Joe's Random Ramblings

Is this what Sarah Palin had in mind when she advocated "Drill, Baby, drill"?
I am pretty sure drilling near the California coast is now off the table.

Update: CA's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has changed his stance on drilling off the CA coast, and now opposes it.
As I expected, drilling off the coast of California is dead.

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The Republican primaries for California governor have already become a mud fight.
Steve Poizner is obviously becoming really desperate.
In his trying to rally the Republican faithful, he is giving the Democrats a nice opening to win in November. His anti-immigrant TV spots are guaranteeing defeat in November, even if he would manage to win the Republican nomination. The last Republican to win in CA on an anti-immigrant platform was Pete Wilson in 1994, and that resulted in US citizens of Latino descent signing up in droves as voters, and vote anti-immigrants (like Bob Dornan) out of office and Latinos (like the Sanchez sisters) into office.

The other interesting thing is that his TV spots paint the current CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, as not really a Republican. "After Arnold, isn't it time to vote for a Republican"...
Of course, that points to the main reason why the Republicans will lose in November. They are a bunch of right-wing idiots who do not have the public behind them. Arnold only won because he didn't have to go through a Republican primary election (he ran in the Gray Davis recall election.) He would have never made it through a Republican primary in CA. He got elected because of his name recognition.
He is the closest Republicans will ever again get to have a foothold in CA...
Poizner would never win. Even Whitman, while she has somewhat more appeal to the center, is likely to lose, because people still associate her with eBay, and such eBay blunders as buying Skype.

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It was long overdue that the US gets a healthcare system worthy of a developed country, worthy of a superpower.
Finally, the US healthcare bill has passed tonight.
Now, the President can start getting the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill out the door.

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Sometimes I wonder what idiots get elected into public office.
Here we have a gentleman who easily qualifies for the top spot of idiocy: A New York state assemblyman called Felix Ortiz.
He introduced a bill to ban all salt in restaurant cooking.
What a brilliant exposure of his lack of anything resembling a brain.
He should spend a day in his kitchen. He obviously has enough time to waste, since he came up with this BS...

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Rose Vela, the Texas district judge who had the extraordinary stupidity to buy email lists from spammers and spam people outside her state, deservedly lost in the primary election for Texas Supreme Court justice.
As I've said before, spammers belong in prison, not in a judge seat.

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