Hiatus

??? A return, TBA.

Where is T. Boone Pickens?

Formally under the Title:

The .20 cent tags MADE IN USA = A New Classic Black T-shirt?

If you were privileged to find yourself in the nail biting moments- leading up to the 2008 election in the Hanging Chad State…. sorry, Sunshine State, er, umm… Florida!

Then amongst the barrage of Left and Right propaganda streaming thru the television and radio, you were subjected to the well timed random ads of one, T. Boone Pickens.

A man, TBP in short, who if you were under the age of 20, 30, 40, even 50, 50+,
Or, at least haven’t followed oil commodities, or Texas News, you most likely were left wondering who the hell this guy was, sounding an alarm call for Americans-
To wake up, and decided to make change for the Environment.

Now, just for a little back story.

Here in America, I grew up in the age of the late 80′s and early 90′s when we had the Regan Years of the growing media markets and the nuanced negotiations of the New pro-American rhetoric of the age.
[even if I have learned of the age, post puberty]

I lived thru one of the most publicized programs in youth America.
The D.A.R.E. program.*

A program funded by the Safe and drug-free schools act (Improving Americas Schools Act of 1994) to teach kids, its not only OK, to Just Say No to Drugs, but to also teach everyone else about saying No, or at least, tell everyone else, when someone, Is doing drugs.

The Three R’s: Recognize, Resist, Report. [ lets ignore the fact that a child in the 90's landed herself in DCF custody and her parents in Jail, when ousting them to the cops, as they were growing a marijuana plant in their home]

Now aside form the nifty D.A.R.E. T-shirt, awarded to students in the U.S. and other countries who complete the D.A.R.E. program and pledge to stay Drug-free. The classic black T-shirt, adopted from the ‘Black Concert T-shirt’ marketing Phenomenon. We have little gained from the program that has ballooned its budget to over 1 Billion in US dollars each year.

A program that the US Surgeon General in 2001**, placed in the category of “Does not Work”.

I also lived thru, one of the largest American Surpluses.

-remember the Clinton years?-
-surplus upward of a mere $559 Billion US dollars-

A period of time fostered by the philosophy of the Third Way.
An embraced mix of Market and Interventionist elements that make up the Radical Center.
A time when we stressed technological development, education, and competitive elements to create economic progress, as well as further governmental objectives.

So now after the past two Bush/Cheney terms, with a stalled market and deregulations galore.

Final acknowledgement of a ‘gasp’, Recession!

At times, the lowest GDP for years, under their care.
An environment in peril, attacked from the onset of first term, with Bush:
‘Taking a stand’ against the Kyoto Protocol,
Lifting bans on offshore drilling
[even with 100's of millions of barrels in reserve for the ready, if we actually wanted to reduce foreign oil addiction]

Committing the meager sum of $2 Billion US Dollars to cover the next three years, towards an ‘International’ fund. Not solely a US, domestic fund.
Sending money to promote clean energy technologies and help fight climate change in the world.
[ lets not make the $2 billion dollar analogy to the US military fighting a War in Iraq and fighting without any kind of sufficient Armour]

but, lets look at it like this…

[The $2 billion is the equivalent of % 0.002 of our 11 Trillion dollar National Debt.
I'll rephrase this for those who are just gleaming this,
$2 Billion in US Dollars, is equal to:
The number 11 with twelve Zeros behind it,
Minus a Zero with a decimal point, followed by two more zeros and then the number two, 11,000,000,000,000 - 0.002%, its like asking for .20 cents out of a thousands dollars.
$0.20 from every $1,000.00 we spend in Wars and Domestic Issues.
And, this 0.002% is a commitment for three years....
Apprx. .06 cent for every $1,000.00 US Dollars.
Each of these three years, a sum estimated to comparatively grow smaller,
As the US deficit speculatively grows larger]

[ let's now make the analogy of $1,000 Armour with $0.20 tag that says MADE IN USA - may fade with washing- ]

In addition to fractional pennies on the dollar, we spend domestically and abroad, on any number of wide poorly received US Environmental Interests, the Bush/Cheney environmental doctrine has announced ‘plans to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to work with major economies, and, through the United Nations, to complete an international agreement that will slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gasses,’ and that ‘the agreement will be effective only if it includes commitments by every major economy and gives none a free ride.’***

And apparently, that includes the United States.

