MRS. SPEAKER SWINGS A MEAN LASSO - Just a Minute Radio -- For Friday March 12, 2010

            Howdy… Like I told the crew… it’s not been the easiest week to unkink the knowledge base.  I’ve had lots of good help… It’s just filtered through my two brain cells that seem to have developed atrophied mental muscles. (L) – but we limp along… with the expectation we’ll eventually chase all  the ghosts down.

 

            Meantime… it’s been a harried experience for the folks on whom I depend to give me the technical knowledge I don’t have… and I seem to be well behind the learning curve on computers… although I didn’t think I started that far back in the pack back in 1978 or so when we fired up the first TRS-DOS mammoth machine which had less capacity than the average PDA or wrist watch today it seems. 

 

            I’m not griping … just rather mystified to simply hear the whoosh… and feel the breeze as the electronic bullet train rips by me and I wonder what’s happening.  But… some day… well.. it won’t matter then. (J)

 

            This upcoming contest between the definite minority in the House and Senate… ought to be emblazoned on our minds and hearts. We’ve already seen the bold outlines of what’s portending.  Let’s just pray we don’t have to get down to the details but can pull the ship of state out of the dive yet.  Well, there I’ve mixed my last metaphor for today… Next week has GOT to be better… I hope – and PRAY…. I also hope YOU are praying.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

MRS. SPEAKER SWINGS A MEAN LASSO

             Just a Minute: -- Michael Barone, Editor of the Almanac of American Politics,  counts real votes not wishes for the best.

             He believes if Mrs. Pelosi had the votes today – she’d call for the vote today. So it can be assumed she doesn’t or isn’t sure. He then does the math of who’s died, who’s left, and who’s switched and comes up with 215 -- one vote shy in the current House.       On top of that, lies the House’s historic distrust of the Senate, demonstrated by Nevada’s Shelly Berkley, telling the New York Times, she wants ‘more than a promise´ adding, “the Senate couldn’t promise it’s way out of a paper bag.”

             At the end of Mr. Barone’s analysis… possibly the Speaker can round up the votes… but about 40 are significantly in doubt.  They are needed to make the necessary 216.

             We all should be praying Mr. Barone is right, because that would put a significant barrier in the way of this power grab for a sixth of America’s economy. Who knows what other tricks Satan may have in store.

             <> I’m Jack Buttram              (END)

 

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