Polimom, AC (Adorable Child), and DH (Dear Husband) had a very busy weekend – with the unsurprising but frustrating result that I’m just flat-out tired today. (My grandmother would have said, “Too pooped to pop.”) Just can’t pull my thoughts together…
So – I’m going back to bed! In case you’re surfing your lunch hour or something, though, here are a couple of things I was reading this morning:
Iraq (like Polimom) is cautiously optimistic (NYTimes), and Iran evidently feels so confident in this weekend’s progress that they don’t think they need to huddle up with the US to solve the Iraqi problem now (Washington Post).
As long as we’re on the subject of the Middle East — Polimom, Too had a little something to say earlier this today about Osama bin Laden’s latest tape.
New Orleans has narrowed it down to Landrieu and Nagin, and analysts are having a lot of trouble… well.. analyzing the whole thing:
The Houston Chronicle reports that the election showed “no racial shift”, while the NYTimes says the vote “Points to Change”. Clear as mud, eh? Sigh….
OH – and last but not least — so far, nobody seems to have taken up my idea about impeaching Cheney instead of pruning the whole tree. Ah well… at least I had fun with the thought.
I’ll check back in a bit later…. when I’ve got my brain in gear again.
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Well, I don’t think the fact that Landrieu could pick up a nice slice of the black vote should surprise anyone, or that Nagin (who’s lost his base in the white and monied community) would 1) rely mostly on black voters and 2) come up short. Except for people who just Don’t LIke The Landrieus (and there are some), I don’t see where Landrieu looses (unless he’s reading this and taking my advice and goes on vacation the next month). The way our open primaries work is a bit off, but simply put, if Candidate No. 1 doesn’t make 50%+1, he or she loses and Candidate No. 2 picks up most of the third tier vote.
I think you’d have to catch Landrieu in bed with a live boy or a dead girl, uh, oh, wait, that one’s been used already. Ok. He’d have to screw up Really Badly to lose this one. However, I never underestimate the ability of politicians to do the wrong thing.
I’m surprised the national media doesn’t get this. They figured it out in ’86, when a Breaux victory in September would herald a switch in the Senate. As a result, I got to meet most of the then-grand-poo-bahs of the national political media when they passed through the state to 1) cover the story, 2) eat, 3) drink, 4) eat, etc.
Either that or they new that there was an election on in Louisiana on a funny date, so they were all free to travel here to 1) cover the story, 2) eat, 3), well, you get the idea.
BTW, contgrats on getting your Technorati status back with the bullet! (even if that means knocking me off my high perch at second tier of the top 20. You do such a good (and more frequent) job that you deserve to be right up there in the top 10.
I was thinking about it, and y’all had like, what, 20 [people on the ballot? So all those people no longer in the running, who people voted for, obviously thought someone was better than Nagin, and since their candidate isn’t in the running any more, doesnt it stand to reason they’d all (hopefully) vote for Landrieu? Maybe that’s a bit optimistic of me, but it seems like the logical choice to me.
As far as the whole Bin Laden thing goes, I was thinking he looked a little on the lonely side myself. Perhaps we can get him an airline ticket to NYC, I’m sure there are some firemen up there who’d be more than happy to keep him company.
Anyway, delightful as usual!