Just saying

"I hope all those people who think they were voting against incumbents because they believed conservative candidates had an acceptable plan to achieve cuts are having just a little bit of buyer's remorse." R.K. Barry

Hillary Clinton used to speak of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."  I think we are seeing that she was correct.  We are seeing it particularly in Wisconsin with the things that are going on there.  30,000 public workers at the Capital protesting the governor's plan to take away collective bargaining and cut back on salary for public workers. Plans which are really those of Karl Rove and Fox news to bust the unions - reduce their efficacy and what they have been able to do for their members. Watch The Ed Show on MSNBC to get caught up on this he is broadcasting from Racine, Wisconsin tonight.




Hiraeth is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation. However, the University of Wales, Lampeter attempts to define it as homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a 
mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness.


Right now I am experiencing Hiraeth for what our country used to be before the crazy Tea Party was able to get some really far out people elected.  


The Koch Brothers have been holding super secret meetings to plan strategies to get their people elected so that they can emasculate the Democratic party (and it doesn't take much) who have few real fighters left. (I miss Ted Kennedy) They even have two Supreme Court Justices in their pocket. 


Some how, some way we have to take our country back and rebuild the middle class and help the folks 
who really make this country great.

Addendum.  Mustang Bobby writes on this issue
The demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin, are another matter. This time there is a real threat to the jobs and the future of a lot of people. Gov. Scott Walker is making his proposed bill to hit the public sector employees for their health insurance and pension plans sound like it's the only way to balance the state's budget, but it's more than that; it's an attack on the rights of workers to engage in collective bargaining, and the demonstrators -- teachers, firefighters, and other workers in the public sector who would be hit by this -- are rallying against something more than just paying more for benefits.

The difference between the Tea Party rallies and the demonstrations in the state capitol in Wisconsin is that there is genuinely something at stake.

Oh, by the way, to you voters who stayed home last November because you were "disappointed" with President Obama and how he hadn't done enough to make you swoon all over again, this is what we mean when we say elections have consequences.
98 and no enemies - human interest story.

All golfers should live so long as to be this kind of old man!
Toward the end of the Sunday service, the Minister asked, "How many of you have forgiven your enemies?"
80% held up their hands.
The Minister then repeated his question. All responded this time, except one man, an avid golfer named Walter Barnes, who attended church only when the weather was bad.
"Mr. Barnes, it's obviously not a good morning for golf. It's good to see you here today. Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?"
"I don't have any," he replied gruffly.
"Mr. Barnes, that is very unusual. How old are you?"
"Ninety-eight," he replied. The congregation stood up and clapped their hands.
"Oh, Mr. Barnes, would you please come down in front & tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years & not have an enemy in the world?"
The old golfer tottered down the aisle, stopped in front of the pulpit, turned around, faced the congregation, and said simply, "I outlived all the sons of bitches."