Bingo! I am very frustrated with Obama and with the Democratic leadership, particularly Reid, but none of my frustration contains even the least shred of longing for the good old days of Republican rule.

I recently wrote on the Democratic leadership’s cringing, “please-don’t-hurt-me” relationship with Joe Lieberman, but I think the phrase applies to their relationship to other Republicans [sic] that Obama wants to please. And Harry Reid has no ‘nads, so we won’t get any help from that department. If Obama doesn’t give up on the bipartisan BS and start kicking some butt, we’re all in trouble.

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Aside: the lesbian who will likely become Houston’s mayor, Annise Parker, is splendidly well-qualified for the job, having been both a Council member and, for the last few years, City Controller. She presents well, has done all the right things for a Houston mayor (i.e., she was in the “awl bidness” for a number of years), is a social liberal (well, du-uh!) and is at present pretty far ahead in the polls. I cannot help thinking of the great Kathy Whitmire, who was one of my city’s finest public officials (curiously, Controller and then Mayor) a couple of decades ago. Oh, and the fact that Annise is lesbian and “out”? Few people here even consider that in deciding how to vote. She was opposed vehemently by the religious nuts the first couple of times she ran for office, but as strange as it may seem to non-Texans, Houston is, on balance, a liberal city. I look forward to Annise’s term(s) in office.

Well, yeah!

kim g