Hypocrisy
first. Every man or woman is supposed to
be presumed innocent prior to trial.
Alabama Republican and Senatorial nominee Moore’s escapade is no
different. However, when numerous
complainants come forward with some of the specifics that we are seeing in
their accusations, there certainly seems to be the real possibility of fire
down inside that smoke. At the very
least, Moore should back out of this campaign and deal with his personal
issues. It certainly seems like an
effort that might require his full attention.
As an aside, how fascinating it is to see the way liberals have been
reacting to the rash of articles comparing Moore’s issues with those of Bill
Clinton, the fat Hollywood director/producer, and some various Kennedys. There has never been equal justice in
American courts, either the judicial ones or the ones that deal with public
opinion. In America, one gets as much
justice as they can afford. We should
not expect saints in our Congress; that quest would never be fulfilled. Who wants a saint making all the rules
anyway? On the other hand, there are
certain moral and ethical standards that we can reasonably expect to be met by
Senators and Representatives. It is one
of those deals where we might not be able to put the list down in black and
white, but I think we all know the “pass
or fail” grade when we encounter it.
Until proven otherwise…Moore has failed.
And
speaking of hypocrisy…have you read Hillary’s latest comments about the
possibility of a special counsel to look into her Uranium One deal? If you want to get the real and honest scoop
on Trump Investigations versus Clinton Investigations, go to McCarthy @
Special counsels are a bad idea, whether they are
investigating Republicans or Democrats. It
is an open invitation to political skulduggery and mission creep. If our Department of Justice and other
related government law enforcement agencies cannot be trusted to conduct
transparent, non-biased, and competent investigations of politically-tinged
issues, then we need some wholesale changes in civil service personnel. Mueller is a joke, a farce, and the biggest
bamboozle ever perpetrated on the American taxpayer. The sooner he can complete this circus he is
conducting, the better. Appointing
another Special Counsel to look into Democratic Russian monkey business would
be “oh so satisfying” to many
Republicans in a tit for tat fashion;
but it would be a terrible idea, a colossal waste of time and money, and would
only serve to further devolve the poisonous political environment that
currently exists in WDC. Civil servants,
especially high ranking civil servants, are very well paid. They need to step up, make the hard decisions
they are paid to make, do their jobs, and quit passing the buck and ducking
their obligations.
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Now,
about that hubris…in the U.S. Senate. Mitch
McConnell, my home state Senator, drives me nuts sometimes with his total
allegiance to Senate traditions and decorum.
Most times these days, I just want him to throw down and play hardball
with the majority advantages that he holds.
On the other hand, I suppose for the Senate to survive in some type of
semi-civil state, there must be McConnells on both sides of the political
aisle. They are likely the closest thing
we have to statesmen these days. But
this absurd expectation of each U.S.
Senator that has become so prevalent over the last decade of demanding
legislation that is precisely
according to their liking is becoming very tiresome. We saw it most recently in the Senate
Republican’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. The pathetic drama inflicted upon us by
McCain, Collins, and Murkowski borders on the unbearable. And now we have Obamacare, the Sequel:
Republican Tax Reform; more of the same drama and grandstanding, beginning with
Senator Ron Johnson. These people know
the legislative process and they know what is doable and what is not. They know when the process will allow for changes
in the legislative product and when it is simply designed to move the bill
forward to a later reckoning. History
has taught us that pushing legislation in the House is like herding cats; a
frustrating and nebulous process. But so
far in the Trump Administration, the House has been the mature body with
members serving their paltry two-year
terms while the hubris of the “Senate
elites” has exposed them to be the preening, shallow, unprincipled
politicians we all suspected. Love him
or hate him, we must give a tip of the hat to Paul Ryan for moving actual legislation through the sausage
factory that is the U.S. House in an impressive and meaningful way. Unfortunately, once it has achieved House
passage, said legislation heads over to the Senate graveyard to serve as a
pretense for grandstanding. Six years is
waaaaay tooooo looooong for some of
these dudes (and dudesses) to be
serving in office. Term limits cannot
come soon enough to our nation’s government.
For the time being in WDC, we are seeing the triumph of House citizenry
government over the arrogance of Senate vanity.
Anyone who has ever been to WDC and Capitol Hill
can’t help but be struck by the obvious grandeur that surrounds everything
Senatorial in nature. When you walk
through a Senate office building, you can’t help but notice that the doors are
little bit higher and wider, the ceilings are a little bit taller, the offices
are a good bit larger, the furnishings a bit more plush, and the people are a damn
sight more pompous. It is no wonder that
in this environment, Senators form their sense of entitlement and
privilege. And as we have done so many
times in the past, when we graduate one of these prima donnas to the White
House, the club only deepens its hold on all things civic. Be they Democrat or Republican, there is much
to be said for sending an outsider to WDC as President. On the one hand, the established rule of
order is threatened and that new outsider has a difficult time getting any
cooperation out of the old heads. But on
the positive side, an outsider brings a stark contrast to the front that
reminds us of how far removed our elected officials are from living in the real
world.
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