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The best photos of the trip except for wedding photos. Date: Oct 31, 2010 |
Two years are not enough to clean up 8 years of disaster. Democrats deserve more time and Republicans do not deserve a second/third/fourth chance.
Vote.
In NM, Democrats Can’t Lose Unless They Give Up
Add to the following important facts: Republican registration is around 32% and Independents less than 20%. Even if every non-Dem votes Republican (and they won’t), Republicans only win if Dems don’t vote or do vote Republican.
Democracy for New Mexico: NM Democrats Beating Republicans in Early Voting by 8000+ Votes
Here are the facts:
- 8,000 more Democrats than Republicans have voted early, according to the most recent data provided by the Secretary of State. This data does not include Early Voting that took place on Saturday, traditionally the busiest Early Voting day of the cycle, which is expected to increase the Democrats’ early vote margin considerably.
- Democrats also have a lead among “infrequent voters” — those who typically don’t vote in non-presidential year elections — a group that most experts consider a key turn-out target in order to win in 2010.
- And internal polling from just a week ago showed a much closer governor race — 45-46 — among likely voters. The internal polling in other campaigns also shows tight races, not romps.
Democracy for New Mexico: NM Democrats Beating Republicans in Early Voting by 8000+ Votes
Wishing for Destruction Says More About “Conservatives” than About Reality – but what do they know about reality
ABQJOURNAL OPINION/LETTERS: Hear Us Roar!
Obama Is Indeed Miracle Worker
OBAMA MAY NOT be the Messiah, but he certainly is a miracle worker. He’s caused (1) the destruction of the Democrat Party, (2) the reformation of the Republican Party, and (3) the Journal to endorse conservative candidates.
And, while the ocean levels may have not dropped, hell has frozen over.
WILLIAM NAEGELE
Albuquerque
ABQJOURNAL OPINION/LETTERS: Hear Us Roar!
Funny. Two years ago, we said something similar about DUHbya: He destroyed all Republican prospects just two years after Karl Rove declared a generation of Republican dominance. By “reformation,” Naegele can’t intend the implication of reform as in make better (not bitter), because the Republican Party is no better than before. To their long-time one-note of Taxed Enough Already, they have added stopping Obama at all costs. Reformed? Hell, they aren’t even re-formed, just badgered into shape by the lunatic fringe. But that’s “conservatives” for you: They fanatically yearn for the past without actually remember how it really was. But why should their hindsight be any better than their foresight.
As for #3: LOL. Naegele, and Belen’s Christiansen, are favorites at Abqjournal because they are the only people who think Abqjournal is the least bit liberal. Snort. Yeah, it was a shock – a shock, I tell you – that Abqjournal endorsed the Republican.
The Single Most Important Republican Goal
Are you going to let this happen? Vote!
From the moment Obama entered office, right-wing conservatives embraced the posture of hell-bent opposition. Recall, in Jan. 2009, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh expressed his hope that Obama fails. One month later, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proudly embraced Limbaugh at a conservative conference. The fringe rhetoric of far right activists had quickly become the de facto governing strategy of the Republican leadership, as they adopted a posture of obstructionism.
Believing that the Republican strategy of opposition has played to his political benefit, McConnell is pledging to do more of the same if Republicans win back the Senate. In an interview with the National Journal’s Major Garrett, McConnell candidly acknowledged that he feels his “single most important” job is to defeat President Obama in 2012:
MCCONNELL: We need to be honest with the public. This election is about them, not us. And we need to treat this election as the first step in retaking the government. We need to say to everyone on Election Day, “Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.”
NATIONAL JOURNAL: What’s the job?
MCCONNELL: The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
Fall Alignment – My Private Solstice
It happens every fall, this week, probably this day. I see it coming, even months ahead. As the day nears, I watch each morning – how soon? This morning, I first woke at 6am. I wanted to get up then. Lucky made me a morning person, against all odds, but cold, like the grave, is stronger than either of us. I looked at the clock again at 7:46am. When 7:47am clicked over, I got up and stepped out into the hall at the perfect moment, the moment of alignment.
How many times a day do we fail to see these moments when light strikes a mundane spot, turning it into an altar? I observe this special moment each fall, a week before Halloween, and again, each spring, about a week after Valentine’s Day.
Nature’s part in this display exceeds the other parts, but a sequence of steps brought this together. The house built with a door facing east, like half the houses on the block. The niche for a telephone and a laughably thin phone book. The door, added later, with a narrow window at just the right height, just the right shape. The glass pane with two blue spots, a gift from a bridesmaid, added years later to cover that narrow window. The katchina which largely replaced the chaotic clutter I contribute, the little treasures I handle daily and the older stuff I can’t let go of. All made sacred by 30 seconds of light twice a year. I’m grateful to bear witness.
For the first time (in 2009), the circle is notched in the upper-left by one of the bars on our new security door, the latest addition to the layers. The gap marks the inevitability of change and loss.
See the collection of photos grow twice a year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjhinton/tags/niche/
Updated 10/29/09: See the change 4 days later: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjhinton/4055208123/
First published 10/25/09. Updated 10/26/10. On 10/26/10, I took the first photos at 7:47am — true story. Seems to be the magic moment.
The Know Nothings and Flat Earthers are ascendant.
That [O’Donnell] is a major party candidate for national office, that she is among the brightest stars of a constellation of like-minded cranks — some of them already in office — tells you all you need to know about this moment in our political life. Welcome to the United States of Amnesia.
Somehow we have forgotten the lesson we spent most of the last decade learning at ruinous cost, that faith-based governance, foreign policy by gut instinct, choosing leaders on the basis of which one we’d most like to watch television with, simply does not work.
Some say this is a conservative revolution, but this is no conservatism Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater would have recognized. At least their ideology adhered to an interior logic. This ideology adheres to a perverse illogic which posits that the less you know, the more authentic you are. So what triumphs here is not conservatism but rather, mediocrity. The Know Nothings and Flat Earthers are ascendant. …
Some of us are reminded how candidate Bush kept calling Greeks "Grecians." Some of us remember how the electorate shrugged off that evidence of looming gaps in his basic knowledge because he had a folksy way. Some of us remember how that came out.
Others apparently don’t. Others are ready to travel that road again. It brings to mind an old saying: We get the leaders we deserve.