Tonight, Iowa Republicans will caucus to discuss, compare and contrast GOP contenders for the Presidential election ballot in November. Unlike voting regs in most states, to caucus you have to be present to vote. With Iowa under an oppressive cold ave, it will be interesting to learn the results and how strong was attendance.
Multiple court cases are moving, political maneuvering is intensifying, as is some discussion of actual policy considerations both inside the nation and all over the world. One wishes for more attention on fundamental policy considerations and internal problems as opposed to political games.
Of course, our governance structure invites political games. That's something we accept after two hundred plus years, but we could certainly benefit from greater attention to the internal problems the nation faces, instead of what seems to be an ever rising expenditure of funds and energy on politics as separate from governance.
Still, I continue to have faith in the essential goodness of most of our politicians and in their efforts to reverse the persistent downward trend of the political escalator.
May you all be as warm as necessary while this cold blanket over the beginnings of our national political season continues to obsess us.
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