Hello…. Sorry I’m late on this Monday – but I had a computer collapse last Wednesday and that tends to slow one down… especially if you have only two brain cells that don’t work well together (J) and you’re pushing hard for the 8th decade. Enough with the excuses already!
But here we are gradually pulling things together out of a faulty memory – and getting a cranky computer who had been acting quirky – and finally decided to wholly throw in the towel. So I’ve had to start over with a totally new machine and operating system.
Finally, with some help from a local exert tech guy – and a couple of talented grandkids who know about ten times as much about computers as this old brain can follow – we are slowly, like a
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Today’s program deals with the spineless actions of a majority of Senate Republicans. I knew we had a lot on the Democrat side of the aisle – but a majority of the GOP members of their Republican Senate Caucus voted to keep Senator Murkowski in her role as the ranking member of the Energy Committee even though she lost the
Now, in a complete reversal, she’s decided to run as an independent write-in saying, “Well Strom Thurmond did it! Arrrgh…
Strom Thurmond ran as a write in because the “Barnwell Ring” of the Democrat party in the wake of Sen. Burnet Maybank’s sudden death between the primary and the general election. The Democrats refused to have an open election and selected one of their own to be the next South Carolina Senator for the next six years.
That selfish move so angered Thurmond, as well as virtually the entire electorate, he felt the only way the will of the people could be expressed properly was to run as a write-in. He’s been the *only* successful write-in to win a Senate seat – although several others have tried. It’s tantamount to running the four-minute mile and then just because you lost -- you decide to have a second chance to win. That’s just not the way it works. It happens, I was Senator Thurmond’s press aide several years after he decided he was no longer welcome in the Democrat party and in 1964 he ran as a Republican – he kept his word, resigned, and won in a regular election.
He never suffered a defeat. He kept his word – which is more than can be said for Ms Murkowski.
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Well enough history for today … let’s see if I can get this blog to post.
Thanks for coming by…
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
Delayed audio link:
http://www.wmuu.com/blog/category/audio/just-a-minute/
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“JUST A MINUTE”
WHO’S COUNTING VOTES IN THE CAUCUS?
Just a Minute: -- The spineless, dishrag gang, hiding out amongst the Senate Republicans, are too scared to show their backing of Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican caucus. She’s now running to overturn the fair-and-square election contest decided last Tuesday. But they’ve now hidden their votes from constituents in a closed door-session with no tally announced. What they have done openly is succeed in slapping Jim DeMint in the face for backing Joe Miller, as her replacement in the
Marc Thiessen, AEI Fellow and Washington Post Columnist says: “The idea DeMint and the Tea Party are threatening the GOP's chances for reclaiming the majority is absurd. Republicans wouldn't have a shot at taking back either the House or Senate were it not for the Tea Party movement…”
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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