Brain Drippings

Mexico is conducting a partial recount in their 2 July Presidential election between former Mexico City Mayor Lopez Obrador (PDR) and former Fox cabinet member (and, for now, winner) Felipe Calderon (PAN). The election is important to Americans because Calderon is a pro-business, pro-investment, and for the most part, pro-American politician and Obrador is, well, not. That said, no foreign politician can really be said to be pro-American while chimpboy squats on Pennsylvania Avenue, but Calderon is more pro-American than Obrador. The protest over the election results has shutdown portions of Mexico City and led to numerous incidents across the country. So far, there’s been no violence. Now, whether Calderon is better for Mexico than Obrador is a question for Mexico to answer. Personally, I think having a change in parties holding the President’s office can’t be a bad thing. No one wants the PAN thinking it is the new PRI, after all. Both candidates support immigration agreements with the US and both are understandably pissed-off about the moronic and xenophobic idea some Americans have had of building a big wall along the border. But I’m just another gringo.

Joseph Lieberman, after getting spanked in the Democratic Primary, is showing his true Republican roots by working to ensure that the Democrats can’t win his seat. Pulling a move from Benedict Arnold’s playbook he is vowing to run as an ‘Independent’, virtually assuring that the Republican will win the seat in November. At least when Nader did this, he really was an independent, not some turn-coat weasel-boy like Joe Lieberman. Talk about your sore losers. Lieberman, in effect, has decided that the position of Senator from Connecticut is his and if he can’t have it, by god, no one else is going to take it. Or maybe he just wants to be sure that the Senate seat is filled with some another Bush lapdog. What an asshole. If you live in Connecticut, be sure and contact Lieberman’s campaign office and let him know what you think, Democrat or not.