Despite the lowest gas prices in years, the trade deficit is down, narcotics that kill millions of Americans are being stopped at sea, and crime is being addressed in the major cities (unless a mayor rejects it), there are some assholes still in Congress.
A runner-up award goes to Governor Pritzker in Illinois, a city known for its crime and murder rates. He refused help from Trump to clean up the mess that Chicago has been for decades. It’s as if he’s against helping the regular people, but then he’s a fat assed billionaire who doesn’t give a shit about anything but power.
Not to be outdone though, is this week’s winner, Al Green. He made an ass of himself getting thrown out of the State of the Union speech, and like Pritkzker, he’s only after making noise instead of helping his constituents.
He filed a bill for the impeachment of Trump, whose only real basis was that Al is an asshole. Dutifully, Congress, from both sides, shot it down. Even the democrats who publicly criticize Trump wouldn’t go for this.
So instead of trying to help Americans, he winds up being the Asshole of the week.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Yeah, few years ago (’bout 20, actually) a friend of mine from high school was havin a real bad time with her ex and their two grown kids.
I took her to dinner on her birthday, and while we ate I wrote her a li’l poem that apparently turned her life around. (My wife was outta town, but authorized the event)
After dinner I dropped her off at a local bar where a bunch of her friends had planned a surprise party evening for her.
She later remarried and when I met her husband, a retired Army guy, he told me I was not only HER savior but his as well, ‘cuz after her rebirth into the real world, she straightened HIM up and they are now happy as cold hogs in warm mud.
The poem is kinda personal, but here’s the final stanza, a summary of the rest . . . gives you an idea of the narrative’s message:
Some people do the right things for the right reasons; they are heroes.
Some people do the right things for the wrong reasons; they are dreamers.
Some people do the wrong things for the right reasons; they are crusaders.
Some people do the wrong things for the wrong reasons; they are assholes.
A pro pos for Green, idnit?
Oh, BTW, the place I took her to for dinner had a policy of your meal being free on your birthday, so I hadda pay only for mine — a really nice marinated and grilled chicken breast, drenched in gravy, on a bed of wild fried rice with veggies.
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