"Close Only Counts...

...in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades."

That was the lesson I learned, very early and very harshly, while playing pool professionally.  That means "for money."  Lots and lots of it sometimes.  And I learned early on you either made those big ol' balls go in those itty bitty pockets, or you didn't.  I learned that "almost" making them, is the same thing as "not" making them.  And if you didn't make them, you didn't eat.  And eating, as we've all learned, is important...

A major league baseball player will go to the Hall of Fame for hitting .300.  That's three out of ten.  Looks like the Republicans are headed for that sort of record as well, and it won't result in any such accolades.

I'm thinking maybe those who finance election races like the ones just completed, you know, the Deep Pockets who write those $Big Checks to buy success at the ballot box, should sue those in the Republican Party in charge of delivering it.

They didn't.

Or, at least they haven't so far.  And I cannot think of a better set of realities Republicans had to run against than the O'Biden Administration gave them over the past two years.  The highest inflation in 40 years, citizens sitting on top of a river of energy and yet paying through the nose at the pump, crime running rampant in the streets, our Southern Border wide open, and our standing on the world's stage at an all-time low.  Everyone's life has gone to sh*t, and yet the Republicans couldn't deliver a knockout blow.  And so far, they haven't even won on points.  As I said, they should be sued.

While Our Guys were talking about the economy, and the border, and inflation, you know, the important stuff, Their Guys were talking about "abortion," which is "code" for "they're gonna' put you in jail," and the "threat to democracy."  Which, I've just learned was "code" for Donald J. Trump.  

And oh yeah, after O'Biden has unconstitutionally "given" more than $500 Billion Dollars in student loan "forgiveness" to a generation of overeducated (and probably underemployed) young debtors, in a naked effort to try and buy votes, two days after the Election a Federal Judge struck it down.  San Fran Nan had already told us it was unconstitutional, which we knew, and the judge used her words in his opinion.  Ha ha!  Too bad, so sad!  The Mumbler-in-Chief bought your vote and the check bounced!  

Imagine being so dumb as to fall for that crap?  Imagine being so dumb as to pay for counteracting that crap?

And so now we're forced to undergo another month of unknowing who's running things, when that decision should have been put to bed a week ago.

Ahhh, but just who are the fools?  The flimflam artists who did it to us, and to their voters, or the Republican election strategists who permitted it?

Anthony "Tony" De Luca, a Democrat candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Reps, up and died a month or so before the Election.  Did the Democrats replace him on the ballot?  Noooo!  Did he win?  Yessss!  By 86% of the vote.  And Barbara Cooper, a 93 year-old Mississississippi candidate for reelection to the House, also died before the vote.  She got reelected also, of course.  With 73% of the vote.

And now the good citizens of Pennsylvania will be sending Mr. Fedderman to Washington.  A man who can't talk and can't debate, into a job requiring at a minimum both attributes.  The reality of it all makes me cringe...  

Me thinks the Red Team doesn't play the game so well...

The definition of insanity, remember, is doing the same thing over and over again, yet hoping for a different result...

(And yes, Jon, I try to crank these out every two days.  Thanks for noticing...)