Progressive Democrat Issue 45: THOUGHTS

Maybe I don’t need to be doing this anymore. I can just retire from activism. The nation finally seems to be coming to its senses. What a week! You all know I have been fighting corruption in the Democratic Party in Brooklyn. Well, this week, the head of that corrupt party was convicted on 4 counts of election fraud.

Then, you all know I have been fighting Republican Corruption starting with Tom DeLay’s corruption. Well, this week Tom DeLay was indicted for his corruption!

But wait! There’s more! Those familiar with my Corrupt Republican blog know that one of the most corrupt Senators in the nation is Roy Blunt from Missouri. He was considered in line to replace DeLay should DeLay’s scandals catch up with him. Well, it seems Roy Blunt is on the outs and David Dreier is now the anointed successor. Speculation is that the Republicans don’t want to replace one corrupt crony with another.

But wait! There’s more! One person I have yet to target just because there is so much else to cover is Frist (R-TN). He also has a scandal dogging him. Well Frist’s scandal is exploding Martha Stewart style. There is no question that if Stewart deserved jail time, Frist certainly does.

The chickens are coming home to roost big time this last week! All I have been working towards is coming to pass. My job is done. We can all go home.

Okay so it isn’t over and we still need to work hard. The corrupt Brooklyn Dem machine and the corrupt Republicans will be fighting hard to survive these scandals and we are the ones who have to stop them. And earlier corruption I focused on continues: Halliburton got one of the first contracts to rebuild New Orleans and the incompetent, dishonored Michael Brown, who was just forced to resign as FEMA head for his failure to properly prepare for Katrina, has been hired by FEMA as a consultant. Republican corruption continues almost in defiance of public opinion, which is shifting against them. Cracks have appeared in their defenses, but they are still in control. We still must fight.

I wonder how much of an effect you and I have had in the fact that these scandals have not been buried. You and I have been writing the media week after week about Republican corruption. I wonder if our efforts had some small influence on the choice to pass over Senator Blunt as DeLay’s replacement. I wonder if our letters complaining about Blunt and his son have in some small way forced the Republicans to push the Blunts into the background. Did our letters about DeLay contribute in some small way to the fact that the case against his cronies actually made it to his doorstep?

I think we and our friends have started to have an effect. Our weekly work has started to pay off. It is time to redouble our efforts. If we have come this far, we can go all the way.

I guess there is still a need for this little newsletter.

On a side note, today, Oct. 1st, is Jimmy Carter’s birthday. More personally, a year ago today at about 10:30 PM at St. Vincent’s hospital in Manhattan, NY our son, Jacob William Michaelson, was born. Sadly, he had to witness the reelection of Bush scarcely more than a month after entering the world.