I Want It All and I Want It Now

AITOOW who understands the new political zeitgeist? Today's voter is impatient. This makes them anti-incubent. They are impatient because the world has sped up and they are empowered in new ways. The internet gives them ways of networking and editorializing they didn't have in the past. The Dems caught the first wave in '06 because they were more tech savvy. Now they are being taken out by the undertow. The Repubs will get they second wave in '10 but will probably waste it. The electorate is more federal now. As the world gets smaller and federalism is lauded in schools, the electorate has become Americans first and then members of their states. Now their competition is China, et al not Alabama. Politicians who survive by bringing pork back to their communities will not receive the support they did in the past. They must have a national perspective. You won't be able to rely on mutual back-scratching any longer. It's winner take all on all the large issues. And it's all about large issues at this point in our history. We are at a tipping point. The direction of our Federation will be charted this decade. Intra-state squabbling dissipates when you have the whole world breathing down your neck. You have to be big to compete (you think these disagreements are big wait until we have to join a multi-country union to compete). States can't do it alone. It's nothing our MNC's haven't been grappling with since the late '80's or the Federalists were warning about in the 1700's.

The New Pay for Play

AITOOW thinks the only reason that BHO BHO the Clown is against corporations having 1st Amendment protection is that it disintermediates the government from their money men? Now corporations can take the money the used to bribe politicians and fund lobbyists and give it to the ad community. I would go long on Google and the Networks. They are the real winners. Not that our non-MBA president would understand how that helps the economy.

Now You See It

AITOOW thinks that BHO BHO the Clown and his handlers have failed to understand that political sophistry and smoke and mirrors don't work anymore? There are too many "spotters" in the audience calling out tricks. In the old days a politician could say one thing and do another. Now all his magical tricks are exposed. From fictional job savings numbers to global warming junk science, your prestidigitation is revealed as the shame that it has always been.

Stealth Care

AITOOW thinks that health care reform lost its support because false-liberals found out they would have to chip in to pay for it? Not so necessary when it isn't being funded by income taxes that rich disproportionally subsidize. And what is all the BS about it bringing down cost? It will only bring down the cost of a plan per capita (because lots of healthy people will be charged and take no benefits). The overall net to the health insurance companies will be the same if not greater. If you want to control costs, let's talk price controls on doctors and hospitals first. Then tort reform. Then illegals. Then forced care. Then insurance premiums.

Lovely Boost

AITOOW thinks The Lovely Bones is a bit similiar to that Robin Williams film? I think it was called What Dreams May Come? Nice nose job on the little sis BTW.

Ice Hose

AITOOW watched the women's figure skating Saturday? I did because nothing else was on and I like to be reminded that not all women are fat. The Japanese skater got shafted. She was twice as good as the pudgy girl who won.

In the Year 2010-

AITOOW understands that Obama's numbers are slipping among Independents because of three reasons? 1. These people have no principles or loyalty and are by definition fickle. 2. They only voted for him in the first place because it made them feel post-racial. 3. They disliked Sarah Palin.

Now we wait and see if he is willing to go down with the ship or decide to save himself. I believe he will do a Clinton and become an impotent figurehead. These types of people can't accept premature irrelevance. He spent his entire life trying to climb this hill. He has nothing to aim for after this. He's too young to let his career ambitions disappear at this point. He has fallen in love with being in charge and will do anything to hang on to it. Unless a scandal makes being in the lime light untenable, he will choose to keep the crown.

Gore is already the nominal king of the planet so he can't even go there. He will be satisfied with being a lame duck who can use the bully pulpit to espouse his agenda and foreign policy powers to make the world adore him. Plus he will achieve enough window dressing (SC appointments, Gays in the military) to keep himself from feeling like too much of a sell out. It's a perfect fit. The US gets a small government Congress and a touchy feely President to provide a check against it's religious/social ambitions (veto power). Plus he gets to talk about issues instead of dealing with them. A liberals Nirvanah.