America screws itself again. Saddam Hussein sentence to death.
Well, well, well. Proving that bigger really is always better, America has become part of yet another travesty, and is in fact celebrating it's own moral spiraling.
...I am ashamed to be an American today.
May what our country reaps from our actions and/or thoughtlessness not be unsurvivable. (or in more contemporary American terms: at least dear gawd - if I can just do good while the other's suffer, I guess that can work, too!)
Just wanted to say good night...
...and good luck to all those who are against the anti-Americanism practised by BushCo. (Does that makes us the anti-anti-American?) I never thought I'd see this country moving BACKWORDS in its quest to be an enlightened democracy.
Anyway, looking forward to a day of election-watching tomorrow. I will be doing so with a practical, yet hopeful eye.
Check y'all out on Wednesday. Hopefully we'll be writing about the new Speaker of the House, Nacny Pelosi.
Flying by the seat of my rants...
I'm wit' ya
If there were ever a night to close ranks this would be the night. I'd much rather try and tread water with my head ABOVE water than below it.
As it so happens I've got a copy of Good Night and Good Luck sitting right beside me, which I think I might pop in and see again tonght. (the last time I saw it was in the theater)
One last thing...
Nationally, I think the Dems ran a weak campaign. They may have run better campaigns locally, but the big gun Dems barely made a whisper (at least from what I saw). They should have leaped on Bush's denial that he was ever "Stay the Course." They needed to point out the ease in which this so-called president can change his rhetoric as it suits him for political gain. They could have run just one commercial nationally that stayed on 24/7: "Is the president Stay the Course or is he not." And just run the 900 times (or thereabouts :-) that he said it and the time he said he was never it.
Especially after the way they hammered Kerry for his botched joke. Stand-up is obviously not Kerry's forte. Though I think Bush would make an excellent stand-up comedian -- he has me in stitches constantly! Stitches and tears...
If the Dems take control of one or both Houses, it will be because people are sick of Repub leadership. And maybe that was the Dems plan all along. And if the Repubs retain control, well the Dems will know what plan NOT to use for '08.
Flying by the seat of my rants...
Post election
should definitely be interesting one way or the other. I'm not going to count any chickens until it's all said and done though. I'll feel a lot better sometime late Wednesday night hopefully (when most of the votes will have been counted and the results validated).
Will also be interested in seeing what some of these FBI investigations into voter intimidation turn up...
Mehlman: Dems will turn Iraq into another Afghanistan.
More Republican weirdness, from RawStory:
"Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman appeared on at least three networks today to "remind" voters of the "difference" between the two parties when it comes to the war on terror.
Along with references to the Patriot Act, missile defense, and the surveillance program, Mehlman made an unusual remark regarding the current situation in Afghanistan.
"And again, in this war-on-terror issue, I think Americans want their leaders to have learned the lessons of 9/11, which is we need tools like the Patriot Act and the surveillance program, and it will be a big mistake to allow Iraq to become another Afghanistan, which unfortunately, I think, could happen if we followed the approach that Mr. Murtha and others have said," Mehlman said on CBS's Early Show."
What else do you need
to know about Ken Mehlman other than this. (don't blame me if your logic centers explode half way through reading this, btw...fair warning)
Happy blinkin' birthday, btw m!
Hope it's a good one. (for all of us!)
Thank you paradox
Best wishes for you grandmother's bday too!
The election results are the best present, though we will probably have to wait a month or more to find out what will happen in the Senate. And longer than that to see if the Dems are willing to mount any effective opposition to the Despotic Divider. But at least there is some realistic hope. If not for a better tomorrow, at least for a slower degeneration.
The ever optimistic m.
Please feel free to have a birthday
anytime you want m. Seems to work out well for everyone. It really was a best case scenario yesterday wasn't it.
More hubris
BushCo has reaped so much shame on America that it will be many years before its rancid stench lifts from the nation.
The process may begin tomorrow, or it may not. Whatever the result, we can ill afford to continue on this crooked path to despotism.
Flying by the seat of my rants...