Though the conversation depicted in this cartoon likely didn’t go down exactly this way, it is, nonetheless, typical of the mindset of not only Republicans, but Democrats as well. The merits of a given piece of legislation are immaterial; if it’s being proposed by the opposition party, we’re against it.
This is how we arrived at a situation on the national level where an old pedophile who sent a graduation card to a high school girl he now claims he never knew, who signed the high school yearbook of a girl he now claims he never knew, who was banned from a Gadsden, Alabama, shopping mall because he trolled the parking lot for high school girls, who invokes God and the American Way in the face of women who claim he assaulted them as children, is somehow preferable to a Democrat for the U.S. Senate for one reason and one reason only: he’s a Republican.
When former U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn was first elected to Congress back in 1912 and he boarded the train for Washington, his father had one very simple piece of advice for him: “Sam,” he said, “be a man.” Regrettably, we’ve lost sight of that.
Today, we have arrived at the point of electing our own spineless U.S. Senators and Representatives who, unable or unwilling to think for themselves or to consider the best interests of the working people of Louisiana, blindly follow the dictates of a pompous psychopath—even to the point of rushing through a tax bill laughingly called “reform” that will have an adverse effect on virtually every working citizen of Louisiana while giving enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.
This cartoon perfectly encapsulates the mindset of the Republican Party, having failed over and over to repeal Obamacare, now finds itself so desperate to pass some—any—form of legislation before the 2018 elections, is perfectly willing to take this entire country over an economic cliff by passing a disastrous bill containing lobbyists notes in the margins of the final bill.
Remember how the Republicans howled that Obamacare was passed without any real discussion of the contents of the bill? Well, guess what, folks? This tax “reform” bill received even less scrutiny. It is the equivalent of a national enema—without the benefit of K-Y Jelly.
Remember how Republicans screamed about the national deficit? Where the hell are those hypocrites now? Can you hear the crickets chirping?
Democracy? No, this is insanity.
The indisputable gold standard in politics today, as exemplified by the POTUS:
Say whatever seems to work today regardless of what you may have said yesterday or what you might say tomorrow. If it works for you today, it’s all good.
Where are John Hays and the Morning Paper when we need them.
Tom,
Your reference to Roy Moore is ridiculous. I sincerely hope you don’t believe it. Do the due diligence you do when you write your state corruption articles. There is something wrong with almost every accuser’s story. I recently watched Mike Johnson and his cronies do the same thing to a good friend here in the district 8 House race. Raymond Crews brought in over $800k in outside money and branded one of the best men I know a racist. The church he was a missions pastor at is now spreading rumors about him having an affair. I get that you’re a liberal, but don’t fall for the same political tricks you write about daily. You’re better than that.
His signatures on the graduation card and in the yearbook don’t lie. The fact he was banned from that shopping center is just that: a fact. If you choose to believe that old pervert, that’s your business. Everything’s rosy and just peachy as long as it’s your candidate but I notice you’re perfectly willing to believe just about anything negative about Obama. I’m not a fan of a lot that Obama did—particularly with the way he handled the Wall Street investigation—but your inconsistency is showing.
I recently wrote to a congressman and was quite clear about the topic I wanted addressed. In all caps I started with, Please read this in entirety and I’d like a personal response, not the generic topic letter. Guess what; I got the rote, totally unrelated, canned response letter.
My request related to why our government is allowing a massive Afghan Opium business to flourish and fund the enemy (RECENTLY 90%). From poppy fields to distribution the U.S. is complicit.
My opinion, unsubstantiated, is that once the drug reached the streets in the global market, more deaths have resulted then the total carnage of all mid-east war casualties on all sides and civilian victims.
The U.S. recently acted and destroyed nine distribution centers with air strikes. It likely that these have been already been rebuilt in other locations. We have done nothing to eradicate the source…
Term limits would be a blessing. That seems the only way to have true representation.
How do you propose we rid the scourge of the poppy fields? Just curious.
No jungles to hide them. All of the poppy farms are visible from the satellite cameras. Those satellites are orders of magnitude more powerful than the ones used commercially with images available on the Internet.
Since this crop is the only source of income for small farmers the U.S. funded a program some years ago that would essentially pay farmers to raise alternate crops to earn money. Instead, the Afghan government purloined the money and farmers had no choice but to resume growing opium poppies.
An A-4 Warthog could obliterate a field in five minutes.
However, it is reported the IS is taking action to accomplish that task in territory now held. https://www.voanews.com/a/islamic-state-eradicating-afghan-poppy-crops/3312108.html
Possibly that is why the U.S. only destroyed warehouses/distribution facilities.
Several more reference stories. http://bit.ly/2BODLVI
What ever happened to a man or woman being innocent until found guilty in court? True or not these charges belong in court. If they are beyond the statute of limitations then that’s the fault of the accusers. Just look at what allowing these trial by the public has done to the voting public, it’s highly partisan and getting worse, likely because each side believes the other to be using the media to hurt opponents.
From my perspective, I’d say you missed the much larger point, that being the divide that now characterizes our political discourse. I would pose the question not about guilt or innocence but whatever happened to political compromise, where each side sat down and worked out differences without the name-calling, the weak-kneed servitude to a president (or senatorial candidate) because he is a member of the same party or the opposition to a governor because he is a member of the opposition party?
You may have already done so, but if you read DARK MONEY,
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money
you can get a good idea of a major thing that happened to all those things. How we wrest control back from these uber wealthy people is the biggest question. Apparently money truly will buy any and everything, including ethics, integrity, altruism and self-respect.
Sorry that link doesn’t work. Try this one or just go to the book directly from the Amazon home page:
And the old saying still holds true! “What goes around, comes around “!
I find myself wondering if it really still does.
great article, reasoned comments. Mr. Winham, I agree re dark money. recommend David Daley? Ratf***king how the GOP stole our Democracy. I never really understood Mr. Daniels saying, but I like love circles never end, love always ron thompson Tom who is Harold Aswell from NE la.??