The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

So, I heard the GOP held a couple of debates last night. Okay, I admit I watched them. It was the most I had watched Fox News in, well, forever - and yes, I mean that literally, for as long as I've been living anyway. Here's what I learned from the two debates. In the first debate, the seven second-tier candidates discussed matters for an hour, and while most people believe Carly Fiorina was the standout from the debate, my feeling of it was, "None of them have a serious chance of becoming the party's nominee." The questions felt lazy, as did many of the responses, and it had the feel of a bunch of 5-6 teams (in college football) attempting to win #6 just to qualify for a bowl game. Fiorina may have outshined the other six candidates, but in all reality, the only thing it did for her was to perhaps make the eventual nominee think about her as his running mate. Rick Perry showcased he's backtracked on his being able to count to two, as when asked to describe ...

Following a showdown like the one we just experienced through the government shutdown, talking heads on the cable news and talk radio like to the play the who-won-and-who-lost game, because I guess everything is a competition in this country and it allows them to fill air-time. Humorously enough, though, while without question, it was the American people who lost more than anyone during this shutdown, amazingly, many in the Tea Party feel they won. So, let me get this straight. The Tea Party shutdown the federal government, cost this country $24 billion, cost many people their jobs, and brought this nation to the brink of an economic-apocalypse, as multiple economists and investors labeled it, yet they somehow came out of this thing smelling like roses? Okay... Not only that, but according to polls, the American people were not at all happy with the shutdown, blamed the House Republicans (led by the Tea Party) more than anyone else, were not in favor of defunding Obamacare which th...