WE DIDN'T SEND HIM THERE TO VOTE HIS CONSCIENCE

Apparently, they sent him there to do anything Trump asked. The title is a semi exact quote from a Republican official in Pnnylvania. He was reacting to Senator Toomey's vote to convict Trump. In general, Toomey is not one of those communists trying to take over the country. By and large, he is a conservative Republican. While Toomey did vote to convict, he had a major advantage. He had already decided to retire and was not going to run in 2022. So the Trumpsters did not scare him. Many other Republican state committees are censuring their Representatives and Senators for voting the "wrong" way. Rep. Adam Kinzinger's family wrote vulgar angry letters essntially disowning him. Worse, they got them published. Moving on. --JM wrote to tell me what a "joyous moment" it was to see Kamala laugh so often. After so much darkness emasnating from the White House. --BTW, anybody hear from Stephen Miller? --The Republicans basically chose Greene over Cheyney. Cheyney being another one of those Commies who spoke against Trump. --Anyone else bothered by the length of Rachel's intros? Or the length of her questions? She just goes on and on sometimes. --Bruce has had a bad few weeks. Got trashed for being in a Super Bowl ad for Jeep--which I kinda liked. But then we later learned he got arrested for DWI. Oh my. --Rand Paul was very busy doing work while the House managers presented their case. And Hawley was doing paperwork in the gallery. --Ted Cruz needs to shut up along with Ron Johnson and Marco. Step aside and grow a pair. All excited about 2022,they are. --Amanda Gorman's poem diuring the Super Bowl was wonderful. I love how she recites and uses her hands as part of the presentation. --Watched "One Night in Miami". The guy playing Clay/Ali was so so good. Meanwhile, I grew up there but due to segregation, that could have been set on Mars for all I knew about that part of the city. --Marilyn Stasio has been my reviewer of choice for a long time. Every 2 weeks or so, she reviewed mystery novels in the NYT book review. I learned about Rankin, Adler-Olsen, French, and many others from her columns. She is no longer a regular reviewer and will appear every so often. Hope the new person is as good. I will miss Marilyn. Next to the wedding announcement writers, she was my most favoirite Sunday writer. --A year ago I celebrated a birthday by taking out three of my favorite relatives for dinner. That was the last time I have eaten inside a restaurant. It means that not only am I coming up on another birthday, it also means we have been "inside" for a bit more than a year. It is getting to be grueling and yet I know I have it better than many many others. --I have yet to be vaccinated and l refuse to cheat. I should be able to get my first shot next week. --For a manager with a serious background in Health Care, Charley Baker really screwed up the vaccine distribution process. I had come to like the guy a lot and then this mess. --Someone else I liked is our about to be Secretary of Labor--aka Marty the Mayor of Boston. He totally blew the process of replacing the retiring Police Chief. Almost immediately, the new guy was found to have been charged with dom4estic abuse a bunch of years ago. Marty picked a good time to leave town. --If anyone ever wanted to appoint me to a big position that required deep back ground checks, I would have never been hired. Lots of stuff has been swept under my carpet. A SPORTS NOTE I knew it. I warned all of you about Pedey not being a HOF worthy second baseman. Sure enough, the following week the talking heads and other sports media types started advocating for him. No fucking way. Shalom. Shalom