Well that was an ass kicking if I ever saw one.
From coast to coast, there were Republicans that just got tossed out, flung out, beat down and otherwise just abused by the electorate. Can't say I didn't see it coming. I wouldn't claim Rush Limbaugh's accuracy but I could see this coming if I was Stevie Wonder. Now, it's time to look at where the wheels came off the bus for the Republicans. Where to start? Where to start?
For the Republican leadership, here's a tip: If I take you to a party and catch you in the corner all over another guy, there's a good chance I'm not driving you home. And if that guy also isn't driving you home at the end, you're walking. The Republican leadership left all of us standing on the side as they tried to court their new guy, the latino vote, which will never vote with them because Republicans aren't giving out freebies. You ticked off enough people across the country that you lost your normal base and when the latino vote didn't suddenly make up the gap, you were screwed. Frankly, you don't know how to act right. Now my question to the Republican leadership is simple: Was this a bad enough beating for you, nationally? Is this going to be a normal thing every two years or will the Republicans remember who brought them to the party and learn to act right before the bulk of their support leaves?
The Democrats walked in and won it the best way possible, by letting the Republicans self destruct and show their own flaws but at the same time, not showing theirs. How many times have you seen the Democratic candidate walk out and say that their going to raise taxes, jack up the troops and give the money to pregnant tree frogs in Brazil, only to get laughed off to defeat on election day? This time, the only thing they did was keep saying there's a better way and keeping their talking points that they do talk about as vanilla as possible. Just smile, nod and shut up. It worked. All that needed to be pointed out was the Republicans had become spending whores, closet gay, page chasing, red state liberals and that's not what the voters asked for.
The strategy to go to Iraq and not follow the Powell doctrine by putting overwhelming force on the ground and then letting the pot simmer until it was ready to boil over was plain stupid. Having a quarter million troops on the ground and locking it up completely would have been better than leaving the borders open so all of the jihadists can slip and keep fighting.
Thinking about borders, how in the hell do you fight a war against possible terrorists coming here to kill us and not close down the most obvious port of ingress? I mean, come on. Do you think that Al Qaeda is going to Fed Ex the bomb materials and send the terrorist into JFK on United or will they pay a coyote a few thousand to haul the whole group across in a van? You lock your doors at night because you don't want people to walk in and steal your things or to kill you. Mexico locks its southern border because they don't want people to come in from Central America but is mad that some of us want to do the same. They don't even want us to stop the illegal alien drug smuggler (Read Ramos and Compean).
There were so many mixed signals that it was almost assured the Republican base that got them there in the past would sit this dance out. The aftermath is that the Republicans have left control of the house to a Northern California liberal Democrat. Now the country will get to see how the California state legislature works everyday. Do they have a plan? I'm sure they do. Will they say it out loud? No way in hell because people would lose their minds and say, "I voted for this @%$!?" Over the next two years, the answer is yep. There's a guest on Air America that is talking about supeonas and investigations of Halliburton in Iraq. All I can say is "let the congressional witchhunt begin!"
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Reperations. Why do people wanna be Hos for a check?
I was listening to the radio this morning when a brother started talking about getting reperations. I work and this was the only time I had to respond to that. Reperations make no sense but if Nancy Pelosi somehow gets traction to make that happen, I'll be first in line to bid for the contract to design the database the goverment will need to track the geneology and bloodlines. The guy who does that will make billions!
I'm a black man. I didn't go to college on an affirative action quota. I went to college because I was in the top 12% of my graduating class and I blew the doors off the SAT. At 18, I had a choice of 5 colleges because they looked at my records and said "We want this kid here!" I work for an international corporation not because I'm black. The man who interviewed and offered me my job never met me before my phone interview. He looked at my resume and skill set and said, "I want that guy running the servers in my department." 15 minutes after I hung up the phone. I'm starting my own company soon. Video game sales and an online magazine. I don't need anyone to hand anything to me. Well, maybe a business loan but I plan to pay that back. I had the best excuse in the world if I wanted to limp around and say poor me. My dad was a drunk who left when I was 2. My mom worked 12-16 hr days to raise 4 kids. My oldest brother was an OG Crip back in 1975, way before the term OG came to be. I excelled in school because that's what my mother expected of us all. All four of us went to college, even my OG brother, who's now an army vet and a doctor in Nevada. It would have been very easy for us to have said, "That's the back man's plight" and piss our lives away. But we didn't. I made it through college, my last two years, working full time and studying full time. I learned from my mother that opportunity doesn't know my address so if I want something I have to make my opportunities happen.
I think that wasting my life while waiting for a paycheck on my ancestor's past labor does them a cruel disservice. What slave wouldn't have killed to have the freedoms this man is pissing away today, waiting to get paid for work he didn't do? When my great grandfather shot a klansman and left Louisiana over a century ago, do I think he'd look at my life, where I am able to raise a family in a house I own and work anywhere I want to for more money in a year than he might have seen in a lifetime and say, "Boy, I hope he gets paid for the work we did on the plantation." To answer, no. He'd probably be just as excited that we all excelled. Slavery was horrible. It's a stain on the history that will never go away. But I don't need governemnt money like some cheap ass Ho. My history is worth more to me than whatever the US Mint can churn out in a day and it should be to them too.
I'm a black man. I didn't go to college on an affirative action quota. I went to college because I was in the top 12% of my graduating class and I blew the doors off the SAT. At 18, I had a choice of 5 colleges because they looked at my records and said "We want this kid here!" I work for an international corporation not because I'm black. The man who interviewed and offered me my job never met me before my phone interview. He looked at my resume and skill set and said, "I want that guy running the servers in my department." 15 minutes after I hung up the phone. I'm starting my own company soon. Video game sales and an online magazine. I don't need anyone to hand anything to me. Well, maybe a business loan but I plan to pay that back. I had the best excuse in the world if I wanted to limp around and say poor me. My dad was a drunk who left when I was 2. My mom worked 12-16 hr days to raise 4 kids. My oldest brother was an OG Crip back in 1975, way before the term OG came to be. I excelled in school because that's what my mother expected of us all. All four of us went to college, even my OG brother, who's now an army vet and a doctor in Nevada. It would have been very easy for us to have said, "That's the back man's plight" and piss our lives away. But we didn't. I made it through college, my last two years, working full time and studying full time. I learned from my mother that opportunity doesn't know my address so if I want something I have to make my opportunities happen.
I think that wasting my life while waiting for a paycheck on my ancestor's past labor does them a cruel disservice. What slave wouldn't have killed to have the freedoms this man is pissing away today, waiting to get paid for work he didn't do? When my great grandfather shot a klansman and left Louisiana over a century ago, do I think he'd look at my life, where I am able to raise a family in a house I own and work anywhere I want to for more money in a year than he might have seen in a lifetime and say, "Boy, I hope he gets paid for the work we did on the plantation." To answer, no. He'd probably be just as excited that we all excelled. Slavery was horrible. It's a stain on the history that will never go away. But I don't need governemnt money like some cheap ass Ho. My history is worth more to me than whatever the US Mint can churn out in a day and it should be to them too.
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