First Muslim elected to House - BFD*

*(BFD stands for Big F*king Deal).

 

Honestly, was there fanfare when the first Jew, Catholic, Black, Woman, Physically-Challenged, etc. person was elected?  OK, maybe, but it’s America here, and anyone of any stripe elected to office will undergo the same scrutiny, meaning that, while Mr. Ellison was able to get himself elected, he will be watched, and in this day and age, things can turn faster than you can say “Carolyn Moseley Braun” and turn a “rising star” into a one-term fluke.  (The link is the most recent info on a true political COMET, and one of the first Oprah puppets.  Oprah got smart and started betting on another horse named Barak Obama, but that’s grist for another post). 

 

So Mr. Ellison, who has gone from a non-descript Catholic kid to “fiery follow of Farrakhan” while attending Wayne St. U, has scrubbed himself clean enough to dupe the gullible white-guilt / limousine liberal crowd, will be going to DC.  It’s funny, the transformation from bland, suburban kid to campus firebrand to Congress.  But then, we’re talking about ultra-liberal 5^th district, which is chuck-full of easily duped white-guilt suburban-reared college kids, “artists”, and the mindless disciples of community “leaders”, where they tend to vote a person in 19+ times for near-40-year terms (term limits, PLEASE!!!). 

 

So what about being the first Muslim.  Well, it’s probably nothing.  Why?  He will get as much done as anyone else who starts to project themselves outside the mainstream, and if you don’t have a caucus, you don’t have squat!  He’ll last exactly one-term if we read too much about him.  Therefore, he’s going to blend into the DC woodwork, be a team player, be more Catholic than Muslim, and do the things that help a career-politician get re-elected 18 more times.  In the 5^th district, that’s the blueprint.

 

POM