Head in the sand
Nov. 7th, 2006 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI've spent my online time, for the past two-days, ignoring the elections. Rather I played at Blogshares.
Why did I, a political junkie, avoid them?
Because it was too late for me to do anything. My comments, rants, pointers and elucidations are all pointless this close to the election. Those whom I could persuade, I did some time ago.
And the whiff of diminsished hope, out there in the world, was both pathetic, and depressing. When the confidence of Karl Rove was used to say that the side of freedom and liberty (that is to say, those folks who are against torture, and for habeas corpus, the right to trial, face one's accusers, know what the charges are, etc. i.e. not the present Republicans, or any of their fellow travellers) was going to lose... I couldn't take it.
Maybe the people had been so hornswoggled that they could believe, somehow, that the party which screwed the pooch in Iraq, made torture legal, in the guise of preventing it, is for wiretapping anyone, anytime, for any reason, without any oversight, lists Quakers as terrorists (which includes Maia, and lots of my friends); saying it has the right to declare them unlawful combatants, and throw them in the clinkl indefinitely, etc., etc., etc..
Maybe. If so, I didn't want to know. It was depressing enough to see Bush beat Kerry. This time I wasn't up for following, in painful detail, the train wreck that losing would have been.
But the American people didn't lose. Not so many as I might have liked came to their senses (Lieberman won Conn., and 20,000 idiots voted Green, in Va. which means it's a squeaker there. Webb may be a right of center {and slightly reactionary}, but he was running as a Dem, and unlike der Leibermouse, his campaign wasn't funded by a Republican party which refused so support their own candidate).
Right now, the prediction is 32 seats in the house, and a 49,49 1,1, (Dems, Repubs, Socialist, Liebercratican). But the Senate is tight (Virginia is almost certainly going to be a court case, esp. if Webb gets the call).
There are four wonderful words to be said tonight, and then tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Speaker Pelosi. I don't think she's the best we have, but she has one cardinal virtue, which shines above the rest. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rush, Savage, Coulter, Hannity, Mehlman, and all the rest of that lot, hate her, and are driven crazy by that hate. It muddles their thinking.
The other two words are more wonderful, sweet on the tongue,and dulcet on the air...
Subpoena Power
Why did I, a political junkie, avoid them?
Because it was too late for me to do anything. My comments, rants, pointers and elucidations are all pointless this close to the election. Those whom I could persuade, I did some time ago.
And the whiff of diminsished hope, out there in the world, was both pathetic, and depressing. When the confidence of Karl Rove was used to say that the side of freedom and liberty (that is to say, those folks who are against torture, and for habeas corpus, the right to trial, face one's accusers, know what the charges are, etc. i.e. not the present Republicans, or any of their fellow travellers) was going to lose... I couldn't take it.
Maybe the people had been so hornswoggled that they could believe, somehow, that the party which screwed the pooch in Iraq, made torture legal, in the guise of preventing it, is for wiretapping anyone, anytime, for any reason, without any oversight, lists Quakers as terrorists (which includes Maia, and lots of my friends); saying it has the right to declare them unlawful combatants, and throw them in the clinkl indefinitely, etc., etc., etc..
Maybe. If so, I didn't want to know. It was depressing enough to see Bush beat Kerry. This time I wasn't up for following, in painful detail, the train wreck that losing would have been.
But the American people didn't lose. Not so many as I might have liked came to their senses (Lieberman won Conn., and 20,000 idiots voted Green, in Va. which means it's a squeaker there. Webb may be a right of center {and slightly reactionary}, but he was running as a Dem, and unlike der Leibermouse, his campaign wasn't funded by a Republican party which refused so support their own candidate).
Right now, the prediction is 32 seats in the house, and a 49,49 1,1, (Dems, Repubs, Socialist, Liebercratican). But the Senate is tight (Virginia is almost certainly going to be a court case, esp. if Webb gets the call).
There are four wonderful words to be said tonight, and then tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Speaker Pelosi. I don't think she's the best we have, but she has one cardinal virtue, which shines above the rest. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rush, Savage, Coulter, Hannity, Mehlman, and all the rest of that lot, hate her, and are driven crazy by that hate. It muddles their thinking.
The other two words are more wonderful, sweet on the tongue,and dulcet on the air...
Subpoena Power
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Two beautiful words, indeed
Date: 2006-11-08 06:32 am (UTC)I cannot wait to watch how this plays out.