David Horsey today gives us something to ponder in his op-ed No good deed … The Seattle Times:
But, in much of the commentary about the need for Democrats to focus their storytelling, there is an underlying assumption that may prove fallacious. That assumption is that voters will be receptive to a message about all the good stuff in the Democrats’ legislative product and will reward the party accordingly. Is that really true?
Republicans have achieved quite a bit of success by dispensing with any coherent legislative agenda. They run on red-meat issues like abortion, immigration fears, wars on Christmas, creeping socialism, antifa fantasies and stolen elections. The most pertinent current example is the success of the Republican gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, where suburban female voters were scared away from the Democrats by GOP rants about racial propaganda being foisted on schoolkids.
Elections are decided by about 10% of citizens in the middle of the political spectrum who do not pay a lot of attention to the details of legislation. Polls show that a disturbingly high number of Americans are unaware of the hundreds of billions of dollars the Biden administration pumped into the economy last year to keep businesses afloat and to keep solvent the many people who lost their jobs due to pandemic shutdowns. It is quite likely that, next year, Democrats will not get the credit they deserve for the important and possibly transforming legislation they are passing now, no matter how smart their messaging campaign may be.
The real lesson is this: Democrats need to accomplish as much as they can now while they control Congress, not because it will help them win in 2022, but because it is the right thing to do.

“Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today — gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
[“the day will come soon”? BTW, he wrote that more than a century ago]
when uncle joe & co. do do us a good deed, it’s not long before we gripe “what have you done for me lately” – so soon we forget, fidget and fuss for more
in the meantime, a chicken little alert. get ready to duck. THE SKY IS FALLING!!! again.
The Guardian
Due to inflation and the shortage of housing, it’s just “the economy, stupid,” again. The influx of immigrants from our southern border is going to feed the Republican narrative.
How folks FEEL about their world will determine how well Dem actions impact voters.
Republicans are master manipulators of human feeling. Dems need to focus on more than just actions. Dems need to counter the Republican, emotional propaganda machine.
I hope they line that Dart thing up carefully – wouldn’t want to inadvertently have a galactic bank shot sending an asteroid moon the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza into our little planet.
Interesting times. CNn states that Americans are quitting their jobs in high numbers. Cnn also states that Americans are more pessimistic about the economy in decades. Strange. I, not an economist but with a bit of MBA in me, would logically think that if you expect the economy to tank you would want to not be unemployed. Another reason we are in very strange territory because of the pandemic.
That Rittenhouse kid is the worst actor in the history of drama.
Interesting column Pat. I say run against anti-democratic Republicans trying to steal your vote and your constitutional rights, so they can start a dictatorship.
Slogan: Save Democracy
Trump Defends Threats to Pence…
In a taped interview with Jonathan Karl Trump defended, quite extensively, supporters who threatened to “hang” former Vice President Mike Pence (AXIOS).
Jonathan Karl: “Were you worried about him during that siege? Were you worried about his safety?”
Karl: “Because you heard those chants — that was terrible. I mean — “
Karl: “They were saying ‘hang Mike Pence.'”
BREAKING: Federal grand jury has returned an indictment against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon
Craig… finally…. Great news!
they were trying to stretch my garland patience toward its outer limits, and I might be tempted to say that they almost stretched it unto snappage…….but I knew dat my homie garland was going to press ahead with the utmost of utterly and carefully managed kick-assedness. Or something like that.
Come Watson, the game is afoot!
If Bannon is as smart as his background suggests he should be, he’s not having a great afternoon. WaPo.
So apparently Merrick Garland was being quiet about his referral rather than lazy.
This should be an interesting evening and weekend. The SFB plane can’t fly, so that method of going to Belarus is shut off. Train to Alabama or Mississippi? Those states might hide him. Maybe he will be found at ticket counter out in Dulles? He has friends in low places, maybe one of them might take him in for a while.
I think he’ll show up and try to baffle ‘em with bullshit.
Like he probably did in school
Excellent statement by Garland
Ms. Bronc, and there are a lot of them.
What the hell could they be thinking?
Haha…..Columbo, “No Time to Die” the opening……at the wedding of Columbo’s nephew. Wedding band is playing….”I can’t help falling in love with you” as an instrumental….then some kind of”La Bamba” sounding thing as a smooth instrumental.
Fantastic renditions in a manner of a certain type of playing. As if the band were…….wallpaper.
lol the Fanfare for the announcements.
So it turns out all this time Garland team was carefully working the grand jury for a tight case. There’s a reason as a judge he was never reversed.
It takes a bit sometime for the federal govt to get its hackles totally up, but when it does, it’s usually not anything good for those who been fuggin widditt.
We went across the damn ATLANTIC OCEAN to whup nozzie ass while kickin japanese ass across the WHOLE OTHER OCEAN, and this bunch of goobers think their nozzie asses are gonna somehow prevail right here at home?
Smock smock. It is to laugh. You bet your sweet bippy. Wocka wocka .
Just the other day I was thinking that Orange Adolf and his extended mob family might get on a plane and do a disappearing act.
bId -the idiot’s plane is not flying the mob out of town. More evidence the cash flow is low. Less opportunity to skim off other suckers.
