Making Your Bed, Doing The Laundry, And Taking Out The Garbage

The Electoral College has spoken.  And probably just as importantly so has the senior senator from Kentucky finally and not surprisingly the current short term occupant of the White House has turned on the senate majority leader.

You really don't need an advanced degree in political science to determine who won the election for President of the United States of America in 2020.

But it might be timely for a review of how the three branches of our federal government have been twisted in ways never anticipated by the writers of the Constitution.  The traditional media and the internet's social media also need a review.  What it means to be a citizen would also be an interesting discussion.

A determined, monied and reckless person can undermine the law and political norms through a combination of a lack of oversight, misuse of the power of making appointments, and through conscious misstatements and outright lies while in office.

George Will, a conservative columnist writes about congress reestablishing itself as a functioning branch of government.  A nice start would be really doing some legislating as a member, as committees, as in a bi-partisan manner instead of just lining up for or against the majority leader.  Safe districts and monied interests make this difficult but the reset button needs to be hit.

Chair Derek Kilmer, September 26, 2019 “But the goal in airing conflict shouldn't be simply to highlight our differences. The goal should be to establish clear positions, have meaningful discussions, test different compromises, and ultimately, to find a path forward.