Potpourri Sept 11^th

There is no new right wing outrage to contest today, although I’m sure there soon will be. Kim Davis is out of jail and out of the limelight until she goes back to work. Once back in the courthouse she’ll find something that will restore her appeal to the cameras. Let’s face it she has yet to be interviewed by Megyn Kelly of Fox News.

 

Shifting gears…the committee investigating the affair between the two very socially conservative freshman Republican legislators in Michigan, Cindy Gamrat and Tod Courser, have voted to expel them both. Courser resigned just before the critical vote. Gamrat and Courser shared an office and were apparently having an affair which was not a well-kept secret.  When major leakage about the affair began Courser claimed he was being blackmailed and concocted a fake message about a homosexual liaison to throw off suspicion. He thought that if he admitted to a homosexual affair no one would believe he was having a heterosexual affair. When his staffer refused to send the fake document Courser fired him. Eventually, after much politicking the required two-thirds votes for expulsion were obtained and now I suppose the Republicans feel cleansed.

 

Bobby Jindal, in what may be a dying gasp, has launched an all-out attack on Donald Trump. The details of the attack are not really relevant but perhaps Jindal hopes Trump’s well known propensity to over-react will get him some badly needed publicity. He only makes the afternoon junior debate on Sept. 16; his polling is firmly stuck at 1 to 2 percent. At this point he might be seen as so irrelevant that Trump will ignore him and that would be the ultimate crusher. Jindal may soon follow Governor Rick Perry and get out of the competition altogether.

That’s all folks! None of these candidates, or the right wing columnists I can normally count on, has given me any ammunition today. Tomorrow will be better or I’ll be reduced to telling stories like this: There is a true story about the marriage license clerk in a western state who issued a marriage license to a gay couple. There was great hue and cry about this as you would expect. Two days later a cowboy showed up with his horse and wanted a marriage license for himself and his horse. The clerk, all seriousness, asked the cowboy how old he was, 25 said the cowboy. How old is your horse asked the clerk, 8 years old said the cowboy. I’m sorry, said the clerk, your horse is too young.