With all that is swirling around us these days, is it possible to have writer’s block? That’s defined as “a usually temporary psychological condition in which a writer is unable to proceed with a piece of writing.” I’m torn searching for a topic. Yet I’ll proceed. So, I guess I’ve overcome the malady in this first paragraph. So much for writer’s block.
There is actually a lot to write about. This week, Republicans in Congress jettisoned their Speaker. Eight of their number hated the guy and decided that their vendetta against him—they all opposed his election ab ovo—was more important than demonstrating to the majority of Americans that Republicans could work out their intermural differences and be trusted to govern in Washington, if we elected them. We did elect them. They apparently don’t merit that trust. And odds are they won’t change. For Democrats, it’s a barrel of laughs watching self-righteous Republicans try to rationalize how their chicanery is actually “principle” on display. They should look up the definition of “clown.” Then find a mirror. Bozo, meet Clarabel.
While this sideshow is occurring, our border is being overrun by people whose first act in coming to our country is to break our laws. Think about it. What are the odds that a person who breaks into your house will not steal you blind? Yet the same court jesters who bounced the Speaker of the House this week, previously voted to kill a continuing resolution that would not only have reduced spending but would have also secured the border. As it is said, life is hard, but when you’re stupid, it’s really hard.
There is so much irony swimming around the border fiasco, to say nothing of people literally swimming undeterred across the border. So, imagine my surprise this week when President Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, declared an “acute and immediate need” to waive a multitude of federal statutes in order to build a “border wall” in south Texas where illegal migration has surged. You could have pushed me over with a feather.
Recall that when Biden was elected, he asserted that there would not be another inch of wall built under his tenure. But the crisis at the border has finally showed up in the polls and Mayorkas and others have connected with reality. Too bad that in the meantime the feckless Biden administration has surreptitiously auctioned off millions of dollars of unused wall material from the Trump Administration’s border security program for pennies on the dollar. The US Army Corps of Engineers has already taken steps to transfer approximately $154 million worth of the roughly $260 million of bollard panels and other materials that are ideal to build a 30-foot-high wall. And amazingly, Mayorkas admitted publicly that we should build it immediately! No kidding. Honestly, could our government be more clownish? Don’t answer that. It will just add to your depression. As 1970 cartoonist Walt Kelly famously wrote into the mouth of his comic strip hero, Pogo, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Indeed.
In addition, there are plenty of non-political things by other rubes to consider. Like the 76 year-old women in Palm Coast, Florida who was arrested after leaving the scene of a hit-and-run and then driving for two miles as the frightened victim clung to the hood of her vehicle. She was charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. I guess this gives new meaning to the term “victimhood,” wouldn’t you agree? Literally a victim on the hood. How are such people allowed to drive in the first place? For that matter, how are people elected to Congress who engage in an odd form of cannibalism whereby they eat their own members while the party opposite rolls in the aisles with laughter? But I digress. By the way, the hood-clinging victim above managed to survive. He did better than the Speaker of the House.
And of course, who can ignore poor “Commander,” the President’s German Shepherd who has had ten of his eleven recent biting incidents in the past four months. One of them dispatched a member of the US Secret Service to the hospital. It seems the poor pup, according to renowned dog trainer Tom Davis, is lacking “leadership, boundaries, and structure,” all of which contribute to his biting spree in the White House. Leadership, boundaries, and structure? Really? Are they talking about Commander or Biden, given the latter’s record in all of those categories. Interestingly, Davis thinks that an “intervention must happen in order to save the animal.” How ‘bout an intervention to save the country?
Silly me. And I thought when I started this piece that I had writer’s block.
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