Back to T. Boone Pickens, the man with the Plan.

In the last few months leading up to the Super Tuesday Elections in the US, TBP and his Plan were at the forefront of any cohesive, semi-transparent ‘viable’ initiative, that might actually follow thru after the inauguration.
TBP, who planned to spend apprx. $58 million on his multi-media effort to promote the Pickens Plan (over 2x’s the amount the Mormon Church spent on defeating Proposition 8 in California) during the 2008 presidential campaigns.

TBP’s media plan, included newspaper and television ads and newer media outlets such as YouTube and Facebook. Appeared on ABC’s Goodmorning America, and Night line, the CBS Evening News, CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNBC’s Squawk Box, CNN’s Larry King Live, Fox News, The Tonight Show, Mad Money with Jim Cramer, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, just to name a few.

After such a media barrage as we’ve seen from TBP, his image has almost faded away, just as fast as we have seen him come to our attention.

But where is the plan today?

PickensPlan.com has a boldly typed splash screen when you first land at the site declaring:

WE MUST BREAK AMERICA’S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL
The Pickens Plan will do it, but we need your help.
Lend your voice to the call for American energy independence.

following with

entry fields for

your first and last name
email address
your zip code

-And then, with the lightest colored font and smallest type,

We are organizing the New Energy Army in every Congressional District. Because of this, it’s necessary for us to collect your zip code. This information will not be sold to or shared with anyone.

After selecting to hide this splash screen, and continue to pickensplan.com- visitors are offered opportunities to view videos from the BooneCam, via the video blog. View whiteboard presentations of the plan. Review the latest ads. A countdown clock to inauguration day -included is a link- to Help Grow the Army, via a form to enter your friends to receive an email from you from the TBP site with the message:

I support T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Independence Plan to reduce our foreign oil dependence by at least 30% within ten years. Please join me as a supporter at http://action.pickensplan.com/taf/. Also, please urge your Members of Congress to sign a pledge in support of the plan by visiting http://action.PickensPlan.com.

A link to Email Obama, contact link for Congress, Push the Plan-Join our Community links, as well as ways to keep in touch via, Facebook/LinkedIn/Myspace/Push/Twitter/YouTube/Digg/CafePress/ including the Daily Pickens RSS.
The site is hoping to reach two million members by the inauguration, and currently holds just under 1.4 million.

While anyone can help organize the ‘New Energy Army’ by signing up to be a ‘District Leader’, it would be nice to hear how TBP’s Plan is currently on track, or is it off?

Without the deluge of media messages like subliminal memes, popping up as the little queen of diamonds, how will we know that TBP and environmentally concerned Americans are really making progress. 1,374,961 members of the pickensplan.com Vs. all the uninformed in the US concerned about how a Bush/Cheney Petrol-Enviromental legacy, will set Americans and the world back by decades, is few.

A New Environment, in the New Administration- Needs to Thrive and Succeed. The new Administration, needs

The Three R’s: Recognize, Resist, Report.

The New Administration, need to see the errors of the old environmental policies and radically change course.
The New Administration, needs New Voices, New Hands and New Shoulders to carry the Crusade of Stewardship, and resist the temptation to cave into pressure of greed and apathy.
The New Environment, Must Not become a Meta-Media rich event with the only reminder, a Newer Eco-friendlier ‘Classic Black T-shirt’.

As the next few months and years come to pass,

You and everyone you know need to find in yourselves,

Room to care for environmental issues- just as much as you would, any other part of your life!

