It’s still warm, 90s lately, and some leaves are starting to fall. But we are reminded of a rolling snowball as we watch the developments in Washington. We seldom have observations about the national scene, but we have lived long and seen much in state and national politics. And we know that once a snowball starts rolling, it gets bigger and bigger and it starts going faster and faster.
A friend of mine once advised a roomful of public officials, “It is better to admit you have a skeleton in the closet than to try to bury a body. A skeleton doesn’t stink as much as a body when it’s dug up.”
That’s not an exact quote but it catches the idea.
The problem we have seen in politics is that the tendency is to try to heap more dirt onto the grave. And in heaping more dirt on the grave, the person under scrutiny is only digging the hole deeper.
Richard Nixon, Bob Griffin, Rod Blagojevich, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, Tom Pendergrast and insurance director R. Emmett O’Malley, Eric Greitens, and now, Donald Trump. And there are a lot more.
We don’t know what the case will be against President Trump or whether it is a sustainable one meriting an impeachment action by the House. But it just feels as if there’s a snowball starting to roll. And past experience tells us snowballs don’t stop until somebody is swept away.
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Nancy and I helped some of our church friends work on a Habitat For Humanity project backed by another church last week. After several hours of standing, carrying, holding, and scraping, we went home and promptly stiffened up as we recovered in our recliner chairs for a short time. As I got up, I dropped the TV remote and I tried to pick it up. I found myself wishing I had one of those button things people wear around their necks. Except mine would be wired backwards so that the emergency responders would hear me say, “Help, I’m up but I can’t get down!”
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Cardinals are playing in October. Milwaukee got knocked out early. The only thing better would have been if it had been the Cubs.
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And what in the world is it doing being hockey season already?
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