Monday Morning Blues

++Every season is baseball season. Joe Torre,Tony La Russo and Bobby Cox were elected to the Hall of Fame.

++For football fans,Matt Prater of the Broncos kicked a record 64-yard fieldgoal against the Titans.

++Tiger Woods lost in a playoff hole.

++In the Virginia Senatorial race against Mark Warner, The "Cooch" has bowed out,Bishop E.W. Jackson says he might run and Former RNC chair Ed Gillespie is considering.

++In Colorado, Ken Buck, who is against contraceptives and the 17th Amendment, might run against Mark Udall. Tom Tancredo is in the lead for the Republican nomination for Governor.

++Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum links his fight against Obamacare to Nelson Mandela's fight against apartheid. Both men, he says, were fighting a grave injustice. One problem--Nelson Mandela adopted a system of universal healthcare for South Africa.

++E.J. Dionne has a nice column today in the Amazon Post about how the cultural tide is turning toward working class people and how culture turned for Nelson Mandela, despite contentiousness over apartheid in our politics.

++President Obama snapped back at Bibi Netyanhu's statements to the Saban conference on the Iran deal. Bibi urged more sanctions and possible military actions to force Iran to totally abandon their nuclear program. Obama said that this was totally unrealistic. Iran would retain some limited nuclear program.

++This comes at an inconvenient time since bloggers are reminding the world of the Likud party's relationship to white South Africa and Israel's assistance to South Africa to build nuclear weapons. An achievement neglected from the homages to Mandela is that he dismantled South Africa's nuclear program.

++Bad news is that President Obama is pressing Canada to give him something on climate change so he can sign the XL pipeline deal.

++Good news is that the Grand Bargain is defunct. Ryan and Patty Murray are not arguing about $85billion in the budget. Observers fear that unemployment might be dropped out.