Final Election 2002 Thoughts
Christmas came early for George W. and the rest of the Republican party last night as they regained control of Congress.
With the GOP in control, there won’t be much opposition to some ‘new plans’ the prez. is sure to have. Plans like bans on stem-cell research, even more draconian anti-abortion laws, Supreme, District, and Appellate Judges who have Jerry Falwell
posters on their walls, raping of our natural resources for profit, continued corporate corruption as Washington snuggles up even closer to Big Business, another national debt, the worlds most powerful military coming at the cost of lowered educational concerns (and budgets), the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and of course, an unabated path to War with Iraq, and whoever else we deem the enemy of the day.
It’s a good time to be a part of the Christian Right in America.
Just to be clear, I’m not going to be one of those people for whom the election doesn’t go their way and turns into some sort of muttering-under-his-breath hermit. Yeah, I wish it had gone my way, but it didn’t, and you can either accept that and try
to fix it for next time, or get real bitter. Although I don’t agree with them, the Republican party did a great job of getting it’s people out and in the voting booth(with the help of the prez.). They were mad things weren’t going their way, and theywent out and did something about it. I can only hope the rest of the Democrats have the same resolve when 2004 rolls around.
When 2004 does roll around and the country is still in the same mess we’re in now, it’ll be interesting to see who the GOP tries to blame. Their nation-wide campaign slogan this year was, “Give us control and we’ll make America better”. So when the next election comes our way, and the GOP has been unable to fix anything they said or promised they would – even with the full control they so desperately sought in 2002 – they’ll have no one to blame but themselves. I mean, I’m sure they’ll find some scapegoat, but hopefully the voting population realizes that America did not do as well as these guys promised it would so it’s time to give them, and their prez., the boot. We’ll see.
Ending on a positive note now, I’m happy to report that here in Wisconsin at least, we were able to elect a Democratic governor to term for the first time in 16 years. We’ve got a lot of messes within our state borders to clean up, and I really hope our new governor,
Jim Doyle can begin that process and be successful at it. Like I’ve said before, I believe that you’ve got to clean up your own backyard before you try cleaning up someone else’s, so hopefully, we can fix our problems on a local and state level, and then move on to the nationwide scene. I’m trying to be an optimist!
The majority of my writing, to a good number of readers relief, will return to being more technology related, and less politics now that the elections are over. Just like always, I’ll still have the occasional criticism of prez. and government, but the focus will go back on to personal and professional topics.
Here’s to 2004!
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I’d just like to note that the only reason I was hoping that democrats would hold control of Congress was that Dubya wouldn’t be able to get anything done. And, if anything, that says a helluva lot about our current government. But I sure don’t mean to imply that it would be any better if the other party held the key. It wouldn’t be better. It’d just be different issues (probably with less invading and less ousting and less business world circle jerking, but nevertheless…). A round of applause for the ol’ two-party system, please.
GOP ?
Government of People ?
Gross Obscene President ?
Government Opposition Police ?
;)
I have no clue .. if I start talking about the PMO will you know what I mean ?
btw, why doesn’t the comment link actually go to the comment, instead of remaining at the top of the page .. I keep clicking on it til I realize that it *did* open a new page .. I just gotta scroll to find the comment.
Me, I’m planning on going the muttering-under-my-breath bitterness route.
If logic applied, I’d agree with you, but the Republican administration hasn’t displayed (or needed to display) much logic in their arguments thus far.
I think this isn’t a bad post-mortem.
Mishka – is there room up there for one more?
Mich, GOP stands for ‘Grand Ole Party’, and is used by republicans to give themselves an aire of historical importance and integrity. BTW, which links are you talking about? On the side? Cus they work for me :)
michele means that when she surfs to your blog, there’s always some tasty article that’s at the top of the page, and if she wants to comment on it, she clicks the “comments” link, and sure enough she ends up on a different page, the one for that article by itself with the accumulated comments under it plus the comment form at the bottom, but when she first gets there, it doesn’t look like a different page at all!!!
Yes, as Rudy said .. you need to add a target reference to your Comment link so that when one clicks on the Comments it goes to them.
GOP .. I’d never have figured that out in a million years… LOL
Jeremy, sure come on up. Can you stomach everything in French and English though? and you’ll just be trading in the Democrats and Republicans for the Liberals and Conservatives .. I don’t think it’s any better or worse. We’ll have a new Prime Minister in 2004 .. but the people don’t get to vote .. which really pisses me off. Chretian (current PM) is retiring, so the party stays in power but just their members get to elect a new leader .. who will automatically become the PM until the next election. There is something really wrong with this set-up, if ya ask me anyway. Not that there’s anyone else to even consider. Ahh, politics!!! Sure do get a lot more political news living in Ottawa .. either that or I just pay more attention now than I ever did. ;)
Ahhh.. good idea. Should be working now :)
“Jeremy, sure come on up. Can you stomach everything in French and English though?”
Um, mais oui!
And, sure, the politics are sam song, different title, but hey! the beer is a lot better!
Q: Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
A: They’re both f*cking close to water!
Well if this Right Wing slide keeps going on I’ll start considering my options with regards to moving to a different country.
I came here to get a whiff of freedom and a chance at education. Since coming to Minnesota education costs have risen 25% and freedoms have decreased by about the same. Somehow I don’t think this is just a coincidence.
That is not to say the Democrats are much better, but at least they only screw foreign nations, not their own people.
“at least [Democrats] only screw foreign nations, not their own people”
got to disagree, in spades
if you substitute “Liberals” then certainly this statement applies in my country too — the Liberals are screwing the taxpayers, and it’s merely semantics whether the taxpayers are “Liberal” people
see, this is what i find so objectionable about leftist policy — it always assumes there’s plenty of tax revenue, and conveniently plays down the fact that the creation of wealth must carry on, in fact accelerate, in order to have ever increasing tax revenues
leftists will tax the shit out of the system, and give it all away to the “disadvantaged” of one ilk or another, all in the name of “equality”
so yeah, they don’t screw “their” people, if the leftists are comprised of all the disadvantaged groups — they just screw the ordinary guys like you and me who pay all the taxes
What, Rudy, as opposed to taxing the ordinary people just as much so that the big businesses can have a nice tax break?
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