Originally posted by One Bad Pig
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Our PBS-affiliated classical station shut down last year, sold to yet another Christian talk radio outlet. I'll try not to blame you personally, but I'm still having anger issues.
I lost my car to Irma. The replacement picks up HD2. Life is better now.
There's nothing that makes a long, stop and go commute more endurable than classical.
The possibility of working across the aisle has been pretty much nil since Nov. 2007. The Democrats have been able to pull together when in the majority to ram stuff through, but didn't bother to get all the kinks out first. The Republicans seem incapable of pulling together. I'm not sure which is worse. In any case, both major parties have been far more interested in pulling for this or that special group than making things better for all for quite some time now. The resulting red tape makes things more difficult for all.
Well, okay, the House has always been a zoo, to my personal recollection.
But there are still senators who remember pulling together. So long as that's true, there will be senators who know how to do it. The US Senate has the reputation of being the greatest deliberative body in the world. Senators are justly proud of this and protective of the distinction. With chaos coming from the White House, seen up close and personal, they're also seeing the need.
Putting up a reasonable alternative to Mr. Trump would be a good start. Mr. Trump won because too many people were mad as hell about what the establishment has been up to, and the establishment candidate had too many negatives.
I'm FB friends with the fishboi. Other than that, I don't know many people who voted for Trump, who admit it anyway. Trump's got issues, and everyone knows it. A couple did a satire on his tweeting at the Country Music Awards last week, and didn't even get lynched.
He's a year in, doesn't know what he's doing, and doesn't show any sign he's trying to learn.
And we're stuck with him.
We've just had the first indictments from Mueller, which means any charges, if any, at the top of the ticket won't be out until next year. If there are, I've seen impeachment proceedings twice before. They take a year or more, too. If he's forced from office, it can't be before the last year of his presidency.
Nixon left early, before the hammer could fall, and he had barely been re-elected before the hearings began. Clinton weathered the storm. Trump's not likely to do either, and his normal is unhinged. This could be bad.
I think the best hope is for Trump to lead his party into a drubbing in the midterms. Independent of whether gavels pass, the spell will be broken, and the coast will be cleared for pushing him to the sidelines. That's what they're hoping. Corker isn't saying anything in public that the rest of his colleagues aren't saying in private.
With Trump effectively sidelined, if the congress is functional we can keep the country running even if he cracks up, so long as he can still do autographs. He doesn't know what's in the bills he's signing anyway. Give him his phone, his bathrobe, and his cable TV, and wake him if we get nuked by North Korea.
Okay, so maybe that's not a best case scenario.
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