He's had a lot of practice dodging stuff.
I'm sure someone, somewhere is keeping score on how many times a midnight amendment has been added to "must-pass" legislation. I know it's always been like that, but the ballsiness of the practice in the current climate takes my breath away. Which is limited by an unpatriotic cold at the moment, so the Sudafed amendment caught my eye.
Regarding term limits for saying or doing something stupid, from way back near the top: I suspect they'd have trouble finding enough qualified people willing to serve on the Stupid Sub-committee, let alone serve as the chairman of Stupidity.
The Democratic Party has proven, to its own surprise, that it can raise a lot of money from a lot of people. Why not pump some of that money into local programs that need help? "The party of the people" should be out there working with them out in the rural and semi-rural counties, helping people help themselves. Or funding local cultural and educational groups, similar to the Grange and Chatauqua movements. And doing projects in the Projects, too.
And then when it's time to do campaign rallies - do them in Blue-tinged counties that are in Red states, too, and have them be work parties for some local project, where the candidate helps to plant a row for the hungry or put a new roof on the local senior center.
File under "laughably improbable" and now cross-reference under "stranger than fiction." There's a Ngaio Marsh mystery called "Tied Up In Tinsel" that's your basic "English cozy" or manor house mystery. This particular lonely manor house on the edge of Dartmoor features a household staff that consists of convicted (paroled) murderers. Naturally, after a bizarre murder, they're all under suspicion. I always thought it was really contrived and unrealistic. But now this fact about Ashcroft's days in the governor's mansion reminds me what a truly bizarre and frightening man he is to be running Justice.
And quick aside re: Mrs Ashcroft... yikes! Got cognitive dissonance much, ma'am?
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