All of our interests and passions in life, whatever they may be,
All exist in many different facets of the environment.
All of our interests and passions in life, effect the environment,

In Many different ways.

The world is on the cusp of being technologically free, to enjoy all that we can dream.

And, on the cusp of waking up to find while we were dreaming, we nearly destroyed all chances to ever fulfill our dreams.

MDP

—-
D.A.R.E. References:
* http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/chapter5/sec4.html
** http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/chapter5/sec4.html

Bush/Cheney Environmental Doctrine:
*** http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23125585-401,00.html

T. Boone Pickens:
Pickens Plan Website http://www.pickensplan.com

Shame On Us, if we Lose American Manufacturing!

 

New Big Three Bailout…
Shame on us if we loose American Manufacturing!

I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC a few days ago[11.19.08].

 A great discussion between Debbie Stabenow[D-Michigan] and Ms. Maddow developed, discussing the state of the Congressional Activity[non] and the merits of why the US should ‘bailout’ the US Auto Industry.

I am an avid news hound looking online and in print, as well as flicking thru the channels to find a decent, if not amusing coverage of the News. And, to my pleasure, I can find a little Oasis in the wasteland of corporate news, in The Rachel Maddow Show.  Rachel’s recap’s of the days politics, are often refreshing, quick-wit fueled, concise sarcasm, that echo’s much of what I find in most sensible peoples, thoughts and conversations, on a relative daily basis. A kind of refreshing conversation that has for the past Seven years and Nine plus months, been somewhat lacking in the domestic pedestrian exchanges.

And yet, if the many Americans, found bustling down the streets, in the bars, teaching in schools, behind the wheel of a taxi cab, walking groceries to your car, filling your prescriptions at the pharmacy, shuffling home on the subway, delivering your mail, speaking thru the radio, writing on the web, talking on television, and not least of which, fixing your transmission- are in fact talking of needing the government to bail out the Auto Industry.

Why, has Congress given up the discussion?
Why, has Congress deemed the ‘Auto Industry Issue’ too insurmountable to warrant in depth discussion?
The governing body of this country has decided that the Auto Industry, need to present the Congress, with a viable plan to fix and regulate its own survival.

Is this the same government people expect to: shape and guide Big Industry’s, for the benefit of our society at large?

Congress has demonstrated, it is to have the media believe: Congress has no suitable plan for the near future- that Chrysler-GM-Ford, must collectively find an actionable incentive for Congress first, before being given a bailout. [noted as not being called a 'rescue plan'...look for that term to be used soon]

And yet…
The Auto Industry has asked for a mere 4% of the 700B Bailout Funds, as a Loan. Not, as a direct bailout.
A Loan, something that the auto industry would have to have the common courtesy to repay the American Taxpayers. Taxpayers, who ultimately will have the ’25B bill’ handed to them. A 25B dollar bill the Auto Industry will sign an I.O.U., to restore Middle Class working jobs, for Goods actually manufacturing on US soil. [how often can you say actually Made in the USA?]

Appx. 3 million plus jobs on US Soil, Hang in Directly in the Balance from a Congress that thinks it would better to, sit and wait, for possibly months to come to a vote to Help the US Auto Industry…. The same Industry that could in fact, actually get their requested 25B Loan out of ‘already’ approved congressional money allocated for the Auto Industry ‘by way of  Congressional Green Initiatives’ set forth to bring the Industry forward, moving away from the addiction to Middle East Oil. A sentiment that has grown in leaps and bounds, each year since 2001.

