SENATOR JOHN THUNE, AND EMPTY SUIT

Tall, well-dressed, good-looking Senator John Thune was a guest on +Morning Joe (MSNBC). I tuned into the show to get my daily dose of right wing spin. Usually the program is built around innuendos and miss statements and rarely outright lies like Fox news, which make Joe and Mika a tolerable presence. This morning was interesting for a different reason. The topic was Obamacare and supposedly centered on the Presidents determination to withhold for a year, the requirements of certain small businesses to pay for employee insurance: a big news item. I listened carefully to the Senator; he talked and talked but did not say one thing. It was an adroit display of an empty suit.

The Republican National Committee elected +John Thune. The people elected him on one issue, which was the closure of a gigantic air force base in his State—jobs, jobs, jobs. He beat Senator +SWNator jTom Daschle. President George W. Bush formed a committee on closing military facilities around the Nation. As with most of Bush’s political maneuvering, it was “bipartisan” which in terms of the GOP meant they controlled it with an iron fist. Daschle was Democratic Senate Majority leader at the time and therefore was a prime target—as usual; the Republicans always go for the jugular vain, which in this case was a Democratic leader. The message to the voters to South Dakota voters was clear; if you vote for Daschle, you will lose the military base that is your jobs and if you vote for Thune, you will have your jobs.  The point is that the people elected a “tall, well-dressed, good-looking Senator John Thune” based on a high-level swindle. Thune is a graduate of Biola University, which is a private evangelical Christian liberal arts university located in California. That means beyond “God is great and God is good”, he was not educated.  He did go on to a MBA program where he learned the bottom line on the balance sheet is God and morality is for other people. No wonder he could talk for so long this morning and say nothing—absolutely nothing; an empty suit.  

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