On the road to elsewhere
“Else” has become the new governing pragmatic of America
It’s tough governing while looking over your shoulder. But this is where America is. Republicans are creating partisan laced-with-Qanon-juice nonsense-thinking that Trump will notice or not target them. Democrats are neglecting chunks of America and their own policy initiatives calculating that alienating Republicans will sink the Biden legislative agendas.
America is being driven by “else…” ‘Else I don’t get elected.’ ‘Else our legislation doesn’t get passed.’ Lindsey Graham self-appointed Cassandra of the disaffected GOP summed up his party’s mood:
“I would just say to my Republican colleagues: ‘Can we move forward without President Trump?’ The answer is no.”
On the other side of the aisle, the non sequitur, “Don’t let the ‘perfect’ be the enemy of the ‘good’ is roosting in Senators’ offices. Biden boy Senator Chris Coons is shuttling across corridors in the Hart Senate Office Building like he’s a Middle East diplomatic envoy. “Where’s Warren?” is the new Democratic bed-time story. And the Manchin-Sinema axis has become the Democrats’ “Maginot Line.”
A Special Grand Jury to investigate Trump and Trump’s Organization? That’s six months before court dismissals and appeals begin.
“Else” America is gingerly tiptoeing around a fear that Trump, Conspirator-in-Waiting, may not be indicted.
The “new” Justice Department is suppressing release of the former Justice Department’s instructions in defense of Trump’s obstruction of justice as revealed in the Mueller investigation:
“The decision to keep hiding that analysis (of Mueller’s position that no charge of conspiracy was viable) from public scrutiny puts the Biden administration in the politically awkward position of trying to cover up a record that would shed new light on an act by Mr. Barr that Democrats consider notorious. But it also enables the department to defend two institutional interests: its ability to keep internal legal analysis secret and the actions of career officials whom a judge accused of misleading the court.”
“Else” lose careers and momentum, ‘in what’ and ‘to where’ remain foggy.
Let’s pause and consider other roads.
Else.
May 26
