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Are we seeing Boogeymen when it is just shadows? This entry was posted on 9/16/2006 6:56 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
At first I was gleeful when the Senate Armed Services Committee refused to support Bush's terror bill and proposed one of its own.
However, many of the blog pundits are now questioning whether this is a red herring issue intended to take the focus off of Iraq, while the President's bill will ultimately pass anyway. For one of those opinions click here. Now I too am wondering. It feels like Bush took a whooping, as I said earlier. He looked pissed in his press conference, they are spending an awful lot of time on it, and it just feels like something he wants. But... I have always, always said we anti-Bushies need to be very careful about counting them out until this is over. If you check my posts/comments on this and other blogs I warn about the Republicans ability to frame an issue and win simply by debating that issue. Plus, they are just really good at winning elections. Let me give you one example. Down in Sugarland, in Goold Old Tom DeLay's vacated seat I thought the Re-Thug-licans had really screwed up by choosing Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as their write in candidate to replace DeLay. I thought to myself "How many voters are going to remember that name well enough to take the time to write it on the ballot?" Then I thought, "Oh wow, they have really screwed up because they are using the electronic machines which have a little wheel you spin to spell out a name." Then reality set in. 1) In Texas, many Republicans drive by the polling places every day, just in case there might be an election they haven't heard about; 2) In Texas, an effort at spelling the name is decided by a counting judge at the place where votes are ultimately counted. In the Texas 22nd, that counting judge is almost certainly going to be a hand picked Republican; 3) Texas Governor Rick Perry, aka Governor Goodhair, has his nose so far up George W. Bush's and Karl Rove's asses that if they ever stop walking it will take surgery to remove his head from their rectums. Governor Perry called for a special election to be held on the same day as the regular election thus placing Shelley Sekula-Gibbs name on the regular ballot for voters to "go by". This special election is only for the unexpired portion of DeLay's term. Now, I'm still not sure how smart this was (but then brains have never been Perry's strong suit, just good looks and nice hair). Now, Republican voters can do several things that will screw up Sekula-Bibbs chances (by the way, the voting machines do not have a hyphen on them); 1) They can vote straight Republican without a write in, making it a no vote for her; 2) They can vote for her in the special election, think they've done the job, and move on, thus giving her a two month term; 3) They can just not take the time to use that damned little wheel (god I hate those things) thus giving her a no vote. Still, I believe that their data told them this was the way to go, otherwise there was no candidate at all with a chance of winning. So, that was a long way to go to get back to my original point, the Republicans are extremely tricky and smart. Was this bit with the Armed Services Committee a set up? I'd like to think that John McCain wouldn't lower himself on this issue. I'd like to think that, but I don't. I originally liked John McCain but watching him eat Bush's s**t after the crap W and Rover pulled on him during the primaries for the 2000 election made me lose all faith in him. Then the stunt a few weeks ago when he forewent (is that a word?) the chance to speak about himself and said it should all be about the President during a time of war, well that was bulls**t of the highest purity. Colin Powell? We know he sold his soul. I am hoping he is now trying to buy it back because I truly did like him. The other two, John Warner and Lindsey Graham are long time politicians, which means that, as a general rule, you should never, ever trust them anyway. This feels like a chink in the Republicans armor, but who knows? We may be seeing boogeymen and we may be seeing shadows and thinking they are boogeymen but as Ronald Reagan said (paraphrased) "Trust, but verify". |
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