A few tidbits...
May is here and everything is becoming beautiful here in Westerville again. It's so nice to see green on the trees again, and witness the spring flowers blooming. We've been trying to spend a good amount of time outdoors, so I've left little time to my other interests... blogging ect. Ah, but so goes life.
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Recent polls show a pretty encouraging trend (or discouraging depending on who you talk to, I suppose). Bush is at an all time low of 31%, not too far off from Nixon's 27% during the Watergate scandal. Polls also show that the general public's trust in the Republican party versus the Democrats is also suffering. You hear Republican pundants constantly spouting off a "lack of agenda" problem with the Democratic Party. In my opinion, the Dems don't need one at this point. Bush continues to drive the party like a coked-up drunk headed for a brick wall at 110 mph.
I think Americans are finally seeing through the curtain of fear that has been clouding the public's perception. People are standing up for what is right and just, and are done with the right wing spin machine's tired excuses about the handling of Iraq.
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In another move to try to isolate themselves from the voting public, the Republican controlled House voted to pass Bush's tax cut package. While there hasn't been much press on this, I think the middle class would be a little disheartened to find out that their actual cut amounts to little more than $30 for those making 30K to 70K. Those above 70K to 180K will get a little over a hundred dollars back on average... but if you make over 1M a year, expect atleast 50K in relief. Who says that this package is a giveaway to the rich???
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I heard an encouraging theory on the future of the Latino vote in many red states, including Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Currently, Hispanics account for roughly 25% of the population, but are having almost 50% of recent newborns in this country. Historically, the Hispanic vote, although often courted by Republican candidates, runs about 65 to 70% Democratic. Hispanics tend to vote for issues that effect them the most, such as social programs and education... both strong points of the progressive movement. Hispanics also are generally sympathetic to illegal immigrant rights... so you can't assume that Republicans are scoring many points with this rhetoric of mass deportation and wall building. It's not hard to imagine the demographics of these states may change dramatically to the left with the coming population boom. Maybe not now, but in the next 10 to 20 years. Imagine, Texas..voting Democrat!
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On a personal note, my Carpet Yeti site has a new url address. If you happen to read it, or are interested in stopping by, you can find me at http://voyagesofacarpetyeti.blogspot.com/. Long address... long story on why it changed, but I won't get into that.
That's all for now... I will be haunting some of the peeps on my blogroll this weekend as I haven't been out of the cyberhouse in a while.
Thanks for stopping by!
Andrew
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Recent polls show a pretty encouraging trend (or discouraging depending on who you talk to, I suppose). Bush is at an all time low of 31%, not too far off from Nixon's 27% during the Watergate scandal. Polls also show that the general public's trust in the Republican party versus the Democrats is also suffering. You hear Republican pundants constantly spouting off a "lack of agenda" problem with the Democratic Party. In my opinion, the Dems don't need one at this point. Bush continues to drive the party like a coked-up drunk headed for a brick wall at 110 mph.
I think Americans are finally seeing through the curtain of fear that has been clouding the public's perception. People are standing up for what is right and just, and are done with the right wing spin machine's tired excuses about the handling of Iraq.
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In another move to try to isolate themselves from the voting public, the Republican controlled House voted to pass Bush's tax cut package. While there hasn't been much press on this, I think the middle class would be a little disheartened to find out that their actual cut amounts to little more than $30 for those making 30K to 70K. Those above 70K to 180K will get a little over a hundred dollars back on average... but if you make over 1M a year, expect atleast 50K in relief. Who says that this package is a giveaway to the rich???
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I heard an encouraging theory on the future of the Latino vote in many red states, including Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Currently, Hispanics account for roughly 25% of the population, but are having almost 50% of recent newborns in this country. Historically, the Hispanic vote, although often courted by Republican candidates, runs about 65 to 70% Democratic. Hispanics tend to vote for issues that effect them the most, such as social programs and education... both strong points of the progressive movement. Hispanics also are generally sympathetic to illegal immigrant rights... so you can't assume that Republicans are scoring many points with this rhetoric of mass deportation and wall building. It's not hard to imagine the demographics of these states may change dramatically to the left with the coming population boom. Maybe not now, but in the next 10 to 20 years. Imagine, Texas..voting Democrat!
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On a personal note, my Carpet Yeti site has a new url address. If you happen to read it, or are interested in stopping by, you can find me at http://voyagesofacarpetyeti.blogspot.com/. Long address... long story on why it changed, but I won't get into that.
That's all for now... I will be haunting some of the peeps on my blogroll this weekend as I haven't been out of the cyberhouse in a while.
Thanks for stopping by!
Andrew
Yeah, that tax package was really obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteI know about blog travels, it gets harder as the days get warmer! There is another carpet yeti blog and I am glad you posted the new url because I went on a goose chase after blogrolling it incorrectly.
Good to see you out of the bloghouse!
Oh by the way, add your links to Blue Republic. Some people there do not have blogs and it helps people surf!
ReplyDeleteThe whole tax cut issue looks even worse if you examine if from the perspective of percentages of income.
ReplyDeleteThe tax issue is bad even without looking at that!
ReplyDelete"...a coked-up drunk headed for a brick wall at 110 mph."
ReplyDeleteWhy not just say, "like Patrick Kennedy?"
Good point, Rex.
ReplyDeleteReady for the Distract-A-Speech tonight drew?
ReplyDeleteTo be frank, I'd rather watch a My Two Dad's marathon than listen to Bush's speech. His writers are so lazy.. when he gave his speech about his new nominee for CIA chief, it was the exact point-for-point speech he gave when Porter Goss went up for nomination. Christ, if you are going to get up there and capitulate the propaganda, atleast mix it up.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't miss anything w/regard to the Shrub's speech..it was less than 20 minutes..
ReplyDeletehe's sending troops to the border..where is he going to find them I ask..under a rock? perhaps hire the illegals streaming over? who knows..