ETCH-A-SKETCH TO START

Mitt Romney says that if he runs, for President, again he will try to do something for the "Poor", i.e. Etch-A-Sketch right from the get go.   How will he win a Republican primary then? Why he'll hold the General Election before the Primary, of course. 

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

What are the odds that, if the Democrats start pushing  for a middle class tax break, paid for by closing a tax loophole for hedge fund operators, Republicans will brush off the "Class Warfare"  slogan?
I suspect we will begin to hear that hoary meme, ad nauseum, very
shortly.

DAMNED IF HE DON'T DO, DAMNED IF HE DO DO

Who has ever heard of a politician that turns down a great photo op unless he has been asked not to attend?  Anyone who thinks that Obama would have willingly turned down an opportunity to get out of Washington  may have lost it.  Even Republicans, in off the record conversations, would admit that they had criticisms ready whether Obama went to Paris or not.  If  he had gone, they would have leveled serious charges of failing to consider security concerns by attending recent demonstrations.

TALK ABOUT PITCHING IN THE WRY.

A recent visitor, from Maryland, told me: "Abraham Lincoln may be our worst President, ever.  He should have let the South secede"

Considering that most of the old Confederacy receives more revenue from the Federal government than it sends, the case may be made.  With the present downturn in oil prices, it may turn out that all of the old confederacy, except Florida, will need Federal assistance.  If the issue of secession ever arises again, let us not be so hasty in saying no.

BLAME THE MESSENGER

A police office, with a previous bad record, kills an unarmed black teenager.  The District Attorney allows an known perjurer to to testify to the Grand Jury to exonerate the officer of any wrong doing.  Black riot.

A 12 year old boy, with a toy gun, is executed within less than 2 seconds of the arrival of a police officer.  The police officer has a problematic record.  Blacks demonstrate.

A black man is killed with an illegal choke hold, by a police officer

who has a record of abuse.  Blacks demonstrate when Grand Jury does not indict.

White civic leaders try to placate angry black demonstrators.  Black man with mental problems kills 2 police officers in ambush.  Police union blames white civic leaders of inciting bad behavior in blacks.

It should be obvious to all of us that the solution to resolving the matter of bad cops killing unarmed civilians is to punish civic leaders trying to maintain order.

  

BIG GOVERNMENT VS. BIG CORPORATIONS

Most of those who want to see a smaller government seem to have no problem with the size of corporations, even though, while they may have a say in government, they will have, for all intents and purposes, absolutely no say in corporations.   If a big corporation makes money on a high risk gamble, the corporation keeps the profit; if a big corporation takes a huge hit, the taxpayers foot the bill, and since big corporations frequently pay little or nothing in the way of taxes, they don't even contribute to the funds which cover their losses.  

It seems, to me, that protests might better be directed at the increasing size and power of corporations, that allows them to suborn  the Government, anyway, than to the size of that government.

SLIM CHANCES

Electing Republicans to Congress, in the way of protesting the inequality in income, under the Obama Administration, is similar to hiring pyromaniacs to safeguard our forests from fire.  Chances for a positive outcome are slim, indeed.