What Do You Want: Governance Or A Show?

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There are many policy and ideological differences between the two major political parties in the U.S., but as I was reading an article yesterday, one came to me that I had not thought of before:  Democrats in Congress take lawmaking seriously, while for Republicans it is a game, a show.  Republican voters seem to require a circus … the most ludicrous, most outrageous and loudest candidate wins with the Republican voters.  Democratic voters, on the other hand, prefer old school staid, nose-to-the-grindstone politicians who they can trust to make laws that benefit the nation and its people.  Don’t believe me?  Let’s take a look at one issue that exemplifies what I just stated … the impeachment of Joe Biden et al.

Already, even without a majority in either House or Senate, knowing their efforts would come to naught, numerous impeachment resolutions have been filed against President Biden, the first one coming less than 24 hours after he took his oath of office on 20 January 2021.  That one, House Resolution #57,   was filed by mad dog Marge Greene, claiming that the President had committed “abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.”  Wow … all that within less than a day of taking office!  Actually, she was referencing his time four years prior as Vice President, conjecturing something mysterious about his son, Hunter, and more of the right-wing conspiracy theories she’s picked up from her QAnon buddies and from watching the likes of Tucker Carlson over at Fox ‘News’.

Since that first resolution, there have been at least 8 more resolutions to impeach President Biden, and also one introduced by mad dog Greene’s best buddy, pistol mama Lauren Boebert, to impeach Vice President Kamala Harris!  And oh the irony here, but one of the bullet points in Boebert’s attempt to impeach Harris is that the Vice President “neglected her duties as Vice President by failing to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Biden from office due to his clear inability to effectively and competently handle his duties as Commander in Chief.”  Say WHAT???  Boebert wants to impeach the Vice President because she didn’t invoke the 25th Amendment?  OH THE IRONY!

None … not a single one … of these resolutions will lead to actual impeachment, for the Republicans don’t have the votes to get them through now, and in January when the next Congress is seated, these resolutions will all expire.  It’s not serious legislative work … it’s all for show, my friends.  The people whose salary YOU pay, wasted precious time and resources playing games that they knew had no actual meaning. They can then go back to their districts and yell and puff out their chests and say, “I wrote a resolution to impeach the President!” and their supporters will whistle, applaud, and cheer.  It is not governance, it is a circus.

And what should we look forward to come next year?  More of the same crap.  Already, they are gathering their resources, consulting with the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative ‘think tank’, and plotting ‘strategy’, such as it is.  They not only plan to impeach President Biden and Kamala Harris, but also Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.  I seriously doubt they will be successful, and even if they are, I would not expect the Senate to convict and expel any of these from their positions, but these faux impeachments, along with other of their clownish antics, will keep this nation in perpetual turmoil for the next two years, which may well be the goal of the soulless Republican Party.

  • Democrats talk about enhanced voting rights; Republicans talk about impeaching the President
  • Democrats talk about expansion of renewable energy sources to help save life on Planet Earth; Republicans talk about impeaching the Attorney General
  • Democrats talk about gun regulations to cut down on violent crime; Republicans talk about impeaching the Vice-President
  • Democrats talk about human rights – LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, etc.; Republicans talk about impeaching the Secretary of Homeland Security

Do you begin to see a pattern here?  Once again, my friends, repeat after me:  Republicans do not want governance, they want a show.  Vote for them and that is all you’ll get … a horror show.

43 thoughts on “What Do You Want: Governance Or A Show?”

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  3. Jill, I want boring competence. Paul Tsongas was a smart Senator who ran for president in 1988. People said he was too boring. So, the Democrats ran a nice man who got shellacked in the election. Hillary Clinton was a lousy candidate whose warts had been exposed for years, true and perceived ones, but she may have been one of the more competent candidates ever to run for president. Instead, we ended up with a president who a conservative writer said of his White House – equal parts “chaos and incompetence.” And, those were only two of his qualities. Keith

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    • Me too, my friend. Boring competence, leaders who put their proverbial noses to the grindstone, who actually CARE about doing their job rather than constantly campaigning for the next round! Hillary Clinton would have, I believe, made an excellent president. She may not have been ‘warm & fuzzy’ as some seem to expect of politicos who are also women, but she was intelligent and highly qualified. That seems not to be what half the people in this nation want today … they seem to thrive on the chaos, the carnival atmosphere, and gravitate toward the snake oil salesmen.

