Something to Know - 19 October

1.  Now that Congress has settled down for a brief period, much of the buzz has been taken up by speculation as to what the Tea Baggers will be up to and how they will conjure up new strategies to disrupt the next round.  Enough, I say !!.  Instead, let us focus on how Obama will be able to apply the screws to to the schism that exists in the Republican Party.  By continuing to marginalize the GOP, through a very important issue for both parties (Immigration Reform), the president can pull off another bipartisan win:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/opinion/blow-the-presidents-pivot.html?emc=eta1

2.  Texas.  It sure has a collection of wing-nuts in high office.  Gail Collins takes you away on the landscape of the elected goofies of the GeeOpie in the Lone Star State.  Goofyland with Spurs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/opinion/collins-a-ted-cruz-on-every-corner.html?emc=eta1&_r=0&pagewanted=print

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Juan

 
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
-- Archibald MacLeish