IT'S A LONG, LONG ROAD A-WINDING - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 11-06-09

            HELLO AGAIN – IT’S FRIDAY!

 

            It’s pretty hard to top this past week for packing in exciting, important stuff – both the WORLD SERIES and special elections that indicate a possible corrective course the American electorate is on the verge of making.

 

            Not too read too much into the Yankee win… Apparently the ability to throw many $$$ at the strike zone has a great bearing on success or failure… not total – but a strong trend.  

 

            On the other hand what the Obamacrats found out was the popularity of “the anointed one” – as Sean Hannity likes to characterize the President – doesn’t transfer readily to those whom he endorses. And to all appearances, Mrs. Pelosi – who enjoys a *very safe* House district in San Francisco – is not unwilling to send her troops to throw themselves over the health-care barricades and serve the egos of the Democrat leadership, without a care – at least that’s the way it seems to me.     

 

            Heretofore I’ve compared the mood of the country with that experienced in about the third year of the Carter Presidency  -- after the capture of the American embassy in Iran, the killer rabbit episode, the declaration of devotion to Red China instead of our old ally Nationalist China, and casting the American spirit as one of “Malaise” as he drew near the end of his first (and only) term – but I think I’ve misjudged the President.  Whereas it took Bre’r Jimmeh, nearly three years into his term in office to reach that kind of low point – it appears Mr. Obama has done the job in about nine and a half months!  Now that takes some kind of reckless policy mismanagement – that’s what I think.

 

            There’s little doubt Mr. Obama retains a lot of the personal charisma that carried him into office.  But realistically, he definitely did NOT come in on a landslide.  It *was* a definite defeat for the GOP who had, in a series of errors, lost their bearings… and many had forgotten (if they ever knew) the basic tenants of being Republicans.  [That’s happened before with the Rockefeller wing of the GOP – who aimed the ship at becoming Democrats Lite.]

 

            I’m not a particularly good political prognosticator being pre-disposed, I think, to -- find what I’m looking for – which is to say, I let my optimism run away with me sometime.  But I am encouraged by the events in Virginia (my home state) New Jersey and New York.  I

 

            The turn-around in that race was exciting and came a lot closer than the media gives credit for – plus the fact people in Congressional races really do want someone who lives in the District… knows the issues and doesn’t appear to be taking advantage of an opening.  That’s not intended to be critical of Mr. Hoffman… and the local Democrat machine in NY 23 put together a resuscitation effort particularly with the help of the GOP drop-out Miz DeDe Scozzafava. That District will be re-gerrymandered under the Dem. Dominated NY legislature and represented by Democrats in any case. That would have happened no matter who won.  So it was a good fight… we just didn’t win that’s all. It’s not a civil war within the GOP as the main stream media wants to portray it.

 

            Well… next week we’ll abandon politics altogether… be sure and be with us on Monday.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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IT’S A LONG, LONG ROAD A-WINDING

Just A Minute – “Change is what I wanted – and change is what I’m getting…” said a retired funeral director in middle New Jersey after Mr. Obama’s candidate took a drubbing in the Garden State.  Another said: "I'm tired of Corzine.  We have the highest property taxes in the United States…" – that from a former Obama supporter in Ocean County, delighted to put an end to Gov. Corzine’s one-term run as governor.

          The voters remembered vividly his promises to straighten out the state’s finances and since he was touted as a ‘financial wizard’ of Wall Street – but property taxes are $5,000 on a $350,000 house, and as the housing market tanked he raised the sales tax.

          Property taxes in Monmouth County have doubled in six years where margin was Christie, 62 percent, Corzine, 31 percent.

          "Change" was cited by 39 percent of voters to exit pollsters as #1 in New Jersey adding: "Change is good, know what I mean?"

          Those voters in New Jersey really latched on to Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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