November 2006 Archives

I woke up in a pretty good mood today, due to recent positive personal events (not to mention that awesome midterm election.) I'm also looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner tonight, since it's Mimi's first.

Then I looked at the paper and saw this photo. The caption: " A woman cradles the body of her 2-year-old grandson outside Baquba's hospital in late October, a month when Iraqi civilians died at the rate of 120 each day."

And I find myself hoping that a certain president finds it difficult to choke down his meal... I really hope he sees this picture too. Somebody should INSIST. Show it to him at the dinner table.

Nobody should have to go through what that child suffered and what his family is still suffering. And hundreds suffer it every day in Iraq. All thanks to us.

It Looked Like Spilt Milk.

Because I don't anymore. Jerk.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask one question about abortion. Then I want to turn to Iraq. You’re for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with some exceptions for life and rape and incest.

MCCAIN: Rape, incest and the life of the mother. Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So is President Bush, yet that hasn’t advanced in the six years he’s been in office. What are you going to do to advance a constitutional amendment that President Bush hasn’t done?

MCCAIN: I don’t think a constitutional amendment is probably going to take place, but I do believe that it’s very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And you’d be for that?

MCCAIN: Yes, because I’m a federalist. Just as I believe that the issue of gay marriage should be decided by the states, so do I believe that we would be better off by having Roe v. Wade return to the states. And I don’t believe the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v. Wade.

Take that, Andrew Lloyd Webber. From a musical called Pacific Overtures, it's "Someone In A Tree", one of my favorite songs. I love the way the voices interplay.

The headlines this morning...

"Democrats Sweep Into Power in House"

"America Goes Democratic"

"Democrat McNerney beats GOP incumbent Pombo"

And I think this next one may be my favorite...

'President biggest loser"

(Though it didn't take an election to know that...)

Somebody took George M.'s "Freedom" and paired it with images from the last six years. Brilliant
(and somewhat painful.)

I really hope Election 2006 isn't like Election 2004...

Too true.

"I hope that when the political history of the last half century is written it will show, as it should, that the Republicans engaged in a brand of divisive electoral politics that pitted Americans against each other: white against black, men against women, rich against poor, native born against immigrant, straight against gay. Republicans deserve to be tarred by history for exploiting our weaknesses, our prejudices, and our lesser selves for their own political gain. But those are still our weaknesses and our prejudices. We own them. And it is our lesser selves that have succumbed to the Republican political pitch and been willing to be exploited. Removing the Republicans from power will only be a temporary fix unless we fundamentally fix ourselves so that no one, no party, no movement can exploit those same weaknesses again."