HassleCat

Steal an issue and a position from the other party. Make some minor modifications and change the details just enough to make it palatable to your own party. Get it passed through Congress. Sell it as a huge historical accomplishment. Expanding Medicare would be perfect for Trump. It would give him a landslide victory and silence Democrats. This…[Read more]

Politicians know the public memory is short. There is always a new thing coming along to distract the people. Today I can claim the moral high ground and demand Al Franken’s resignation, based on unproven allegations. Tomorrow I can dismiss accusations because “her story has changed.” Nobody cares. Emerson said a foolish consistency is  the…[Read more]

When your ballot envelope arrives at the election office, a poll worker checks the signature against the one on your voter registration card. When I worked as an election official, we attended seminars that covered how to examine signatures, how to spot irregularities, etc. Every once in a while, we found somebody signing the ballot envelope for…[Read more]

Inspiration of Shakespeare’s play about Julius Caeser? Julius Seizure? However you spell it?

Medicare for Some. The Democrats are still saying the solution is to embroider some cheerful tulips on Obamacare. So far, they are refusing to consider any significant Medicare expansion. Trump could catch them flat footed by covering 15 or 20 million more people under Medicare. He doesn’t care what it costs and it would win him the election.

New! Cool! Young! Fresh! I am so stoked! Pete is different! Not like the other corporate centrists! He is gay! His name is difficult to pronounce!

I hope they at least get to ask him a question. Not about the rape allegations, of course. Not about the Alzheimer’s. For $2800, I would want him to come over and fix me a sandwich, wax my car, anything.

When a commanding officer is relieved of command, his career is over. He will be assigned to some job where he has no responsibility, no decision making authority. His job will be to wait for retirement. The crew members know the deal. They know their captain is getting hosed by the Navy. I don’tknow about the other branches, but I know Navy…[Read more]

On a large ship, hardly a day goes by that personnel aren’t coming and going, arriving from shore or leaving the ship. This even includes civilian workers who maintain weapons systems, etc. An aircraft carrier the prime example, of course, since they have plenty of planes and helicopters to fly people back and forth. But people and cargo flow back…[Read more]

Many racially bigoted southerners were Democrats. The party accommodated them by pretending they didn’t exist, their bigotry didn’t exist, and everything was fine. They got to keep their segregated schools, and black southerners were not allowed to vote. The Democrats knew they were losing the Dixiecrats when they backed civil rights legislation,…[Read more]

Maybe by then Biden will be cured of his senility.

I hurt you and it makes you love me more.

The fireman screams and the engine just gleams.

The media portray him as gruff, grumpy, terse, short, etc. They tell us Biden is nice, friendly, congenial, etc. They have a little trouble promoting this image when Biden tells voters they are full of shit, but it matters little. If Bernie calls out Joe, he only gets slapped by the media for being the mean old man who yells at nice Mr. Electable…[Read more]

Since they all insist on packing themselves close together in church, many of them will get the virus and die. There will be plenty of TP to go around. Assuming the survivors don’t horde. Oops.Hoard. A horde of hoarders.