Find out what is bothering women voters about this midterm election season.
From Denny: Why is it in poll after poll do the pollsters find themselves puzzled as to why women are just not enthusiastic this year for the midterm voting - especially Democrats and Independents?
Like any situation there are varied reasons for the female voting malaise:
* Women view political race after political race still offering no practical solutions for the issues of the country.
* Women struggle working more hours in a down economy, hoping to afford rising health care, raising families, and are caretakers of aging parents.
Check out the national mind and opinions of our economy through the eyes of cartoonists.
From Denny: Our politicians continue to campaign for their jobs while they refuse to guard ours going out of the country still at a rapid rate. This month GM announced they were hiring an additional 5,000 new workers. Yeah? Not in America. And we taxpayers still own controlling interest in this annoying car manufacturer. They have the nerve to stiff the American worker with the bill and no job to help pay for it.
This sure is a mean - and more competitive than usual - political season.
From Denny: This is a midterm election season and it is in full swing like a Presidential election. This year is when the controlling political party gets to redistrict the nation to give one party or another more seats and deprive their competition of enough to drive them into minority status. Meanwhile, it's the voters who suffer from these greedy selfish practices. The Republicans are the most notorious in breaking up Democratic strongholds they could never gain control of to get a seat in the House or the Senate unless they did gerrymander the voting district.
This year, because of the Supreme Court ruling, there are now anonymous donors throwing $20 million checks at the Republicans - and some Democrats - to buy back Congress. It's shameful how the Republicans have sold out this county. No other country in the world allows foreign companies or countries to lobby their political members - let allow buy them for hire.
Check out this explosive interview about the truth of the outting of one of Americas successful spies tracking down rogue nukes in the world.
From Denny: The movie about this odious incident is coming out now and is well represented as to the truth of what happened. Here Plame and her husband discuss all the garbage that Bush, Cheney and Rove threw at them. Rove was angry that Wilson, a former ambassador, refused to lie for them about nukes in Iraq.
Check out this week's late night jokes, latest cartoons, funniest video clips from Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.
From Denny: Do these guys get any funnier? Well, our politics of late have gone from sad to funny to bizarre to laugh out loud funny - giving the late night comedians plenty of joke material.
Who knew a witch would run for the Senate? Who knew loud hypocritcal Tea Party wingnuts could get any traction with voters? The mainstream political parties of the Republicans and the Democrats had better get off the corporate milk nipples and start taking care of the people. Get down to really governing instead of worrying about staying in office for your own welfare.
Check out this week's latest political humor from the nation's cartoonists. The Tea Party wins hands down on the most talked about this election season.
Lady Gaga looking spooky for this election season gala whre we all will gag if the Republicans get back in control.
From Denny: If the state of the American economy was not so sad these mental Bozos running for office as Tea Party Tea Baggers would be comical. The strange thing is there are actually people willing to vote for them. Which is why there are so many cartoons this week featuring the redneck theme.
I always get a charge out of my relatives in the Northeast who think all rednecks live in the South. Talk about a case of regional bigotry. It's bad enough we have racism and homophobia in this country but now it's long held regional culture bigotry. I've traveled a lot of places and if there is one thing of which I am certain: Rednecks live everywhere - even overseas. It isn't just an American phenomenon.
Obama catches last minute sleaze Republicans and Big Banks tacked on into new bill to cheat homeowners of their consumer protection rights while in foreclosure.
From Denny: Leave it up to the Republicans to sleaze the public and try and slide yet another scumbag piece of legislation past the public and the President. Fortunately, the White House caught it in time. As it was, none of the Democrats in the House or the Senate realized they had been sleazed by the Republicans with a last minute tacked amendment they didn't know they were about to vote into law. They thought the law stood as agreed with no changes yet they got snookered by the Republicans and their handlers yet again.
Learn how the Big Banks just screwed themselves out of all their profits.
From Denny: Who really feels sorry for the greedy Big Banks who have repeatedly raped the wallets of the American public? Awww, everyone all together now in unison, "Can you hear me now???"
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From Denny: All this weekend - and early this week - I've had the usual case of "Fall Fever." Who really wants to stay inside after a dreadful summer of weirdly high heat and humidity? When Louisiana weather calms down to cooler temperatures at night and low humidity during the day it's, well, irresistible. And the blogging just had to wait this weekend.
Republicans in Congress lack compassion for anyone but Big Money, Big Business, Big Oil and Big Insurance. Then it's all crying and whining about wanting to continue the Bush tax cuts - which, by the way, are 30 percent of our current deficit. Yeah, deficit hawks, you don't ever mention that "factoid" to your Republican and Independent voters, now do you?
