Mouthing off:

Breaking news!!!!! Dan Kapanke - 1st Wisconsin Republican Senator to be recalled!!!!!! They had over 100% of the signatures needed and a new election will be scheduled for his seat. I actually didn't know how that worked but now I do! I thought that they went to court and that it was a long drawn out thing and had to prove that they did something, etc. etc. So, evidently when Gov. Grey Davis (D-CA) was recalled started by Cong. Darrel Issa (more about him later) all they did was collect signatures! I never signed anything! Oh, I have to assume they only collected Republican signatures, duh! Anyway, I think that is very exciting w/Wisconsin. Hopefully, they will recall all that they are trying to recall and hopefully, the Senate will be held by the Democrats. Wow! Very exciting for Wisconsin! Now, I know they are trying to recall some of the Wisconsin 14 but most likely, I hope, they will not be able to get the required signatures. Now - Issa! He is under investigation in D.C. I haven't really been following it but I did learn something on the news yesterday. Issa, who was against "earmarks", (earmarks are something like asking for $$$ for your state - for repairs, etc. and most of them are supposed to be against earmarks) they showed a film of couple of yrs ago when he was ranting against earmarks. Well, he asked for 2 mil. for widening a road in Vista, CA and bus stops by a medical bldg. He rec'd I believe 800,000 and it so happens that he has a business in that medical bldg. and the road he wanted to widen is the road in front of that bldg. and, oh yes, he wanted more parking space for that bldg. To sum it up, the $800,000 he rec'd is all for his own personal business! How about that? Now, he should be recalled for that! I don't know what is going to happen but I certainly hope something does happen. Who knows how long he has been doing that? BTW, he is currently trying to get Pres. Obama impeached. He has been bad-mouthing Obama for months now trying to get him out. He is bad news and I have hated him since the Grey Davis affair. Speaking of lousy Republicans - which is most of what I do - Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan is right up there heading my list. He is doing so many bad things to the poor state of Michigan but his latest is vile - he is cutting unemployment checks for people collecting them - 6 WEEKS BEFORE THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT EXPIRES!!!! I don't know how that works and I never really thought that a governor had control over that, but evidently they do. Now, Michael Moore lives in MI, and it has got to be killing him. He was and is a big advocate for Wisconsin,was out there giving speeches, etc and I know he did that in MI, also, but it is getting worse. In Ohio, Kasich is another bad apple, very,very, bad! He is cutting so much that there will be thousands out of work in that state. Oh, BTW, Michigan has probably the highest unemployment of all of them. Now, Kasich just signed the "no collective bargaining" bill and if they can get enough signatures in - I'm not sure of the time - 6 wks or something like that - then the bill will not go thru and it will be voted on in November. Back to Wisconsin - the judge had turned down the bill that Walker presented as they voted on it "sneakily" (is that a word? Or is it something Palin would say?) and they can present it again after they do it the right way. Well, that wasn't good enuf for Walker so he decided he would enforce the bill anyway, even tho the judge rejected it. Judge rejected it again and after much back & forth, he finally went along w/the judge's ruling. Well, good for him! (yeah, right!) Japan - The Tokyo Electric Power Co. has not been able to stabilize the plant's dangerously overheating reactors since cooling systems were knocked out in the tsunami on 3/11. One of the reactors contained iodine concentration that were 10,000x the government standard for the plant. Seems to be an error in the computer program used to analyze the date and the recent figures may be wrong. But then again, they may be correct. The don't know. Radiation is still streaming out of the plant and the Japanese have asked for help from all the countries. They are waiting for giant pumps from U.S. They say it is unlikely that radiation seeping would affect drinking water. But "unlikely" is different from "definitely"! It is going to be endless. Now they find that the radiation is in the milk in Washington state. Very little, in fact, I read that there is radiation in everything. Great to hear that, no? Budget - the House Reps have asked for a 100 billion in budget cuts and the Senate Dems are giving, giving, giving. They are making me sick. Well, the Reps were satisfied as the Dems gave more and more - HOWEVER, and this is a big HOWEVER, the Tea Partiers (I call them teabaggers - on Twitter someone calls them teacrappers!) want more. They had a demo in D.C. yesterday - couple of hundred turned out which is really not a lot. If they don't get what they want the government will closed down on 4/8/11. And they will blame the Democrats. Now, the real Republicans - the ones w/John Boehner, the Weeper of the House, are ok w/what the Dem. Senators have offered but the T.P. are not ok w/it. It's like having 3 political parties in office. One of the things they are cutting is heat for the poor elderly! Can you believe that? Meanwhile, B of A, G.E. and many, many more ARE NOT PAYING TAXES AT ALL! Now only are they not paying taxes, here's an example of what is happening in this country - let's take G.E. - not only do they not take taxes - THEY GET BILLIONS IN TAX REFUNDS!!!!!!! Now, can someone please explain that????? If all these major corporations paid taxes, and all the big oil cos. paid taxes and the super rich paid the taxes they are supposed to pay, then - only then, can the poor people get heat in the winter!!!!! I can't talk about it anymore - it literally get me ill! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!!!