The natives are restless ........

[Stinky The Clown]

....... they're **really** restless.

Okay, I admit to wearing these:


But look around.

In the six years of the occupation of our country, damned few people have gotten anything close to what they wanted.

The 'true believers' are kinda happy, but that's about it.

The religiously insane have gotten ..... what, exactly? Well. Nothing.

The sane Republicans have gotten ...... what, exactly? Well, 'marginalized' is one word that comes to mind.

The war hard-ons have gotten ..... what, exactly? Well, a shit sandwich so distasteful that the cries of 'BOOOO-yah!' will be way low on the Top 40 chart for a generation at least.

The knuckle dragging poor and the knuckle dragging mouth breathers have gotten ...... what, exactly? Well, hgh gas prices, lost jobs, reduced wages, loss of healthcare. The list goes on.

Security moms have gotten ...... what, exactly? No lipstick on airplane flights, an increasing number of their sons killed or maimed for what they now know to be a lie, their husbands put out of work or moved to low paying skut jobs that don't allow them to keep their spawn in gymnastics, let alone their lazy asses in the nice house they bought.

Yes indeedy, the natives are restless. And its showing in the polls. On the House side, its shaping up to be the year of the Democrats. Just a few scant weeks ago, we would have been thrilled to come up 'only one short' in the Senate. But look around. Webb is now ahead of Felix .... still by a mere cat's whisker, but the trend is damned sure right. Ford is looking more and more like a winner against Corker. And today we see Jimmy's kid doing very well, thankyewverymuch, against Ensign. No slam dunks in any of these three races, but it sure is looking better than we'd dared to hope.

In the races that always looked better for us, the shining example of late is one Ted Strickland, who is now being shown with a MASSIVE 25 point lead over last cycle's posterboy of vote count cheating. Will that tighten? I have no doubt it will, but there's not likely to be a 25 point swing.

Yup, the natives are restless. And they're mightily pissed.

We **CAN** get this done. Have faith and work hard. Never stop working and never give up.

We ***CAN*** get this thing done.

[NanceGreggs]

1. PROUD TO BE REC #1!!!

A PERFECT laundry list of the disenchanted, who are finally waking up to exactly how misled they have all been.

[Clark2008]

2. Good rant... but one note of caution:

Stay-at-home (soccer) Moms aren't lazy. I worked harder when I was a stay-at-home Mom than I do in the work place.

:hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Point noted .... no insult intended

[elocs]

9. You should have seen the rants in my local paper about SAHMs.

The article was about families that chose to live on one income and on the online edition of the paper people can make comments about the story.
Those who chose to have one parent stay at home (usually the mom) were getting royally flamed for being lazy, not paying their share of taxes, using welfare to do it. Unbelievable.

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. Try being a SAHD

if you want to see self-righteous judgemental vitriol.

[janx]

3. ...

:rofl:

WHERE did you get that pic?

[Stinky The Clown]

6. _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . . _ . . .

My best friend .....

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'rose glasses' - page 2

:hi:

[welshTerrier2]

12. Pearls Before Swine

this group was a classic mix of folk and rock popular in the early 70's ...

all this Morse code brought one of their more peculiar songs to mind:

"(Oh Dear) Miss Morse"
By Tom Rapp

Oh Dear, Miss Morse,
I want you,
Oh yes, I do,
I want you.

This may strike you
Odd-I-ly
But I want you
Bodily

Don't blame me dear,
Blame McLuhan
His media
Were your ruin

Chorus:
Dit Dit Dah Dit
Dit Dit Dah
Dah Dit Dah Dit
Dah Dit Dah

[donkeyotay]

4. I believe that geography is the only reason

the peasants have not physically demanded the removal of this government. The country's too big. No one can afford the gas or to take off from work. Plus, no one believes enough people will support any efforts along that line, especially with the complicit media.

If we had a national square, we would have already had a revolution.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. There's another post in that sentiment ......

Back in the day ......

[elocs]

7. Exactly. We cannot let up now.

It ain't over til it's over and polls don't win elections. Everybody is predicting a Democratic win and we cannot afford to gloat, strut, or become complacent. Democrats cannot let races go to a decision, we must win by a knockout. We need to keep hitting them until they are down and then keep hitting them. Get out the vote and work hard until the end. The Republican attitude is that they can pick out pockets and there is nothing we can do about it, but we can not let that happen again.

