Break's Over

I return to the blogosphere after a while away. Why?
I can no longer be silent about the crap that is going on. silencing myself is simply against every fiber of my being.
I finally hit my end this week when i heard about how the Montana Republican party is trying to take away people's right to vote. Whoa re they doing this to? College students, native americans, poor people, and anyone who had the audacity to move. Amongst those affected a large number vote in missoula County. How coincidental that Jake Eaton is challenging voters in the most Democratic county in Montana. Or in Hill County, with its high percentage of native voters (also a traditional Democratic voting stronghold). Eaton claims to be advancing the cause democracy by assuring that voters vote where they are supposed to. Forgive my ignorance, Jake, but isn't that the job of the secretary of state and local election officials. If the Secretary of State has not been doing his job in this regard, perhaps it is time that he be replaced by someone competent. Perhaps if the Secretary of State and his party had an agenda aside from helping rich people and enacting their deranged interpretation of Leviticus into law, they wouldn't need to disenfranchise voters to win elections.

Also this week, Roy Brown's campaign manager, Chris Wilcox (someone I count as a friend despite the fact that I once launched a textbook at his head after his being particularly snooty) made yet another vain attempt to turn chicken $#!% into chicken salad. The Brown campaign has been working on this particular brand of alchemy since Roy decided he was running for governor (sometime while he was in utero, I suspect) . Wilcox seems to think that being 15 points down in the latest poll for governor shows real progress. No, Chris, it doesn't. It shows that rank and file republicans might be starting to maybe know who Roy Brown is. Also, somehow, these new voters don't yet see Roy for what he really is (a term I will refrain from using because I am trying to be nice, but I will give you a hint, it rhymes with floosh-hag.). Chris, i will say this, a 15 point loss is a hell of a loss for a Republican in a state that is supposedly so in tune with GOP values. Perhaps it is because the Montana GOP, like John McCain, has no real plans to run on, no new ideas at all. The last time a Democrat went down that bad statewide he was DEAD, and even dead he was a more honorable candidate that the governor at the time.

On the national front, the VP debate was quite entertaining. Can someone tell me how it is that we can think that Sarah Palin is qualified to be in any kind of national office, aside from perhaps Mrs. America. Would you go to a Doctor who talks like this woman? "Ok, well boy howdy Mr. you got cancer there, yeah, what we're gonna do is do what a maverick would do, and we're gonna follow that cancer to the gates of hell, oh yeah, (wink)." or a lawyer "Ladies and gentleman of the jury, yes in-deedely doodly my client is innocent, and to show that I'm not gonna talk about this case, I'm goin' to talk to you about Israel..." I wouldn't order a pizza from her, let alone vote for her.