November 06, 2006
Our beloved leader has racked up the frquent flyer miles on Air Force One this last week by flying back and forth across the red-middle of the nation. He is lowering the landing gear today in Topeka Kansas, a place that was once so red that purple and orange were not allowed (except for prison jumpsuit and terror alert orange). Now, he's there trying to pump himself up with shouts of approval rather than groans of dismay. Even Kansas just isn't Kansas anymore.
Is this election worth it?
The Democrats want to win more seats than they lose in this election, which is a distinct possiblity, given the stench of the stinking fish head that permeates our Capitol's air. But it remains unlikely that the Dems will win enough seats to achieve much of anything, setting themselves up for failure once again. But wait, you say. The Nation's capitol is a mess - rife with scandals, emails and gladhanding. Yes. That is true. But, while scandals of the pecuniary type blanket DC, these are not the kinds of scandals that last too long - we voters seem to have short memories when it comes to how easily we were ripped off. Maybe we are just too embarassed to admit that we had a little much to drink and left the keys and ingition. Can we help it if Congress crashed the car into the wall?
But is the election worth it? Will anything get done? Will anything change? Will our lives be better? Will be credit card debt be lowered? Will I get a raise? Will my job be outsourced?
Red State Re-Dux
The red states still like Bush, even if they are not happy with him. They like him because they find the blue states so easy to hate. This election comes down to regionalism, city-mouse v. country-mouse, industrial v. countryside, and most of all, which congressmen get more earmarked money for their home stes. The conundrum is that our Congressmen have been in bed with Lobbyists for so long that they forget they are married to their home states. Feeling guilty about their promiscuity, they send a few dozen roses home from time to time, telling the state "I love you" with a couple million dollars for this foundation, a nice swimming pool, or that highway project.
But the fact remains that our Congressmen love their live-in lover Lobbyists more than they love the states that have made them what they are. They are bad parents, bad leaders, bad ambassadors of the country. They make us all dysfuncitonal.
So what about that Right Wing Christian Conservative rhetoric that lambasted Clinton for the blow job? Where are they when their own Congressmen are up to their eyeballs in the sludge of corruption? Is it okay, just becuase a Congressman votes against stem cell research, if he pockets Abramoff's money, hides unaccetable email from oversight, trades public money for campaign contributions? Does the fact that a Congressman voted for the Flag Burning Ammendment make his sins palatable? If that is not a deal with the devil....
Iraq up the debt....
And all that pork-barrell cursing of the Congress back when the Republicans had to SHARE power. Have they been moaning at all lately about the truly impressive debt they have managed to rack up because of Iraq, and their earmarked monies? Nope.They just keep on spending it like the yellow dog Deomcrats they claim to hate so much.
Vote Anyway
Even though things look dim, you should vote anyway. The reason we are where we are is that less than 40% of eligible voters actually vote. And almost no one tries to hold his/her Congressman accountable.
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Abramoff, American voting, Bush, Congressional scandals and the voter, Iraq, mid term elections
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Posted on 11/6/2006
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