Just a quick thought (or two) after the election...

[capri0mni]

Nearly every pundit I've heard talking through the magic picture box has been saying that this mid-term election has been a referendum on Bush-- folks are angry at Bush, so they vote against him indirectly by voting his party out of power.

Yet, this morning, when I was looking at an online poll asking: "Why did you vote?". I could not bring myself to click the Against Bush answer, because it's more than that.

Yes, I'm angry at Bush. Yes, I think he may very well be Satan's lackey here on Earth. But my vote was more than misplaced anger. According to our Constitution, it's the #1 Job of the Legislative Branch to put a lid on any president's mad grab for power but this House and Senate has rolled over and played puppy dog for President Bush ever since 9/11. So when I cast my vote for the newcomers, rather than the incumbants, I did so with the hope that they would actually do their job.

Oh, and also, on a more amusing note:

In the final days of the Senatorial in Virginia (The one that is probably going into a recount, and may tip the balance in the Senate, too), the Allen (R) campaign was running ads saying we can't trust Jim Webb because he's a "Fiction Writer" and has written "Sexually explicit scenes" in his past novels that were "Demeaning to women."

And I was like: "Really? Jim Webb has written Pr0n? Cool! Is it well written?"

And frankly, I what I find truly demeaning is that the Allen camp would: a) automatically think all women hate porn, and b) that even if all women did hate porn, that would be the issue that would trump the mess in Iraq, the minimum wage, and healthcare costs.

But that's just me.

(oh, and the way the system works, here in Virginia, we won't know the results of the Webb/Allen recount until December, at the earliest. Keep your fingers crossed!)

Comments

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

He did write a novel. What he wrote about, though, was culture shock from when he was in the military. In some countries it's a custom to kiss your children's genitals as a form of affection, luck, whatever. So.. Allen took a really narrow section of that book, and waved it around saying "It's child porn!! He writes child porn!!"

I think there was also some romance novel level stuff in the book, too.

I know all this, cause I have a friend who is .. fixated on all forms of porn.:P

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured it was something like that. The way I see it, the only way you can really demean me with your writing is if you write poorly...

I just got a hoot out of those ads because of the way the announcer said fiction, as if writing it were a cardinal sin, or something... And then to argue because Webb wrote scene, he must believe everything in that scene, himself.

I had to resist the temptation to talk back to the TV: "You did just say it was fiction--like, 5 seconds ago...Do you not know what that word means?"

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole idea of the legislature just willfully abdicating their power and responsibility has made me furious as well.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

"The Founding Fathers" really agreed on very little, politically, way back when-- their gatherings were just as devisive and name-cally as any mothern gathering of Congress. But I think all of them must have been doing syncronized grave-spinning for the last six years.

Maybe now, they can go back to getting some rest...