I would like to comment on several items that have been in the recent news. They are: 1. The recent letter about, “Virginians voice message with votes,” forgets that going back to 1977 the party holding the White House has gone to lose the Virginia gubernatorial race.” (CNN Political Ticker for 11/4/09). Voters should remember what the last Republican governor did in office (removed the car tax) and the problems it created in Virginia. I understand that the newly elected governor is thinking about doing something along the same lines, so I hope someone is checking that there will be enough revenue so that additional cuts or taxes will not have to be made to make up for lost revenue.
Also, “56 percent of Virginians said the president was not a factor when it came down to their vote.” (Analysis: Election not a referendum on Obama, CNN.com 11/4/2009)
2. While the writer stresses what happened in Virginia, he ignores the Republican Party turmoil in a New York congressional election. “A battle for a vacant Republican U.S. House seat worked against the GOP in upstate New York. The contest to fill the seat sparked a vicious internal fight between GOP conservatives and moderates.” (CNN.com 11/4/2009). This argument over who would represent the Republicans resulted in the first election of a Democrat since the late 1800s. In fact this argument reached to the top levels of the GOP, where Newt Gingrich supported the official Republican moderate candidate while Dick Armey supported the conservative candidate.
3. It wasn’t all serious on the political landscape. A few funnies have happened since the recent election, These include Brit Hume having to tell Bill O’Reilly that “the public option standing by itself is not at all unpopular, but it is kind of popular.” (Huffingtonpost.com 11/11/09). And when things get dull there is always Sara Palin. She debuted her latest in a Wisconsin speech: an anti-Christian conspiracy in the “redesign of U.S. coins .... moved the once-centered text ‘In God We Trust’ to the edge of the coin.” She asked, “Who makes a decision like that?’ ” As Fox News anchor, Bret Baier noted: “President Bush, that’s who. In actuality the coin’s design was commissioned in 2005, when the Republicans controlled congress, and then was approved by then President Bush.” (Fox News 11/11/09).
Bill Skeat
Athens
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