It would almost be as if, we really had an Uncle[...named Sam?],
Who made a previous arrangement for us to go to College[...learning and implementing Green Initiatives],
Our benefactor Uncle[Sam] who would match us dollar for dollar for education[...congressional moneys set aside for the next four+ years],
The Same Uncle, who heard we had some money issues back at home[...the Auto Industry debt],
Who knew that if we didn’t take care of our finances[...appropriation of a Loan to the Auto Industry],
We might loose our jobs and couldn’t save enough to pay our share of the college cost.   [Loss of possibly millions of jobs on US Soil]

[jobs directly related to feeding the mouths of children, paying for millions of roofs over heads, taxes for infrastructure that supports millions more people, i.e.. Police, Firemen, Hospital workers, City workers, Teachers, Students. And, all of the Already effected Disenfranchised who need help as you read this]

Why do we think it’s okay for Congress to choose to leave the fate of millions of Americans to the whim of the financial markets.

We know with greater chance, these Car companies, if left un-aided, could possibly succumb to their debt, and take such huge losses, completely devaluing their entire worth.

These companies could be left with stocks, already lowered-hovering fifty-percent of their prior value [as of the day writing this], possibly plummeting completely to Zero worth, and even the chance of going into negatives. A reality, that Bankruptcies of the US Auto industry’s giants, will spread even further dept into the sectors that have provided them with credit and manufacturing supplies.   

Why would the US Congress, choose not to limit the spread of such economic turmoil?

Why would the US Congress, currently sit on a vote to save Millions of American Jobs?

Choosing ineffectivness, Just before our Sacred Cash Spending seasons….

Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years?

 

Will those jobs still be viable to provide an income, to even consider having Happy Holidays?

 MDP

Sen. Joe Lieberman & The Wooden Reflection!

 

 

 

 

Senator

 

Joe
Lieberman

 

and

 

The
Exasperated,
long,
drawn- out,
almost,
non-scripted,
yet,
wooden,
forced,
previously,
meditated,
snide,
reflection,
on
Accepting

 

His,
fellow,
Senators,
 
Reluctant,
Gracious,
Forgiving,

 

Tolerance!

 

Tolerance,
without more than
a slap on the wrist.

 

Forgiving Lierberman
the words he spoke.
Words spoken
repeatedly thru Mccains Campaign.

 

Words that in effect, by neglecting to disassociate from the Mccain campaign directive,
Could be viewed as assertion of approval of such a campaign.

 

Approval
of:
Distortion
and or
Outright Lies on,
 

 

Taxes
Economic Plans for the Country
Energy Policy
Health Care Reform
Reforming Washington
Government Spending Policy
Education
Iraq
&

 

The Most
Egregious

 

Allowing
His Supporters
To
Lie, Fear Monger,
&
 Incite
A New Racist
Chapter
for
The United States of America

 

Senator Lieberman,
have you never heard of

 

Guilt
by
Association?

 

You
have the Audacity
To associate for months 
with
Liars, Cheats, Racists, Radicals, and Fanatics.

 

And,
you Dare
Make a speech
after the vote
 
Allowing you to retain your Gavel
as
Head Chairman.

 

Dare Make
a
Speech sounding,
 
Exasperated,
long,
drawn-out,
almost,
non-scripted,
yet,
wooden,
forced,
previously,
meditated on,
and snide.

 

I imagine, you nearly look more republican now, in your own mirror,
than any of your constituents will ever see you.

 

Will you at least show gratitude to your Party,
by
at least
Voting in favor of the party’s initiatives while in session.

 

Or, is your ultimate goal,
to be the thorn in the side of those who need your vote?

 

Just to be spiteful,
after
Having publicly shown
How badly you backed the wrong Horse?

 

Senator Lieberman

Your race is about to begin!

 

Who will you truly run for?

 

 

 

 

 

DC Pirates and the Filibuster, that may never be?

In my last article, At a New Crossroads.
I pointed out the importance of the Democratic shift.
How the Senatorial Crossroads could help the United States,
…if the Senate gets a filibuster proof 60 seat majority.
In favor of, Democrats.

However!
What is & why would,
a Filibuster,
be So Critical to the New Administration?

