On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:48:05 -0400, daytripper
wrote:


Um, doesn't Walmart carry some Orvis stuff?

Wait a tick...

(checks calendar)

Right on time ;-)

If that's a reference to the mid-terms, let me cover it right here and
now. There are a number of Republicans that are going to lose and the
problem there is that the Dems who will win don't deserve the job any
more than the folks they'll replace. I suspect a sadly large part of it
will just be trading their scumbags for your scumbags.

About the only race I _really_ care about is the Texas Governor's, and I
hope Kinky beats Perry like a rented red-headed stepmule. I am somewhat
curious what happens with Lieberman, but I don't have even a short gay
black puppy in that fight. I think what the Dems did was ****ty, but
not because they are Dems, but because from what I know (admittedly
little as far as direct and local), Joe is and was, generally and as
pols go, um, well, a pretty good Joe and given the overall numbers, it
seems that a fair number of his Dem constituents think so, too, and want
him in. Oddly, that may be the start of something: a move to Indies,
where there is at least a slim chance of Congresspeople voting one's
con...well, OK, so probably not, but, hey, one can dream...

As to the Foley matter, from what is generally available, Foley is a
pedophile who needs to be in prison, and Hastert oughta resign, at least
from the leadership, yesterday. If he did _know_ there was something
up, he ought to be tossed in the clink with Foley. And if he should
have known, but simply didn't, he ought to be not only tossed out of
leadership, but Congress, too, as being too stupid to be there. It
appears that at least Fordham is lying about who knew what when, but his
doing so doesn't mean someone didn't know something a time back. And as
to the Dems, it _appears_ at this point that at least some Dems knew
about something and saved it as an "October surprise." If so, any Dems
that did know are just as guilty and ought to be run out of town, too.
And no, at this point, I don't think there is enough evidence known to
make a call as to it all. Whatever the case, the page program should be
abolished, or at least, no more minors. It has been a happy hunting
ground for pervs of both parties and one day of that is two days too
many.

From a historical perspective, the Dems have no moral high ground on
this type of thing, and corruption naturally occurs more in the party in
power than the minority. When the Dems had control, they were the ones
getting, um, favored, and if they take over, they'll again become the
party whose members are being, um, favored by the lobbies/interests/etc.
And Pelosi is nothing more than Tom DeLay in a dress - a scumbag's
scumbag. Her current blathering is just like her prior blathering: just
more political hypocrisy. She was there, rallying 'round the party,
ready to scratch the eyes out of all comers who might suggest that her
people weren't all fine, upstanding, and forthright. Recall that back
in the late 80s and early 90s, it was the in-control Dems who were, er,
playing Studd to the pages, snorting (and dealing) coke, forcing
themselves on multiple women and men, being "favored" with all sorts of
money, drugs, and sex, and running gay whorehouses out of their homes
(to be fair, I think Frank was only guilty of _extreme_ stupidity but
see Hastert, stupidity, and getting booted, above - I've seen
nothing that he knew or condoned his boy's, er, business - and from what
I know, he has actually turned out to be a generally decent legislator).

HTH,
R

/daytripper (ahahahahahahahahahahahah!)