Gridlock?

Gridlock......  That has, in politics and government, become somewhat of a four-letter word.  But, to me, gridlock might often be a preferable situation/condition in Washington, Lansing, and other places.  There are lots of things I wish Congress and the whole federal government hadn't enacted.  Of course, it's well known I am not at all in favor of Obamacare.  Now, I know it passed without a single Republican vote (in the Senate?), but I think the country would have been far better off today without the monstrosity.  (If you favor Obamacare, don't be afraid to send me lots of money to help pay for the thousands of extra dollars we've had to pay for our health insurance, for worse coverage.  Gee, you mean Obama lied?  No no.  "But Bush lied......"  I keep forgetting.

I remember a Wall Street Journal editorial, although I forget the legislation being considered, urging Congress, "Don't do something.  Just stand there."  That, of course, is a take-off on "Don't just stand there.  Do something."  For that matter, the state legislature could use the same advice.

I read today that the black museum at the Smithsonian has no reference to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas other than he was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill.  (And, from a couple of books I've read, the whole episode was just was Thomas called it, "a high-tech lynching.")  Isn't that pathetic!  The nation's museum doesn't have a display, or anything!, for the second black Supreme.  I wonder if it has anything to do with Thomas' conservative views.  Nah, that couldn't be it, could it?

I saw a third Clinton sign today, "Hillary for Jail, 2016."  I had seen the same sign some weeks ago on a different lawn, but it was replaced by a Trump sign.  The Trump signs are going up like mushrooms after several days of rain around here.  That's why I think the election will be far closer than many think.  Could Trump win?  Isn't that frightening?  But Clinton winning is also frightening......

A New York university professor whose model has accurately predicted every Presidential election since 1912, with the exception of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign in '60, gives Trump an 87% chance of winning.  He's even bet on it.  Hmmm......  Investor's Business Daily released a poll with Trump ahead by 2%.  With the proliferation of signs......

Yet the conspiracists are out.  One is claiming a deal was made, the fix is in, after a summer '15 meeting between Bill Clinton and Trump, just before Trump announced his Republican candidacy and after Trump contributions to Clinton's fund and his support for her run for the Senate and Presidency earlier.  So, is the fix in?  Is Trump in this to ensure a Clinton victory?  B. Clinton must be astute enough to know Hillary can't win on her own.  Hmmm......

I received an e-mail from my alma mater, Amherst College, urging us "Let's come together to choose a new mascot."  Some might remember last year the movement at the school to remove the former mascot/nickname "Lord Jeffs," as in Lord Jeffery Amherst.  Students, back by the faculty and the administration, succeeded in the removal, based on some very specious reasons, a lack of logic and scholarship I found distressing at a college like Amherst.  So, now alumni are being asked to "come together......"  We/I have been given the chance of offering "a new mascot."  I thought, "Hey, what about 'Lord Jeffs?'"  I sent this, a request for my suggestion and my suggestion, around to my Amherst teammates and to a couple of the class list serves. They whole-heartedly endorsed my suggestion.  I just wonder if they are trying to get me in trouble!