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Thanks to Thaddeus McCotter's abrupt resignation, Michigan's 11th Congressional district has to have a special election to fill the remainder of his term (which, with recesses, etc. will probably last less than one month).  Due to the lateness of the resignation, however, the district can have the election coincide with this year's elections in November--and even better, if the Democrats and Republicans each only pick one candidate, a special primary election at a cost of $650,000 can be avoided and each name will just be put on a ballot this November to complete the last few days of McCotter's term

Those noted spendthrifts, the Democrats, decided on their one candidate, David Curson, to help save the struggling state of Michigan that $650,000.  But lo and behold, the republicans, that party that is ever concerned that a nickel of our hard earned taxes is wasted on such frivolties as food stamps and public education, just couldn't come together and have one candidate, to again, save the taxpayers of Michigan $650,000.  Want to guess how many candidates will appear on the ballot costing the taxpayers of Michigan $650,000?  Not two.  Nope.  Not three.  Not even four.  It's five.  Five fucking republicans put their self-interest above helping save the state of Michigan $650,000.  And these shit for brains are the frugal ones?

Afraid not.  They're just the assholes.  How in God's name the republican party is any more than a pimple on the ass of the body of political parties is a tribute to the stupidity of far too many Americans.

Peace,
emaycee

Reasons to be cheerful, Part II

Week one:  old Nolan tells us why we should take the notion of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter running for President seriously (side note:  no, we shouldn't.  McCotter has the same chance of being President in 2012--important distinction--as I do:  zero).

Week two:  old Nolan tells us why Mitt Romney can win the state of Michigan in the 2012 Presidential elections (side note:  barring an economic collapse, no he can't.  Thank you, Gov. Snyder!).

You have to love the panic these two pieces show:  in the first, republicans are still looking for their saviour; in the second, they're trying to explain away the likely nominee's positions which they're going to have a tough time selling to their base, let alone a majority of American voters (is it just me or is Mitt looking more and more like the republican version of John Kerry everyday?).

And those two don't even take into consideration the electoral map for 2012.  It's hard to imagine the republicans taking back the White House without picking up at least a couple of the following states:  Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania.  Unfortunately for the republican nominee, all five have extremely unpopular republican governors right now and it's hard to imagine much is going to change in their numbers between now and November 2012--they campaigned as middle of the road and turned out to be radical right.  I can see the Obama ads now:  "You don't like this bullshit in your own state and now you're going to give the keys to the White House to these bozos?  Fat fucking chance!"   And the republicans won't even be able to spin it as a union orchestrated conspiracy to keep the rich from getting richer--that lie has already failed in Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

And did I mention that Obama got Osama?

Now if we could just get the President to have the backs of the poor and the middle class, we'd really have something....

Peace,
emaycee