tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post5366520648297933284..comments2023-09-10T03:33:19.319-04:00Comments on RANDOM THOUGHTS: Chicken LittleMycue23http://www.blogger.com/profile/07474424588090159340noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-54125792277064086682010-11-05T04:04:28.961-04:002010-11-05T04:04:28.961-04:00There are a few reasons to be optimistic. The last...There are a few reasons to be optimistic. The last time there was a change this big in Congress was 1946. The U.S. had just come off years of strong economic controls and rationing because of the war, and a lot of GIs who were coming back were not finding conditions for postwar employment good and were dissatisfied.<br /><br />Then, there was the 1994 rout. The Republicans pretty much shot themselves in their collective foot that time. They were so damned cavalier about shutting down the government, but when people couldn't get Social Security checks and VA benefits ...<br /><br />But this time, they have Fox News, and the Tea Party "movement." I'm a bit more worried this time.Manifesto Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-37111022953111358612010-11-04T10:38:15.593-04:002010-11-04T10:38:15.593-04:00"started"..."Hopefully"
and ma...<i>"started"..."Hopefully"</i><br />and maybe I'll start catching my typos in time too.<br />-SJSJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17181694732531476160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-71863230850780662082010-11-04T09:59:39.437-04:002010-11-04T09:59:39.437-04:00Good perspectives, but I do feel it is a dire situ...Good perspectives, but I do feel it is a dire situation in many respects with redistricting coming up in many places including New York where I live. This midterm has far reaching effects beyond the current makeup of the Senate and House, and the gubernatorial gains will affect the next Presidential election for sure.<br />I've starting another email campaign to Republican Senator and Congresspersons, if only to keep myself sane and stick the facts to them. I'm handwriting one to John Boehner, it may just be a cast off message in a bottle, but I'm tired of hearing how he claims to be representing the wishes of the American people.<br />As of Novemnber 2010, The Democrats are still talking "compromise," despite their waning influence and the Republicans are still talking "no compromise" as both parties have for the last two years. It's gonna be a roll back of all the tiny "not enough" gains everybody was complaining about.<br />"You won't have old financial reform to kick around anymore." to put it in Nixonian terms.<br />At least I snuck in my medical needs and sorted out my credit debt during this briefest of respites in the storm.<br />Hoepfully I won't lose my job in Boehner's bright new America.<br />-SJSJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17181694732531476160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-32438831934963634382010-11-04T09:44:13.983-04:002010-11-04T09:44:13.983-04:00I salute you for this very sober and level-headed ...I salute you for this very sober and level-headed analysis, MyCue23. It comes at the perfect time. You are correct, of course, and we must remember that the wheels in DC DO turn, albeit very slowly. It usually takes an event of cataclysmic proprtions (a major military attack or a stock market meltdown) to get those wheels to turn any faster. The election was a wake-up call, not an invasion, coup detat, or military capitulation. It showed us what huge sums of concentrated capital and media manipulation and domination by one side can bring. It showed the power of the lie, when it is repeated loudly and frequently. We progressives must simply be resolute in our determination to overcome these obstacles, which are formidable but not insurmountable. For I am more convinced than ever that the "other" side has nothing to offer that will solve our nagging problems, and that they have won this tiny battle, but if we persevere, WE will win the war!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-22683305627102201112010-11-03T19:22:26.078-04:002010-11-03T19:22:26.078-04:00I love your calmness MyCue. It reminds me of a tim...I love your calmness MyCue. It reminds me of a time long long ago when I was young and could care less about politics, as long as I had a job, my bills were paid, I had a roof over my head and food in the pantry I was happy(and drunk alot!). BUT now, well this blogging about politics has taken over my whole existence and I sometimes don't like how it makes me feel.<br /><br />I want to believe the parties will work together in the next 2 years, but I have little hope the thugs can be mature and do that. They did promise their followers they would change Obamas agenda, they would put the peoples desires first but that's ridiculous because they don't even know what the peoples desires are. All the thugs care about is destroying Obama and 2012 to grab the power. They crave the power.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303260031729868857noreply@blogger.com