Ok, so today pretty big day for US politics. Democrats look set to get some significant gains in Congress. I am cautiously optimistic. It would be amazing if the Democrats regained control of the House for the first time since 1994 (i think?, anyone know for sure?). It’ll be interesting to see how people vote. Because people say they hate Bush but they might hate the liberals and taxes even more and still vote Republican. This’ll certainly be a good indicator about how America is feeling now and how people might vote in 2008. Of course I expect my gov. to be re-elected (that’s the terminator to the rest of you folks). It’s weird that Arnie’s my political rep, least he could physically kick everyone else’s ass. Somehow that is comforting. Is that weird?
So on election day while Clinton and Bush are compaigning hard for their respective parties I gotta give respect to Cheney. Only he would spend election day hunting and not supporting his party. It’s also his first time hunting since shooting his friend in the neck. Maybe the republican party told him to stay out of the electioneering…
I just saw ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ a few weeks ago. I have to say that I really wanted to like it but no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t. The film was allegedly about global warming and there was a little bit of that in there, but it just seemed like a huge vanity project of Al Gore’s. The film was split – half about global warming (it’s v bad and we’re all going to die) and half about Al Gore (please vote for me, I still want to be president). It really was just such Gore propaganda that I couldn’t believe all the good things I was hearing about the film. I mean there was the part where Al’s son gets hit by a car and his sister dies of lung cancer (i’ve been through bad things too voters). And then this weird bit about Al farming tobacco as a child. And then it seemed to suggest that good ol’Al has been trying to fight climate change single-handedly since the 1960’s. Which is pretty impressive considering he was also busy inventing the internet at this time. Seriously…
Alrighty folks, if you’re American go vote today, if not… well um, don’t
A reckoning November 9, 2006
Well it looks like Bush and the Republican party have paid a steep price for their mistakes in Iraq. The Democrats finally have control of the House of Representatives and likely the Senate. Hopefully there won’t be any nasty recounts, that’s just embarrassing. And Bush getting rid of Rumsfeld. I mean he officially ‘resigned’ but we all know that’s just code for being told to leave because his mistakes cost the regime control of Congress. The new speaker of the House, Polesi (i think that’s her name), is from my home town of SF. She’s really into energy issues and apparently is one tough cookie. Ah, makes me proud and cautiously optimistic. Been feeling a lot of that these days, cautiously optimistic. I just hope that the Democrats don’t screw up this chance for change. I’d really like to see them take on environmental issues and with Polesi as the speaker this may happen. Just please no recounts!