Posted on 03/10/2018 12:11:44 PM PST by Twotone
No, the Democrats aren’t going to take over Texas, and no, they’re not poised to retake majorities on Capitol Hill.
Here’s a new entry in McKay’s Rules of Politics, a list I need to compile in writing in this space at some point (and if you’d like to make suggestions to assist in populating such a list in the comments, feel free) — whenever mainstream media conventional wisdom crystallizes into a narrative so pervasive that even the pet Republicans on the CNN and MSNBC shows act as though it’s inarguable, said narrative is almost universally false and will be proved such by events shortly.
Which brings us to Tuesday night.
Tuesday was Primary Night in Texas, a state which for months — years, really — has been advertised as a blue state in the making. It’s an aspiration Democrats have been hawking as a future reality almost incessantly since even before January of 2016, when a book called Turning Texas Blue: What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America’s Reddest State by Ann Richards’ former campaign manager Mary Beth Rogers surfaced with suggestions and dreamy “indicators” of a pro-Democrat switch in the making in its pages. Like, for example, the anecdote about how the voters in Denton, Texas (2016 population: 133,808), a college town in which is found the University of North Texas (2014 enrollment: 36,216), voted for a ban on fracking in 2014 which was overturned by the passage of a state law.
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Democrats are so popular they’re a hit in TX.
Oh wait... the numbers say they aren’t. Oh well.
Wait, we can do that? How come none of you guys told me we could do that?
There is a huge opportunity this year with the Dems recruiting all kinds of former CIA and other intelligence community agents. That is, it will be easy for the Republicans to create a national list of all these former spooks, then ask the public, “Do you want the CIA to be your next congressman?”
Imagine how the polling on that would go? The CIA are pretty basement in respect by the public. So the idea of them, as a group, forming a *bloc* in congress is pretty horrifying to most people.
When I was a kid, spy organizations were the coolest thing. (Bond, UNCLE, Control, Danger Man, etc.) Back when they were fighting communism.
I was all for the Patriot Act in the fight against terrorism, despite reservations they’d turn the snooping onto domestic politics.
It took the Obama administration to ruin all that.
Blue Ripple was a favorite of Fred Sanford.
He’d mix it with cheap Champagne?
There is no blue ripple
Ripple is mostly white and sometimes red
In a previous era of time, the previous “One” would be hung along with his dog of a wife and mistress (gay lover I suppose in this case). This is just fantasy based on historical fact.
I still shudder thinking about the next day
after a bunch of us guys pooled our money and
got drunk in the barracks on Ripple..
Champipple!
More reasons to stick with grain alcohol and rainwater.
Flatipple sangria & Ripple
Champipple: Champagne & Ripple. Or, Ginger Ale & Ripple.
Manischipple: Manischewitz & Ripple.
Beaujolipple: Beaujolais & Ripple.
Cripple: Cream & Ripple.
Stripple: Straight Ripple.
Flapple: Flat Ripple. Or, Sangria.
Muscatipple: Muscatel & Ripple.
It was ruined far before Obama, during W. Bush. The Patriot Act was a massive turnover of authority to the intelligence and police agencies. They were already so bloated that it was hard for them to do their jobs.
A cardinal rule of bad government is to ignore the big, important things that government is supposed to do, and concentrate their efforts on minutiae and authoritarianism.
The vast amount of utterly useless and pointless data is now intermingled with and burying the small amounts of important stuff in giant digital archives, where it will never, ever be used.
Another cardinal rule of bad government is that it demands ever more money and resources, while at the same time doing less and less. It’s end game is to get all the money, yet do nothing.
Well said.
What I was referring to was the shattering of my illusions.
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