Incompetence

So, the Iowa caucuses were bolloxed up by a computer system snafu. Suddenly, this is mismanagement by the Democrats?

Hardly. Our 2016 presidential election was hacked by Russia. Computer systems were at the center of the mess. Both Russia and America were not blamed. Neither were the parties. But boy oh boy, the US Constitution took a drubbing, as did the Electoral College, and people lined up on either side of the issue dependent solely on who they wanted to win.


So now, the Iowa mess is a party thing?  I don’t think so. And saying it is one way or the other is not a factually based, supportable position. Knee jerk reactions usually aren’t fact based.


Another example: A county government in the role of an agency serving low income senior citizens, realizes a couple has been denied their ability to have eye exams and upgraded lens prescriptions. Due to an act of criminal violence on top of poverty, the couple has no glasses. The agency decided to provide up to $350 of expense to cover the cost of two eye exams, two sets of lenses, and two eyeglass frames. The only requirement was to work through Perle Vision and make an appointment for the exams. They were told to bring the paper work granting this benefit with you.


They did. I drove them. The clerk didn’t understand. Anything. Kept insisting there was a co-pay required despite paperwork claiming otherwise. So, she called the county. They couldn’t match the paperwork with the beneficiaries sitting before the clerk. We don’t know if the clerk even called the correct agency phone number.


So, we realized we were caught in an endless cycle of incompetence, and left the store.


On the way home, we stopped at a Walgreens to purchase a newspaper. The cashier processed the debit card four times, thinking each time the transaction was not taking. The customer said no; reject the transaction and back it all out. She wouldn’t. So the manager was called. He promptly backed out all four transactions and then correctly processed the debit card correctly. Clerical incompetence once again.


We have a constitution that clearly states the definition and terms of presidential impeachment. It even spells out the process. Cooperation would take it the rest of the way home. But no; politics reared its ugly head and republicans refused to cooperate, sat on all the subpoenas for testimony and documents, then complained that the charges were not well-enough documented. They refused to call witnesses for clarification, instead claimed the whole process was a hoax. A process defined and provided by the constitution. Guess they refuse to support the constitution? In spite of their oath of office?


Now, is this willful criminality on the part of the Senate, or incompetence? Or both?


Incompetence to be sure, but that is too nice a name for what the Senate has perpetrated on the American people.


Just because the sitting president calls it a hoax doesn’t make it so. Last time I checked, facts were facts and stood on their own authority.


Incompetent representatives. Playacting as leaders. As far as I can tell, these people could not lead their way out of a paper sack. That’s plain pitiful.


We are in deep trouble, America. Wake up and see the reality of our situation.


February 7, 2020