourth of July in Kentucky this year.  Can 2017 get here soon enough?