Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
Today, snippets that seem relevant. There’s just too much to choose from to elaborate on one thing.
Phrase of the day…”To the best of my recollection.” 21st century political equivalent of a get out of jail free card.
Economy and job market booming. Inflation high. But that is so in most of the developed world. Overall the picture is better than not. A good thing.
Comment from the ghost of Republicans-past…”Our underlying philosophy,” said a Republican under Eisenhower, “is this: if a job has to be done to meet the needs of people, and no one else can do it, then it is a proper function of the federal government.” Americans had, “for the first time in our history, discovered and established the Authentic American Center in politics. This is not a Center in the European sense of an uneasy and precarious mid-point between large and powerful left-wing and right-wing elements of varying degrees of radicalism. It is a Center in the American sense of a common meeting-ground of the great majority of our people on our own issues, against a backdrop of our own history, our own current setting and our own responsibilities for the future.”
Still true. Listen to us.
Majority of House Republicans vote against making insulin more affordable. Why? “Most Republicans opposed the measure, saying it would give the government too much say in healthcare.”
Rich. Y’all certainly don’t mind government controlling healthcare when it involves women or LGBTQ needs.
Lastly, “Timothy Snyder, a leading authority on Central European history and the Holocaust … calls Putin's justification a variation of Hitler's Big Lie -- a Nazi propaganda technique that insists that if a political leader repeats a colossal untruth enough, people will eventually believe it.
"Adolf Hitler had some public relations advice: Tell a lie so big that people will not believe that you would ever try to deceive them on such a grand scale.”
I’ll leave it at that.
