It's strictly business (AS USUAL)

 Lindsey Graham? I have questions
 "Senator, can you name the only nuclear power in the world who has actually used 'weapons of mass destruction?'
 "Senator, You are strangely silent on the issue of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Does it occur to you that this single tenet has made the world's good and bad actors (possessing nuclear weapons) think many times before using them? You seem unperturbed about Pakistan and North Korea having nukes. Iran is the one country that must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. Can you explain? If the aforementioned two have them, is your train still in the station?

"Senator? Who are Lee Bright and Nancy Mace?"

With "dark money" on display in staggering ways, wouldn't it be prudent to fund a PAC that will finance a movement to enable everybody who votes to have a valid ID Card. Hire precinct workers, drive them to the appropriate state office to apply, buy and get photographed. I hate the ugly uses of dark money. I don't hate the countervailing uses of dark money. Sometimes you have to stand up to the bully. The Supremes started this with Citizens United. This is the game.

With this in mind, and with the help and research of my pal Rachel Maddow and David Benen (Please check this out on Maddowblog) ugly dark money, purportedly provided, in part by Charles And David Koch has financed a 50 state apparatus of organizations to exact pledges from citizen not to sign up for the Affordable Care Act. Further, their paid minions are active in all 50 states, lobbying legislators to vote against Medicaid Expansion or the formation of Insurance Exchanges. These groups are under the name(s) of Foundation For Government Accountability. That morphs into the policy arm of this network. That is called the State Policy Network. They are organized and they are dangerous.\---calling themselves "state government think tanks."

These have been very tough times for the President. Many things he now suffers from are self inflicted, specifically, the ACA. And he deserves some of the shit he's getting. But if you check out the above story, it is really the result of a disciplined and determined effort by beyond mainstream opposition (with a little recent help from the SCOTUS) that was envisioned by the Richard Vigueries and the Paul Weyrichs of the world 30 years ago. On his first inauguration eve, the opposition met in secret and laid out a plan to delay, obstruct and defeat any measure Barack Obama wanted to pass as legislation. They declared war on his agenda. And this is one turf war that ain't going away. SO----
Two quotes come to mind:
"Ain't sayin- just sayin"
"Don't hate the player, hate the game."

I think I needed to get that off my chest.

But even though I'm presently a little pissed at the President, he has a great quote of his own:
"Don't boo, VOTE"

I was thinking about:
Charles Laughton
Elmore Leonard
Reni Santoni
Mordecai Brown
Andrew Jackson
Dick Gregory
Voltaire
John Lewis
Tom Waits
Were you?

Whistle and Hum:
Rolling Stones- Play with Fire
Ry Cooder- Down In Hollywood
Platters- Twilight Time
Toots and The Maytals- Rasta Man
Nat King Cole- Stardust
Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway- Where is the Love
Bryan Sutton- Swannanoa Tunnel

Be well. Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.