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The only benefit of disaster. It brings people together, in work and in sympathy. We surely saw it in Hurricane Harvey – to the max.  Let us hope Florida, with Hurricane Irma experiences the same human congeniality, compassion and collective effort.  Deference to government for all help is at best a poor selection.

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There is a great line from the movie Tremors that applies to Congress.  We see the hero (Kevin Bacon) tell the group, "We always have a plan.  That way we don't have to do anything right now."

In particular, Mitch McConnell loves more than anything else to make a carefully worded speech.  The plan.   Loves it.  This means, he doesn't have to do anything now.  And he doesn't! Leadership is more than merely signing off on documents coming to your desk.

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Most people facing a law suit wear a cloth suit. Moral: don’t wear a suit, or even have soot in your chimney.
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Have you noticed that insurance mortgage companies always promise to save you money.  Almost always the range is $500-$900, either per month or year.  Why's that?  Because less would be ignored and more would not be believed!

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Trump and Fracking

You might say the President is now into fracking – politically speaking.  He is pumping ideas and deals deep into the American infrastructure of political parties to expose or release votes to support a bounty of results.  It is unclear if anything coming from the ground at this point will fuel any long-term ends.  It is unclear, to listen to fracking deniers, if his efforts will cause political earthquakes. It is unclear if his party (nominally Republican) will be spurned into action.  Certainly, it is unclear if he will make any new friends. But something will indeed emerge from these efforts.  Hopefully, it will not be more gas. 
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