"another one bites the dust"

Another one bites the dust

Auf weidersehen

Au revoir

Adios amigo

Another one bites the dust

Yep Folks good ole Governor Walker has suspended his campaign. So the infamous Queen Song begins its revolution around the turntable over and over again

And another one bites the dust, and another one gone and another one gone another one bites the dust.

And this will definitely not be the last before February and Iowa.

He lashed out at Trump of course, even trying to get others to suspend their campaign so the “conservatives” could rally around someone to win the election. Or the Koch Brothers got him to make a feeble attempt to find a way to lessen the impact of Mr. Trump. One of the many attempts to come of the establishment to find a way to rid themselves of the virus now called Trump.

Honestly though I think he really never had any traction and when he started waffling more than Waffle House has waffles his horse was saddled to ride off into the sunset.

Earlier in the day when I first read the news that Mr. Walker was out, there were many thoughts rambling through my head.  Sometimes you have to wonder what is going on. Sometimes I think the Republicans are so clueless they are driving the country more and more to the left by their own incompetence. Other times I wonder if it isn’t a plan by a certain group of industrialists etc to let the country become run by a large federal bureaucracy so when they do pull the trigger everyone is already use to the government being in charge of their daily lives, no one notices there is no more United States of America lead by constitutional government. It is too hard to fathom a large organization being this dysfunctional and still existing year after year.

And of course real practical governance is left by the curb over and over again. I still hope one day the moderate democrats, moderate and conservative independents, the practical conservatives and a scattering of everyone else with common sense realizes things need to change to save our constitution. Everyone get together to work for practical policies to reduce the burdensome size of our government; find ways to actually reduce the budget, debt, and overbearing influence in our daily lives; improve education at all levels from K-12 to the universities and from the local, state and national level to define what is a good education including reading and writing well. This and more, but keep the hot bed social issues out of the platform so we can do the basics of governance and let a better educated society work on the rest as time goes on. Yes we need some policies such as making practical decisions about immigration, understanding what belongs to state governance and what to national, hard decisions about what to do for the mentally ill, etc, but these would originally fall under focusing on deciding what we need, not what raises the blood pressure of the electorate to get votes out. Boggles my mind why the vast majority of this country lets all the clowns in Washington and their purse strings get away with what they do.

Anyway Governor Walker will go back to Wisconsin and will try to salvage his political career there or he may fade away once this term ends and the wonderful people that love those Packers decide to move on from him. Time will only tell.

Definitely I will be playing a few more verses of Queen on the turntable of this blog before we get to February. I do have to admit I am a bit more fearful in my old age as the whole of the original lyrics are probably not best to be referencing about politicians in any light. I definitely wouldn’t want anyone to misconstrue a love for how the chorus fits the situation and nothing else.

And speaking of the mentally ill,,,, I hate the term compassionate conservative, yet at times it would behoove us to work on practical solutions instead of leaving gaping holes in how we treat the very misunderstood groups of illnesses and such called mental illness. I believe in individual rights, but no one’s individual situation should supersede others just because they need help. People who need help should be allowed to get it and for people who deny they need help their families and loved ones should be able to get it for them. You have to prove it yes, but we need more in place to help families of distressed individuals. This is a situation that is an indirect part of my day, but every now and then (including today) I hear stories that fall under the “you got to be kidding me” category. I may move to a different role at work soon, but I will still hold these opinions.