I feel like I don’t understand the world any more.
Rosendale really impressed me.
The final 4/6 all deserve tremendous respect, and to a lesser extent perhaps the other 14/15.
That said, it would be a shame if the most principled half of the most principle half-dozen ended up being black-balled and rendered useless for anything beyond this battle.
Once one of the final four had joined the other two in voting present, no point remained to voting for someone else—McCarthy had the 216, which would win whether it was 216-212 with six abstentions, or 216-212-3 others-three abstentions.
THe world is really messy—at least as I perceive it—then again, I’m Catholic.
Joke satirizing Rudyard Kipling saying:
If You Can Keep Your Head When Everybody Around You Is Losing His, Then It Is Very Probable That You Don’t Understand the True Situation.
There are the “Good” Bad Guys, and the “Bad” Bad Guys.
Neither are on our side.
You’re not alone.