2012.
A year that will live in Infamy.
Pretty much like 2008.
We get an extra day this year. An extra day for the largest work force in this country to earn money from the rest of us. It's Leap Year, the year that allows our calendars to actually catch up. You see, what you learned way back when was that there are 365 days in a non-leap year. Actually there are 365-1/4 days in a year. Or, something like that. Adding an extra day once every four years makes up the difference.
It's also an election year. You know, the Big One. Off year elections...those held when there is no presidential race...don't attract as many voters. Or, advertising dollars. Or, program interruptions. Or, baby kissing. Or...worse.
We elect or re-elect, every two years, members of the US House of Representatives. Each state, depending on it's population, has a certain number of districts, represented by one congressman. Each state has two senators, regardless of size or population. Rhode Island has two. So does Alaska. US Senators serve six year terms, with approximately one third of the senate seats up for grabs every two years. That way, even if we wanted to, we couldn't throw out all of the bums in any one year.
The president (with a lower case p) is elected every four years. In case you've been visiting some other planet since 2008, or perhaps you've been stoned for the past three years, our current excuse for the Commander in Chief is Barack Obama. He won the title three years ago, campaigning for Hope and Change. I just hope you still have some change left to spend. The federal government certainly doesn't.
Despite all of the bashing that O-Damn-Bama is getting, only a few mainstream reporters and news organizations seem to realize that, perhaps, the voters made a big mistake in 2008. More Hype than Hope, many say.
Despite the low approval ratings, the questions about BO's nationality (birth certificates, after three years, have finally surfaced), his desire to work "without congress", I'll tell you here and now that he's going to be re-elected. What many of us thought as a no-way-in-this-world will we make that mistake again, just you wait and see. And, save this blog until the evening of the first Tuesday in November. I'll be saying "I told you so". I won't be happy about it, but I'll certainly rub it in your face.
It's not that O-Damn-Bama is doing a good job. He's not. It's that the republican presidential contenders are knocking each other off, one at a time, even before the democrats have a chance to take a shot. The dems are sitting back, just waiting for the bloodied survivor of the republican nominating process to surface. He, or she, won't be a winner. He, or she, will be nothing more than a survivor. But, a wounded and weakened survivor.
Die hard republicans, of course, will vote for whoever the nominee turns out to be. Die hard democrats will vote for Obama. But, the independent thinkers out there, and there are a lot of them, are becoming increasingly disgusted with the republican suicide march, and will likely settle for the comfortable old shoe. Even if it hurts their feet.
Then, it will be the democrats' turn to open fire. And, using the ammo they're gathering during the primaries, it looks like it will be a cake walk as O-Damn-Bama heads back to the White House for another four years of our misery.
The only good thing about the election process in 2012 is that North Carolina's excuse for a governor will be packing her bags. Not much doubt that Beverly Purdue will be vacating the mansion later this year, as Pat McCrory moves in. That's the only sure-fire silver-lining for 2012.
Let's just hope I'm only half wrong. You take a guess at which half.
A year that will live in Infamy.
Pretty much like 2008.
We get an extra day this year. An extra day for the largest work force in this country to earn money from the rest of us. It's Leap Year, the year that allows our calendars to actually catch up. You see, what you learned way back when was that there are 365 days in a non-leap year. Actually there are 365-1/4 days in a year. Or, something like that. Adding an extra day once every four years makes up the difference.
It's also an election year. You know, the Big One. Off year elections...those held when there is no presidential race...don't attract as many voters. Or, advertising dollars. Or, program interruptions. Or, baby kissing. Or...worse.
We elect or re-elect, every two years, members of the US House of Representatives. Each state, depending on it's population, has a certain number of districts, represented by one congressman. Each state has two senators, regardless of size or population. Rhode Island has two. So does Alaska. US Senators serve six year terms, with approximately one third of the senate seats up for grabs every two years. That way, even if we wanted to, we couldn't throw out all of the bums in any one year.
The president (with a lower case p) is elected every four years. In case you've been visiting some other planet since 2008, or perhaps you've been stoned for the past three years, our current excuse for the Commander in Chief is Barack Obama. He won the title three years ago, campaigning for Hope and Change. I just hope you still have some change left to spend. The federal government certainly doesn't.
Despite all of the bashing that O-Damn-Bama is getting, only a few mainstream reporters and news organizations seem to realize that, perhaps, the voters made a big mistake in 2008. More Hype than Hope, many say.
Despite the low approval ratings, the questions about BO's nationality (birth certificates, after three years, have finally surfaced), his desire to work "without congress", I'll tell you here and now that he's going to be re-elected. What many of us thought as a no-way-in-this-world will we make that mistake again, just you wait and see. And, save this blog until the evening of the first Tuesday in November. I'll be saying "I told you so". I won't be happy about it, but I'll certainly rub it in your face.
It's not that O-Damn-Bama is doing a good job. He's not. It's that the republican presidential contenders are knocking each other off, one at a time, even before the democrats have a chance to take a shot. The dems are sitting back, just waiting for the bloodied survivor of the republican nominating process to surface. He, or she, won't be a winner. He, or she, will be nothing more than a survivor. But, a wounded and weakened survivor.
Die hard republicans, of course, will vote for whoever the nominee turns out to be. Die hard democrats will vote for Obama. But, the independent thinkers out there, and there are a lot of them, are becoming increasingly disgusted with the republican suicide march, and will likely settle for the comfortable old shoe. Even if it hurts their feet.
Then, it will be the democrats' turn to open fire. And, using the ammo they're gathering during the primaries, it looks like it will be a cake walk as O-Damn-Bama heads back to the White House for another four years of our misery.
The only good thing about the election process in 2012 is that North Carolina's excuse for a governor will be packing her bags. Not much doubt that Beverly Purdue will be vacating the mansion later this year, as Pat McCrory moves in. That's the only sure-fire silver-lining for 2012.
Let's just hope I'm only half wrong. You take a guess at which half.
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