The NY 23 district runoff was interesting.
Local GOP party as is the norm, endorsed. Conservative Party ran Hoffman. Outside busy bodies flooded crying, RINO, RINO, RINO. Honked off GOP endorsee quit, asking supporters to vote for Dem Bill Owens, who won.
The district had been GOP for years, but the local party choice was undermined because she was pro-choice and approved of same sex marriage. The crazies converged - can you say Tim Pawlenty - he interfered to get his chicken-shrift ticket punched, and the entire thing was super shabby except for, who else, winner Dem. Bill Owens.
Read this link for less opinionated discussion.
In VA and NJ, the Dems stayed home, probably because of being honked off at Obama's GOP-lite behavior so far, his continuity you can count on, from Clinton, through Bush and his own beginnings in office.
Gates carried over at the Pentagon along with two unpopular wars.
Bernanke carried over at the FED, along with the role he played in the TARP robbery --- the kidnapping of the economy and holding it hostage with threats to kill it if there was any failure to give freebies to Wall Street. And Bernanke, key player in that hoax, stayed.
Guantanamo still doing business as usual.
Holder backing away from corruption prosecutions.
Screwing the populace with too much of an insurance industry favoring pseudo-reform of healthcare while Kucinich, Grayson, others have kept the faith. What will be passed will be nearly worthless chopped liver, when, with leadership, strong real lasting reform would have been possible.
It's as bad a screw-up of the thing as the Clintons' on healthcare at the start of the Clinton first term.
Far too early what's-his-name was going to Montana and telling Baucus that dropping public option was not a deal killer - when he should have told him bluntly that single payer was the thing or the water projects and cattle subsidies would be history.
Lyndon Johnson probably was spinning in his grave.
Lyndon would have gotten Baucus' attention, the better way. And Lyndon would have kept such a pet-project disappearance act promise too, if for no other reason than to show others what straying from staying in line can mean.
An article by mainstream media, less clearly biased and opinionated, this link. It is far, far, far less honest, but it appears less opinionated.
I hate wishy-washy, and this what's-his-name guy from Daly-land -- what else can you call it?
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That one link says, "ambitious agenda."
Bullfeathers.
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Floyd B. Olson's spinning in his grave too, ya betcha.
