Yes, indeed, the Senate SHOULD block these appoinments, not “could,” but will they?

To me that’s the $64 billion dollar question today.

I’ve been avoiding any comment until now, instead reading and listening to what others say, and mulling things over in my mind. So now I’m ready to give you my reasons for this catastrophe. And as a fallen-away Catholic who still thinks in trinities, I’m going to restrict myself to what I believe are the three principal reasons:

1. The inflation that occurred during Biden’s reign, especially the public perception of it and blaming Biden for why it happened, which reveals to me the lack of intelligence and critical thinking among the majority of Amerikans. A recent analysis by Peter Orzag (of Clinton’s Office of Managment & Budget) credited that inflationary surge to the pandemic and its impact on supply chains, which drove up the costs of goods at the very time people were cutting back on services (e.g., restaurants) and buying things like home excercise machines. Yes, the econimic stimuli helped, but they also helped avoid a serious recession, but few gave Biden credit for that. And another factor was the Russian invasion of Ukraine and ensuing cutoff of Russian oil and natural gas exports (esp. to Europe), which drove up the price of oil worldwide the following year. None of this can be blamed on Biden, but the dolts did.

2. What you CAN blame on Biden was his hanging on and trying to run for a second term at age 81 and then finally dropping out when his mental infirmities were obvious to all (except himself) and with only three months to go. At that point, it was much too late to hold a primary or open convention that could have determined a better alternative candidate (like Sherrod Brown or Gretchen Whitmer). The choice of Kamala Harris gave Democrats someone to rally around and avoid likely chaos, but it also saddled them with a nominee trying to carry Biden’s heavy baggage.

3. The underlying racism of a significant fraction of the Amerikan electorate — especially those with penises instead of brains — who simply could not stomach the thought of a dark-skinned woman of African and Asian extraction as their president. I’d guess that cost her 2-3% of the vote and more than that in southern states like Georgia and North Carolina.

Those are my three cents, probaly what they are worth!