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GA voter chooses Democrat Jim Martin
Well, I’ve just returned from the polling place where poll workers tell me they’ve had a ‘steady stream’ of ballot casters all through the day – more than expected.
Now if I can only trust the electronic voting machine to do the right thing and not use some of that squirrelly math they’re so fond of in Washington, I may find that other voters agree with me – that a vote for Saxby Chambliss is same as a pat on Karl Rove’s back and that is NOT happening here.
Palin in Georgia today – the state, not the country
This morning Sara Palin stumped for Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss in Augusta, Georgia. Apparently someone clued her in that she was to report to the state to fight the Democrats, not the country to fight Russians.
That detail taken care of, Governor Palin was greeted with what may be described as a ‘rock star reception’ and asserted that “this win in Georgia is the first step to rebuilding the party.”
Whoaaa, that’s a big first step, baby. Especially since your fella Saxby only mustered a run-off in a Republican-infested state! If Chambliss does pull it off, it will be because of Palin’s stimulating ‘you-betchas’ blended with a little e-tampering after supper.
So with the run-off vote being held tomorrow, Palin will make three more stops in Georgia today before (they tell her) she’s done firing up the base.
‘First Step’ – or Gridlock?
Now I know a 60-seat majority in Congress is to be feared by many people on all sides. It could, however, be what America needs to get things going, modified, and instituted toward refurbishing our nation. That’s IF Barack Obama is on the side of the middle class, as he purports to be, and if he receives some decent amount of cooperation from Washington politicians who always keep their eyes on their own main chances.
Otherwise, a Chambliss win in Georgia may throw more fuel on Washington’s gridlock fire which will then grump-up the American people at more of Capitol Hill’s sorry grand-standing ways. A dilemma!
Even so, my feelings and thoughts remain the same about tomorrow’s run-off vote…a vote for Saxby Chambliss is a pat on the backs of Rove, Cheney, and Bush. And that is NOT going to happen…not then, not now, not ever.
All through the weekend I received calls from Dem volunteers, plus a robo-call from the Republicans for Chambliss campaign. Today I received my first robo-call from Barack Obama asking me to vote for Democrat Jim Martin. He won’t have to robo-call me twice. He probably will – but he won’t have to.
Update: this link will take you to some of Palin’s ungrammatical rhetoric today along with a video of herself on the stump:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_campaigns_for_Chambliss_in_Georgia_1201.html
Lehman Brothers crisis of 1984: lessons learned?
You may or may not remember but Lehman Brothers was in a big pickle back in 1984, which brings Reagan Republicans into the crisis picture to join John McCain’s lack of economic savvy a la 2008:
http://starsoverwashington.blogspot.com/2008/09/lehman-brothers-crisis-of-1984.html
2008 minus 1984 = two Jupiter cycles…so let’s all repeat the Republican’s Jupiter Mantra: ‘Every day in every way I’m getting better and better’ – as if expansion never has to end, and the piper never has to be fully paid.
The Solar Eclipses of 1984 are the 10 North (May 30; 9Gem) and 4 South (Nov 22; 1Sag):
4N: illusions, separations, restraints, inhibitions, and restrictions are the hallmarks of this Series; events cause blockages which result in misjudgment of situations or strength; best advice is to wait until Eclipse passes before taking any real action.
Last manifested June 10, 2002 (20Gem)…Pre-natal Eclipse Series of Israel (May 14, 1948; 4:00 pm eedt; Tel Aviv.)
4S: very strong emotional feelings concerning money and/or relationships; anger, lust; sense of fatedness as we’re caught up in events beyond personal control; could be a sudden desire to finish a relationship; emotions are blocked or checked in some way leading to much frustration; avoid rash actions until issues settle down. (Brady’s ‘Predictive Astrology.’)
Last manifested Dec 4, 2002 (11Sag58 conj US natal ASC~Sibly, and conj Dec 30, 1999’s Great Conjunction of Pluto and Chiron~plutocracy; corporatism)…Pre-natal Eclipse Series of the Bush-Cheney Iraq Invasion 2003.
Needless to say, Bush-Cheney did not avoid rash actions.
Even McCain’s biographer turns away
Elizabeth Drew, author of 2002’s ‘Citizen McCain’, a glowing tribute to a ‘principled, honorable man of conscience’, has left the Straight Talk Express, as it careens off Ambition’s Highway:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13541_Page2.html
Drew has joined a lengthening list of former McCain supporters and hero worshippers who have awakened to this ambitious man’s shift to the hard right as he panders his way to the White House.
That’s the script anyway.
Although who could forget McCain and Bush cutting birthday cake so happily together as New Orleans drowned, just two Republican buddies livin’ large knowing that the 2008 fix would be in and the Bush Doctrine – whatever version you prefer – would roll merrily along while Bush kicked back on his porch in Paraguay.
And that’s my fret – that no one’s approbation, change of heart, or vote matters because it’s “in the bag” as George said to Jeb 8 years ago. Then, SCOTUS informed us that it was, and now in 2008, the US citizenry are left holding it once again. But this time, it’s quite empty – like John McCain’s vacant conscience and Wall Street’s long-compromised integrity.
