Sunday's getting closer and it should be a typically nerve-wracking game for the Jets. The Browns are on an upswing and their coach may finally be getting his squad together. Last week they had an impressive, one-sided win. And I think Eric Mangini polished off two or three bags of trail mix as he watched his guys from the sidelines. It seems to me he never stops chewing.
As for Gang Green, I'm sure that even if they get off to a good start and put up lots of early points, they'll let their opposition back in. Because that what's they always do. So, maybe I'll watch a movie or just do some chores until the last two minutes of game time, or so. Because the Jets play just like an NBA team. The whole game always comes down to the very end.
As far as the news goes, there's nothing new that I feel the urge to type about, but there is a continuation of boring old stuff. Because it seems that Nancy Pelosi will likely remain Democratic party leader. She has no real opposition, although several members have said they'd prefer she step aside after historic election losses.
But, as I've written several times recently, I just don't understand it. Because it seems that Pelosi feels her greatest accomplishments, and the ones she boasts about are "legislation on jobs, health care, veterans and Wall Street reform on behalf of the American people."
On the other hand though, a huge portion of the American voting public has made it clear that it wants virtually all of the past legislation undone, and will continue to insist on its undoing. Beyond that, the president himself travelled through four foreign nations where his status seemed clearly diminished in terms of others willingness to work with him. He similarly came up short of his goals at the G-20 conference in Seoul, where he failed to win backing from other world leaders for a get-tough policy toward China over on its currency stance and couldn't reach agreement with longtime ally South Korea on a new free-trade pact.
So, that brings me back to my same old, same old question of late. What is about the Democrat leaders that instills them to pursue policies, plans and programs that most people greatly dislike? Now I know it's true that many great leaders have made unpopular decisions because particular circumstances forced, or impelled, them to act. But, most often, those were singular events, and commonly pursued for the so-called greater good at the particular time.
On the other hand though, as every day goes by it gets clearer that the legislation rammed through in the last two years in particular has not only been faulty as law, it was never really read or understood by its champions. So, that being the case, why would they continue down the same road when given a chance to change course? Because, it seems to me that the only folks who can't see that their party's over unless they relent, are the leaders who insist on taking their compatriots with them when they fail again in two years.
So, in conclusion, I guess what they're doing, politically speaking, is taking a party chock full of lame ducks and turning them into dead ones.
That's it for today folks
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