The Great Realignment

Obama did bring change.

Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things

Senator Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, gets a salary of $193,400 from the U.S. taxpayer. But he fails to do his job. Consider the oath of office that McConnell, and every civil servant, takes:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Well, it seems McConnell fails to "faithfully discharge the duties of the office." Here are four notable cases.

-- you know, like George W. did. Here's what Barack Obama is doing now:

This news is breaking over at CNN as of late last night...

Beto O’Rourke set to hire ex-Obama aide Jen O’Malley Dillon to run campaign
CNN Wire
11:00 PM, Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Recently, Teodrose Fikre wrote a very interesting and insightful article about former President Barack Obama, titled, The First Bank President. Even without seeing Obama's picture at the top of the article, I knew that it was about Barack Obama.

As we all observe the government shutdown, Newsweek publishes this:

Deportations Under Trump Still Lag Far Behind Those Carried Out by the Obama Administration

Go figure.

-- read Chris Wright's recent essay on Counterpunch, The Stupefying Mediocrity of Barack Obama. Here I will give this piece a go-over, pointing out its highly amusing word choices. It's not as if Wright is wrong, or as if his politics were suspect, or anything like that.