McCormick Should Mind Our P's & Q's

US Senator Dave McCormick(Pa), put out a video suggesting that New Yorkers upset with new mayor Mamdani should move to Pennsylvania. Thanks Dave, but there is enough in Washington and Pennsylvania to improve, that could better occupy your thoughts.

Perhaps you could put out a video explaining why our fleet is sailing to Venezuela. Perhaps you could video the bumper to bumper traffic on Rt. 22 through the Lehigh Valley.

Most important, perhaps the video could explain what you have been doing since you were elected?  Our other senator had been active in encouraging members of his party to end the shutdown. While you're worried aboutt New Yorkers who want to leave their homes because of Mamdani, maybe you should instead concern yourself with Pennsylvanians upset about Trump.

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Conservative Looking For A Home

I called myself a conservative looking for a home, after the Republican Party sold itself out to Trump and a win. While there is interest and speculation about who will be the Democratic candidate in 2028, you hear less of that with the Republicans. They're busy wondering what buildings and institutions Trump can put his name on.

I recently read that among the forerunners with the Republicans, besides Vance and Rubio, there is Donald Jr.. If the party goes with another Trump, I might as well be writing about professional wrestling. John Bolton recently told a group at Harvard that the difference between Trump 45 and 47, is that Trump picked only yes men and women for his second round. Bolton's too diplomatic to mention that beside the yes, they have no qualifications.

Considering that winning seems mission number one for both parties, perhaps the combination of diehard partisans, and Red Hat remnants, can pull it off, it's probably their best shot. While I'm still hoping for a principled conservative, I'm afraid that Trump has killed the Republican Party for years to come.

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Reagan delivering Tear Down This Wall speech in Berlin

A Mackenzie Postcard

I don't relish repeatedly taking Ryan Mackenzie to task, because come mid-terms, I'm hoping that he is my candidate of choice.

His spokesman was quoted in the Morning Call on Sunday saying, "He (Mackenzie) has been an independent voice in a broken Washington, D.C., who has always and will always stand up for the Lehigh Valley.”  I'm a candidate for hearing aids, but if Mackenzie has been an independent voice or standing up in Washington, I may have issues with my other senses as well.

The Morning Call may have chosen to print this election postcard patter, but as a local blogger I must remind the congressman that Lower Macungie, with a Republican majority, voted for Democratic commissioners for the first time since forever. It won't be enough to say you stand up, but you must actually do it.

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Trump Saying Let Them Eat Cake

From the newly gold gilt plated Oval Office, the everyman's president thinks people can pound cake, instead of food. By the time this edition hits the newsstands, I can't predict where the courts will stand. One new ruling supersedes the other as I type. But it certainly appears that food is being weaponized.

On the topic of weapons, there is Admiral and General insecurity at the Pentagon. Hegseth is making those decisions based on salutes and shoeshines. Kennedy tells us that we can use injections to lose weight, but not protect against disease.

Snapping back, even if SNAP payments are tied up in court appeals, his majesty could have read here on MOLOVINSKY that his MAGAs are reduced to hamburger, and that they stayed home for Tuesday's election. This week the meat packers will be pressured to lower prices, even if the USDA inspectors are laid off.

ADDENDUM: Sunday evening seven Democrats and an independent ended the shutdown stalemate in the Senate. It appears as if funding will be restored thru January. 

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At one time, Allentown had no less than five meat packers. Shown above, Molovinsky's packing house on Union Street.

MAGA HAT IS UNDER THE TRUCK SEAT

The Republicans learned the hard way that those red hats are under the truck seats, gathering dust. They were a Trump cult, not a political asset that would pay continuing dividends. Certainly Trump's Zsa Zsa Gabor life style doesn't fit in with their rifle rack. They have no need for ballrooms.

While Trump made a few $Billion on cryptocurrency in a few months, the former red hats are now eating hamburger, because steak is $34.95 lb..The local partisan party hacks are bewildered, but the still standing elected Republicans know which way to move, and it's toward the center. 

Trump's comment that they lost because he wasn't on the ballot further confirms the red hat meltdown. It also emphasizes that he is a Trump, not a Republican. At this point he could care less how the party fares. Adding to the Republican woe on Tuesday, were independents turning out for the Democrats, and Latinos coming back to the D house.

I'm still politically homeless. I'm hoping for some moderate Republicans to emerge, although I will be skeptical of rebranded, former Trump sycophants.

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Defeated By Trump

Trump closed the border on day one, and that was good, but expected. The problem for Republicans has been from day two foreward. Trump is, simply put, an ego maniac, who should be on a couch being treated, not gold plating the Oval Office. Most of us do not relate to the ballroom.

A reader accused me of TDS yesterday. Actually, everyone I vote for lost, but apparently the city, county and state has the condition, bigly. 

Shown above is Bob Smith and his daughter Jackie Rivera handing out Halloween candy. Although the most qualified candidate on the school board ballot, he lost his attempt at both a two and four year term. Jackie lost her bid for commissioner, to someone arrested for drug dealing. I believe they lost because of the R after their names.

If Ryan Mackenzie wants to keep in seat in 2026, he better start standing up today. Those red hats didn't show up yesterday, and they won't show up next November either.

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