Are you sick of the 2012 potential candidates strutting around yet? I am...

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Well we're hearing a lot from certain republicans now. All jockying for a possible 2012 presidential race.
For instance Senator Eric Cantor (Va) who has his political "problems." Anti union videos with lovely language... wife an official in a bank that got stimulus money... but hey they're better than democrats right?

Or Bobby Jindal from Louisiana who we are seeing way too much of as of late. Everyone's "testing the 2012 waters" apparently. Jindal wants to turn down money from the stimulus. I wonder how his state constituents feel about that. They got a bit of a raw deal from the republicans (Bush) after Katrina. How much of it is principle and how much is grandstanding for name recognition? Let's not forget Sarah Palin either.

Meet The Press this past weekend had both Charlie Crist (Fla) and Bobby Jindal on (separately) talking about the stimulus.
I find it hard to listen to Mr. Jindal because he starts out slower and works into warp speed talking.
Slow down, cut back on coffee or what ever it is that makes you talk faster as you go. Doesn't sound as thoughtful as it would if you slowed down a bit. Were you nervous or mostly annoyed? I'm not sure but I saw you a few times today on tv and you talked almost as fast there too. Has an interesting set to his face when he thinks he's being pushed and answers with about as little accuracy as most politicians.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican Gov. of CA) is getting a lot of harsh criticism from his own party because he wants to work with Obama and wants to do what's best for his state as governer. He is behind the stimulus package. Which is nice since I'm pretty sure that at least he isn't making a run for the 2012 republican presidential candidacy.

Now the three republicans that voted for the stimulus package in senate are now referred to as "so-called republicans" I guess there's no getting along if you don't tow the party line anywhere these days... to hell with those constituents!

This is going to be a very odd 4 years. We have the economy to worry about (including the global economy).
We have recession/depression and job losses to worry about.
And throughout it all, we'll have to listen the whole next four years to back and forth political bullshit nonsense.
Not even based in facts half the time.
Say something enough times over and over repetitively with finger pointing indignation and it's magically true???
These people couldn't come up with bipartisanship if it was ordered by God.

Still talking about those "glorious" Reagan years (demagoguery) and glorifying them: trickle down didn't work, the only stuff that trickled down was what wasn't taken by the top. I think we can clearly see that now yes?
"Just say 'no'" Nancy's answer to the drug problem isn't an answer to the republican party for fixing our country either.
You have to deal with people not just the outcomes.

Unfettered, unrestricted extreme capitalism doesn't work for anyone especially the working classes that struggle to make a living. Our representatives for the most part don't always do what is best for us or the country, they do what's best for them (and often their pals).

Madoff shouldn't have happened: think about it. Really think about it. And then think some more...
Eight years and nothing.

The truth about our political and financial systems is becoming more and more apparent every day.
Starting to wonder about our food supply? I am.
But then what does the FDA have for inspectors now anyway, like three?

Amazing.

G'night,

Laura
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The stock market is cratering or... Twenty-six days to E-Day

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Of course the most important happening today is the original CSI season premiere.
I had to tape it so I haven't actually seen it but I'm going to try to watch it before I go to bed tonight.

The continuing downward trend of the stock market is one hell of a scary economic situation.
No matter what anyone says there's no way to know what direction our country is going in right now.
This will be a rather dismal Christmas for a lot of people.
I'm all ready thinking of ways I can cut significantly down on spending... not that we spent tons of money on Christmas before.
The global economy isn't doing much better either.

I'm very upset by the nasty character assassination going on in the election.
In this economic atmosphere with people legitimately scared about the future (jobs, retirement, health care, oil bills...)
it is a very dangerous thing to do to whip up such animosity towards someone in particular.

Barack Obama is not the antichrist. He's a regular person just like Biden, Palin and McCain.
They are all different and they all have a stake in the American Dream.
This is the wonderful thing about the USA we have such a variety of people all co-existing and working side by side.
That is until someone tears us apart deliberately and pits friends, family and neighbors against each other...
While calling those people who think (or even look) differently from us the enemy.
Haven't we learned anything from the past?

Hard times bring out the best in some people while bringing out the worst traits in others.
We need leadership, good thoughtful, intelligent, understanding, leadership.
We're certainly not getting it now. Cheney and Bush aren't realistically doing Jack Squat.
No matter who wins in November I hope they can face the new reality in the US.
It ain't pretty right now and it might get pretty ugly in the future.
Let's hope for a recession and not a depression.

I want to believe Bush, I'd like to believe the candidates' optimism but...
It's my family's security and my kids future I'm concerned about now.

You know what? Reaganomics doesn't work. Trickle down theory didn't work.
Tax the top of the economic curve more, shut down their tax loop holes, there's nothing un-American about that!
Also how about some kind of taxes on the corporations that outsource jobs to other countries?
Just because they have a company in another country don't exempt them from import taxes.

If this economy recuperates sometime in the somewhat near future...
and there's a breather before the next crisis:

Fix It!!!

Get the best people together, the really intelligent ones not just someone off main street... and

FIX IT!!!

And do it BEFORE it gets so bad that the economy craters again.
The hard-working people of America deserve better.
And to all a g'night

Laura


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