Will The Republicans Defeat Themselves in 2014?

The Republicans are kind of like Nick Fallon on Days of our Lives.  They don't know when to quit "guilding the lilly" or "rubbing it in".  They are on a power trip or some might day "drunk with power" and we know that when people get "Intoxicated" by any means - judgement is the first thing to go.  We said that there is a skeleton in the closet in Bengazi, but- - it is NOT with the Obama administration, but rather why the hell the CIA was even there to begin with.  Why did the Ambassador decline extra security and how can the Republicans escape the fact tha THEY are the ones who voted cutbacks in embassy security?  All they do is to continually tell lies about everything.  They don't seem to know how to do anything else.  But this Kangaroo court thing is heightened by this so called IRS abuse scandal.  This case is Exactly like the Mc Carthyism that pervaided the 1953 to 1955 congress which by the way was voted out of Power in 1954 and largely because of the stench of Mc Carthy, the Republicans remained out of power in the house for Forty long years.  I think somebody somewhere was trying to tell them something.  Don't EVER pull a stunt like that again where people are denied their fifth amendment rights like Louis Learner is being subjected to right now.  They claim that because she spoke a total of 36 words in her own protestations of Innocence, and that's my understand- - that she somehow waved her right to plead the Fifth.  But a 1949 case ruling clearly indicated that Daryl Eisa's reasoning if deeply flawed.  Because that Court said the utmost latitude must be granted in presuming the Innocence of the Defendant as far as taking away his or her Constitutional Rights.  Daryl Eisa is a convicted felon so I understand and I'm not sure he should even BE in government at all- - certainly not the leader of a major committee.  These Republicans lied when they said that ONLY conservative groups were targeted.  These Republicans turned off the microphone at a hearing when this Black congress from Maryland, who was again prominent in today's hearings, testified or tried to in defense of Louis Learner.  And the committee won't even release the transcripts of the Testimony they have gotten already and there have been reams of it!  They don't want the American people to actually know the facts of the testimony actually given.  Now John Boehner, returning to Bengazi again, wants to appoint yet Another new comittee because they don't accept the findings of all the other committees that have conducted hearings so far.

It's possible the American people will grow tired of all this nonsense.   It's a tiresome drone, or to quote Dylan from a song "a meaningless rain of words".  And yet now the buzz is that the Republicans will indeed take control of the US Senate today.  As such they will be in a position to block replacement of any retiring Supreme Court justices, so the High Court may limp along a while on just eight justices deciding cases.  We know from experiance, high government posts have gone Vacant for months, or even longer, and this Congress thinks nothing of it.  They would rather take more vacations and conduct yet another vote on the Affordable Care act.  Now the buzz is that once these Republicans gain control of the Senate, they will conduct impeachment hearings against President Obama, just like they did with Clinton.  If they can impeach Clinton over receiving a blow job in the oval office, they'll find something on President Obama.  I remember reading the Ken Starr book in late 1998 and thinking "You mean - this is all they've Got?"  But if you think about it the Republicans have to pick up a minimum of Six senators in order to take control.  Keep in mind that only about 34 senators will even be up for election this year.  This means that, for instance- - should Nine senators switch parties- - and two seats are gained by Democrats and seven by Republicans, even if the Republicans get seven out of nine seats that switch- -they Still won't gain control, obviously because Vice President Biden is a Democrat.  I am also figuring that maybe another seven or eight seats will have replacements of people from the same Party as their predecessor as Senators retire, and the like.  I think it's safe to say that about half of the seats should not change hands at all.  And keep in mind that unlike the House, you can't gerrymander Senate districts.  So here demographics take over and women and minorities will get their fair representation in the final vote.  This is the reason the Senate wasn't taken over by the Republicans in either 2012 or 2010.  Yet nervous Nelly progressives are scared shitless it will happen this year.

Back in the old days when the John Birch Society was in bloom, people had to rely on mailings of often screwball pamflets and writings often crudely done on some mimiograph - - and they had to call each other on the phone.  There was no internet, and no FOX television.  These Birchers had to watch the same media with Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley along with the rest of us.  They were viewed by Big Money as losers, and therefore couldn't ever garner the big bucks.  At this time there was virtually no conception of things like zero terriff or zero income tax or gutting the ability of the average citizen to sue Big Business and there was pretty much zero hope you could get away with Trusts or price monopolies if you were an international or just a large American corporations.  Remember back in those days the adage was "The customer is always right".  Back in those days- - only the fringe nuts would actually advocate the notion that "Things were better for the Negro before they got any rights".  They didn't yet have their "Right wing echo chamber" and talk radio was only for people in retirement homes, and if you had a reputation of listening to them regularly you were considered an old fogy.

They say that in mid April it was still snowing in Topeka, .Kansas, and right now they are having record heat there, as they are in Dallas and in other places in the South.  They are expecting a record fire season this year and predict as global warming gets worse, the number and severity of the fires in the western Rockies will double.  As we said in the last couple of postings, the number of tornadoes and other violent weather will only continue to increase, along with absolutely vertigo inducing peaks and valleys in high and low temperatures going directly from winter to summer, and what ever happened to spring with the birds chirping and gentle warm breezes blowing.  There is absolutely nothing "Political" about scientific fact, or Reports delivered after often years of extensive research.

I"d like to clear up one mystery about "Is there really any moral requirement to become a Christian?"  Actually there are Two of them- - and they are found in the book of James.  The first is to remain a virgin untill your wedding night, and never to commit Adultry once you become married.  And if you are a woman who is divorced by her husband because of adultry, you are never allowed to marry again.  The second requirement is that you eat meat that was prepared in a kosher manner and bled properly from an animal that was neither strangled or died a natural death.  As such there is no requirement not to drink caffeine or carbonated drinks, and no liquor restrictions of any kind unless you plan to run for 'High Office" in your local Church.  There is no ban on birth control or smoking or vacetomies or for that matter - Abortions are not spoken of as a cause for not being allowed to become a Christian.  The only other ban I can find is- -there is no record of anyone guilty of First Degree Murder ever getting "Saved". So I hope you didn't have your heart set on meeting Ted Bundy or Tex Watson in heaven.  People throw this "morality" stuff at you and often you find it hard to defend yourself.  Clearly nobody can live up to the Virgin thing.  So if they throw the coffee and cigarettes thing at you, just throw the whole Virginity thing right back in their face and they'll have to Shut Up.