827. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - no, Lauren, Junior, Ted, and Andrew

Last week was a series of misfires for at least four American politicians. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, R-CO3, and a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, featured herself posing in front of a small arsenal of guns, was quoted saying we weren't "meant to rewrite parts of the Constitution" somehow forgetting the Second Amendment is, in fact, an amendment - a rewrite.

Then there's Donald Trump, Jr., who, while trying to defend one Texas politician during the Texas ice storm and energy debacle, misidentified another, implying the governor of Texas, Greg Abbot, is a Democrat. Rest assured, Junior, he isn't and we wouldn't have the incompetent fool on our side. Maybe Junior needs to study up on his list of governors. Presently among America's governors, among the states 23 are Democrats and 27 are Republicans. Among the territories, three are Democrats and one is a Republican. The Puerto Rican governor's party, while not a part of the Democratic Party, is affiliated with it.

The Texas politician Junior was trying to defend was the Canadian Cuban Senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz, who can now add Cancun to the list of descriptors ahead of his name. While Texas was frozen due to the ineptitude of its political system with regard to energy regulation, frozen to the point of people dying, Ted and his family decided to skip town and cross the border (and then some) for some "fiesta y siesta" in sunny Cancun, Mexico. The escapade was quickly brought to the attention of most of America and, with the exception of diehard Trumpers, frowned upon. Cruz has changed the details of his trip twice but is making up for it with a lengthy set of photo ops of him carrying bottles of water and boxes of sandwiches in well-staged events across Texas, coming to the rescue of the people he was elected to serve, long after President Biden had declared an Emergency at the request of Governor Abbott, and long after rescue and support efforts were well underway by his 2018 opponent, Beto O'Rourke, as well as over $4M of support being raised by Congresswoman AOC, of The Bronx, NY, while he was south of the border. Cruz is a very poor excuse of a public servant.

Finally, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been one of the Democratic darlings of the Covid-19 pandemic, has lost his lustre over allegations concerning both the lack of proper reporting of nursing home deaths during the pandemic and some systemic racism in the vaccine delivery since vaccinations have begun. Both the FBI and the U. S. Attorney's Office are reportedly looking in on Cuomo's actions. People have forgotten that Cuomo, who most assuredly won on his father's name, came under attack in his 2018 Primary from actress and activist Cynthia Nixon as being the "Corporate Candidate." In a 09/10/2018 post on my page, just ahead of the Primary, I mentioned that while I didn't expect Nixon to win, that she was hoping to bring out new voters, voters she had been appealing to from the Left side of the Democratic Party.

Let's hope this week is better for everyone.

© Jeff Noble, Louisville, Kentucky, February 21, 2021.