Well, Hellooo World! Finally I've finally got the power again, after losing it on Saturday night in the Treepocalypse that hit Greenwich. Here's a few pics from my neighborhood.
These poor folks lost the back of their house - the little white bit sticking out is a mattress - luckily no one was in the bed at the time.
On the same street:
This poor person got a tree through the roof. Similar scenes of devastation all around town. Schools will be closed again tomorrow, as many roads are still blocked and most schools continue without power. Governor Rell visited town today and declared a State of Emergency.
Meanwhile, the IDES OF MARCH have come:
and it's time to get out your popcorn, because so have the crazies.Oh Lord, where to start? How about JD Hayworth, the GOP challenger to John McCain in AZ, who made the leap from Gay Marriage to to Marrying Mr. Ed.
The mind boggles. Really.
Then there's good old Michelle Bachmann, who called President Obama the first "Post-American" president and told her followers:
"Passing the health care bill and moving it to the president's desk in the same manner used by the last administration to pass tax breaks "sounds more like a Chavez tactic in Venezuela"
Um, what? So it's for Republicans to use reconciliation to give tax cuts, but it's an UNAMERICAN EVIL SOCIALIST PLOT for the Democrats to use reconciliation to pass healthcare reform because the Republicans are being completely obstructionist. I feel like I'm reading Orwell's Animal Farm. Bush does: Gooood! Obama Does: Baaaad! I reread Orwell's essay Politics and the English language recently after I'd read a piece by Frank Lutz had written for GOP candidates on the language to use when speaking about healthcare reform. Lutz is the king of massacring the English language with Orwellian political speak. But the dude is scarily effective.
Oh, and just in case we didn't have enough to keep us amused in our CT SEN race, with Linda McMahon and her yacht the "Sexy Bitch" guess who is back and has just entered the race? Our good friend Lee Whitnum! I'm not sure if she's actually filed papers, but according to her website, she announced her candidacy on March 10th. Just in case you've forgotten about Lee, here's an old post with links that sum up our history.
"The Ides of March have come..." "Ay, but they are not gone"
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