Bipartisanship

You may remember this term. It gets tossed around in Washington from time to time. For instance shortly after President Obama was elected in 2008, Mitch McConnell used the term. At a retreat for Republican senators, under the direction of Mitch the Republicans adopted the agenda that their primary responsibility was to defeat resident Obama in 2012 and to that end there would not be a bipartisan Senate(too bad Mitch). Now Donnie wants bipartisanship but he pretty clearly has a confuse notion of what that is. It doesn't occur to him that the Democrats should have any role in input or design of legislation. Bipartisanship means that Democrats vote for whatever pleases you know who. The Republican Congress seems to agree with that as they apparently will allow the Democrats no role in drafting what they laughingly call tax" reform". No doubt the leaders in Congress will be calling for the Trump type of bipartisanship from the Democrats forgetting that after the Republicans gained control of Congress in 2010 they became the knights who say "Knicht" and blocked everything Obama tried to do that required legislation. For Republicans, the trouble with Democrats largely stems from the fact that they do not understand that tax cuts for the wealthy is pretty much the answer to all problems.

Our fearless leader is heading back to Texas today for round two of his personal flood relief efforts. Round one largely consisted of his self-congratulatory remarks that under his leadership the greatest relief program ever was occurring. This is to be his sympathy and empathy trip where actually meets a real live flood victim. His wife will once again accompany him. Last time he treated her really shabbily. He forced her to wear a black baseball cap that said in capital letters FLOTSAM. I think comparing her to debris floating in the water was incredibly ungentlemanly and I hope he doesn't do it again.