THE TWO PARTY STASIS

The GOP continues to be a very competitive political entity, but the larger issue is the different points of view in both parties, under their big tents.  The Republicans include traditional conservatives, moderates and Tea Party/Trump nationalists, and the Democrats include traditional liberals, moderates, progressives and socialists.  None of this is new, or fatal to either party.  The key variable is leadership, and both parties are, to a large extent, lacking competent, intelligent, effective leaders (in my view).

My observation, for what it’s worth, is that President Trump leaves the GOP with mixture of problems and opportunities, and the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer triumvirate may be presiding over a Democratic party that seems determined to push the political center to the right, leaving the 2022-2024 cycle open for Republican gains.  Certainly the House seems ripe for a Republican takeover leaving One Term Joe in a problematic lame-duck downward spiral.  The incomprehensible Left, which seems determined to cancel the police, white people and motherhood, whose default position is that that all who disagree are racists, are a morbid albatross around the political neck of a party that governs by the slimmest of majorities as that party moves through a minefield of policy risks.

So, not only is the GOP competitive, it is the likely national majority party in the immediate future.

EL BIDEENO – THE BIG WIND

President Biden slipped three times going up the stairs to Air Force One on Friday March 19.  The White House Press Secretary says it was the wind that made him fall.  Apparently the rest of the country missed the monsoon that only the White House staff detected, and the president has not been heard from since. We have been assured that he is 100% Ok and presumably uninjured and unembarrassed by his bounce up the steps to his presidential aircraft.

But while his staff claims his basketball imitation was due to a major gust the bigger wind was coming from the now official cast of presidential apologists who have to reconcile the President’s verbal slips as well as his physical skids.  The president has become the poster boy for forgetting names, places and people, as well has his legendary mangling of the English language. But the windy White House staff assures us that all is well in Biden land and that the country is being well served by the President’s policies that have opened the way for Iran to create a deliverable nuke, encouraged China to laugh at us and created a disaster at the Mexican border, to name a few.  And this is just Sloppy’s first 60 days.  Imagine what he could do with 6 months or even a year? 

The excuses would pour out of the White House at such a pace that we would then have a second Windy City.

The Conventions Part 1

I watched some of the Dem Convention.  Sad and disappointing.  What country do they think this is?  Not one mention of the social unrest.  Although Biden did Ok.  But our expectations are so low that anytime he doesn’t have a meltdown we breathe a sigh of relief.

I still think it comes down to Michigan.  Biden takes PA, maybe AZ and possibly NC (maybe not), and Trump may steal MN.  Don’t bet any real money on this.  I could be wrong:  close but no potato chip for Sloppy Joe.  He won’t survive the debates. (Some moron Democrat actually tried to evoke some sympathy by suggesting Biden has a stuttering problem.  Pathetic).

The Biden Derangement Telethon begins tonight.

It’s A Start

My opening salvo. It’s time to state the truth, as we see it. Without fear or prejudice, and to let the chips fall. And they will fall. Our political leadership is dismal at best and riddled with prejudice at worst. Their motivations are subjective, power based, negative and even hateful. Lost in the politic shuffle are the people they were elected to represent and help. This is no way to run a country. Both parties are guilty and need to be called to account. It’s time to do that.