You will see after reading this blog that it was started sometime ago. I had to stop so that I could sit back and reasonably think out all of the cons and pros before I put them in print. It’s a real crazy world that we are living in, Especially the political part of it, but I guess that’s the way life goes on.
I've entitled this posting as " the two party system" very simply because, I believe that this is the only way our democracy can properly work. It gives our country the opportunity to bring us closer together as a society to be able to give both sides the chance to exchange points of views. Having said that, I also believe that the Republican party is in such an array now, that it can no longer be known as the GOP (GRAND OLD PARTY). There is nothing grand about not being able to lead, and they certainly have not the ability nor the capability to lead any longer. This was seen this last week, when the speaker of the house was dismissed. The first time in the history of this democracy. An overtaking of a single man by a group of eight to be able to do this, with no plan for the future. This being explained as the fault of the Democratic party for siding with the 8 person group, and not the republican party How can this be true? What has the Democratic party got to do with the failure of the Republicans? The voters of America, selected the majority of the house to be republican and expected them to lead. After voting 15 times for a speaker, they finally selected a person, that promised to just about anything his followers asked for. The writing was now on the wall and it would take only a single person to dislodge this speaker. He was about to begin stepping on hot coals just to stay in power. Twenty months later, he was ousted by that single fellow republican. From that moment on, I began to hear almost on a daily basis how the Democrats were responsible for this dismissal. I was and still am totally confused every time I hear that, I end up questioning myself on just how are the Democrats responsible?? The Republican clearly hold the house majority 223-212, they only need 217 to select a new speaker, however , here we are over 2 weeks and beginning the third week without a speaker. Without having to go threw the everyday nominations and full house voting I will sum that up with, on Republican member withdrawing his nomination after he realized he could not get that 217 and one nominated person being nominated three time and failing all three time and I must add on each time he lost, it was by more votes then the previous time, finally being voted on by his own caucus, to not run again. Just think about it holding a majority vote count of 223, not being able to get the backing of 217 of your fellow members to be speaker, tells me that the Republicans are totally based on their own ideologies over the American public they WORK FOR. They, the Republicans do not accept the blame for this but rather blame the Democrats for not voting THEIR WAY. They apparently can not see that when the house went to vote, they too had nominated a person, Hakem Jefferies, who BTW received 212 votes now my question is why would any reasonably sane Republican ever think that a Democrat would vote for a dysfunctional Republican over a Democrat, however it's what they want to think.
I CHANGED
As most of you know, I happen to be a Democrat. That has not always been the way it was at one point of my life I was a Republican My first presidential election was for Dwight D Eisenhower. I started out as a Republican voter simply because that’s the way it was. My parents were actually Republicans, and I happen to follow in their shoes however, my second presidential election a young man that I was really into was John F. Kennedy. He seemed to bring about all of the things that I wanted to see in my life. From that point on, I was totally a Democrat and sort of happy that I had made that decision. Some years later I remember the first president Bush made the statement at one of his pre-presidential rallies stating” Read my lips, no new taxes” at that point, I was totally turned off by the Republican party, very simply because six months later, there were new taxes, ever since then, I just could not understand why anybody would want to be directly looked at and told lies. Secondly, the democratic platform has always been more down my ally then the republican platform. Now, I’m definitely convinced, after the recent fiasco in the house, that the Republican Party simply cannot lead.
BLAME THE TOP DOG
I know, For a fact that it is always the top dog that gets blamed for everything as the old saying goes the buck stops here. Having said that, I can totally understand the reasoning that President Biden is getting blamed for everything including inflation that’s just the name of the game in my eyes he’s not the reason for inflation. Now, in no way, Do I want to give the impression that I am an expert in this subject but the way that I look at things We the general public can be the cause of inflation.
THE END OF ANOTHER YEAR
well, my friends I’m ending this post With just 11 hours left to 2023. I want to take this opportunity to wish all of you the happiest healthiest and prosperity filled 2024. In the incoming new year, my goal is to send out monthly updates to this blog, and bring back some of the memories of the past. It will be a very tough politically induced year, so I ask all of you to make sure that you vote giving a lot of thought to your votes, So that we can remain a Democratic nation.
Once again, May peace engross our earth.
Vito