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      • Jill, the thing about presidents, candidates like Trump who were not known for their management skills, cannot overnight become good managers. To be frank, when Trump said he alone could solve our problems, that may have been one of the most uninformed remarks he could make. That showed naïveté, arrogance and lack of awareness of how things get done. The first travel ban rollout was so embarrassingly incompetent, it had to be pulled after two days. Keith

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        • True … and in addition to it showing his naïveté, arrogance and lack of awareness of how things get done, it showed us his supreme arrogance. That, for me, was yet another in a bucket of reasons he should not have been elected in 2016 and should not even be on the ballot in 2024.

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  4. The song, “Send In The Clowns” keeps running through my head at the moment, Jill. Especially the last line, “don’t bother, they’re here”! It’s so unfortunate that they are running the country — into the ground in my opinion. They should all have to wear the big clown shoes so everyone could identify them on sight!

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    • Oh yes! Perfect song for the times, especially that last line! And I like your idea of making them wear clown shoes or maybe all dye their hair orange so they are easily distinguishable! I know it’s wrong of me, but I find myself looking at people on my rare forays into Kroger and trying to decide if they’re Republicans or Democrats. Usually if they’re friendly and smile, I figure they’re at least NOT Republicans, but if they’re rude, then they I decide they are.

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  5. Maybe Merrick Garland should jump the gun and arrest all the members of the GOP governing body for Crimes against the People for not allowing new gun laws to go through, for not having any policies ready when Trump was in that benefitted the People. For encouraging the violent insurrection on Jan 6th and numerous other things. It would leave hem in disarray and give a chance to real politicians for 2024.

    Cwtch

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    • Oh can you just imagine what a nightmare would ensue?!? 🤣 Still, fun to think about! I’ll settle for him just prosecuting Trump to the fullest extent of the law and thus ensuring that there will be no “Trump” on the 2024 ballot!

      Cwtch

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          • Thank you for your kindness and your confidence in me Ladies. Trump will be desiccated by the heat of my dislike and then Banished from the Human Race to some little atoll in the back of beyond with his family as his only subjects. They will rebel and overthrow him and be charged with insurrection and sedition..
            Hugs

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              • A friend and I were trying some new ideas one year when we had an over abundance of turnips, and discovered that sliced turnips, potatoes and onions were pretty good. Just actually added the turnips to the potatoes and onions we cooked for our families and even my kids ate the new combination — probably because the turnips added a bit of bite but didn’t taste like the boiled ones that they never touched.

                Kind of an aside here, we always planted turnips as a cover crop after the garden was finished for the year and all of us liked the raw ones. My hubs pulled one and wiped the dirt off on his pants one day and a few minutes later our dog, after watching him, pulled a turnip as well, dragged it on the grass to get the mud off and sat there eating it. Too bad it was before the day when everyone had cell phones with the cameras so handy for videotaping things like that.

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                • Just by the way, speaking of food expetiments, my partner and I are goi g through our own expetient right now. To cut down on starches we are replacing starchy food with steamed cabbage and steamed cauliflower. They are both actually quite good, and if done properly they do not stink up the house the way boiled cabbage can. We steam them with chicken soup broth. And we use the broth ad a thin soup, killing two stones with one bird.
                  (I don’t believe in killing birds with stones, but seeing as some birds swallow stones to use in their gullets, I have no qualms about killing stones.)

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  6. And if they were to get a majority, and try all these impeachments, just when would they get around to actual governing? Besides the fact they don’t know how to govern, or what to govern, they would not get any governing done because aside from tearing Democratic laws apart they would have no idea what to replace them with. America would become a circus of chaos, and would fall apart at the seams. The world would have 52 new nations, including Guam and Puerto Rico.

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