Election (and Other) Afterthoughts

Democrats are happy they won a House majority and not very sad they didn’t get the Senate majority too. Why do you suppose that is? Perhaps it’s because if they had majorities in both chambers they’d have to legislate and oops, they have no legislative agenda except pie in the sky stuff (free nearly everything) for which there is no money.

Their main program is “we hate Trump.” Dems can’t legislate Trump out of office but with House subpoena power they can ‘investigate’ to their angry hearts’ content.

Democrats define “investigate” as hauling some poor SOB in front of a subcommittee, putting him or her under oath, asking the SOB “when did you stop beating your wife” questions, and making long badgering speeching at said SOB while playing to the TV cameras. As a way of dealing with Dem anger, it at least feels good. The bureaucrats on the receiving end won’t like it much.

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Binge watching a TV show more or less “works,” binge reading books about the same set of characters may not work as well. On the trip we’re on now I’ve binge read the RCN: Lt. Leary and Lady Mundy sci.fi. series by David Drake. 

They’re good stories written to “work” as stand-alone books. Thus Drake explains a lot of the same basic scene-setting stuff in each book. That gets old after the fifth book, or maybe sooner. I can’t blame Drake, but I’d probably have enjoyed the books more if read with elapsed time between them.