In short, you do not want to see Captain Jack Sparrow,
wearing an adult diaper, mumbling into the wind.

Or, do you?

How did we turn a term meaning a ‘pirate’ or ‘freebooter’, into something that politicians probably, secretly, dream and drool over at night when no one is watching?

As we know it today, a filibuster, or “talking out a bill”, or “talking the cheese” is a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body.
An attempt [filibuster] is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.

The term ‘filibuster’ was first used in 1851. It was derived from the Spanish term ‘filibustero’, meaning ‘pirate’ or ‘freebooter’.

This term[filibustero] had in turn evolved from the French word ‘flibustier’, which itself evolved from the Dutch ‘vrijbuiter’ (freebooter). This term was applied at the time to American adventurers, mostly from Southern states.
Persons who sought to overthrow the governments of Central American countries.
Later in American politics, the term was transformed for the users of the ‘filibuster’, as a tactic for ‘pirating’ or ‘hijacking’ a debate.

The Filibuster first came into use in the United States, by way of the Senate.
Senate rules- permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish, and on any topic they choose, unless a super majority of three-fifths of the Senate, [60 Senators, if all 100 seats are filled] brings debate to a close by invoking ‘cloture’.

In current US Senate practice,
Senate Rule 22 permits ‘procedural’ filibusters in which actual continuous floor speeches are not required. Although, the Senate Majority Leader may require an actual traditional filibuster if he or she so chooses.

This threat of a procedural filibuster can therefore be as powerful as an actual filibuster.

Previously, the filibustering senator(s) could delay voting only by making an endless speech.
Currently, they need only indicate that they are filibustering, preventing the Senate from moving on to other business until the motion is withdrawn.
Or, enough votes are gathered for ‘cloture’.

Herein lies the problem…

Preparations for a filibuster can be very elaborate.
Sleeping cots are brought into the hallways and cloakrooms for senators to sleep on.
In a filibuster, the senator talking must remain in the same spot and is only allowed to filibuster twice in a legislative day.
A legislative day lasts until the debate is adjourned, which can take days.

[Think of the worst professor you have/ever had. Imagine that prof's worst lecture, lasting not just a couple of hours, but for days...]

According to Newsweek,
“They used to call it ‘taking to the diaper,’ a phrase that referred to the preparation undertaken by a prudent senator before an extended filibuster.”

Senator Strom Thurmond used to visit a steam room before his filibuster.
His purpose, to dehydrate himself, so he could drink without urinating.

…I’ll repeat that in case you just gleamed that fact, and it hasn’t set in yet.

Senator Strom Thurmond used to visit a steam room before his filibuster.
His purpose, to dehydrate himself, so he could drink without urinating.

An aide, used to stand by in the cloakroom with a pail, in case Senator Thurmond had an ‘emergency’.

Why would Senator Thurmond do this?
This man actually made plans for talking so long, that he wouldn’t even stop when he knew he should leave, to use a bathroom.
Senator Thurmond actually had a term of endearment devised for him and any that would follow in his place, to be called:
“Taking to the Diaper”

Filibusters have become much more common in recent decades.
The only way the current Senate will be able to maneuver around a filibuster…

Cloture!

In 1917 a rule allowing for the cloture of debate (ending a ‘pirate’) was adopted by the Democratic Senate.
From 1917 to 1949, the requirement for cloture was two-thirds of those voting.
In 1946 Southern Senators blocked a vote on a bill by a filibuster, lasting weeks.
That bill, was forced into removal from consideration after a failed cloture vote even though there was reported enough votes to pass the bill.

As civil rights loomed on the Senate agenda, the cloture rule was revised in 1949 to allow cloture on any measure or motion by two-thirds of the entire Senate membership; in 1959 the threshold was restored to two-thirds of those voting. After a series of filibusters led by Southern Democrats in the 1960s over civil rights legislation, the Democratic-controlled Senate in 1975 revised its cloture rule so that three-fifths of the Senators sworn (usually 60 senators) could limit debate.

