Playing the "What If - - - " Game

Since the Supreme Court is not forthcoming with any ruling on either the Arizona governor immigration thing or Obama Care, I’m going to do the what if- - - game with you people right now.  If Obama Care- - all of it is upheld by the Supreme court- - it will help the President lending legitimacy to the entire program.  Also it will put the lie to these so called “Defending the honor of the Supreme Court” statements made by Republicans two months ago.  They’ll have to eat their words.  But if the Court rules against the President and strikes down all or parts of the law, this too will help the President.  It’s a win – win situation for the President and a lose – lose situation for Mitt Romney.  Because if the ruling goes against the President all the President has to say is “Well the court has spoken and that settles the matter” taking it off the table as a campaign issue, much as other issues such as Bin Laden, gas prices, and birth certificates are now off the table.  This doesn’t give them much left.  Some would even say the whole gay marriage issue is semi off the table, since Romney has trodden softly on this issue since it came up.  But keep in mind no poll numbers have EVER shown the President to be statistically ahead of Romney- so the president is far from off the hook.

Randy Rhodes was discussing more of Mittens Romney on her show today, and since he is the man the Republicans have committed themselves to it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at issues for and against Romney as a candidate.  Romney really has no issues directly in his favor except the promise of being a “Not Obama” which is oh so vague.  But so far the people are going for it.  This is why another Democratic standard bearer would be a good idea, any time.  Weighing against Mitt Romney is the ever present specter of his Mormonism.  The United States has neither run a Mormon for nominee nor ever elected one as President.  You have this sense of personal shallowness and plasticity of the Romney personality.  As for Romney running now for the loftiest motives of serving his country, Newt pretty well summer up things here.  Romney was specific in his 1994 contest against Ted Kennedy and lost out for Senator.  Then Romney dropped out psychological from being governor of Massachusetts because he had his eyes on the presidency as early as 2005.  Then in a head to head contest with John Mc Cain in 2008 Romney lost again.  So Mitt Romney has done nothing but run for higher office for years.  That is, all the times he wasn’t working for Bain Capital devising ways to pilfer money from innocent people.  Now we learn that Romney took a deduction on some Drasage horse that he “lost money on” but then the same horse is now a contender in the London Olympics.  So- - should Romney pay that money back?  Mitt Romney was asked on Face the Nation just what deductions that he would disallow?  Home mortgages, for instance?  Romney refused to mention ANY deductions he would specifically disallow.  He hadn’t a clue how MUCH revenue these loophole closings would raise but according to Mittens this mythical plan of his would cut tax rates but increase net revenues and help close the deficit.  Romney was asked flat out by Bob Sheefer whether he would do away with Obama’s “stop gap measure” on racial immigration.  The least Romney could do at this point is to Thank the President for bringing the whole matter to everyone’s attention because the topic had been buried.  But instead Romney didn't admit to what he was already on record as saying, which is that "If I were President I would Veto the Dream Act".  That's about as clear as you can get.  Marco Rubio said that he would not support the Dream act either.  What he and Romney have in mind is an entirely different and we presume more adverse legislation to children of illegal aliens.  People should know whether they are voting for a liar.  Romney lied when he said “The President did nothing with a democratic congress in two years”.  And yet the measure got only the vote of 55 senators in that body, which was not enough to overcome the sixty vote filibuster rule.  Romney knows better.  I missed the interview myself.  Romney was famous for Never appearing on any of these Sunday morning news shows, so I’m surprised he relented for Face the Nation.

Governor Rick Scott of Florida is another charming fellow we’ve discussed.  He is one of the governors working actively to purge the voter rolls of anyone who might vote Democratic.  And you grammarians note the correct form is no –LY on the end.  Soctt was apparently fined one Billion for health care insurance irregularities.  Apparently the problem went on for some ten years on his watch- but now Governor Scott is trying to pawn off the blame on others. I knew he was a sleaze bag when he was elected and nobody believed he’d make it in.  His confidence vote is now 31% and falling, even in a redneck state like Florida seems to be.  Jeb Bush, the former governor has been making some “heretical” statements vis a vis the tea party.  He said “My father could not have gotten voted in as a Republican candidate, and Ronald Reagan couldn’t even get voted in as a standard bearer”.  Reagan openly advocated things like closing corporate loopholes, and amnesty for illegal’s, and of raising the debt ceiling when needed and hiking taxes to meet the fiscal need.  You know all this but new readers might not.

Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool yesterday morning at six AM in his home in Realto.  King was 47 and he was found by his fiancée.  So far they have not done an autopsy only that they don’t suspect either fowl play or else foreign substances in the body.  Nobody wants to relive all the stormy history surrounding Rodney King.  Former Police Chief Bernard Parks said today that, "The LAPD is a completely different organization now than it was twenty years ago", which was under the regime of Tom Bradley and Daryl Gates.  Lindsey after ploughing into the back of a semi truck with her car had an additional health crisis on top of that and now she is preparing to play the part of Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming movie.  Now they say that gastric bypass surgery greatly increases your chances of becoming an alcoholic.  Marco Rubio has been using the word "We" an awful lot lately in perhaps a hint Romney has already fingered him for Vice President.  The results of the European elections are in and the Conservative government won in Greece and so Greece will be staying in the EEC and sticking with the Euro currency.  This should stabilize the financial markets.  Obama was at that economics conference in Mexico when he heard about the news.  It seems that the President and Vladimir Putin were shooting icy stares at each other.  The President couldn't warm up to the idea that Russia was  furthering the slaughtering of Syrian unarmed civilians.  They just announced today that Egypt picked a Moslem Brotherhood guy, and they are proud of that.

It's all I can to do preserve the relation with one of my brothers and his even more polarizing wife.  She has all of His bad traits- - multiplied, which to me would make for the relationship from Hell.  Different Strokes, I guess.  Sometimes relationships longstanding, suddenly crash and burn, like a pilot losing control of a small plane after a long stunt flyer carrier.  I thought that was happening with Victor and Maggie on the soap opera today, but it turns out Maggie's spine is made of jello, anyhow.  But in the case of me and Linda Hammer, that thirteen plus year relationship crashed and burned in mid February of 1991 via a telephone conversation that went very badly, and the relationship has never recovered from.  It was Over.  I think my relationship with long time friend Bill Gunderson crashed and burned just about as quickly in a phone conversation last Saturday afternoon when I asked to borrow a small ammount of money.  There had been stresses in our previous encounter on May 12th of this year, but last Saturday's conversation was the real test.  The things he said to me I found highly hurtful and insulted by. I got the distinct impression they were lines "fed to him" to somebody else.  That they would be uttered after a 35 year relationship astounds me.  But you just never know.  I guess the last conversation John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney had was the one in September of 1979 when John Lennon said that Paul "must be Daft" because he proposed desguizing themselves and performing as a small club band as Randy and the Rockets.  Clearly there was a lot of radioactive fall-out for years in their song lyrics.  I don't think the relation ever recovered, as long as John remained alive.