Barack Obama

And I would like to add, as to your valued contribution to the BOG . . . there wouldn't be one worth reading anymore without you, and sheshe2, Freshwest, IrishAyes, babylonsistah, and all of the other regulars that post here weekly, if not daily.

Sometimes, in the middle of the night during the week, I come here to reenergize my political batteries.
In order to "keep my eyes on the prize".
It isn't easy when so many others are being negative, critical, or dishonest about the situations we find ourselves engaged in these days.
But then, it has never been easy.
It seems that there has been a tiny "October Surprise" almost every single month this year, when the media, or the Republicans have went after President Obama and the Democrats currently in Congress.

As far as I am concerned, most of the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the American people who elected the "do nothing bums" from the Tea Party to seats in Congress.
We have to undo that damage this fall in the mid-term elections that are quickly coming right around the corner.

For the first time in Idaho in almost 20 years, the Democrats have a fair playing field, and an excellent chance to unseat the Republican Governor as the GOP state political machine has ground to a sudden stop over political infighting within their own state party, arguing about the difference between being an extreme conservative and being a crazy "over the top" extreme conservative.
The current Governor likes to pander to the crazy "over the top" extreme conservative sect that live in the state -- people who passed laws forcing the college campuses to allow for concealed carry of weapons over the objections of the colleges, law enforcement personnel, experts, and other people who were NOT allowed to testify at the fake hearing the whackadoos held in the state legislature this spring.

Hopefully, people in this state will come to their senses in time to oust the Governor, who seems to like all of the chaos he has caused these last 4 years, and who actively supported political nonsense like allowing an unemployed, crazy racist biker to be included in their GOP debates for Governor.
I guess the Governor thought he looked more rational standing next to that whackjob, but that won't work when it comes time to defend his record in office when he is standing next to the Democratic candidate this fall in their debate.

The end of the political nonsense has to start somewhere, and I think Idaho is ripe to be the state where it gets started.
We need to set the trend towards moving back to having a rational government, not one ruled by the NRA lobby, or one that ruins the school system and trashes the budgets of the meager welfare programs that are under the state's control, and then turns around and rewards corporations by reducing their income tax burdens while not creating jobs.

I mean, if giving all of that tax money back to those corporations would have resulted in the creation of jobs, every single man, woman, and child in the state would have 2 high-paying full-time jobs by now!
Instead of the reality, which is all of those shareholders simply pocketing their windfall from rising profits these last few years.
As unemployment in the state continues to fall, the current Governor is very vocal to take the credit . . . yet the large majority of those new jobs are just minimum wage jobs that only require low skill sets.