The Schloss-Blog pretty much scrapped this week's planned post after being moved to tears by the class and dignity shown by Nancy Pelosi in her speech to the House, stepping down from Democratic caucus leadership.
She helped accomplish a lot, working with presidents from both parties. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Prescription medicine. Taxes. Inflation. Jobs.
She is a hall-of-famer in every sense of the word. And yet, irrational actors with ill intent attempted to kill her and might have if they'd encountered her on Jan. 6 or when a lone wolf broke into her house and attacked her husband.
A wing of the Capitol needs to be named in her honor.
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In her stead, Republicans, with control of the House, are promising investigations into everything from Hunter Biden to Afghanistan to the border to various cabinet members to Anthony Fauci, for God's sake.
Let them.
They investigated Hillary Clinton. Twice. Came up empty. Twice.
Their associates investigated Mueller. Came up empty.
The Jan. 6 committee investigated the insurrection.
And found everything that Republicans are denying happened.
This goes right into the Democratic strategy playbook for 2024. The American people spoke loud and clear on Nov. 8 - get something done for us, not for yourselves. With no policy initiatives and only vitriol for Democrats, you would think they'll pay the price for that in 2024.
You can only hope.
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Quick takes (the ones I wanted to write about at length before Pelosi's speech):
* Airplane seats have shrunk to 16-and-a-half inches wide from 18, CNN and Bloomberg are reporting. Prices for those seats have not shrunk.
* The last jobs report showed 261,000 added, not the 205,000 that had been estimated. Unemployment remains at 3.7%. Nice. But the tech sector (Meta, amazon, Twitter, et. al.) is laying people off like crazy. Perhaps the tech sector, during the pandemic, overestimated people remaining imprisoned at home and continuing to rely so heavily on them. Tik Tok, however, is supposedly scooping up many of the rest of the tech sector's newly unemployed. Oh, those sneaky Chinese.
* All those investigations Republicans in the House are promising, do they really think Democrats are going to show up unprepared? They'll bring wads of Trump administration orders and policies to these upcoming hearings. Good luck, Kevin McCarthy.
* You can feel the increased need for security at school campuses. After shootings at Virginia and Idaho and numerous grade school and high school shootings, I was challenged for admission at a school at which I have covered games many times. I've been wondering about my own safety at schools this season, more than ever before. You never know.
* Donald Trump, who still insists he won the 2020 election, is running again. But he can't - if he did win as he claims, he can't run for a third term.
* MAGAS defied tradition in this midterm election cycle - they lost. No Democratic incumbent in the Senate lost.
* Trump's candidacy announcement was so compelling that guests attempting to leave before he was done droning on about his usual complaints and they were bored to death were blocked from leaving before he concluded.
* Finally, got your Taylor Swift tickets? Shoulda' called me. She called with my tickets for wherever I wanted them along her tour. Too late now, and see you soon, Taylor. And you thought Bruce Springsteen tickets were expensive.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, taylor Swift.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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