Great to have you along for a nice Friday ride…
We can siddown and draw a breath after the excitement of the middle part of the week. Wasn’t it a cliff-hanger? Everybody said the young lady from
It’s the same old song you hear on the Merry Go Round. (BTW for some of our older readers “Washington-Merry-Go-Round “ which used to be the title of a frequent column originating in the Nation’s capital. The original writer was Drew Pearson – you have to be old to remember him. But the more recent one that some of our younger [as in middle age] readers might remember was Jack Anderson.] Brit Hume – recently retiring from Fox News was a reporter for that column along with John Fund who currently is a senior writer for the Online Journal – one of the electronic spinoffs of the Wall St. Journal now owned by the News Corp. – which does not own this column or this station. (J)
Anyway – in today‘s program I try to get across the fact some of our electronic and journalistic friends (and we Conservatives don’t count them as a great cloud of witnesses.) also drift out of the lane. Karl Rove did that this week… along with a host of other ‘establishment’ Republicans. See, that’s one of the reasons I’ve backed term-limits so much. For instance Sen. Jim DeMint is – in my opinion – doing a great job as Senator. But his colleague, Senator Graham, who went to Congress in the same general time period of the current Congressman Bob Inglis from here in the upstate, has been in Washington long enough to have his vision “bent” to where he can’t see straight any longer – and the fact he won’t be returning to the Capital in January is, in my opinion, mainly due to being off in ‘never-ever-land” which is that part just north of the Potomac encircled by the Washington Beltway.
If you stay there long enough, it is *very* difficult to retain your vision and viewpoint of the people you were sent there to represent in the first place. How long is “too long” you may ask? Well, back when Bob Inglis and Dick Army and others were actively proposing a limit on the length of time you could serve as a congressman or senator, they proposed three terms in the House and two in the Senate… Despite my best efforts to get them to change that to six terms in the House (12 years) and two terms in the Senate (also 12 years – and they do *love* to be treated as equals we found out) the effort faile… or the proponents gave up. I still harbor hopes it could/would be established, which would do a lot to improve the system. {Along with limiting the term of judges…especially Supreme Court Judges.)
There is no doubt in my mind that the exercise of power inevitably corrupts or twists the thinking of “Public Servants.” I have stories and observations beyond my own, to back it up. I can also remember when President Roosevelt ran for his 4th term. Born in 1932, I had never known any other President. I thought it would be un-patriotic to *think* of anyone else for President – even though my parent’s voted Republican (sometimes holding their noses.) Well – that just reinforces what I happen to think about the issue. I don’t claim Devine revelation about it. It would take a much longer essay than you would like to read. So…I’ll save it for another time.
Thanks for going with me this far. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this (or anything else) if you’d care to write… the e-mail address is n4zhk@arrl.net and I’ll answer – it may take a while but I’ll answer. God bless you all and have a great weekend. Don’t forget Sunday School & prayer meeting… they’re opportunities for worship and communication too!
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
KARL ROVE IS A LOUSY CHEERLEADER
Just a Minute: -- I doubt Karl Rove planned to step into a sink-hole while denying he is a Republican cheerleader – but that’s what he did Tuesday evening arguing with Sean Hannity on Fox News in the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s unexpected victory which even Karl said “couldn’t be done.”
He obviously failed to see how much he tarnished his own standing with conservatives when he threw cold-water on her general victory prospects in the midst of the evening’s celebration. “Spoken in haste, rued at leisure.”
Every pundit eventually comes a-cropper -- and this is where Rove stumbled in his criticism of conservatives stepping out of their usual reticence, to express joy at a very attractive ‘under-dog’ candidate winning when even her own “establishment” said she’d lose. It was the wrong words at the wrong time. They need some cheering on. They’ve been called crazies long enough. So Karl, chalk it up, as a learning experience – next time you’ll see these tidal waves coming. Just don’t make the same mistake twice – there are too many new ones to make.
<> I’m Jack Buttram.
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