July 14, 2022
Midterms 2022: Republicans, don't get cocky
By Bill Hansmann
The expression for which he is famous — "If anything can possibly go wrong, it will go wrong" — was around long before Colonel Edward A. Murphy gained fame by stating that dictum after the sensors on a U.S. Air Force test crash vehicle he was monitoring failed to provide useful data. Murphy's Law has remained a cautionary tale for all forms of human endeavor. It is only barely less certain than the law of gravity. While it is a given that what goes up must come down, it is only slightly less true that things will inevitably go wrong and muddy up what was seen as a sure outcome for any plan. The "law" applies to politics as well.
Republicans have anxiously awaited the 2022 midterm elections, believing that recapturing the House of Representatives and achieving a sufficient majority in the Senate to make it a filibuster-proof body is a certainty and will lead inevitably to a Republican president in 2024. They had best not discount the colonel.
Gas prices, which had risen to unheard-of levels, have not only leveled off, but fallen substantially in the last weeks. Joe Biden may or may not have been responsible for gasoline's unprecedented rise in cost, but the stickers placed on gas pumps depicting a laughing Biden pointing at the absurd amount drivers had to pay to drive away from the pump surely claimed he was. Now, no matter how addled his energy policies, he is able to point out the reversal of the high price trend and claim "he caused that."
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