Why not Oprah? Lots of reasons, but three of them are named Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and Jenny McCarthy. Of all the many reasons to oppose such an idea, her ready embrace of a parade of charlatans is the one that perhaps should give us the most pause.
Republicans don’t have the luxury of looking ahead to 2020. They’re more worried about the midterms, and what they see has them bailing on the House of Representatives at a record pace. Yesterday nother vulnerable California rep bowed out, and the GOP is finding it difficult to recruit candidates in places like New York, where nobody wants to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Don’t worry, though, Republicans — a hero is on the horizon! That’s right, disgraced former sheriff Joe Arpaio has taken the hat off his 85-year-old, empty head and thrown it into the ring to become the next senator from Arizona. How this will play in a race where the frontrunner is warning supporters of the threat of chemtrails should make for a good episode of “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”
What is it with the offspring of would-be dictators? Why are they so incompetent? The latest example comes to us from Israel, when Bejamin Netanyahu’s son drunkenly spilled the beans on his father’s corruption. In vino veritas, as they say.
The government Netanyahu leads keeps demonstrating why a theocracy is a recipe for authoritarian government, no matter which “god” is being served: Israel has now blacklisted the Quakers, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 for helping Jewish war refugees, because the Friends won’t stand for Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in their midst. The bullied almost always grow up to be bulliers, don’t they?