Pete Stauber rings hollower each day. This is his smug post on Facebook.
I suspect that if his constituents were polled they would fall along similarly stark lines as being 6% satisfied with the 117th Congress that Pete serves in. Pete may have an approval rate of 60 percent of his Republican (now Trumplican) supporters but if his president goes to jail or looks close to deserving it will Pete be able to count on their approval of his crass brown nosing of the disgraceful ex Prez?
Can he count on them to come out to vote?
Biden barely has his fingers on the controls. Democrats in the House only have a narrow majority and in the Senate they have only an organizational hold. Senators Sinema and Manchin remain unwilling to give Biden what he has been looking for.
Biden is a Republican in the best sense of the word. He favors a nation with elected leaders not self appointed dictators. I listened to a fascinating podcast on one of Pete’s kind of leaders this afternoon – Julius Caesar.
My Brother Andy alerted me to McGann’s series of hour-long podcasts “real dictators” last year. Claudia and I have listened to them all and are waiting for the rest of this season’s casts which will presumably cover the second act of Adolph Hitler. His Julius Caesar podcast was the best and briefest explanation of Rome’s constant 400 year expansion I’ve ever heard.
Until Trump and his enablers like Stauber the United States never had to fear a dictator taking control. George Washington’s hero was not the power grabbing Caesar but the “Dictator” Cincinnatus” who shunned power. He was sought out by the Roman Senate in time of great peril for Rome. The Podcast describes how Cincinnatus was found behind a plow and given six months of total control over Rome to deal with an emergency. He needed only two weeks to save the Rome then turned his back on five more months of total power. Instead he returned to his farm and his plow. His selflessness was famous in history and gave the name to the Society of the Cincinnati for ex Revolutionary army officers. They revered Washington because he talked them out of making him a Dictator when the war was over and the Congress was still unable to pay the army.
Washington’s is an example Pete Stauber should pay attention to. Pete recently posted a call on Facebook for his followers to “take America back.” Sorry Mr. January 6th, your people already tried that. Reelecting you would simply invite another attempt to take America over again. There is a word for that kind of American.
One year in, Biden’s approval numbers mean that they are unhappy with all of Government including Stauber’s lack of cooperation. Of greater consequence to Pete is the 64% of Americans who are fearful for the survival of our Democracy. You Pete are their greatest fear! You are a sycophantic enabler of a lying hustler who has stabbed America in the back for most of his adult life.
Also on my Facebook page I found my appraisal of Biden in snow from one year ago post-attempted-coup:
