Inkwell Institute

2010/2012 Election Series

In four months the mid term elections will be happening and in the meantime the war of the words is heating up….the silly season it has been called…..the he said, they said……all the humor of an election and the campaigns that accompany it…..

Both sides are screaming at the voter…….let us start with Obama and the Dems…..

President Barack Obama implored heartland voters Thursday to believe his economic policies averted impending disaster, pushing a hard-to-swallow message at a time when unemployment still hovers near double-digit levels.”What is absolutely clear is we’re moving in the right direction, we’re headed in the right direction,” Obama said at an electric truck factory here, before a pair of campaign appearances for Senate Democratic candidates in Missouri and Nevada.

He will be pushing his FinReg and the upcoming energy bill and he will avoid the immigration thing, for now.

The Repubs are just as guilty….they are screaming at the voter also…..

on Fox News Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he and other Republicans condemned Barton’s remarks (and forced him to apologize). In terms of the election, McConnell said the Obama-ites are seeking to change the subject from issues they plan to address this fall.The Democrats are “in deep trouble and the reason for that is the American people have looked at this administration,” McConnell said. “They’ve seen them running banks, insurance companies, car companies, nationalizing the student loan business, taking over health care, running up debts. America would like to do a mid-course correction.”

It is what the American people want (at least that is what the Repubs tell us) but so far NO one has ask me what I want (maybe they read the blog…yea right!)

The GOP will push the jobs issue…it is a winner for them…at least at the polls……even if there is NOT much sense in any proposal they have to increase employment, other than the vague promises of supply side economics.

Let us look at a well known maverick, John McCain.  He has shed his maverick moniker and embraced the views and verbiage of the far right…all in the name of re-election.  He is nothing new…it is surprising just how hollow their words are when they need to be re-elected.

No matter who wins in November……the promises of change and such are just nothing more than idle promises……but we will have to trust those campaigning to hold to their word……and we have seen how silly that prospect is from past elections.  But Americans will smile and vote and give them another chance to do the right thing…..and then the bitching will start…….we NEVER learn!

It is a “War of Words” and nothing will change but the name on the congressional office door…….