Last week, Maine Republican Party chair Demi Kouzounas announced a special meeting for March 13 to ponder Senator Susan Collins’s vote to convict former president Donald Trump and consider “possible action from this committee.”
Margaret Chase Smith, we don’t need no stinkin’ declaration of conscience! As the chairman of a Republican Party committee in Pennsylvania said of Sen. Pat Toomey, “We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing… We sent him there to represent us.”
Well, friends and neighbors, how is the signup going for your COVID vaccination? The geezers among us, not mentioning any names here, are being identified as part of the problem, simply not computer literate enough to get themselves signed up. “Oh yeah?” say we geezers. Get a load of this.
Governor Janet Mills issued her first executive order on January 3, 2019, the day after she was inaugurated. It was An Order to Require the Expeditious Implementation of the MaineCare Expansion.
If you’ve been harboring the fond hope that the new year marked a change for the better, Waldo County Republicans will set you straight. They passed a resolution in December stating that Republicans Kevin Raye and Roger Katz “shall be censored and shall be prohibited/banned from running for any civil or public office as a committee member or official of the Maine Republican Party.”
So much for “Dirigo.” Instead of demonstrating how a legislative body can function well despite deep philosophical differences, it seems the Maine Legislature is striving to become Washington, D.C.’s mini-me.
National Football League wide receiver Irving Fryar came out of a rookie orientation with the following advice to his colleagues: “We’re going to have some idiots come out of this room. Those of you feeling good about yourselves, stop it. You ain’t did nothing yet.”
It seems futile to add to what has been said over the past week, but also impossible not to speak of it. Protesters are people who want change. Rioters are people who want disruption and destruction. Rioters, at the behest of the president, set out to seize the Capitol and demand the audit of certain elections. After violently attacking the heart of our democracy, did they really think the body politic would go along with their demands?
Did you notice? No one was talking about New Year’s resolutions this year. Almost a year into the pandemic we don’t have enough bandwidth to do anything more than try to keep our heads above water. Resolutions are cheesy anyway, and soon broken. Good riddance. There just might be something in the air that feels, …
Good-bye, 2020, and the horse you rode in on. Go, and take your grief and sorrow with you. Let our elders rest in peace, our little ones go back to school and our college students get on with beginning their adult lives. Let our seniors dare to set foot in a grocery store, our families …
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