Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Grim Note To Close the Year

++Former FBI-agent, Representative Michael Grimm will resign his house seat next week after he pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion.

++Majority Whip Steve Scalise was called out for speaking to a white supremacist rally in Louisiana in 2002. The Washington Post going all soft and wobbly on the GOP says this is just politics in Louisiana and is to be expected. In the past Senator Lott had to resign because he spoke to a neo-confederate group. My ,how times have changed.

++Karl Rove claimed John Boehner handled both situations with tact, deliberation and conviction. Sean Hannity wants to dump Boehner for Trey Grady, the new conservative darling and chair of the Special Committee to investigate Benghazi. I'm for making Louie Gohmert Speaker of the House so his asparagus won'y be disrespected again/

++I remember when the Republican Party made a full court press to make sure David Duke didn't have a political future. It was Duke's group whom Scalise addressed. Duke is now threatening other GOP congressmen that he will expose his dealings with them if they don't lay off Scalise,"who just made a mistake"( according to Boehner). Duke said Scalise was a great Christian and family man.

++Usually we associate David Duke as the Grand Dragon of the KKK and racism. All the news stories were about Scalise attending a racist forum. 

++Well yes, but with a twist. That day David Duke aimed his hate at Jews and the state of Israel. He blasted all the Jewish advisers to President Bush--Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl--and blasted the influence Israel had over the administration. For Republicans, the race card has been successfully played during the whole Obama Administration. But a charge of anti-semiticism would wound them as they portray themselves the greatest defenders of Israel.

++I don't know whether anyone followed David Duke's journey to Europe where he went on about 9-11 and great conspiracies. The Duke connection was and still is toxic for all human beings.

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