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The News has been bouncing all over the place. We have Infrastructure, we have the Israel Palestinian problem, we have the Insurrection and the investigation or lack of, all the voter suppression bills, and we also have the Greene /Gaetz fiasco. On Twitter it is hard to keep up and on the National News sites, it is a lot to absorb. One thing for sure, it is going to be hard to be a one issue voter the next time around.

The Infrastructure debate is an interesting situation. I lived in Wisconsin when Obama inherited that awful economy for Bush. One of the first things he did was push up projects for the improvement of our infrastructure. The Governor was Doyle and at the time he had them start the I 94 expansion from the Illinois border to Milwaukee, one of the heaviest traveled rural interstates in the Country. Things were moving along and then Doyle gets defeated by Scott Walker. Walker wanting to be the darling of the Tea Party halted the expansion when it was less than half finished and gave the money back to the Federal Government. . He had aspirations of running for President and wanted to show how big of a conservative he was. About four years later after a failed Presidential run he negotiated the Foxx Comm. deal. Well guess what. That Infrastructure that he halted had to be completed and in a hurry to support the Foxx Comm., project. Who was the loser in that one? The taxpayer of course in my opinion. It probably would have been cheaper and helped the Wisconsin economy if he had just left it alone. Infrastructure is something that Republicans use to know the importance of. Eisenhower sure did. Politicians play politics and the people suffer for it.

The Israel and the Palestinian situation is one that we need to take a harder approach to in my opinion. Israel needs to have the right to survive. So do the Palestinians. I have always thought that a two state solution would be the way to go. They do not seem capable of having a mixed raced society. They seem to have something more like the apartheid of South Africa to me. If you criticize Israel there are some that will call you anti-Semitic. I am sorry, but I should be able to criticize Israel and not be treated like I hate Jewish people. Just like our White Supremists that want to discriminative, and demonize minorities here they have Jewish Supremists that want to eliminate the Palestinians. They also have Arab Supremists that want to eliminate Jewish people. When you come right down to it is just racism. Sometimes we create our own demons. Is the Palestinian problem a demon that Israel has created? Probably a little but with a huge help from the United States. If you want real peace there must not be a loser in this conflict. Both sides need to win to have a lasting peace.  

The Senate has defeated the independent investigation into the insurrection. The majority wanted it but the Republicans used the filibuster to defeat it. My opinion, a sad day for America. Our Government was attacked. They tried to eliminate a Branch of our Government and install a non-elected President, a dictator if you will. The election was not stolen. The courts said there was no voter fraud. The Big Lie has weakened our nation. Who benefits with a weakened America?  They spent months on hearings for Benghazi just to embarrass a Presidential Candidate but when it comes to people really wanting to overthrow our government they do nothing. The politics of the right is destroying our democracy but the inaction from the left is not helping it any.

The Republicans have introduced a ton of voting bills that they have billed as voter integrity bills. I call them voter suppression bills. Why do I call them that? Well, we just had what a Trump official say it was the most secure election in history. Why change the laws if everything worked? The only reason you change the law is because your side lost and you want to win by suppressing the vote. Plan and simple. The big lie did not work so you have to try a different way to cheat. 

Now I come to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz the new faces of the Republican Party. He is under investigation for sex trafficking and she said the lasers from outer space caused the California forest fires.  They are doing like a tour like they are some type of rock band. Matt Gaetz thinks he can form a militia and storm Silicon Valley in California.  She has compared wearing masks to the Holocaust. Now I have to ask you, Are these the people that should be the face on any political party? Who elected these people? We have gone from John Kennedy’s the best and the brightest to this.

As a political party the Republicans to me were always the more intellectual one in the room when I was growing up. Now some of them are the scariest ones on the room. We need two political parties to make this work but one cannot be trying to end our Democracy. We need sane people to step up.



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