Shake it off!

OK, we took one on the chin and yeah, it hurts that it was thrown by a good, good man - John McCain.  Its probably trite to say this but in war, including civil war, you usually suffer reverses.  Lets look forward; we're still in the ascendent (and surely very far away from what we could have been experiencing now had Hillary not fallen).

President Trump's prediction that Obamacare will implode may well come true; that would be a defacto repeal.  Conservatives would benefit politically in that case for having tried hard to formally repeal in time to stanch the deluge and RINOs would do well to check their pensions.  As I see it, Dr. N.L. Waddy of SUNY Alfred observed recently in his perceptive blog Waddyisright.com, that repeal would force Dems to cooperate, since they are in the minority, in order to pick up the pieces they most value.  Leftists always overrreach when they think they have gained the upper hand and they may irrationally think as much now.  Speculation that Republicans must now work with Democrats on health care is wishful thinking; even mice know better than to hope for a change of heart from cats.  Much as Shakespeare's  Richard III disastrously expressed and acted complete contempt for all over whom he had achieved sway, Dems may now comically and vindictively think themselves back in the catbird seat they believe they deserve.  Well, they are not.

First, President Trump holds the veto pen.  Second, if Obamacare fluffs ala the 2008 economy, there will be all manner and multitude of pieces to pick up and while Dems are in the minority they cannot have their dictatorial way in new legislation or in the executive branch.

The way for us is clear.  Do not cooperate with the Dems.  Charles Schumer ably personifies the withering disdain they harbor for the real America and for any sign of weakness on our part. Unless Mitch McConnell can mount a comeback ( yet a real possibility, I think, he is an able legislator), legislative progress on Obamacare may not be doable just now. In order to advance decisive formal reforms on that and on necessities like budget,tax  and immigration reform,  we must concentrate on removing from office in 2018 , if possible, those Republicans who caved or wavered (I take no pleasure in the possibility that Senator McCain may soon be physically unable to hold office but it is reality ) and to increasing our majorities in Congress.  Pure power is all that can disable radicals; they have demonstrated that ad infinitum ad nauseum.

Remember the biblical quote John L. Lewis was wont to roar: "They smote me hip and thigh and right merrily did I return their blows".  Take heart, America, we're still the in the thick of it - the fight for our nation's life.  Jack     

"A Better Deal" ? Oh be still my beating heart.

So Democrats, including good 'ol Charlie Schumer, he of the compulsively dismissive demeanor and eastern megalopolis accent so beloved of Dixie, have repaired to Berryville,Va, to "relate" to the real America, to advance a disingenuous mea culpa for sneering at the values which inform and motivate the masses which such as Charlie usually view only from 35,000 feet while transitting flyover country.  Why, bless me for a fool, but I expect to see them in Ulster Co. , N.Y.  (a full 60 miles north of NYC) soon. Berryville is within easy driving distance of DC in northern VA and all of us who have been in that area have seen how the presumptuous liberal amoeba has spread from the regions it wasted in NY and NJ across the Mason Dixon line.  Don't know if it has ingested Berryville yet but I'll bet its close. You can bet that the Dems chose a place for their insincere auto da fe in which they thought themselves unlikely to encounter the cynicism their appearance would prompt most anywhere between Binghamton and Bakersfield. And they made promises, yes, that they have learned from their misdeeds and will be loyal Americans forthwith. Heavenly days! 

I'm hilariously reminded of accounts of a very wealthy Congressional candidate from a fairly foo-foo town in our otherwise down to earth district having come to our very conservative area in an ill fitting Jethro Bodine style suit and white socks promising our rod and gun club undying support for NRA, which he repudiated once empowered. I have no automatic animus against the wealthy; I know many of them have worked hard and long for their prosperity.  But this guy - honorable yes, civic minded and a Marine - nevertheless displayed all the snooty prejudices of those who move in circles insulated from the rest of us.  He plainly believed that he was elected to exercise, solely, his exalted judgement above that of his excusably benighted constituency.

And so, certainly, does this Charlie led appellate seek to do. What strikes me is that they find it within themselves to swallow their collective gorge and venture into the provinces.  They must be scared; nothing else could move them so. And that strongly suggests that they have good reason for dread.

We may have them on or close to the ropes.  We have nothing to lose by assuming as much and like any fighter who truly wants to win, wading in with EVERYTHING at this point. May I be as presumptuous as to say ( though we do not face yet the terror which prompted this famous exhortation) that this is one of the times which "try men's souls".  We've gone toe to toe with the left and we may have it down;  do we have the guts to beat it into the ground as it would surely do to us? Jack