Impossibly Worse

I know, I was with you when you said Congress cannot possibly get worse than it has been since the 2014 elections.  In fact I have been saying that this congress under John Boehner's speakership is the most dysfunctional congress since the Civil War! Now John Boehner is resigning. I know many of you are tempted to cheer his departure, but before you do that take a minute to think about what has caused this congress to become so dysfunction.

Thanks to the low voter turn out in two mid-term elections and the Republicans' gerrymandering of Congressional districts, the right wing lunatics were given enough power in the House of Representatives to all but force the resignation of Speaker John Boehner. What this means is that even though they are in the minority, the nihilistic extremists have gained control of the House and are close to seizing complete control of the Republican Party. That is what happens when the Republican Party panders to the fears and prejudices of the right wing extremists; the McCarthyites, the John Birchers and the Tea Partiers all attest to that!

As sad as it is to say: the anti-government insanity of the Republican Party combined with the defeat and departure of Mr. Boehner will probably make him seem like the poster boy for reason and compromise. Believe me things can and will get worse if we do not do something about it!

Plop! Splat! PU!

My title describes the sound of the Koch Bros. colostomy bag dropping out. I do not know whether to laugh or lament the fact that the Democratic Presidential Candidate will not have Scott Walker to run against. His dismal record as the Governor of Wisconsin would have made him a weak opponent in the general election. I hate to say that Wisconsin deserves him, but that is what happens when people are too lazy to vote in mid-term elections!

I wrote the preceding paragraph before Walker made his announcement. Technically he is suspending his campaign; which is a bit like a marathon runner stopping after the first four miles to rest his legs. He also said other candidates running against Trump should drop out so the best candidate can take the nomination from Trump? And who should stay in? Walker did not say. I guess he still wants to keep his stink in the national game by teasing the pundits into conjecturing about who he might endorse. That is about as close as he can come to being relevant on the national stage!