Changes to Senate rules still require two-thirds of Senators voting. Despite this rule, the filibuster or the threat of a filibuster remains an important tactic that allows a minority to affect legislation.

Strom Thurmond (D/R-SC) set a record in 1957 by filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes, although the bill ultimately passed.

Thurmond broke the previous record of 22 hours and 26 minutes set by Wayne Morse (I-OR) in 1953 protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation.

The filibuster has tremendously increased in frequency of use since the 1960s.

In the 1960s, no Senate term had more than seven filibusters. One of the filibusters of the 1960s, was when southern Democratic Senators attempted to block the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by making a filibuster that lasted for 75 hours.

In the first decade of the 21st century, no Senate term had fewer than 49 filibusters.
The 1999-2002 Senate terms both had 58 filibusters. In the fall of 2007, the 110th Congress’ 1st session broke the record, for filibuster cloture votes, topping 70 as of Nov 15, 2007. It is on track to triple the number of such votes in the close of 2008′s 2nd session.

A New Senate term will soon flourish with both sides of the isle, engaging in new competitions to see how to one-up the other side.
Midnight oils will burn dimly behind DC window panes. Storms, will pelt and brew outside.
We know that in President Elect Obama’s first administration, the Senate is sure to face a tantamount of attempts to Filibuster.

I can only hope, after the past eight years of US history, composed of extreme & unbalanced, : Executive, Congressional, and Supreme Court policies.
The kind of Politics and Policy, setting back, what has taken this country decades of nuance and thoughtful policy to advance us as, a country to be admired, and even an inspiration…

The American people will finally seize the opportunity to demand a refusal.
A revocation of Republican politicians in the middle of the night, plotting and devising arguments for yet another filibuster.

I do not want to find this country in the next Senate term, perpetuating the assumption that we need grown men and women, most, who likely are not quite at the stage of life to routinely need diapers again, to find ways to play dress up and prattle on, and on, and on.

Those kind of politics,will ultimately provide a great excuse, when nowhere near everything we need to agree to change about the United States, sits unattended, withering, ignored and forgotten.

If anything, those with inclinations to still want to play baby dress-up, should stick to the usual DC agreed contract.

Pay for a beautiful escort to provide and pamper you in a diaper of your choice, call you a pirate, be your little ‘party’ girl or boy, wash the coke-snot from your nose, and listen to your sad life story when you have ‘Coke Dick’ and can’t get it up.

If you pay for it ‘Captain’,

But you cant quite keep it up,
You can still Filibuster your Hooker,
All the way back to the bank.
Your still going to have to pay for it anyway.

But do me the favor for once,
Don’t make me, have to pay for you, to waste another six years of my life.

I rather watch this country grow and prosper, the way it was meant to.
Without a paid monkey, chattering away in a diaper.

Now,
I’ll remind you incase you are still trying to get out of your mind, the wannabe Jack Sparrows
Swishing about the Senate floor, trying to walk with a diaper riding up a $2000 suit.

The principles to the filibusters Great Demise…

Cloture!
Procedure for “invoking cloture,” or ending a filibuster, is as follows:

• A minimum of sixteen senators must sign a petition for cloture.
• The petition may be presented by interrupting another Senator’s speech.
• The clerk reads the petition.
• The cloture petition is ignored for one full day during which the Senate is sitting (If the petition is filed on a Friday, it is ignored until Monday, assuming that the Senate did not sit on Saturday or Sunday.)
• On the second calendar day during which the Senate sits after the presentation of the petition, after the Senate has been sitting for one hour, a “quorum call” is undertaken to ensure that a majority of the Senators are present.
• The President of the Senate or President pro tempore presents the petition.
• The Senate votes on the petition; three-fifths of the whole number of Senators (sixty with no vacancies) is the required majority; however, when cloture is invoked on a question of changing the rules of the Senate, two-thirds of the Senators voting (not necessarily two-thirds of all Senators) is the requisite majority.
• After cloture has been invoked, the following restrictions apply:
• No more than thirty hours of debate may occur.
• No Senator may speak for more than one hour.
• No amendments may be moved unless they were filed on the day in between the presentation of the petition and the actual cloture vote.
• All amendments must be relevant to the debate.
• Certain debates on procedure are not permissible.
• The presiding officer gains additional power in controlling debate.
• No other matters may be considered until the question upon which cloture was invoked is disposed of.

