Sometimes I think status
quo is Latin for the mess we’re in.  It’s being reported that the undeterred party
of “No” aka the GOP has learned nothing from the recent election.  The sour senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, is sounding just
as intransigent as before.  John Boehner
is still leading from behind.  The
speakers for the so-called Tea Party are still as shrill and unrealistic as
ever. 

It seems incredible to me that Mitt Romney actually tallied
over 57 million votes, only 3 million less than President Obama, until I
remember that this is the same country of voters who twice put George W. Bush into the White House.  Poor Obama came into office at a terrible
time (that is, post-Bush) and has had to suffer the Republicans claiming that
he’s not cleaned up their mess quickly enough.  Politics is far and away the dirtiest word in the language!

My guess is that if the Republicans don’t figure out that
they need to significantly modify their persona,
they will soon be persona non grata.   There’s
some Latin for you.  Perhaps another term
for it would be dead in the water.  It won’t be long before they go the way of
their predecessors, the Whigs, and the aptly named Know Nothings. 

The times, they are a’changing, but Bob Dylan is 70 years old
now and the transformative time of the Sixties was nothing compared to what’s
coming.