Well, that’s okay ’cause it took me years to tell people that I’m a Thespian! I was always afraid some Republican would hear me say that and get all confused and picket my house, bringing Tea and such.

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As the lazy, hazy days of  Summer tick away, and Congress nears its August recess, both of the major parties are staking out their political territories for the  battles that will be fought this Autumn.  There is little doubt that the biggest issue of all will be unemployment, and the inability of the economy to create enough jobs to move the unemployment rate from a level of around 9.4 %.  When election day occurs in November, a stubbornly high unemployment rate, where there is lots …

If you listen very carefully you can hear the very faint, but growing sound of the Republicans salivating over the still-distant 2010 Congressional elections.  After the severe walloping that the GOP took in the 2008 elections, they are preparing an all-out, take-no-prisoners fight to win back most, if not all of the lost seats.  It is, in fact, very likely that the Republicans will gain some ground in 2010, and also very likely that the Democrats will lose their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.  It is not likely, however, that …