Welcome to the discussion on a Friday…. (I think I said that in error yesterday…0h well…)
There’s a big BLOG named POLITICO which did a story this week about the trouble Rep. John Spratt of the SC 5th Congressional District is in *because* it has been noted in that BLOG John Spratt has voted with Madam Nancy Pelosi – otherwise known as the Queen of San Francisco… Oh yes and Speaker of the House of Representatives – The first female to attain that privilege. Anyway Mr. Spratt has been so loyal as to vote something like 98% of the time with Mrs. Pelosi.
POLITICO sent a correspondent over to the 5th Congressional in SC… to see for himself/herself. And indeed they did find that although Mr. Spratt has been voted into office 14 times, he may be in trouble this time because of the Tidal Wave effect – of which nobody knows *just* what IS going to happen… but they’re all worried. They all look back at 1994 and wonder will it be bad or worse.
From the write up given on POLITICO – although sympathetic – it appears he, like others possibly stands on the brink.
It looks to me somewhat like what happens when a pitcher in the big leagues is on the verge of pitching a no-hit game. Nobody is willing to even mention it lest it jinx the progress of things. Mr. Spratt is at present chairman of the Budget Committee in the House I believe. Obviously he takes his orders from “Madam Speaker.” But equally obviously … she’s possibly riding for a fall too!
So everybody is walking around trying not to step on the eggshells. Even Barney Frank seems to be worried. Nobody actually knows how high this Tidal Sweep will go… you could be way under or over on your estimate… either one makes you look like you’re not in the “KNOW”!
Anyway… it’s late – and I have nothing of substance to contribute… except I will think on it over the weekend. Why don’t you do the same and drop me a line at n4zhk@arrl.net... And that way it will get to me and not be hijacked by Gremlins or kremlins along the way. (J)
See you Monday… Lord willing!
Cordially IN HIM
Jack
Delayed audio link:
http://www.wmuu.com/blog/category/audio/just-a-minute/
“JUST A MINUTE”
REP. SPRATT IN A 5TH DISTRICT PELOSI HOT TUB
Just a Minute: -- John Spratt, has been
But the popular blog named Politico assesses his contest this year as the most difficult so far, and apparently Mr. Spratt agrees. In a tour of the District a former Democratic State Senator Jim Lander, laid part of the problem at the feet of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whose ‘attack ads’, he says, have made the race “loud and negative.” But Lander believes Spratt will survive because 5th District voters have split the ticket 14 times.
But in Newberry, a Republican who talked briefly with Spratt, was a truck driver – construction worker, working two jobs, who listened politely to Spratt’s explanation of stimulus dollars trickling down. But after Spratt had moved said while he’s a Republican who’s previously voted for Spratt, this will be the first time he’s voted against him this November remarked: “He seems to have changed,” he said … “Plus, I can’t stand Obama or that [blankety-blank] Pelosi.”
<> I’m Jack Buttram.
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