Pulling Some S**t in the O.C.
Republican Congressional challenger Tan D. Nguyen has been linked to sending threatening and misleading campaign flyers to Hispanic Orange County voters. You can read about it here. The flyers basically say that if you are illegal immigrant who attempts to vote in the upcoming elections you could be sent to jail or deported.
I asked my cousin Braydon, a resident of Laguna Niguel and a junior college student in the O.C. if he could give me the lowdown and he said, "Yo, I didn't know a Vietnamese guy was running for the Congress from Orange County. There's a lot of them down here, but I thought the Republicans were probably running some white dude."
I asked Braydon if he was going to vote in the November 7 election and he said, "Dude, I just turned 20. I can't vote." I reminded him that the legal voting age is 18 and he said, "Whatever. Are you buying me a new X-Box for Christmas brau? Because the old one got kind of racked up when I had the peeps over and I had to throw down and shit."
It was then that I realized I couldn't turn to Braydon for election analysis.
All I have to say is that this Fall is lining up as the "perfect storm" nationally for Democrats. Between the Mark Foley sex scandal, the morass in Iraq, a moribund economy that is squeezing the middle class dry and a growing disconnect between voters on both sides of the political spectrum and the standard Republican "values" message, there doesn't seem to be any way that the Democrats don't make massive gains in the midterm elections and render Bush a neutered lame duck for his final two years in office. Of course, if any party could screw up this scenario, it would be my beloved Democrats, who still shy away from the word liberal like it would give them herpes and to whom organization is as anathema as underwear is to Lindsay Lohan. But I'm optimistic. I plan to do my part for more progressive candidates and causes and all I can do is hope for the best.
We certainly don't need to send any (more) Tan D. Nguyen's to office. The latest polls show he trails Democrat incumbent Loretta Sanchez by about 20 points.
Oh and Braydon--I'm not buying you a new X-Box.
Peace...
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With all things politic such a cesspool of childish partisanship, ineptitude, failure to address the main issues facing the country, self-serving hell-bent-for-reelection preoccupation while Rome burns, and lacking a statesman (or stateswoman!) or even anyone in government who understands the definition of “statesman,” the best course of action for the survival of America is to throw out ALL incumbents during the next two national elections, clean the slate, and get a fresh start.
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