Can weird get any more weird? Just in time for Halloween the Tea Party has given us a Satanic witch for a candidate. Voting sure is spiced up this season. Colbert ponders Christine O'Donnel's next weird move and crazy outburst.
Fellow ascerbic comic Larry Wilmore tells Jon to set the bar low - and flood the stage with artificial diversity - if he wants his Rally to Restore Sanity to be successful.
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show at Comedy Central wonders about why Karl Rove was not an enthusiastic member of the Tea Party Express for witches, calling O'Donnell "nutty." Yes, there is a battle of the nutjobs in the Republican Party, wrestling for control of America's hearts and minds.
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Liberal groups march in Washington, D.C. this weekend to press for jobs and encourage voting.
From Denny: Are you tired of the unending bizarre nonsense coming out of the mouths of the extreme right like conservative talk show hosts Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh?
Well, the Democrats are finally starting to organize the yardcats, bringing them to the government's back yard. Banding together in solidarity are 400 groups comprised of labor unions as well as progressive and civil rights groups.
Sporting events, shopping malls, airports: all places you get radiated without your knowledge by our government after terrorists and drug cartels.
From Denny: So what's next in the paranoia department for Americans? Do we have to worry about our government agents using radiation technology anonymously as we attend a football game or visit a shopping mall - all in the day's work of catching drug cartels or terrorists with contraband or bombs?
Mobile X-rays vans are now cruising our streets all in the interest of combating terrorism. The feds are randomly scanning cars and trucks everywhere. Besides our privacy concerns, how about our serious health concerns?
From Denny: This is a local Baton Rouge, Louisiana, news story detailing the shabby treatment from the claims fund manager, Kenneth Feinberg, and BP toward local restaurant owners. Business is down about 40 percent in the Baton Rouge area since this oil spill disaster occurred and the oil moratorium was put in place.
Restaurants run on a small profit margin. No one knows how long these beloved institutions can stay in business unless something changes. These are the well established business people. What is happening to small business owners who have not had decades to set aside some cash for emergencies like this one?
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Arts: Whimsical Fiber Artist Ed Bing Lee - This fiber artist has a sense of the whimsy while he explores new ways to use simple knotting techniques to develop his art.
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Choices narrowing down as who leaves or who stays on the White House staff.
From Denny: President Obama's Closed Inner Circle Model is really not serving the President well at all. Sometimes, you just have to bring in outside people who were not part of the original campaign that got you into the White House. Within the first six months it is evident which staff members do not transition well from campaign mode to governing mode. With this White House the President has taken far too long - two years - to consider the obvious changes.
The one most in need of leaving and returning to the campaign trail is David Axelrod. He just can't get his head into the governing game, putting off needed legislation and actions that should have been started by the time the President when he first took office. Most notably, Axelrod never took it seriously the economic condition of the country and how necessary it was for the government to respond faster.
Axelrod is said to be leaving his senior advisor role "sometime in the Spring." Are you kidding? This guy has been destructive to the progressive-liberal agenda in favor of placating corporate money. He is also slower than molasses in everything he does. It's how he rolls - or doesn't roll.
What he should be doing to prepare for the President's re-election campaign is to leave now. He has no time to lose, given the mood of the country. To get him into campaign mindset he should go back to Chicago and help Rahm Emanuel get elected to mayor. Then it will be the holiday season and before you know it, then the New Year is upon us. There is a lot to organize for such a massive campaign. He has been out of the campaign harness for two years now.
Axelrod has no sense of urgency and it is precisely that cavalier attitude that hurts him - and especially those around him. Send him on his way, Mr. President so he can get into gear and be on time for your re-election campaign. Follow your instincts and don't allow Axelrod to yet again "spin" you.
As to former Senator Daschle as the top pick for a permanent Chief of Staff: get him. The Republicans may grouse a bit but they will get over it. In comparison they will much prefer Daschle's smooth style to Rahm's abrasive style - and so will the progressive and liberal wings of the Democratic Party.
As to Press Secretary, perhaps Gibbs will be happier as a senior advisor - but he will have to watch his temper in public. Working with Daschle could teach him the studied finesse he needs to be more effective - especially in the area of "thinking on his feet." No easy task and it takes time to hone that skill but Gibbs is up to the task.
And while you are at it, get a lot more women on your team. A sprinkling just doesn't get it. Also, quit backing down like you did on Elizabeth Warren when Wall Street squawked. They are a selfish greedy bunch who do not have the country's best interest - or yours. "Can you hear me now?" :)
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