[KansDem]

8. Gays STILL can't marry...

And that's what's important!...at least it was in 2004 anyway. The patriotic homophobe can rest easy...

:sarcasm:

[welshTerrier2]

10. the dam realities ...

when the dam lets go, or maybe i should use a levee analogy today, republicans will be swept out to sea in the tide ...

polls reflect the bean-counter view; they are sometimes very accurate ... but polls are slow to react if the broader electorate arrives at a "WTF moment" ... the republicans are CLINGING to bad polls; it's the best they can hope for right now ... they need to keep walking the walk and talking the talk as if they are still confident they'll "only lose a few seats" ...

but once the smell of defeat hovers around them, look out ... all bets are off; the polls are meaningless and the great dam gives way ...

today's "leak count": 35 up from last week's 25 ... at 100, the republicans lose the House AND the Senate ...

for those who believe there's still a wee bit of life in the "create some fear" strategy, I think they're wrong ... going forward, any fear they manufacture will only highlight the voters' belief that bush is incompetent ... i expect they'll still run with this approach because Rove has nothing else in his bag-o-tricks ...

excellent post, H2S ... the waters are rising; the pressure is building and there are more and more holes in the dam everyday ...

source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0828-06.htm

Democratic insiders, who months ago thought their chances of winning a majority in the House were no better than even, and that the Senate was a lost cause, have become far more optimistic. Now, they say, winning the House is a lock, and the Senate is within reach.

"We have to go back to 1974 (during Watergate) to find such a favorable environment," says James Carville, who ran Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. "If we can't win in this environment, we have to question the whole premise of the party."

More telling is that the smartest Republican political minds agree. "The issue matrix and political dynamics are not good for us," says Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican. "Only some big national or international event before the election can change that."

'People Are Angry'

Bill McInturff, the pre-eminent Republican pollster who sees survey data from all over the country, isn't any more sanguine. "The national mood is like that of sweep elections," he says. "People are angry about Iraq, about gas prices, about health care."

Privately, Republican congressional leaders are bracing to lose 20 to 30 House seats -- more than the net 15 gain that Democrats need to take control of that chamber -- and to barely hold on to their Senate majority.

[lyonn]

13. Oh Lordy, let's hope you are right

After a weekend of dealing with people that are red, red blooded Okla. repubs I am in a real slump. How can there be such arrogant, closed minded, religious die hards in this educated nation? They know it all. They pray for us sinners.

We Dems have to win by landslides or the crooks will steal again.

My 17 yr. old granddaughter had an argument with a guy this weekend that just got back from Iraq and she described how he was convinced that we had saved Iraq from an evil leader and they were there to help those people have their freedom. She asked him about all the other countries that were as poverty stricken and had leaders that were evil. She got nowhere with the argument and she is a hell of a lot smarter than I am. Actually it was a going away party for a soldier leaving for Iraq. She is gutsy.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Your daughter's soldier friend .......

.... my guess would be that he hung with other religiously insane soldiers. They probably did bible readings and prayer sessions daily. Keep the line's flowing. Keep up the delusions. Think General Boykin. There's a lot of them. Not a majority, to be sure, but enough to have a prayer circle in most units.

Think of it as mainlining Jesus.

Their brains are largely impenetrable.

[lyonn]

15. Actually the party was at a club

They tried to get her to have a drink as it is a college town and they seem to get by with slipping someone a drink. She refused and said she was the driver! The girl, granddaughter, has had a drink or two, ahem, so I hear, but, hopefully she uses her head and regulates the amount.

Actually in Okla. the repubs come in all colors but what stands out to me is the closed mindedness. Hell, I have nothing against religion until the ones that want to pray for me so that I will see the light(!) then you realize they are superior beings in their own minds.

No doubt the soldiers are brainwashed in boot camp. Gung Ho! and god save the country with their help. The shame is that there is nothing wrong with wanting to enlist for all the different reasons and admirably for those that seriously want to do the patriotic thing, but, when they have been lied to and continue to believe the bs I worry.

[GeorgeGist]

16. One small correction...

The religiously insane have gotten ..... what, exactly? Well. NothingMore insane.

[mmonk]

17. They got the most important victory in our time,

the courts. This is where our liberties, rights, and progressive legislation will fall.