I Say “The Yea” To Two Women, and to the Kentucky Governor and Legislature

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back in the 1990s my best friend (deceased) from law school had predicted great things for Kamala Harris — including someday being elected at the top of the ticket. At the time Ms. Harris was working in a District Attorney’s office in California.I can tell you that when Biden-Harris won the election, thrills and goosebumps were serious, and I’m pretty sure I could hear my old friend laughing and applauding. So I say The Yea to those two strong, admirable women!I saw the GOP rebuttal to the Biden speech by Sen. Tim Scott. I don’t what happened to Sen. Scott, but he is in danger of becoming a caricature — or worse, a token. Apart from many of his facts being misleading or wrong on being <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/tim-scott-joint-address-response-fact-check/index.html">fact-checked,</a> it really boggles the mind when he claims that Biden and the Democratic party are pulling the US apart. That’s what is called projecting, since Trump and his party and supporters were — and remain — the real champions of divisiveness.Anyone who was paying attention for the last 4 years, and parti

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cularly on January 6th, knows whence comes the pulling apart of the US. After all those years of Trumpism — which continues to play an out-sized role — Biden and the Democrats, only in power a few months, can hardly be the cause of the division in this country.This article sat in draft form since early April, and was originally only about a voting access bill in Kentucky. In a display of bipartisanship very rare these days, a Democratic Governor and a Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill expanding voting access. According to an <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/546965-kentucky-governor-signs-bill-to-expand-voting-access">article</a> in The Hill, at the time this was the only bill expanding voting access in GOP-controlled states. So I say The Yea to Gov. Beshear and the Kentucky Legislature!I’ll bet Mitch McConnell about had a coronary over that one. Come to think about it, I imagine there are lots of Republicans who are unhappy with that, since GOP-controlled legislatures are introducing and passing bills designed to do the opposite in many other states.</article></body>

History made (again) by Harris and Pelosi; and a bipartisan act for We the People

On Wednesday, April 28th, we had another historical first in the country, live and in color. America’s first female Speaker of the House (twice) was joined on the dais of the House chamber by America’s first female Vice President, for President Biden’s first address to a Joint Session of Congress. It was a striking moment, and I say The Yea!

I admit to a little thrill, and some goosebumps right at the moment the VP joined the Speaker. Almost as much of a thrill I got when Kamala Harris was elected. I’ve told a longer version of the story in my very first Medium article, but way back in the 1990s my best friend (deceased) from law school had predicted great things for Kamala Harris — including someday being elected at the top of the ticket. At the time Ms. Harris was working in a District Attorney’s office in California.

I can tell you that when Biden-Harris won the election, thrills and goosebumps were serious, and I’m pretty sure I could hear my old friend laughing and applauding. So I say The Yea to those two strong, admirable women!

I saw the GOP rebuttal to the Biden speech by Sen. Tim Scott. I don’t what happened to Sen. Scott, but he is in danger of becoming a caricature — or worse, a token. Apart from many of his facts being misleading or wrong on being fact-checked, it really boggles the mind when he claims that Biden and the Democratic party are pulling the US apart. That’s what is called projecting, since Trump and his party and supporters were — and remain — the real champions of divisiveness.

Anyone who was paying attention for the last 4 years, and particularly on January 6th, knows whence comes the pulling apart of the US. After all those years of Trumpism — which continues to play an out-sized role — Biden and the Democrats, only in power a few months, can hardly be the cause of the division in this country.

This article sat in draft form since early April, and was originally only about a voting access bill in Kentucky. In a display of bipartisanship very rare these days, a Democratic Governor and a Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill expanding voting access. According to an article in The Hill, at the time this was the only bill expanding voting access in GOP-controlled states. So I say The Yea to Gov. Beshear and the Kentucky Legislature!

I’ll bet Mitch McConnell about had a coronary over that one. Come to think about it, I imagine there are lots of Republicans who are unhappy with that, since GOP-controlled legislatures are introducing and passing bills designed to do the opposite in many other states.