Christ, this feels like March. The Niners haven’t played a game in seemingly 2 months, and and were apparently off for a month before that lone Arizona game. But, after long last and much anxiety, we are back to playing football. The St. Louis Rams come to town, not to conquer, but to crumble. After a promising 3-2 start, including division wins ver Sea and AZ, the Rams have lost 3 in a row. Sure, GB and NE were likely pegged as losses, but Miami? Ouch. That one had to sting.
Sure, it’s early in the tenure of Jeff Fisher, but the Rams don’t seem to be doing anything particularly well. 28th in points scored and 20th in points allowed. Sam Bradford has been derailed on his way to elite status among the crop of young QBs in the league. He has been grinding through the Alex Smith school of new coaching staffs and offenses and players on a yearly basis kind of thing. After his rookie year of doing well (3500 yards, 18 TDs, 15 picks, and a near-miss at the playoffs at 7-9), he struggled through an injury-plagued season last year (1700 yards, 6 TDs, 6 picks). This year? Well, pretty much the same numbers he put up last year in 10 games. 1800 yards, 8 TDs, 7 picks. Erstwhile workhorse RB Steven Jackson has finally had it with the organization, and is on his way out after carrying the team for years and being the only bright spot for 6 seasons. WR Danny Amendola is probable for the game, so they may get one of their weapons back, but Bradford has been sacked 23 times in 8 games, so his protection isn’t all that.
The Niners? Well, we saw how they did after their mini-break. They dismantled AZ pretty easily. I foresee much the same this weekend. Gone were the drive-killing Cappy Capperson plays. The Niners ran at will, and thus were able to throw all night off play-action, and chew up big chunks of yards. AZ has a terrible line, and Red Skelton was pressured all night. Again, I see the same thing happening this weekend.
31-10, Niners.
Forty Niners Forever 
237 distinguished years.
Well I suppose it’s easy to forget Bush’s attempts at reaching across the aisle. Ted Kennedy was a major influence in Bush’s No Child Left Behind legislation. There were others but it got Bush nothing in the way of cooperation or even a let up in daily vitriol. Obama started out with we won you sit down and shut up. That’s hardly the same.
I’m not going to change any minds or even open any. Most folks see what they want to see and see themselves as the example of fairness.
The problem I see in Congress is the old-timers wield the influence and the new guys can’t buck it. “If you don’t vote with us on this, we’ll see to it you’re an ineffective representative and we won’t back a thing for you.”
They don’t have much choice. It’s why almost everything comes down to party-line votes. But when it’s time to re-elect how many voters call up the voting record and decide if they want that guy in there again? How many bother to contact their rep’s office and let them know how they should vote on a bill?
Promising everything, delivering nothing, taking unemployment, the national debt and the economy from bad to worse. Re-elected on that, why? Because with the aid of the media he’s able to blame the last guy even after four years. If you were a stockholder in a company that hired him as president to do a turn-around you wouldn’t buy it.
Having the media in the bag makes it easy to paint the other guy as the devil and that’s what they did. “The attempt to place working people into servitude has failed as has the intent to control women.” supports this point.
de Tocqueville talks about America’s democracy dissolving into tyranny or despotism and that’s what Obama personifies.
He’s managed to keep the Benghazi debacle under wraps until after the election as well as Patraeus’ resignation and the Iranians shooting at our drone. All while spouting off about what a transparent administration he runs.
Clinton forced some in his cabinet to publicly lie for him while he was lying about Monica. Did Obama do the same with Patraeus? How is this not the focus of the press? It would certainly be if it was on the last guy. Even the possibility of Bush having smoked a joint in college had the country’s press investigating furiously and was front page for two weeks as were questions about his military service. While Obama hides all his personal records and the press is mute.
The same with Bush? Not even close.