Good Monday to you faithful friends…
Here we are kicking off another mid-January speculation match trying to figure out what’s going on. I don’t really think anyone was preparing for what turned the apple cart over last Tuesday. It’s a series of events that just threw the playbook out the window. And for the last few days people have been running around Capitol Hill like Chicken Little.
Last Monday was the day Congress returned after its extended Christmas/NewYear’s break. It seems like an awful long time ago when Senator Harry from Searchlight decided everyone got a Christmas present in the Senate by voting on shutting down the filibuster of the Republicans and proceeding to the hanging. But the scene has shifted considerably since then. I don’t recall a time exactly like this when such a sea change has taken place over a vote… and that not in the Senate – this was a vote by the
Next comes the Supreme Court with its ruling last week that turned over another applecart – that of campaign funding. So…we’re on an entirely new playing field there… where the goalposts AND the sidelines have been moved, not to mention the new rules the Umpires. Linemen etc… are to enforce. Nobody knows exactly how that is going to play out. But it’s being examined from all angles.
If you throw in the ‘underwear’ bomber trying to bring down a plane on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit – and the hurricane of charges, counter charges and overflowing stupidity -- mix in the continuing case of closing Guantanamo and/or doing something smart with the detainees, ice it all up with an election this fall that portends a lot – but nobody is ready to predict with any degree of certainty what -- it’s going to be a roller coaster year.
Add all that to the volatile mix and the drubbing the stock market took last week on the possibility Fed Chairman Bernake may be turned out – almost totally unexpected – and you have a complete, marbleized upside down cake that no one knows just who is baking it, or who – besides the American tax payer – is paying for it?
All of that just to point out there is one person who knows; knows that He knows… and knows we, who are His people and the sheep of His pasture, are confident of His ability to make it all fit together perfectly in order that His will be accomplished. That is the confidence believing Christians have in the Word of God – the Bible – and those who want to live by it. Otherwise it’s a piece of cake. (J)
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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HOW TO CALM DOWN WHEN YOU REALLY NEED TO
Just A Minute – The Washington Post‘s Michael Gerson, tries to imagine the President managing his Tuesday night anger enough to wiggle out of the present dilemma.
Gerson says the Tuesday vote, translated into national results, would have been a ‘blowout’ of Republican victories. So what’s a President to do thwarted like this?
Gerson sees three options, before the State of the Union speech: He can ignore the anger, embrace it, or try to blunt it. Here are samples:
Steny Hoyer, Pelosi’s Number two, says try to ram the Senate bill through as is… -- “Better than nothing…” he says. Snorts of disbelief from Barney Frank. Tuesday’s exit polls showed 52 percent don’t like it.
Running backwards to embrace what he just denounced looks foolish. He’s not a good populist. Does making fun of Brown’s pickup truck strike you as smart?
How about throwing Pelosi and Reid under the bus? It’s already crowded there but Gerson says unless he blunts some anger, he abandons the idea of governing.
I agree… right now it looks like he’s stuck with trying to herd cats.
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