Comments on: Random Election Night Ramblings

By: Doug Richardson

Doug Richardson — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:09:08 +0000

Uh, Fred? Please show me where I used the word “solely?”

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:26:00 +0000

He did reach back to 41. I hope to have an election post mortem up by the end of the day. –TC

By: Janet Manko

Janet Manko — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:55:05 +0000

I agree with Tom - it sure looks as if Bush decided to get some earthly advice instead of the “higher power” wisdom he sought so often in the first six years of his presidency.

By: Tom Cowgill

Tom Cowgill — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:39:10 +0000

After the thumpin’, it looks like Bush called his daddy.

By: Paul Bartomioli

Paul Bartomioli — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:03:43 +0000

Fred: that is what they tell us. Personally, I am opposed to the bacon to rebuild Canaan Union Station. But then, I could not see why my tax dollars pay for West Byrdginia, Bridge to Nowhere, ad nauseum.

The problem is math. Try this: $1 million for Canaan Union Station = lots of money to anyone except a politician, the most common person in DC. However, divide that $1 million by about 280 million people, approximately the population at the time of the Pork, and its mere pennies!! Do you complain about a few cents? As someone once said, a million here, a million there, and soon you’re talking real money.

My bet for a solution: TERM LIMITS. 3 in the House, 2 in the Senate, then become a lobbyist in DC. IF anyone thinks Nancy is moving back to ANYWHERE in CT, you are in Nirvana. Now that she is out of office, she is no big deal to the great unwashed. We all have lives, jobs, bills, etc. “Hey, great job Nancy, talk to you soon. Going to soccer, etc with the kids.”

They all miss the adulation. Ole Independent Democrubican Trough Feeding Joe knows that. Al Gore ruined him, showed him what life is like at the head of the trough. Joe couldn’t make it there, so, better to not lose the seat he has. Now the other guy, Dodd, is trying to move up. Well, at least we always have 1 senator in DC to look out for the pork.

By: terry mccarthy

terry mccarthy — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:08:13 +0000

I was trying to keep a running diary of the election night news myself, but stuff was happening way too fast. It was like I was a mutt with his head stuck out the window of a speeding Toyota. Enjoying the view, but wishing everything wasn’t so damn blurry. Then I woke up this morning and started doing it again. By 1 p.m. Bush was taking questions from an Eyes Wide Shut press corps that had been up all night, and there was W, bright eyed and Bushy tailed, having just awakened from a 10 hour sleep. And there he was again, at 3:30 p.m., showing Rummy the door. Too much, too much. But I have to give Bush credit; he was the best stage manager ( of the news ) since Connecticut’s own Paul Newman played the role in Our Town.

By: Fred Baumgarten

Fred Baumgarten — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:19:47 +0000

So…the purpose of electing representatives is solely to make sure they bring home the bacon?!

Actually, as an environmentalist, I feel a little sorry for Johnson, who often kept some of the worst Republican anti-environmental legislation at bay. She was a good “liberal Republican” who had one flaw — she should have been a Democrat!

Let’s see what Murphy does. I don’t really know bubkus about him. However, in general, I hold out little hope that the Democrats will change anything, despite their use of “change” as an empty slogan. As I’ve said here before, they are beholden to the same interests of the wealthy aristocracy as are the Republicans.

–Fred–

By: Doug Richardson

Doug Richardson — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:10:02 +0000

Nancy Johnson’s defeat was part of the collateral damage in the national wave of repudiation against the current administration’s policies. I genuinely believe that NW Connecticut shot itself in the foot in voting her out; it will be years–if ever–before Chris Murphy will bring back any federal funds to this area and when money for things like rebuilding Canaan’s railroad station disappears, will we remember that we got what we asked for?

By: Yankee

Yankee — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:00:25 +0000

Terry,

Now that it seems clear that Simmons and Shays have withstood the Democratic landslide in CT, I remain even more interested in understanding why Johnson went down. Did the misbegotten war in Iraq play a greater role? I sense it played stronger in both the rural communities of the Northwest Corner and in the industrial cities like New Britain.

Having left Fairfield County in 1972, I have zero insight into the dynamics of the Shays/Farrell race. Sorry.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:32:58 +0000

Steve,

Good point. I guess I have become so inured to the negative ads that it never crossed my mind that people might vote against Johnson in large numbers for her ads. It seems people take nastiness for granted.

It could have been a big factor. Let’s see what the post-mortems look like.