Thanks Shasta. It's funny. Those BM loudmouths aren't saying much about the outcome but they sure had lots to say during the campaign and post 2008 elections. They prefer to discuss loosing weight instead of LOOSING their liberal way. And Wheezy couldn't even accept the blowout in Kentucky. She claimed, once Paul was given the race shortly after polling closed (even MSNBC ilk gave it to him), that they weren't correct since the "rural vote" hadn't been counted yet. I wonder if it even occurred to her that Kentucky is a rural state? Oh well. O'Donnell got her ass handed to her, and that's about the only victory Jeff can drum up.
Brad
And as we all know, rural areas tend to be hotbeds of liberalism, eh? But then, what else to expect from a woman who argued for several pages with AJ about the armed forces being a Democratic bastion
?
I wish we could count on that "rural vote" to swing the other way for Dino Rossi in Washington State, but the last time I checked, Patty Murray's lead was widening. albeit by a slim margin. It wouldn't bum me out of she held onto her seat, my real wish was that the state legislature was taken from the spendaholic Dems over by the GOP, which it has been, and all the initiatives went the sensible direction, which they mostly did, except for the liquor privatization measure, that one really surprised me, guess I'll keep driving to Oregon to buy my booze!
On the drive home I was listening to the radio and there was the Governor warning about all the programs that would have to be cut (you could almost her lip trembling) and wondering out loud if the voters knew what they were doing, and you know, I'm not a Republican or Tea Party-er, but that whole attitude that the ignorant voters need to be saved from themselves was what led me to vote a nearly straight Republican ticket for the first time.
They really think we don't get it, but they're the ones who don't get it--the state is broke, but we had measures floated before us to raid the general fund to give a green makeover to a number of schools (all in the Seattle area,
naturellement) and recalculate the state's debt by factoring projected monies from the fed that may or may not arrive. Then they blew a golden opportunity to generate revenue by auctioning off liquor licenses (like they did in other states that went private)--these people can't figure any way to raise money except by raising taxes, and Seattle has been sucking the rest of the state dry for years.
The King County Sheriff was making dire predictions about having to lay off eighteen deputies because voters there refused to raise the sales tax (which is now nearly 10%, one of the highest in the
nation), and then next news item was about a multimillion-dollar construction project getting underway to repair a
bike trail and there was concern that there was no alternate route for the yuppies to take from their waterfront condos in Ballard to their jobs at the UW.
A. Bike. Trail.
But no, the voters are too dumb to realize what they're voting for, mmm-
hmmm.