I'm a White Sox fan. I know the thrill of almost getting there. The delight of watching back-to-back hits to the gaps and the balloon popping disappointment of leaving two men on - inning after inning.
I also watch politics - a rigged sport - like old time Bob Luce Pro Wrestling, or Women's Roller Derby. The Democrats, controlled by the nut-bag Progressive wing of American politics since 1972, and the GOP, run by the Nels Rockefeller-Chuck Percy moderate doormats since the 1960's, is a push-me-pull-you spectacle sport that gets ever more soul-sucking and sad.
Donald Trump is the product of this cynical enterprise. I believed Candidate Trump to be a gross, loud, boorish and vain man. I was wrong. That is his shtick and it works. It sucks the oxygen out of the room.
I really believe that President Trump wants to end the Dem-GOP perpetual taffy pull and drain the swamp, pool, or puddle that makes a Daniel Webster want to be convicted along with Jabez Stone.
This wonderful American story is no longer taught in our public schools and far too many of our Catholic schools.
Daniel Webster is an American historical figure, chosen by the poet Stephen Vincent Benet as the core character for his legend the Devil and Daniel Webster.
The Devil, Old Scratch, is a soul-sucking lobbyist, with piles of money at his command. He lures a New Hampshire son of the soil, who is very down on his luck, Jabez Soul with a contract offering earthly wealth and honors, so long as his soul goes to OLD SCRATCH, Llc. for eternity.
Today, the soul is a secular punchline and laugh button for Bill Maher and latte night TV.
Congressman Daniel Webster, not to be confused with Senators Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Susan Collins, or John McCain, is a rock-ribbed Union Forever American Patriot. He is no maverick. Webster is no moderate and would never appear on Rachel Maddow, or Sean Hannity. Webster died and is buried:
Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead−or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunder storm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster−Dan'l Webster!" the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake.
And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock−bottomed and copper sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was a youngster.
Me too.
Durbin, Collins, Schumer and McCain chirp, "Neighbor, How's They Polling?" Maverick up!
They all work together and not for the State of the Union.
Donald Trump wants to change things and change does come easy, unless it is candy-coated in good old American bullshit, like the last eight years of Obama Hope & Change.
Old Scratch has The Union by the throat and is not letting go. Obama Care is making too many people richer at the expense of everyone else. Tax reform will never take place as long as 1/3 after a thick retainer means anything. America will not be allowed to be Great Again, because the global oligarchs are winning.
When Jabez Stone wanted to weasel out of his contract, like any good Yankee Unitarian, Daniel Webster was forced to face a rigged jury of the worst traitors, cut-throats and back-sliders in American history, up to the 114th Congress anyway. Old Dan'l reminded the louses of their birth on this soil and appealed to their Nativist love of country. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bXfU2AaJDEQ?list=PLWX-t5q2SkI0xslMuPftjy6mCioqZx_em" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Can't appeal to that anymore. Faust has no sense of any universal truth - Americans are mavericks, no more Alamo, Valley Forge, or Khe Sahn for New York Times subscribers and listeners and viewers like Angie's List, Prudential, Northwestern Mutual and the Alliance for Climate Change.
Donald Trump is the President of the United States for a now.
I have a feeling that after yesterday's GOP betrayal on Health Care Reform, the traitors in the White House including the new guy, who already leaked to Ryan Lizza about his war on leakers, and that Old Scratch has real cut-throats and crumbs in the jury box - no lightweights like Benedict Arnold, Edward Teach, or Simon Girty.
- David Brock' sAmerican Bridge
- Hollywood
- Neo Cons: McCain, Graham et al - "There's War Needs a Startin'"
- George Soros Move-On enterprises
- The Clinton Machine
- The GOP
- The Media
Strike tents, Neighbor Trump, or do something smart. Now. Scratch wants his pay-out.
Next up - White Sox play Cleveland at home. Get excited, expect the let down.
Next up - White Sox play Cleveland at home. Get excited, expect the let down.
