Political Promises
It’s that time of year when most folks put pen to paper or announce to all that they are making some New Year’s resolutions that will significantly change and improve their lives and those around them. These declarations have a shelf life of about 2 weeks if that. Our fearless national leaders are not immune from putting out promises to gain favor and votes. These politically inspired promises are often dead on arrival and are wholesale hooey.
The Republicans promised the nation that if they got a Senate and a House majority, they would restore sanity to the swamp. They failed to get a majority in the Senate as a result putting up some truly unelectable candidates. The party hung on to win a slim majority in the House of Representatives. Now as this is written they are in the process of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, attempting to elect Kevin McCarthy as Republican Speaker of the House. Seems that the far-right members of the party are gumming up the works by conducting an “Anybody but Kevin” campaign. They have lost sight of the big picture, defunding 87,000 IRS agents, reining in the endless spending for Ukraine’s war, solving the border crises and restoring sanity to domestic spending.
Sadly five looney House backbenchers Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Ralph Norman, Bob Good and Matt Rosendale are the progenitors of this nonsense and were joined by that pistol packing mama, Landslide Lauren Borbert of Colorado, in repeatedly objecting to McCarthy’s election as Speaker. So far, they have rounded up 20 votes for anybody but Kevin. The former President weighed in supporting McCarthy to no avail. Trump’s powerful endorsement of Kevin McCarthy didn’t move the needle. His influence on the Republican Party continues to diminish.
Meanwhile the leader of the free world, aka “the Big Guy” as referred to in some emails on his son’s laptop, must being doing the happy dance as the chaos in the Republican caucus delays any investigation into Hunter Biden’s nefarious activities and the President’s brother’s suspicious banking deposits. The alleged influenced peddling actions of the Biden family is on hold. Also on hold is an investigation into Fauci’s misleading statements regarding Covid-19, the Wuhan lab and what the origin of this heinous virus really was. There are a number of items that demand scrutiny not the least of which is Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American lives. As such, solving runaway inflation is not an obvious priority either.
Those who watched the Speaker Election Poop Show (politically correct term for Sh*t Show) play out in Washington DC were understandably dumbfounded that the Republicans were spending valuable time shooting their feet off. It is a little like watching someone burn down their own home so they can enjoy the fire, as Newt Gingrich put it. Those who only heard about the show tangentially probably are too wrapped up in their own day to day survival in an economy, despite Joe’s claims, that is not as vibrant as it was two years ago.
Of course Joe’s water carrying progressive media pals are having a field day reporting the disruptive behavior and infighting among House Republicans that further insulates him as the most incompetent President since James Buchanan. In case you were wondering, Jim was the guy who ignored the territorial issue of slavery in the South in his inaugural address referring to it as follows, “happily, a matter of but little practical importance."
The season of political promises has yielded little from either party and folks are better off sticking to their own resolutions. No need to watch the “show” from our elected leaders because eventually there will be a Speaker of the House who’s a Republican. Then the investigations into the corruption and malfeasance of Biden and the Biden regime will begin.
Then there maybe something worth watching that comes out of the DC swamp.