God has no stakes in politics; our bad

Trump’s administration negotiated and finalized the withdrawal plan before Biden took office. And, instead of telling the world that previous presidents’ plans can’t be relied on (isn’t this what Trump did with the Iran agreement?), Biden went ahead with the withdrawal.

— Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville

Usually when I read an opinion piece in the RecordBee by Byron York, the chorus in Simon and Garfunkel’s song, “The Boxer,” runs through my mind: “Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie….” At the same time, I think of a verse in the song:

“For a pocket full of mumbles

Such are promises

All are lies and jests

Still a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards all the rest” But on Jan. 14, 2022, York’s article had me thinking about the Bible as I read the title to York’s article, “God pushes back on Democratic Party big lie.”

What?! Was the publisher on a mission from God? Was York speaking as an angel of God?

Does God favor the Republicans over the Democrats? Does the Record-Bee favor the Republicans over the Democrats?

As a Democrat, my existential crisis ended when I discovered a possible alibi for the Record-Bee’s and/or York’s apparent “God Complex.” Now the Record-Bee may silently stand by its (God’s) word, but I’m offering the publisher a chance to humbly admit a big, big typo.

In the middle of York’s latest ‘pocket full of mumbles,’ he prefaced a quote from Senator McConnell in which McConnell had stated that it’s a “big lie” that the Democrats call the recent state voting laws passed in “Red States” are “Jim Crow 2.0. This is how York prefaced McConnell’s quote, “And now, Mitchell McConnell and his GOP allies, (not GOD) are pushing back.”

There you have it. I humbly ask the Record-Bee to admit its big, big mistake or silently stand by its published statement which implies that GOD is pushing back against the Democratic notion that the recent “Red State” voting laws are Jim Crow 2.0.

Editor’s Note: No bias against either of the two major political parties, just an error on that headline which regrettably changed the meaning of York’s premise. It Should have read “GOP pushes back…” of course. These things happen from time to time during ever tighter and tighter print deadlines, we corrected web version; we move on.