Monday, August 29, 2011
It is not "Driving and Crying"!
This is pretty awesome, these guys could rock. Late Night with David Letterman. Drivin n Cryin "Fly Me Courageous" and check out Paul Shaffer rockin' out.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
optimistic thoughts
My reaction to yesterday’s recall election:
• It is always very hard to unseat an incumbent, our “democracy” has been flawed for years for many reason in favor of incumbents who have name recognition, power, money and non-competitive districts. This was a tough fight to win.
• These were all strong GOP districts.
• Most of these guys were elected in 2008 during the Obama race so they have pretty strong support.
• Many other vulnerable GOP senators were not eligible for a recall until next year because they were just elected in November and we should recall them with Walker. Some who barely won in 2010 who we should kick out Leah Vukmir, Van Wanggaard, Pam Galloway.
• The GOP attack ads were funded by outside private money and were vicious and nasty and contained lies and misinformation.
• Given that Dale Schultz appears more moderate (he did not support the budget repair bill) it will be good for us if the GOP has only a one seat majority.
• I am not discouraged about a Walker recall. A huge factor in who wins elections is based on turnout. In a statewide race there are huge numbers of democrats who would come out to vote against Walker. I am hoping many who voted yesterday feel, I like my senator but I don’t like Walker. His approval rating is down, Democrats have won statewide races before and with a strong opponent Walker can go down in 2012.
• The Democratic message for the recalls was too timid on the issue of the cuts to public employees benefits and limiting unions. They focused too much on the specific candidates and avoided talking much about the budget repair bill. I understand that the point, “Walker tried to get rid of unions” is not the best approach to motivate many voters but I think the message could have been much stronger about what the negative consequences were of the GOP Budget Repair bill: hurt public schools, worse public services, hurt local economies, big hit to huge number of lower and middle-class families, lower quality of life for all in WI.
• The GOP now knows that people are paying attention. They can not get away with whatever they want without the public knowing what they are doing as things used to be in the past. The balance of power aside, the public are doing their job in this democracy and will let their representatives know if they are not happy with their actions. We will not allow these representatives to just goof off any more. They will need to answer to voters.
• I hope that every GOP senator and representative in WI who runs will face strong challengers when they run (unlike the past) and will have to defend their record in debates and on TV. Times have changed. We won’t forget this and hopefully in 2012 change will happen.
• It is always very hard to unseat an incumbent, our “democracy” has been flawed for years for many reason in favor of incumbents who have name recognition, power, money and non-competitive districts. This was a tough fight to win.
• These were all strong GOP districts.
• Most of these guys were elected in 2008 during the Obama race so they have pretty strong support.
• Many other vulnerable GOP senators were not eligible for a recall until next year because they were just elected in November and we should recall them with Walker. Some who barely won in 2010 who we should kick out Leah Vukmir, Van Wanggaard, Pam Galloway.
• The GOP attack ads were funded by outside private money and were vicious and nasty and contained lies and misinformation.
• Given that Dale Schultz appears more moderate (he did not support the budget repair bill) it will be good for us if the GOP has only a one seat majority.
• I am not discouraged about a Walker recall. A huge factor in who wins elections is based on turnout. In a statewide race there are huge numbers of democrats who would come out to vote against Walker. I am hoping many who voted yesterday feel, I like my senator but I don’t like Walker. His approval rating is down, Democrats have won statewide races before and with a strong opponent Walker can go down in 2012.
• The Democratic message for the recalls was too timid on the issue of the cuts to public employees benefits and limiting unions. They focused too much on the specific candidates and avoided talking much about the budget repair bill. I understand that the point, “Walker tried to get rid of unions” is not the best approach to motivate many voters but I think the message could have been much stronger about what the negative consequences were of the GOP Budget Repair bill: hurt public schools, worse public services, hurt local economies, big hit to huge number of lower and middle-class families, lower quality of life for all in WI.
• The GOP now knows that people are paying attention. They can not get away with whatever they want without the public knowing what they are doing as things used to be in the past. The balance of power aside, the public are doing their job in this democracy and will let their representatives know if they are not happy with their actions. We will not allow these representatives to just goof off any more. They will need to answer to voters.
• I hope that every GOP senator and representative in WI who runs will face strong challengers when they run (unlike the past) and will have to defend their record in debates and on TV. Times have changed. We won’t forget this and hopefully in 2012 change will happen.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
And every time you feel like cryin', I'm gonna try and make you laugh
The video is odd but I Love this song, with a capitol L.
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