They’re still counting on the….ahem…….civil war.
the indictment refers to Jan. 6 as a “domestic terrorist attack”.
oooooooh, that’s cold…….
I try hard not to gloat as gloating is non-productive, but sheeeez……sometimes you just gotta.
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But then, he’ll surrender Monday. No arrest, no perp walk. Make bail and walk out like he got a traffic ticket. And begin a long, long legal process with midterms one year away.
–Don Winslow
He’ll just take the 5th, now, but i suppose he had better provide the paperwork requested?
Oh how I love the irony here , that is Garland isn’t sitting on the Big Court, and he didn’t go gently into that good night.
He’s running Federal Grand Juries.
“How you like me now , Mitch?”
” Common Sense ”
Says the Sun orbits the Earth , and that it’s a flat disk riding on the back of a tortoise.
Hmmm – this Friday, is Bannon a favorite of the former guy or is he a worthless pig? It is so difficult to keep up with the mutterings of a mad man.
Buzzer –
This is an over the air channel running game shows from the seventies and before.
Included is Alex Trebek hosting “Concentration” wearing these huge puffy pop art sweaters ,
2 days ago , I watched him give away a “Yugo EV valued at over $4,500 dollars!”
Once again I was reminded that me and Toto weren’t in Kansas any more.
Speaking of the 70’s and the Yugo –
One of the great SNL skits of all time was ” The Adobe ”
Tagline – ” German Engineering and Mexican Know How ”
Phil Hartman. doing the voice over.
The entire car was made of wet terra cotta clay .
Among it’s features was a cup holder , they then showed a hand grinding a coffee mug into the console.
God that was a funny bit.
Documents reveal new details of Trump political interference in COVID-19 response
During a press briefing on Feb. 25, 2020, former senior CDC official Nancy Messonnier warned about the coming dangers of COVID-19. She told reporters that the spread of the coronavirus was essentially inevitable.
“It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when,” she said.
Her statement angered Trump, and the administration subsequently stopped granting CDC officials permission to brief the public. The agency held no briefings from early March until June, during some of the earliest and most confusing times of the pandemic.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/581322-documents-reveal-new-details-of-trump-political-interference-in-covid
Lie, deny, rinse , repeat .
After nearly 30 years of this , no wonder “No good deed goes ………… ”
Where’s that Lt Governor from Penn. ?
I would add a pro death cult posing as a party. Get that guy from Frontline , and tell the tale of American dead . By next Sept. it’ll be over a million.
I would attack MAGA .
Posing this –
“What’s so great ?”
John Fetterman
Put this guy out front in 2022 make him the face of the Democrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman
Change the face of the party .
Not one rural voter is going to listen to AOC , but they will listen to this guy. And he is no fool , he understands what we are up against.
By the way , I fear Biden will die in office . The shit storm of troubles is eating him alive.
His speeches are a pinball machine.
And now ……………… The history of Rock and Roll , it is Friday night
The rode eats it’s children .
Moving on –
The 13th Floor Elevators
https://youtu.be/_c6gDKsPQDM
I worked this show at the Vulcan Gas Company .
I worked this show as well , by 1969 he was so drunk he couldn’t go on stage .
https://youtu.be/l9xXchxodYg
I was painting the Gas Company at 2 AM . Big Momma showed up with her very wired side man from LA.
” Here’s Houston White ? Here’s Houston White ? ”
(The owner of the Gas Company .)
Me –
He’s home in bed.
Big Momma –
“Get him up ! I am tired and I want to go to sleep.”
I was working the light show when an A&R man saw Johnny Winters.
I sold them weed in Flying Dutchman tins.
But the best was when Muddy Waters showed up.
A purple Pontiac station wagon towing a tiny U-Haul trailer painted purple .
I was over the Moon.
He was supporting Electric Mud
Here’s to the Sunny slopes of long ago , I am not that fuzzy fellow on the left.
Nighty Night –
Sorry one more bit of crazy –
Dam U Tube
Speaking of “Electric Mud” :
Staten Island’s Greg Hansen and I were stationed in Memphis in 68-69 and remained friends until he passed this year. Two of his kids, Marc and Matty are in a band now which they called “Electric Mud” in homage to The great Muddy Waters. Both former navy seals they now live and play music in San Diego. (Their uncle by marriage is a Rolling Stone)
http://www.electricmudofficial.com/band
Music is our balm to festering wounds. It is the thread of our lives we all know our own songs that froze a moment in time.
Their brother Dave, also a navy seal, played Chief Dave (as a seal) in the Movie “Act of Valor”. Their uncle, Al Hansen was a hollywood low-level character actor, whose biggest shot was in Mike Myers’ movie billed as BAD ACTOR, who was in the movie kicked off the set by Myers and replaced with Charlton Heston during the Graduate spoof part of the movie. He actually did pretty good landing parts on TV shows, like grizzly adams, little house on the prairie, etc.
great family.
He is playing this thing out like Abbie Hoffman ,making these subpoenas into a joke, referenced Chris Hayes last night. But this time, Trump is not the Chief. I am talking about Bannon, who just ridicules DOJ every day. He’ll learn…won’t he? I keep hearing the January 6 final rulings may be way off yet…months, a year, more.
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