Friday, July 9, 2010

BloggeRhythms 7/9/2010

Late entry today. Busy with several big chores. But, wanted to mention a continual theme. The beating of the political drums of unrest.

Carly Fiorina is challenging Barbara Boxer for her United States Senate seat in California. Fiorina was chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously an executive vice president at AT&T, coordinating the spinoff and initial public offering of Lucent.

In 2008, Fiorina served as a top economic advisor to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and currently serves on the boards of several major business organizations. When Fioina first entered the race she trailed Boxer by more than 35% in polls. But, now it seems she's caught up, with four months to go til' November.

At the same time, Rory Reid, Democratic candidate for governor of Nevada, until recently completely avoided using his last name in ads. His aim was to downplay his political lineage as the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The father's been facing incredibly low approval ratings among Nevada voters, so his son avoided touting the family name.

What these trends illustrate to me is, especially after the surprising Democrat losses in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, that no matter how much noise the White House tries to make to the contrary, people are fed up with having their health care system destroyed, taxes out of control, immigration unbridled, vacillation on protection for middle-east nations and billions of dollars wasted on so-called education that's a joke. So, no matter the party represented, incumbents are on their way out.

The most remarkable thing about all this, however, is that the administration doesn't seem to care a whit about what they're doing to the population. One has to believe that they know its over for them, but they keep going straight ahead with their plans, no matter. That leads me to wonder exactly what it is that Soros is doing for them. I doubt he paid them in advance, he's much too smart for that.

So, what could the payoff be that's worth career and political suicide? I'm not sure I really want to know the answer, because it's got to be pretty scary and surely something that's not going to be too good for you or me.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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