Category: Culture
Garrison Keillor’s Keen Observation
I was late to appreciating the way Garrison Keillor wove words together drawing attention to the obvious, absurd, and common. He no longer does the radio show, but writes a newspaper column that is syndicated. I’m one of those that reads several papers, digital format, each day. I ran across this in our local paper this week. A paragraph and a link.
Trump is what he is, and God help us now
Garrison Keillor, Jan 26, 2017The question is: how cynical are we willing to be and for how long? How long will Senate Republicans wait until a few of them stand up to the man? Greatness is in the eye of the beholder. American self-respect is what is at stake here, ladies and gentlemen. The only good things to come out of that inauguration were the marches all over the country the day after, millions of people taking to the streets of their own free will, most of them women, packed in tight, lots of pink hats, lots of signage, earnest, vulgar, witty, a few brilliant (“Take your broken heart and make it art”), and all of it rather civil and good-humored. That’s the great America I grew up in. It’s still here. Click here to read the column.
Apparently, Obama the Reason for Division . . . Not
As I watched President Trump take the oath of office today I recall that many blame former President Obama for the division in this country. We now have our own oligarch. As I recall, Senator McConnell and other GOP leaders planned to obstruct and stand against anything that Obama wanted to do to help America evolve our economy and political system that benefits everyone. When you look at the electoral map you see the new confederacy. It is a long game they have played.
It is important to remember that it is the GOP that drove the division and the economic pain that many continue to feel in order to claim power in States and in the halls of Congress and now in the White House. Media Matters notes all this.
Fact: When Republican leadership adopted the radical position that they’d refuse to even hold hearings for Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee, the GOP systematically shred more than 100 years of protocol in the process. That’s what Obama faced for much of the last eight years, and the press’s messaging has helped Republicans every step of the way. Click here to read more.