While I didn’t actually lose a finger, at times I almost wish I did. Trying to keep my left index finger out of the way while I do everything (since I’m left handed) is much more of a challenge than I had thought it would be. The simple stuff is the worst: shaving, showering, writing, and typing require much more concentration than they normally do. I need to keep this up for another week yet, until I get the stitches out. Ugh!
Archive for November 9th, 2006
Living with nine fingers, Day Three
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Good times to be a Democrat
Thursday, November 9th, 2006At least for the time being. Great news the last two days: Santorum losing, control of the House and the Senate, and Rumsfeld getting fired. I just hope they don’t screw it up. The pessimist in me needs to stretch his legs a little…
I’m not a pundit by training (or by assumption of having a blog), nor was I a PoliSci major in college. I’m more of a cynical observer with a jaundiced eye. I’m throwing out the following things I think will happen, and we’ll see what sticks.
- Investigations will be launched into the Capitol Page program (more intensely), screw-ups both pre- and post-Katrina, and wasteful spending in Iraq (or Halliburton flambe), and intelligence community screw-ups leading into the Iraq invasion.
- A separate investigation into Iraq-related war policy. Rumsfeld will be hung out to dry by the Bush administration. That was why he was fired. Don’t accept that BS that he “resigned”. I don’t believe for one second that he suddenly had a moment of conscience and decided it was time to step down. He was ordered to, and like the good Republican soldier that he is, he did what he was told. And they’re going to screw him over. Getting rid of Rumsfeld was an attempt for the administration to distance itself from its failed Iraq policy.
- They will be some bickering over oil prices. Nice to see that the Republicans want to take credit when gasoline prices go down, but not take any blame when they go up. Of course, both positions are BS, since the U.S. government has nothing to do with the price of oil or gasoline.
- At some point a few years from now, the Republicans will blame the Democrats for screwing things up in Iraq. And they’ll point back to this eletion as the starting point for all of it.
