I have said right from the beginning that Trump is a loose cannon, and his moorings certainly have not tightened since his election but, when the pirates are closing in on your ship, a loose cannon is better than no cannon at all.
I've been puzzling over this for some time now, reading it forward and backward and right side up and upside down and the whole thing remains a puzzlement to me. Remember Humphrey Bogart and the strawberries I think it was, Anyway they are all on the good ship Caine and their problem is that their captain is crazy. I don't think they saw their options as either going along with Cap'n Nutso or just having no captain at all, though surely the latter option was better than following the captain.
A loose cannon is better than no captain at all? I think if I were on one of those old time man o wars I would much rather have no cannon at all than have a loose cannon on deck shooting up the place. A constitutional scholar such as Beagles is doubtless aware that there is an office called the vice president. He is a rather dim guy, funny looking, and doesn't trust himself to dine with a woman without having a chaperone, but he doesn't guzzle snake oil.
Not that long ago, about the time of impeachment, I was against Pence ascending because I thought that it was better to forebear Cap'n Queeg just to have him damage the GOP so that the dems could win the next election, but I had not realized the scope of an untrammeled Trump and now I would gladly take Pence. And I would gladly take nobody at all also. I don't think a bullet to the temple is better than no bullet at all.
And Pirates? There are Pirates too? The Pittsburgh Pirates maybe. Perhaps not being a sports fan he is unaware that they finished last in the National League Central last year,
The ballot proposal was put forth because the legislature, which does not reflect the will of the people of the state, could not be trusted to do anything but favor their interests over the will of the people as proved by the fact that it was passed by the people. If Beagles thinks there is something wrong with having an unelected body make a decision what does he think of the unelected supreme court which declined to scrap the gerrymandering?
If the prez is guzzling snake oil with a hint of zinc, one wonders is the elixir of the swamp?
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