During our recent vacation trip to Michigan, my scant watching of TV did yield two commercials of a political nature.<\/p>\n
The first talked about “The Calley Plan,” a plan from candidate-for-governor and current Lt. Governor Brian Calley<\/a> to fix the roads and otherwise improve the State, all without raising taxes. It sounded a bit like a fantasy, but perhaps he has an unstated funding source: raising corporate taxes, perhaps? Or cutting expenditures of some other sort.<\/p>\n The second commercial featured an attack on Calley’s behalf on Bill Schuette<\/a>, current Michigan AG, one of his primary rivals. It boiled down to “He doesn’t love Trump enough.”<\/p>\n A depressing showing on Calley’s part. It lacked imagination, leadership, and showed a lack of confidence that he can win the nomination, much less the general election, on his own merits; instead, he implicitly swears fealty to a President who has been credibly accused of treason.<\/p>\n I wonder if an entire generation of Republican leaders will be lost to the Trump black hole of incompetence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During our recent vacation trip to Michigan, my scant watching of TV did yield two commercials of a political nature. The first talked about “The Calley Plan,” a plan from candidate-for-governor and current Lt. Governor Brian Calley to fix the roads and otherwise improve the State, all without raising taxes. \u2026 Continue reading