Brain Fertilizer

I despise those recorded political calls. They were real popular in Maryland in 2002. Hope they aren't this year...

Democrats want to believe they are at the cutting edge of technology. They see the recorded phone ads as a way of getting more bang for the advertising buck.
Democrats don't really have a message. But they would like to be in power, for the sake of all the political appointments, committeships, control of agendas, federal judges, bully pulpits, and lots of political graft.

When they discover that the automated phone calls at dinnertime aren't working in their favor, they'll switch tactics: a hundred identical e-mails sent every day to every address on the Internet.

We've gotten these phone calls from both parties. And yes, they suck.

Marty, I am leaving Ann to you. ;)

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But they would like to be in power, for the sake of all the political appointments, committeships, control of agendas, federal judges, bully pulpits, and lots of political graft.

Sorry, that dog don't hunt.

The current crop of republicans in the White House and the Congress have perfected graft to an artform.

The Bush Administration employs a policy of having special interest groups draft their legislation and Dub's "Pioneers" (or whatever the heck they are) rewriting federal regulations. The Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader arm-twisit business and associations to hire only republicans under threat that they will be denied access and a voice in the political process. What a model of good citizenship.

They spend resources they don't have to reward their friends and they will let our children and grandchildren pay for it all. What a model of fiscal stewardship.

They blow up third-world countries, deck themselves out in flight suits, strut across an aircraft carrier and declare "Mission Accomplished" and a year later American G.I.s are still being killed in the blown-up countries and they borrow more and more money to finance their war. But their friends make money, so what the heck. What a model of leadership.

The "pay-to-play" mentality has taken hold in DC to a far greater extent than ever before. Democrats can take a lesson from the GOP's perfection of "pay-to-play" tactics.

But they would like to be in power, for the sake of all the political appointments, committeships, control of agendas, federal judges, bully pulpits, and lots of political graft. Indeed. Get your head out of the sand, wake up and smell the coffee. Get a grip. Read a newspaper. Read a news magazine.

Sheesh!

(How's that?)