Nothing to do to save his Life

Call his Wife in

This is Tuesday September 7, 2010. You know the substitutes for Stephanie Miller were energetic this morning in their coming out with apt political barbs. Such as the supposition that if they found oil at ground zero we would soon see how quickly that ground was no longer considered “sacred”. After all there is a lot of sleazy sex in the area. And whatever they build on the site will feature “money changing” I bet you. And as to Korans being burned, I bet a Koran or two got burned in the Twin Towers collapse along with the deaths of quite a few Muslims. People got excited about yesterday’s speech by the President in Milwaukee. But the conservatives are tiring of that same old line about the Republicans running the car into the ditch and now wanting the keys back. Also growing tiresome is the line about “When you want to go forward you put it in D and when you want to go backwards you put it in R for Republican”. You know, they pay add agencies millions of dollars to come up with cute and innovative political approaches no one had thought of before. Perhaps President Obama can avail himself of one of these. If I could do it myself then I’d be hired out for millions of dollars. But I can’t even get people to read my blogs. The numbers don’t look rosy. We as democrats have to downgrade our estimation of the mental capacity of the American Public. It’s perhaps because of our shoddy educational system in this country now where much of “liberal” US history has been edited out of the history books. Perhaps it’s because they don’t teach people how to think for themselves. But approaches like “9 – 11” equals terrorist = Moslem is something people can’t get out of their minds. Also the Meg Whitman campaign has come up with the equation of “debt” = “joblessness”. They say when Jerry Brown left office the jobless rate in California was at eleven percent. Keep in mind that this was the worst recession in fifty years and Jerry Brown left office about one month past the absolute bottom in December of 1982. But they won’t tell you what the unemployment rate was when Jerry Brown first became governor. That is because that too was at the trough of a recession in January of 1975. My guess is the unemployment rate was pretty high then because of all the closures in defense plants that were going on then in California, and in the Northwest. Barbra Boxer is doing little better in her Senate campaign against Carley Feurina. Here the superiority of Boxer as a candidate is even more apparent. This whole corperateness = good government meme stems from the days when Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, decided to run for governor of California. Nobody thought he had a prayer. After he got in he accused Pat Brown of “looting the state” and then doubled everyone’s taxes and cut back services. Even if the Republicans win in the 2010 congressional election, and all the indicators are that they will, still the long term demographics are against them. It could be that this election will be a noted chapter in later History books when the intellect of the American People sunk to an all time low. Were in one of these political debates I doubt I could resist using terms like “Ignoramus” or “Troglodite” to characterize the audience, which are terms that real nerds use. Also working against the democrats is they remember things I’m not sure really happened. I have heard the term “Summer of Recovery” a hundred times as much from the Republicans as I ever did from the Obama Administrations. Ditto for that famed “unemployment won’t rise above eight percent”. It’s like you see it once Live, and a couple dozen times on re-run. Just like the TV season. As to burning the Koran, I’m not sure how many tea baggers are for that one. David Petrayas said that such an action might well endanger our troops in the field. They say that pastor who is organizing the book burning only has eighty people in his congregation. This is quite a windfall for him, or as Barbra Bush might say “This worked out rather well for him”. But it was pointed out that since so many republicans are gays or have committed other acts of marital infidelity, that they really don’t themselves “hate the sinner” as much as they would let on but rather they pander to all the hicks and rubes out there in middle America, and will tickle their ears with anything that will put votes in the Republican column on election day. I can’t help but wonder what ghastly responses of amazement would eminate from the lips of Dead Politicians come back to life. What would Adele Stevenson or Hubert Humphrey or Pat Brown say about the politics of our day? I scarcely think they would believe it. They would think surely they had resurrected into a bad novel. And they wouldn’t be wrong. But if you are looking to me for advice, sorry, I’m fresh out. Just read the previous posting and it will give you all the so called causes for the demise of Democratic chances this fall. Some have offered the ray of hope that just like in 1936. the polls are all wrong because they use line lines only and not cell phones, and so are only reaching an older crop of voters, of which I would include myself. Some have gone so far as to say that President Obama deliberately wants the Republicans to take over in congress so people can hate them for a while. Life will still go on. Just as with the great depression of the 1930’s, people are getting used to “getting by with less” and I imagine they will get a lot more “practice” at “getting by with less” in the years to come.

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When your rooster crows at the break of dawn

look out your window and I'll be gone

I'VE GOT NOTHING TO SAY BUT IT'S OK