It’s a wonderfully cooler weekend I hope we’re going to get.
So many things are going on at our house it’s hard to know whether I’m coming or going. Right now it’s after midnight and I’m almost sure I wrote this note before… but it has “gone up the spout” as my Mother used to say when we had ‘lost’ something around the house we just could not find it. Ultimately it turned up… but meantime we thought we were having undocumented memory lapses.
Seems like this is the same syndrome people go through when they are either getting older… or simply forgetful. In any case if you have a note similar to this one… I guess the gremlins got hold of it and sent it on its way. (J)
Probably it’s because I listened carefully to the President’s speech… kibitzing all the way. I guess I wasn’t sure who was talking all the time.
In any case I got the gist of what he was saying – I think – which is taxes today… cuts tomorrow. That’s about the same thing he has been saying since he began his run for the Presidency in 2008. But in recent times it’s just gotten worse.
It appears as the circumstances of his economic strategies and subsequent failures close in, he is simply repeating the mantras he thinks are supposed to pull him out of these problems… but of course they don’t. Then there have to be people to blame for that happening. Perhaps he signaled inadvertently what he was trying o ward off in what he blurted out to Eric Cantor when he left one of the White House ‘negotiating’ sessions trying to cajole the majority into doing his bidding… he looked at the Majority Leader and said – according to others in the room, as well as Eric – “Eric, don’t call my bluff!”
Up to now no one has been sure what he meant. Perhaps even he does not know. Anyway something of anger and determination was mixed in with his address Thursday evening. He did not like having to switch from Wednesday to Thursday… after all he IS the President whose ‘requests’ are *always* properly adhered to. “Who are these people who are messing up my sandbox? The effrontery!” – and stalked out of the room.
More than one commentator has made the observation that it seems a combination of rage and self-control that is being focused on the House and Senate these days. But the self-control seems to be calling for more and more odd… or unusual responses to the current situation.
I listen carefully to what Charles Krauthammer has to say since he is a physician and a trained psychiatrist -- Eventually we will, I trust, work our way through this man made crisis. I’m praying to that end … and leaving it in the Lord’s hands. I trust you – if you are a Bible believer and able to see the Holy Spirit’s working in these matters – I believe you will be able to discern what is going on.
So… let us prayerfully commit our nation and our world to the Lord’s good graces and trust HIM to bring it to pass.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
MR. PRESIDENT DELIVERS A WONDERLAND SPEECH
Just a Minute: The Thursday night -- much anticipated -- Presidential speech promised much, but delivered little.
However it reminded me of Lewis Carroll’s White Queen’s promise in “Through the Looking Glass” – She offers to hire
That’s something like we’ve heard from the President before when he promised his “American Jobs Plan” will be fully paid for! Rather like his pre-election speeches which always promised his policies would not contribute “a dime to the deficit.” And of course he was right -- in that they have contributed something north of four trillion and more toward the deficit.
Mr. President, we’ll take a pass on your promises of taxes today – tax cuts tomorrow. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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