Politics is a little like Football

Who would have thought that I’d end up with “Conrad Dobler” and “President Trump “ in the same sentence?

Not me.

Regarding our illustrious Chief Executive and daily panic attacks-

I watch football and occasionally someone asks: “Why are there so many rules in Football?”

“Well, I explain…in the 60’s, 70’s and going forward, there were players who didn’t actually break the rules, they just bent them into a pretzel.

Players like:

Lyle Alzado, and Conrad Dobler

They were very dirty players, out to harm someone else.

So rules were invented for them.

This whitehouse has a great many important bureaus filled with temporary chairmen, director, etc., instead of a permanent one. You see the senate steps in when a permanent one is nominated, and they have the last say, not the President. So, utilizing a sort of work-around like this, this administration has obviated the people’s will by finding a way to make congress irrelevant.

Thus twisting the intent of our Founders into …a…pretzel.

Trump must simply be the Conrad Dobler of politics, and we have to learn from this new incursion into territory that may be wrong but it is not illegal.

Obviously after this…this occupation by something that feels foreign to me…after this is all over, the congress will need to put aside their worthless “gotcha attacks” on “the Other Guy” and write some new rules so “this” can’t happen again.

It’s a constant “Arm’s Race”…One party makes an advance, the other discerns a weakness and devises a strategy to overcome that advance. And so it goes. 2020 cant “go” fast enough…

About Zaslow Crane

Zaslow Crane wrote his first Science fiction story when he was 11 This was after an uncle had given him a Charmin case full of sci fi paperbacks- all the old masters: A.E.Van Vogt, Cordwainer Smith, Heinlen, Bradbury, and dozens more. After that, he never looked back. Zaslow Crane has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers over many years, and has been a contributing editor for a national magazine. He has been published a couple hundred times for non fiction. Regarding fiction, he writes primarily SciFi and was one of the creative talents behind Smoke and Mirrors, a parsec nominated podcast that "re-imagined" the Twilight Zone and, which ran for 2 1/2 years. He has written over two hundred short stories, 7 or 8 novellas and two novels, one of which "explains" a great many advancements in human technology. He likes mindless sort of work, because it frees that other part of his brain to work on story ideas, so if you see him, say, digging a ditch, you'll know that he’s really writing. He lives in a tiny house on a hill in Central California. His home overlooks the ocean - IF you're willing to stand on tip toes and crane your neck. Just a bit.