THE LAME DUCKIES ARE HONING THEIR KNIVES - Just a Minute Radio for Friday 101119

            It *IS* Fridaaaaayyyy…..

 

            And we’re happy for it. I really don’t know how much more colorful our autumn foliage could have been here in Greenville County.  I know from being up in Henderson County a week or two ago that the ‘falling’ of the foliage there was a *lot* further along than down here in the upstate.  And it seems that even the sort of sedate ‘oaks’ if given half a chance by whatever makes their foliage a sort of deep brownish maroon, took advantage of it this year.

 

            There were occasional ‘blasts’ of yellow from hickory trees… the sweet gums put on a show almost every year… and aside from shade that seems to be their prime usefulness.  Well… I won’t go strolling through the imaginary forest in my brain… but it is a beautiful time of year and when the weather is nice as it has been (except for max dryness) things seem to go OK… the punkins look good amongst the fall landscapes. I’m quite blessed by the Lord’s handiwork – how much better it will be in Glory is apparently beyond our imagination.

 

            The political scene – the theatre of man – by contrast seems fairly ugly.  By that I take as exhibit A – 80 year old Charlie Rangel.  He’s spent half his life in the Congress… elevated himself to a position of power and respect – and kicked it all away somehow blinded by the fact you can’t simply go through life ignoring rules and then saying … “If I have offended anyone… etc. etc….” He’s a smart enough man to know he egregiously stepped outside the lines of acceptable behavior.  For the head of the tax-writing committee to think he could flaunt those rules and get away with it for a decade… it was foolish, dangerous and destructive.  Ginned-up half- hearted apologies delivered into the air just wouldn’t cut it. He and I, are old enough to recognize he followed the path (except for the excesses in drinking) that his predecessor in that very Congressional District, Adam Clayton Powell, did virtually the same thing. Thumbed his nose at living within the law and the rules.  The same fate befell the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (Wilbur Mills) in the same era … only he ran his car into the tidal basin at night with a woman in the right seat who was not his wife…  That took *him* off the scene too. 

 

            It’s the same old thing – sin – that carries away those who, in their exercise of power become prisoners of it – not realizing it is eating them alive.  Sad, sad stories… and unnecessary—but there they are…

 

            Well… have a good weekend… and remember HE is God, HE is good, HE is just. It’s all there for the reading – just pick up the book and learn.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack

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THE LAME DUCKIES ARE HONING THEIR KNIVES

Just a Minute: -- The ‘grating’ sound you hear across the Potomac is minority Republican ‘lame duckies’ honing their knives for spending cuts -- if not now -- in January.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, wants a binding two year earmark moratorium. Others like Dan Inouye of Hawaii shake their heads.  He’s a champion earmarker.

Oklahoma’s Dr. Tom Coburn teams with South Carolina’s Jim DeMint, in welcoming Ron Johnson, who unseated liberal Russ Finegold, from his eighteen year senate seat -- Ron set foot first in Washington six months ago when starting his campaign.  

North Dakota’s John Thune says all ‘non-discretionary spending should be cut back to inflation-adjusted 2008 levels. Marco Rubio pulled out a plumb from the Florida pie and holds that seat for the GOP.

Problem is the numbers just now aren’t with Republicans -- but they seem determined to fight the good fight.  

DeMint – who’s often fought a lonely battle, is asked: “How does it feels to have some reinforcements, he says: “I can’t tell you how good it feels.”
            <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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