If you the reader of this, do not want your Senators to have to waste time, the same Senators you elected to help make your country better for You.
To sit and Wait, for the likes of the Diaper Wearers.
‘Debate Extremists’, who will force the rest of the Senate to go thru all those motions,
Motions just to get thru the basics of knowing, that we need to change for the better, our: Healthcare, Education, Entitements, Domestic and Foreign Policy. To Pursue equal rights to for all US citizens. The Fucking Economy!!!

Then, for the love of your country, and hope for a Better Tomorrow, sooner than later…
Urge all available to ensure fair governance in the recounts still underway thru out this country.

Make sure you try to help the Democratic movement for the likely December Election in Georgia.
Tell your friends about how close we are to a filibuster proof Senate this term.
How we can avoid the typical DC Politics, and how we can really see a difference, if only we guide our government out of a forked road onto a path we choose.
Tell our politicians what we want them to do for US, instead of the other way around.
Actually, put effort into bringing about the future we have desperately wanted for years, and always shrug off when we allow Politicians to ruin it for us.

If you tell every one in your address book, on your contact list, on your buddy list, bulletin all your social networks, network and repost on any site allowing for word to be spread.

Your six degree of separation from the government of your choice will manifest if you want it.

Or, if you still want a DC Pirate to walk funny down the aisle.
Just buy them a Diaper now.

MDP

At a New Crossroads

After Palin Goes to Washington,
The Saga continues…

 

Five days ago, I wrote about the possibilities of something very uncommon happening in the United States.
Something not seen since the late 1930′s.
Appointment of a resigned governor, to the Senate.
An article, written just two days after what is becoming one of the most important, and one of the greatest nights of this century.  The election of President Elect, Barack Obama.

 

 

 

But that’s not even the half of it.

 

 

 

The Resignation of Sarah Palin is one of the yellow brick roads on way to disrupt a hopeful, 60 Senate seat Majority. The attempt at majority is aggressively being watched by all who are hoping that Democrats will have a ‘Filibuster’ proof Senate.

 

On the road to see who will be behind the curtains for the next term.

We have three yellow brick roads leading to our New Emerald City.

 

These roads are paved with the sweat and tears of campaigners. Polished to a shiny golden glow, with voter hopes and dreams. Our voter confidence, skipping, merrily along three long roads, with a lot of twists and turns and “ifs, and maybes”.

 

Is a merry majority still possible?

 

Coming in the next few weeks…

We will know if we have been on the correct golden brick road. We will know if there is a house about to fall on our heads. Or, if a few winged monkeys, and their wicked witch from the west, will just melt away from the public eye.

 

The 2008 US election has left the people, at a New crossroads.
If only for the symbolic nature of choosing four different paths to travel on.

 

At the time of witting this.
Democrats walked down one golden road to a win in the Oregon Senate race.
Democrat Jeff Merkley has ousted Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, a victory once considered unlikely against an incumbent. The first defeat for an Oregon senator in 40 years.

 

In Minnesota, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman leads Al Franken by a scant 237 votes. Democrats are hopeful Franken can make up that difference in a recount. If the Democrats can pull out of this close call with the just one more than the Standing Republican in Minnesota, they’ll be standing at 58 strong when they vote this term.

