David's Tangled Thoughts

I had a real long blog post on a news story coming out of my home state of Michigan. Two social conservative state representatives have been caught having an affair. In a bizarre twist, one of them, Todd Courser, decided to plant a false flag story in which he was caught having sex with a male prostitute. According to audio recording of a conversation between him and a staffer, he had hoped that this story would make the real scandal tame in comparison. I held off on publishing the post because the story kept evolving day by day. Now I'm just kind of sick of it and would rather just make a short little post about it now. State Representatives Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat are now under pressure to resign for using their offices to cover up their affair. They have both so far declined to do so. Aside from getting 2/3 of the house to vote to expel them, the only thing that I am aware that would work would be to recall them but by the time that process is complete, it will be time f

It was an interesting day in international politics today. In Australia, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, has resigned due to mounting pressure from an expenses scandal. Occasionally, I check into YouTube to watch Questions to the House. It's a lot nastier than the UK's Questions to the Prime Minister and it only got worse when I saw Speaker Bishop take the chair. I don't think that there could be any claim that she attempted to keep her position as partisanly neutral as possible. There is a series of YouTube videos by George Stenhouse that you should check out. In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had the Parliament dissolved. Campaigning begins for elections that will be held in October. The election cycles of both the UK and Canada have started and been completed in the time the US's Presidential Cycle has even begun. I wish ours were as short.