RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 11/07/18> She also said, “they think their shit don’t stink.”
Uhhhhhhh. I got up to check my personal election results and they were pretty dismal. I guess throwing the rascals out wasn't the overwhelming theme of this midterm after all.
It does look like both parties can claim national victories. But having the House and Senate under different parties is a good thing in my mind. All the bills that go to the President's desk will have to be compromise bills, which means that there shouldn't be any extreme measures passing anytime soon. I really do think our system works best when it's set up that way.
Except of course, the spending bills. Both parties lose their collective minds when they are parceling out our money. Compromise there seems to be "I'll give you a billion dollar pork project if you'll give me one" rather than "I'll trim a billion here if you'll trim a billion there."
That's pretty interesting about the HPD guys. I know the AZ State Patrol has a small number of undercover officers that drive regular vehicles with regular plates. The reason I know this for a fact is one was right behind my buddy when he hit a woman that pulled out in front of him. He totaled her car and the insurance company rebuilt his bike. Anyway she got out of her car screaming that Ray was speeding and riding crazy. The stater was listed on the accident report as a witness who swore that Ray wasn't speeding OR driving crazy. But he asked Ray not to reveal to anybody that he WAS a State Patrolman.
Ray's only real injury was a broken wrist that he got staying on the front brake through impact. He flew over his windshield, bounced off the top of her car and lit on his feet. The cop's first move was to get Ray to sit down.
And for the record, we rigged a lever on his throttle of another motorcycle so he was back to riding in two days. The cast left him enough finger room to pull the brake and the lever let him smoothly apply throttle.
One more question: Does anybody around there call a CB basket a 'gut bomb'? That was the common term in Eastern Washington.
I fear the rascals are not thrown out, but it's not lack of trying on our part.
Never heard the CB basket being called the 'gut bomb' but I could see how it could be.
My results were actually pretty good here thanks to the "Beto effect" here in Texas. With Beto challenging Cruz for the senate seat that had people voting strait party tickets for the most part. The county I live in has Houston in it and the demographics of Houston have been slowing changing from red to blue so Beto got the people in Houston to hit the polls hard.
Prior to this election, about 1/3 of the county wide elected officials were dems and 2/3 republicans. All the county wide elected officials are now dems so the republicans got their hats handed to them and shown the exit doors.
I am glad it happened too, especially the county judge Ed Emmit. A few years ago we had a referendum on a ballot to tear down the old original Astro Dome and it passed overwhelmingly . But the county judge refused to have the dome torn down, and had some group get it listed as a historical building after the vote to tear it down had already been had.
I have held that against him since then and I even thought as I was voting on Friday it would be good if he got the boot for not living up to what the voters had said they wanted done.
There are a bunch of judges looking for work now too, all the judges were republican and they all got their pink slips too on Tuesday night. In a way it is sad that they caught up in the Beto effect but who is to say they didn't get in to office the same way, on the vote of some other higher up race and straight party ticket vote.
In the judge Emmit case, he is being replaced by a 27 year old female with an Hispanic last name of "Hidalgo" I think, or something like that. I have no idea what her credentials are, but she had the one thing going for her that Ed didn't, she wasn't the incumbent. I was all about change and so in the local political races we got some change.
Other than that I had one race that I voted republican and that guy did win named Dan Crenshaw, he won the seat for congress that had been help by a republican who did not seek re-election.
The state wide offices are all still controlled by the republicans so nothing changed there. The republicans need to pay attention, Cruz barely got re-elected and that should be a wake up call that things are changing and they might just need to start doing what the people say.
Well, I forgot to hit the post button so the original comment was just laying here. I've commented on the daily dose so I'm not going to punch post and do a basic repeat.
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