Seems to me, the Repubs run a type of precipice politics where every issue involves standing at a chasm, daring others to stand close to them so they can accidently on purpose nudge them. They've nothing to live for, but they'd rather some1 else took the fall anyway. Otoh, didn't the democrates used to speak of reaching something more and, yknow, higher? Guess they don't want to risk the fall this time, poor lambs.
But precipiss politics, the way I sees it, works in differnet ways - for the Reps to blatently steel this elction would be so exgregious that a tipping point would become visable and apparent - but to conceede some ground to the dems means more obfuscation and sort of ting. Who knows really. Bottom line, thse guys are both more clever and stupid than they ever appear.
But since I'm just writing this in sort of commemoration of the mid-terms, let me talk about the difference between the vain and the proud. The vain man doesn't know who he is so he plays a role, draws attention to this character that he hopes will impress on others his fundementally good qualities - ess he is modest. - he lives for the approval and support of others, uncertain as he is of himself. The proud man? Well he just thinks he has something to be proud of/
Anyway, I read this somewhere or other, but what it seems to sum up the state of play. So to all the american visitors passing through , I hope you take the time today to vote for modesty, vanity, and insecurity. And yeah whatvere!
Posted on Nov 7, 2006, 5:22 AM from IP address 195.92.67.74