Stop politicizing the oversight job of the House.

[Baitball Blogger]

57. Obama was not perfect. He should have gone after Bush II and Cheney and that would have rectified

some very wrong-minded views that the Right held that incentivized their supporters. Failing to do so even plagued his own administration, not to mention that it set the stage for the back channeling bullshit that created a Trump Administration. In other words, Obama was not on the offensive, which is why, politically, he was rolled over on issues like appointing a judge to the Supreme Court, and why he didn't have a foundation established to flip-off Mitch McConnell when he wouldn't stand by his side to tell us about a Russian threat. That's how I see it.

And, I understand that part of the reason for the choices Obama made might have been due because he was not connecting directly with those of us who would have stood by his side on this issue. Jesus, we would have been fierce supporters. Obama was perfect in every other way.

However, the lesson that I see that we should heed from that time: If your will is not strong enough to fight for the justice that you believe is owed to you, don't expect others to view your decision to step away from the estocada as anything but a sign of weakness. No argument professing that you did it because of high ideals is going to make a difference to them, because you have already taken yourself out of the equation in their perceptions. They will judge you by your actions, not by the reasons you give them. And, they will assume that we really didn't think that what Trump did was bad, that he really could kill someone in Time's square and the only thing the Dems will do is a collective Scream. No big deal, from their point of view because they have their own mob to drown us out.

I have to laugh because I know the Dem leadership's next move. They are all going to ask us to start playing nice and help mend the divide in this country, because, lord, we haven't been slapped in the face enough by the Right. The Right are not concerned about civility, in case anyone has failed to notice. The leadership might say a thing or two about it, but we really should be paying attention to what they do, not what they say.