Further evidence that Mr. Robin hates everybody equally...he's swinging at the Dems today...keen political analysis contained herein (snark)!

Happy Friday everybody. We stand with toes curled over the edge of a great precipice as we prepare to leap into a weekend of unbridled debauchery. Oh wait, that’s just me.

Never mind.

Friends, I took a lot of heat for yesterday’s post. Apparently, you devoted followers of Fearless Leader are keeping a close eye on me. As well you should! You’ll never know what I’m going to sneak in here so keep an eye out and drive up my numbers.

But…lest you think that I’m a card-carrying member of the Rabid Left…eh, not so much. Oh sure, there was a time I would happily discuss my plan for paying criminals not to misbehave with anyone willing to listen without rolling their eyes. There was also a time when I would mark the “pick all Democrats” box on the ballot and smugly walk away with my “I Voted!” sticker stuck to my forehead.

Nowadays, I guess I’m what you might call a disgruntled Dem. I was watching the newsfeed yesterday as the 116th Congress was sworn in and stuff was seemingly happening minute by minute. That pack of savage Democrats giddy (giddy, I’m telling you!) with their new-found power began voting on measures that a mere month ago would have had them hung in effigy on the National Mall (where Macy’s always has a sale going).

Some deep dark part of me enjoyed watching the spectacle as I told myself that America is finding its way back to a balance of power. But then it occurred to me that – no - that’s not what I was witnessing. We now just have a divided legislative branch of government wherein nothing…not a damn thing…will get done.

And, now, that narcissistic, egomaniacal, woefully insecure, Russian-loving orange cupcake that we (apparently) elected king will sit upon his throne down the street and blame everyone else for this country’s woes…it won’t fall at his Salvatore-Ferragamo-shoe-wearing feet.

That was when I really started to get pissed. Think about it. For the first time, in years, nearly a decade, the Dems take control of one side of the Congress and what do they do? They rush around like a bunch of drunk teenagers pushing out articles of impeachment, threatening one investigation or another, declaring they aren’t going to vote for one measure or another, and so on.

I’m reminded a P.J. O’Rourke quote (from his book “Parliament of Whores”) in which he pointed out that giving power and money to [Congress] is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager. It won’t end well.

Our newly elected Democratic House seems to forget that what they have is momentum. They got there taking many, many seats from GOP incumbents because people (many of them lifelong GOP voters) are fed up with politics as usual in Washington. They’re fed up with that loathsome creature in The White House and were looking for a fresh start.

Now, it seems, the Democratic House is going to play out partisan nonsense instead of working with the Republican stronghold of a Senate trying to move this nation forward. Nothing’s changed. Not a damned thing will get done and Fearless Leader will smirk and blame everyone (but himself) for everything wrong with America.

And, as long as I’m on this soapbox, let’s review the emerging Democratic candidates for president in 2020. It ain’t pretty.

• Bernie Sanders. You will have a tough time convincing a woefully undereducated electorate to give democratic socialism a try no matter how pretty you paint it. All they hear is “blah, blah, blah, blah, SOCIALISM…” before tuning you out, posting photos of Obi Wan Kenobi on Facebook claiming that it’s actually a recent photo of Jesus, and guzzling warm wine coolers as they sit in the dark because the electricity was cut off months ago for nonpayment.
• Elizabeth Warren. I was really warming up to her a while back. I thought she was smart and seemed capable of standing up to the creep she will likely have to face in a general election. Still, I’m not sure how many months of “Pocahontas” crap I can listen to before pining away for the days of LBJ.
• Beto O’Rourke. I like this guy. He seems smart (we need a lot of that right about now) and genuinely caring. Of course, we’ll all have to listen to Fearless Leader making snide remarks about his fake news name before I break down and wonder what ever happened to Michael Dukakis.
• Joe Biden. Judas priest. Uncle Joe is like a bad bean burrito that keeps repeating on you (it just doesn’t go away, until it does). I would like to remind everyone of something they appear to have forgotten. Joe Biden ran for president years ago…so long ago, I’m not sure what year it was. He was picked apart by his opponents and the press for lying about having a college degree. Well, that and he was undergoing a hair transplant at the time and made the perennially ghastly faux pas of looking bad on television. Of course, nowadays presidential lies have become (apparently) acceptable. Sheesh.

So, anywho, those are the “highlights” of presidential candidates so far. There’s a long list of potentials, most of whom no one knows anything about. Even on the GOP side,
Trump challengers are starting to surface. It’s going to be a rough, rocky ride to 2020.

Okay, enough with the politics.

That is all!
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