 

In Alaska, the race for a democrat in the Senate is still far from over. Democrat Mark Begich trails embattled Ted Stevens by 3,400 votes, but there are 55,000 absentee and provisional ballots that won’t be counted until next week. If democratic hopeful Mark Begich can find at least 25,801 votes to him. Democrats will be at 59.

 

If both of these roads are traveled on, then it gets really interesting for the race to a Filibuster proof Senate.
To secure a 60th seat in the Senate, democrats need to win the Georgia runoff next month.
The runoff is to be scheduled on or about the 2nd of December. [This means we need to rally Georgian democratic voters just as strong as we did in the National Election. Georgians have a great opportunity with this final electoral road. A greater democratic change is possible, We just have only a few weeks to wins this!]   

 

Political analysts believe incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss would win any runoff, because African Americans likely won’t turn out in the same numbers for a runoff. National Republicans will be motivated to win the Georgia runoff after the stinging losses on Super Tuesday.

 

Currently Sen. John Mccain, has made pilgrimage. Possibly down the wrong golden road to Georgia, in hopes of helping Sen. Saxby Chambliss try and gain enough support in his state.

Republican helping Republican, Chambliss trying to remain an incumbent for the Senate. 

 

If  Sen. Mccain is successful in helping Sen. Chambliss, this will not only be the first constructive Win for the former presidential hopeful. It will also be the first event to help mend his political clout with his party. An attempt to provide evidence that his efficacy as a public servant will not be completely stained by his failed presidential campaign.

 

If history is about to provide the United States Senate, filibuster proof, with governing control by a 60 seat Democratic majority. We will effectively have, two grand historic electoral wins in US history!

 

 

MDP

Check in soon to Read why a Filibuster is So Critical to the New Administration.
  

Palin Goes to Washington

The Post Election News most interesting right now…

 

How will Sarah Palin stay relevant for the GOP after having such a disastrous effect of the presidential campaign of Senator John Mccain?

 

Apparently if she declines Hollywood’s advances, and the courting she would possible have by News networks for a probable generic news show.

 

The media estranged Governor could possibly be a relevant face in the Washington political circles if she in fact resigned from Office.

 

Resign.
That’s correct! 

 

Like many polarized voters wishes after Senator Mccain cherry picked a complete stranger to the Lower 48, after the horrendous constant reminder that a Finishing School, or possibly a better funded public education system could have made her at least Tolerable, many Americans (and maybe many around the world) could possibly get their wish.

 

Why would this even seem plausible for the seemingly party stalwart Republican Governor?

 

For that nearly parallel world reality, consider this:

 

Incumbent Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens(Rep),
who the day before the election,
was 8 points down against his opposition,
Democratic Senate hopeful Mark Begich.
The longest serving GOP Senator Stevens,
Now has a 2 points ahead?

 

That lead could go up.

 

And the count could still take up to 2 more weeks for the Alaskan Senate election results.
This gives Governor Palin, who obviously sees herself as a possibility for the party in a 2012 election just enough time woo her party after Senator Mccains dismal failure. The Republican party has had a very hard time this election season shoring up its base, and now with an even narrow vote in the House and Senate, they need to do damage control. For every little issue as well for anything from the past that is gaining speed in the review mirror.

 

A potential Boon for Governor Palin,
Senator Ted Stevens was just convicted of Felony crimes. Seven Counts to be exact, a seven-felony string of corruption charge. Stevens found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and fancy trimmings from an oil executive and then lying about it.

 

If the Senator is to win the election from Super Tuesday, He he could face being removed from office.

 

In the event that the Alaskan People demand that the Corrupt Senator is ousted, Who fills his post?

 

As an interim, Sarah Palin.

 

Not as the Governor, but as the Sarah Palin, The Hockey Mom from Wasilla.
The possible former Republican Governor could resign and then be appointed to the Senate by her replacement, her then former lieutenant governor.

 

Something the United States hasn’t seen since 1939.

 

 

MDP