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Senator Koch

June 11, 2021

ought and paid for, this political prostitute refuses to support a bill that he co-sponsored. He is bipartisan all by his lonesome. He supposedly represents the people of West Virginia. Somehow, he accomplishes this by opposing a voting rights act supported by close to 80% of the people of that state. That, of course, is […]

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Strap ’em Down

June 6, 2021

oe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema apparently enjoy bathing in the limelight while pontificating on subjects of their ignorance. Supposing they are at least semiliterate, we all might profit were they to actually study about the Founders, the Constitution, the filibuster, bipartisanship and pay attention to Mitch McConnell’s threats and actions.

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Questions for Manchin and Sinema

May 27, 2021

he questions address their support for the filibuster. The questions address their distaste for democracy. The questions address their putative preference for bipartisanship. The questions address their responsibly to their constituents. The questions address their suitability for their jobs.

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Give or Take

May 8, 2021

f you don’t have the authority to give something to someone, do you have the authority to take it from them?  It appears to be the time to address those lunatics in Texas, in Georgia, in Florida and all of the others, interfering with the rights of American citizens of legal age to vote.

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Do You Even Care

March 16, 2021

Back in 1972 Fram oil filters ran an ad campaign. A mechanic sticks his head out from under a car and says: “You can pay me now or pay me later.” He was right. If you put off a problem, you will usually end up paying far more than if you address it now.

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Birds of a Feather

January 27, 2021

ultures are appropriate representatives for the overwhelming number of politicians and others calling themselves Republicans. Vultures don’t put themselves in jeopardy by killing their own prey. They wait for others to do their dirty work. Although vultures come in a variety of colors, they congregate with others of like color, much like Republicans. I don’t […]

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Bipartisan?

January 13, 2021

ry me a river. Trump has sown division for four years. The Republicans have supported, sustained, protected and enabled him all of that time. Now they say we can’t have bipartisanship until the sane, patriotic defenders of the nation, the Constitution, ignore those four years and accept sedition, armed insurrection and treason as the price […]

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Happy Now?

November 17, 2020

onservatives have tried, quite successfully, to scare the populace with the word ‘socialism’ for at least a century. It still works with the illiterati. In both graduate and undergraduate  classes there were teachers of economics who were unable to provide a concise definition of the word. I seriously doubt that any of the politicians invoking […]

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Now Hear This

October 31, 2020

aving been a foreign correspondent, the title of the video I have embedded quite naturally caught my attention. I expected to see something familiar. I should have known better. The video is a compilation by The New Yorker of impressions of this country by foreign correspondents assigned to the U.S. It always helps to see […]

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Fraudulent Voter-in-Chief Caught

May 17, 2020

rump decries voter fraud. Well, he is speaking from first-hand knowledge of the subject. But, can we believe him? Can we believe anything he says? After all, those who are counting say that he has passed 18,000 lies since he took the oath of office. I’m thinking that act might also qualify.

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