I just made up Obamasucks.com. Well you know I say that but as
soon as I said it I had to google it, and I admit I am surprised that there
isn’t one. There is an Obama-sucks.com website, and then there are a lot of
sites that are just selling Obama Sucks apparel, but I’ll wager they are not
political at all and just trying to make money off guys who think that wearing
an Obama Sucks baseball cap to the local pub will help them pick up
chicks.
Ah it’s just that there are an array of columnists, led by that
Krautsomething guy, who all they ever write about is how Obama sucks. Used to
be, not that long ago, that columnists would write about foreign affairs or some
political theory or something, but all this cadre ever writes about is how Obama
sucks today because he is wearing the blue tie, and he sucks tomorrow because he
will be wearing the red tie, and he will really suck next week when he shows up
with no tie.
Lee was Cruz’s right-hand man when Cruz led the crusade to shut
down the gummint. The Heritage Foundation is the most powerful think tank of
the right wing. How do you read the newspaper and not pick this
up?
It says that
all legislation must originate in congress. Once they pass a bill, it goes to
the president and becomes a law if he signs it. If he vetoes it, congress can
over ride his veto with a 2/3 majority vote.
See, this is what I wanted to talk about with my theory vs practice
thing. That’s the crap you learn in high school (remember that Paul Simon song,
“...when I think back to all the crap I learned in high school...”), and I
suppose that it is still followed in form, but all the loop holes are exploited,
and there are things like bills going to committees to die, and this guy
jawboning that guy and the party making deals, and then there is that filibuster
thing that is not even mentioned in the constitution. And how about the law
where the president can’t declare war without the consent of congress? Har har
har.
Donald Trump was just one of many nutjob voices howling about the
birth certificate, and he wasn’t the first one nor the major one. I’m with you
in not knowing why the press gives him so much coverage. Anyway Obama gave up
his long form as a sop to that crowd in general, not The Donald (as Fox always
reverently refers to him) in particular. It seems to have shut them up a little
bit.
I think the feds will continue to do stupid things like bomb pot
fields and nab the occasional kingpin (because that always brings the drug trade
to a sudden halt (sarcasm)), but they have never been much on nabbing the guy
with a lid in his pocket. I don’t imagine they will interfere with marijuana in
states where it’s legal, and by extension, probably not much in states where
it’s illegal, and eventually as more states declare it legal, will get out of
the game altogether.
Everything is going to make lawyers a lot of money.
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