March 1, 2016 Lunch – Salmon Salad and PPI Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Potato, Onion, Bratwurst, and Pork Confit casserole with Pasta and asparagus, Dinner – PPI Spaghetti Squash and Pork Confit with steamed Broccoli

March 1, 2016  Lunch – Salmon Salad and PPI Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Potato, Onion, Bratwurst, and Pork Confit casserole with Pasta and asparagus,  Dinner – PPI Spaghetti Squash and Pork Confit with steamed Broccoli

At 10:30 I went to the garden and picked some salad greens, which are at their best.  Here is a picture. I made a salad with green onion, a palm heart, and two Roma tomatoes.  Then I added a small handful of PPI Cassarecca pasta and three sectioned stalks of asparagus to the PPI Brussels Sprouts casserole and heated the PPI Brussels Sprouts Casserole with a dash of La Vina port to emulsify the dish.  

Last night Suzette made candied Kumquats.  Here is a picture. 

We have lots of PPIs, so Suzette put together a dinner by sautéing PPI pork Confit and Spaghetti Squash and serving it with PPI steamed Broccoli.  We tried to stay on our low alcohol diet by drinking water.

After dinner we each ate bowls of ice cream and watched the Super Tuesday results roll in.  It is now clear to all that the Republican Party is imploding and Hillary is on the ascendancy.  It appears to me that Rubio, Kasich, and Cruz all won enough to stay in the race to the convention with the hope of a brokered convention.

Billy called and told me, “I have listened to the Republican candidates, that a vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary, so I voted in the Republican primary for Trump.”  Few people I know understands history and politics better than Billy, who is the most knowledgable student of history I know.  Dee Simpson, who is a political pro, confirmed the wisdom of that strategy, when I wrote to tell him what Billy had done.

I agree with Mary Lampe, who said that no one who scares her more than Cruz, who is a rabid anti-government demagogue.

I love this election as much as I hated the 1968 election, when the Democratic Party tore itself apart over the War in Vietnam.  Unfortunately, this is far more serious, because it may be the end of the Republican Party as we know it, like in 1854 when the Whig Party disappeared due to the issue of slavery.  

I wonder what the conservative Supreme Court Justices who rendered the decision in Citizens United are thinking now that all those safely conservative districts secured by big contributions have created the gridlock in Congress that has enabled a billionaire like Trump to feed off the festering ineffectiveness in Congress to bolster support for his populist agenda of Pseudo-reform.

My dream of the future is for Hillary to be elected President and to appoint Obama to the Supreme Court and for the Court’s liberal majority to reverse Citizens United, which would bring the system back into balance a bit and allow the two party system to function again.  

The alternative future dream that brings the two party system back into balance would be a Democratic sweep that changes the balance of power in Congress and legislative action to change the current funding mechanism for elections. 

Bon Appetit