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February 6, 2007
Headline Commentary
I'm going to try something slightly different today. During these off periods of politics, most stories don't warrant a real blog post, because well I can't think of more than a single sentence worth of commentary about them. So I'm going to try to put all the commentary together and see what you think about it.
Nader says that if Hillary wins, he's running. Trust me, he'll run no matter who the Democratic nominee ends up being. Time and again we've seen that the Green party is nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the state GOP. Nader is running, the GOP desperately needs him because of their terrible crop of candidates for President.
In FL-22, Schlesinger Eyes House Seat
Yeah, the Republican candidate from Connecticut is thinking about running for a House seat in Florida. I had to do a double take on it too. Tragically the GOP in Florida could do a lot worse and regularly do.
Huckabee Will Give it Six Months
Honestly there is only one name on the GOP's list that scares me as a Democrat and it's Huckabee. He's the only genuine old school Republican on the slate. Any Democratic candidate we have (even Kucinich) will mop the floor with every other Republican that's running, except for Huckabee. The only Democrat that will be able to stand toe to toe with Huckabee would be Edwards. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the GOP is too radical to realize that they have a genuine candidate on their slate and vote for the crazies instead.
Republican Field Leads in Divorces
See the GOP is already racking up major victories, but the be fair Guliani represents nearly half of the total divorces for the GOP. The religious right is sabre rattling about if Guliani wins, they won't vote this time. Much like the Republicans in the Senate, principled stands aren't these people's strong suit, they'll vote Republican even if it were a candidate whose very existence was their moral opposite like Larry Flint. The only "values" these voters have is that they value what the GOP has done to this country. On a side note, when Kucinich drops out the Democratic divorce rate drops by 2/3rds, so we are golden there.
Isn't it amazing how Republicans do all sorts of bad things, but they are never responsible for anything they do. I can't decide which aspect of this lie scares me more the fact that a Senator is so clueless about what his staff is doing that they are writing legislation without his knowledge or that Republicans are such craven liars that they would impune their staff members to protect themselves from the liability for their misdeeds for this imperial President.
Budget cuts may delay shuttle replacement
I figured with the corporate media breathless discussion of a Astronaut love triangle, there was probably real news going on that we weren't suppose to be paying attention to. Sure enough, not enough money to get the shuttle replacement up and running. Beyond the fact that the shuttle replacement they have is a moronic idea, it's just bad because it's likely to mean half a decade without space faring available to Americans except as passengers on other people's spacecraft. The Chinese seem serious about space, perhaps we can hitch a ride with them. Oh wait, the Republicans pushing for the weaponization of space has caused them to be a more aggressive space power. I sure hope they don't take Republican incompetence as an opening to gain the lead in space technologies, I'm sure they won't think of that.
Haggard Pronounced 'Completely Heterosexual'
Well that's great news for Ted. I have to say I find it odd, that they say he should move because there is an open wound in Colorado at his old church. Where's all that vaunted Christian forgiveness? Seems to me if he's "cured", he should get his old job back.
Posted by Jamison at February 6, 2007 4:54 PM
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Re: Your comments about Nader
Just in case you missed it in 2006, Nader wasn't the Green Party candidate. Also, I doubt he'll be the Green Party candidate in 2010. The Greens will run a candidate for president however since ballot access laws in some states require a presidential candidate.
Posted by: Robb Black at February 12, 2007 10:32 AM
Well it was a discussion about Presidential politics so since 2006 isn't divisible by 4, of course he wasn't a candidate and he won't be in 2010, also a non-divisible by 4 election year. The Greens will have a candidate because the GOP will pay for their ballot access in as many states as Earthly possible.
Posted by: Jamison at February 12, 2007 1:47 PM
You are correct. I was off a few years in my comment. Nader was a Green Party candidate in 2000. He was NOT the candidate in 2004, and yes we will have a candidate in 2008 (but it probably will not be him) because as I mentioned before, the Greens need to have a presidential candidate in certain states in order to obtain ballot access to run candidates for other offices in that state.
You take one example of PA and then try to extrapolate it to the rest of the Green Parties around the country. The Maryland Green Party has successfully petitioned to be a political party three consecutive times now. Each time it was an all volunteer effort. No one was paid for their time or paid to organize the petition drive for the Green Party to remain a political party in Maryland.
Posted by: Robb Black at February 13, 2007 3:52 PM
So you have 100% confidence that if I go digging into the Green Party ballot drive process, I'm not going to find the Republican party? Even with Kevin Zeese being the spokesman for Nadar in 2004, said there was nothing wrong with right wing groups getting the Green party on the ballot with the express goal of swinging a blue state? The same guy that was the Maryland Senate candidate for the Green party in Maryland in 2006? Do we really want to go down that road? I personally don't think the Greens are fundamentally bad people, I just think they have troubles with realizing that a bad Democrat is better than the best Republicans. I think the Democrats will always be slightly out of step with the Greens, but in the end I think we have enough in common with each other that some sort of compromise can be made for our collective children's sake. Because as much as we disagree, we can all agree that there is no Republican that would represent any of our collective interests.
Posted by: Jamison at February 13, 2007 4:25 PM
You can witch hunt all you want. *rolls eyes* One would hope you would have better things to do with your time than engage in witch hunts however.
Posted by: Robb Black at February 13, 2007 11:03 PM
I do have better things to do. I do stand corrected on the Nader in 2004 being a Green. Dianne proved you were right on that one. I will correct my future rhetoric on the subject accordingly. Except the Pennsylvania case, it appears all other efforts of the Green party working with the Republicans are related to Nader himself. Maybe then you've just got a few bad apples in your ranks giving the entire movement a bad name. I'm personally a fan of the IRV that the Greens support, I think it would help streamline a lot of elections. If we can get past the mistrust that appears to have been fostered by Nader, I think there are a lot of things we can do to make this country a better place to live while working against our common enemy at the GOP.
Posted by: Jamison at February 15, 2007 11:20 AM