Lex's event of the year

Were this some shabby operation like Time Magazine we would just conflate a man, men, a woman, women, women and men who make up an organization, things, events and everything else with a title “Person of the year” take two weeks off and be done with it.  Here at the Lex page we’re a bit more careful than Time.

The events in the running for the event of the year are:
The midterm election:  An epic azz woopin’  if ever there was one.  Sadly it wasn’t big enough to rid the RepubliRAT Party of its weak sister leadership in Caligula D.C.  One of the overlooked aspects of the win was the down ticket wins.  There now 23 states controlled by Republicans in the governor’s house and both state chambers.  Move to one.  There are only 7 states where Dopes exercise that kind of control.  Move way.

Scandal investigations: This non-event is in the running precisely because it is a non-event.  I’m not going to run down the myriad scandals plaguing this White House.  It does not matter.  Nothing The Empty Suit’s administration can do seems to rise to the level of “scandal” for the lapdog MSM.  Let’s look at just the top three, any one of which would have been front page news for months and been the lead on every nightly news cast until impeachment had forced a Republican from the White House.  Four dead in Benghazi a scandal?  No.  It wasn’t.  It was caused by a video.  Throw that guy in jail and move on please.  Besides, dude, that was, like, two years ago.  IRS a scandal?  No.  There’s not a smidgen of corruption at the country’s most hated agency.  Well then certainly the VA rises to level of “scandal” then?  No.  It doesn’t.  A score or more of old dead mostly white service men is not a scandal.  Nor is the fact that they died for nothing more than a few thousand bucks in bonus money for VA administrators.

Executive Amnesty:  The mauling of the US Constitution by supposed “constitutional scholar,” like the scandal investigations above, is in the running due to the brazenness of the move and the ho hum reaction to it by the MSM and the “loyal opposition.”  The RepubliRATs adopted their never ending strategy of “keeping their powder dry for the NEXT FIGHT.”  Like Robertscare the RATS are always railing against it but doing very little to repeal it or roll it back.  Amnesty is like Robertscare in another way, Americans do not like it.  Still the RAYS won’t fight.  They’ll raise money on it.  They’ll run against at election time.  They’ll make brave speeches against it.  In the end they are no better at dealing with it than have the Dopes have been at dealing with the plight of the black family over the past 50 years

Any of these stories plus stories like missing flight 370, the rise of ISIS, withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after what has been the bloodiest year of fighting there since the war began could go down as event of the year, if it were not for the phenomenon known as fracking. 

Fracking is the event of the year:  The oil boom on private and state owned lands in the west resurrected a US economy that The Empty Suit did his level best to destroy.  It held OPEC oil prices in check and then caused a steady decline in the price we paid at the pump.  As the industry grew, it put the fear of an energy independent America into OPEC which caused the per-barrel price of oil to steadily drop as OPEC manipulated the oil price low enough to make fracking unprofitable.  That move had the additional benefit of causing the bottom to fall out of the heavily oil dependent Russian economy.  Even though TES and Dopes oppose fracking, they take credit for the rising US economy that it inspired.  They also mistakenly (or not) claim credit for imposing sanctions which they claim are crippling the Russian economy.  Nothing TES and his band of azzclowns have done has had 1/10^th the effect on the Russian economy that the drop in oil prices has had.  Like a vain rooster who thinks his crowing caused the sun to rise, TES is crowing about how his policies have the US economy on the move while his sanctions are crippling Russia.  Fracking is responsible in large part for those events, and is therefore the event of the year.

Tomorrow Lex’s woman of the year.