Eureka! I have a new keyboard, just like the one that bit that dust. I installed it in five minutes with no problems, and, knock on wood, it’s working great. This may sound neurotic, but the last few days I’ve noticed my back and shoulders hurt after a morning at the computer. I’m wondering if it’s not from trying to use the laptop keyboard. Either way, I’m delighted to have my new keyboard. Kudos to son Jamie who ordered it, tracked it, and made sure I got it.
I am always too absorbed in
what’s going on in our country these days (too absorbed is my own judgment because
I spend too much time reading about politics when I should be writing). But the
last couple of days I’ve been worse than ever. I haven’t put my thoughts
together in any cohesive order but here are some random reactions.
I am delighted to know tonight
that the House failed in its vote to censure Adam Schiff for his efforts to
impeach trump. Not only censure him, but fine him $16 million. Some 200
Republicans voted for the measure but enough sided with the Democrats that it
failed. Talk about revenge politics! Schiff wrote that the woman who proposed
the measure came up to him afterward to say that it would be filed again next
week and would pass this time. I think—and hope—that she’s lost her momentum.
But at the same time I am
appalled at how many Republicans, from office holders to ordinary voters, think
the trump indictment was a move on Biden’s part to undercut his primary
opponent. I read somewhere that few if any of those Republicans have read the
indictments through. If they would, I think they would change their minds—okay,
not Gym Jordan and his ilk but some of them.
Tonight on PBS I saw a
journalist with a focus group in Iowa. To a man (and woman) they blame Biden
for the indictment and think it was politically motivated. They think trump had
every right to keep those documents and to declassify them—do these people read
at all? I doubt it. If trump is convicted that will only increase their support
for him. They distrust the FBI, the CIA, and all those alphabet groups. They
think Hilary should be in prison. It’s amazing to me how our country has come
to this.
Meanwhile I read today that
the orange man has a new excuse for keeping the boxes of files: he thought some
of his shirts and shoes were in them, and he just hasn’t had time to go through
them. As if he himself would go searching through boxes looking for shirts and
shoes. And as if the boxes weren’t clearly full of documents If nothing else His
supporters should realize that the man
is making way too many excuses—the sure sign of guilt.
I also read today that his
current lawyer is a real estate lawyer from Miami with no criminal experience.
One almost feels sorry for the poor innocent lamb who has wandered into a fight
that is way over her capabilities. Apparently, no reputable lawyer will take
the case, mostly because the client is so difficult to control. I heard the new
lawyer speak outside the courthouse yesterday, and she repeated old, disproven
ideas. Even I could have easily beaten her arguments.
I simply cannot understand how
one group of voters can see so clearly the enormity of what trump is charged
with—actions that could easily lead to the destruction of our country, military
attacks, cyber attacks, biological warfare (we may have yet to see the fallout
and we’ll never know who he sold secrets to). Yet another group thinks it’s all
fabrication. So much has been written about it that I can add nothing more.
Local politics in Texas are
not much better. The Tarrant County GOP is going to vote to censure or condemn
or whatever the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s been getting
away with awful stuff for years in Austin. What business is it of a country
party when the case is before the Senate—and his fraud trials are now confirmed
to be tried in Houston (It’s about time). What happened to the idea of letting justice
play out in the courts?
Mine is definitely a biased
point of view, but I am not apologetic. It seems to me that the Republican
party today operates on a theory of reactive or revenge politics. The offer no
meaningful policy—witness dramatic tax cuts to the wealthy just days after they
moaned and whined about cutting expenses—but their principal business is
attacking Democrats. In that light Joe Biden and his administration have followed
the best course of action: they have kept quiet about all the meaningless drama
and let the Republicans fight among themselves, while they go quietly about the
business of the country, including major restoration of the economy.
I am definitely a Joe Biden
fan. But that’s no surprise to anyone.
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