Politics

All was quiet on New Year's Day

After a fourteen month break it’s time to take a look back at the extraordinary change that’s happened over this time. My last words were an epitaph for the wasted and destructive years of the George W Bush regime and now he, his party, and especially his cronies of the Eastern Establishment Republicans, have been un-ceremoniously elbowed out of the public sphere in disgrace. And, with so many squandered opportunities wasted, good riddance!

A new man, with a new skin color for the White House, will take up residence in about 3 weeks and that’s a good thing. Much good may come from this, or he may turn out to be mediocre to poor but his starting team does look spectacularly superb and he’s disappointing all the right fringe groups so far. Read more...

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