Lit it up was metaphorical in the sense that people got loose, had a great time, and had fun, including on the dance floor.

Some of the people were “lit up,” but that was alcohol consumption.

As for taking a puff, I will stick with Nancy Reagan, and just say no.

Puff, puff? No, I’ll pass.

eric

subterfugers everywhere know that pot smoking is no different than underage drinking, pre-marital sex, adultery, or fudging your taxes, and that even regular people in middle america indulge under the radar as regularly as free-floaters out west and denmark. prepared to vote the issues, more and more liberals wouldn’t mind if it were crazy young republicans to be the ones demonstrating evenhanded conscience. but those republicans can’t, can they. they must continue to play to core constituents, to whom they sell a regular bill of goods.

i’m not finished. rabbi lerner wrote precisely about the unwillingness of his own dem cohorts in the senate to affirm their own worldviews, and it should be read. talking about sotomayor,

“You’ll be facing an even more difficult challenge when you get to the Court: taking on the class biases that still shape legislation in the Congress and that have been part of past Supreme Court nominations. To take the classic one: the Supreme Court decision a hundred and thirty years ago to call corporations “persons” and interpret the 14th amendment, meant to protect former slaves, as protecting the so-called “rights” of corporations. From that has come a series of decisions that favor America’s rich and powerful at the expense of the American middle class. Ever since then, the Court has bent over backwards to twist the Constitution in ways that serve the interests of the rich and the powerful. For example, when the Congress tried to put some restraints on the way that the rich can buy the legislation they want by spending endlessly to elect candidates to serve their interests, the Court said that “free speech” of corporations or the rich would be impeded by spending limits on campaigns. To tell us that you are going to be bound by these biased decisions of the past, because you “respect the precedents and must abide by them as a judge,” is to ignore the ways that the Court itself continually undermines the desires of the people when those desires conflict with the interests of the powerful. We hope that you will reverse that kind of judicial activism by an activism favoring the poor and America’s working families.”

puff, puff, pass.

JMJ

I recall the YRs first coming to prominence in the 80’s. Disaffection with a tired, inaffectual, corrupt, old Democrat Party Machine combined with a bipartisan uniting, albeit not for any good, under Ronald Reagan, created a groundswell of support for Reagan and his new brand of “conservatism” with many young people. This, with the rise of the white middle-class suburbs and exurbs from the White Flight phenomenon of that period ,and the coming of age of Generation X in that, became the core of the YRs: White, suburban, middle-class Gen-Xers. A new group of Americans who would be key to the direction of the country over the generation to come. That generation is now assiliated, no longer new and no longer the key to the future political direction of the nation.

The average age of today’s GOP-registered voter is now over 48. That’s FORTY EIGHT. Those people are the YRs of Reagans time, and it’s up from an average age of 45 1/2 just nine years ago. (http://people-press.org/report/517/political-values-and-core-attitudes) In the population in general, religiousity is down, social conservatism is down, with only “national security” as a “Republican issue” on the up. 88% of Republicans are white and that remains virtually unchanged over the years. The general public, on the other hand, is only 66% white. That is a HUGE disparity. And in a significant majority of the major issues of the day, more Americans agree with the Democrats than the Republicans. The GOP is in serious trouble.

Democrats currently hold about an 11% lead over the GOP in the numbers of registered voters. Independents and others make up about 40%. If the GOP continues to look inward towards satisfying it’s base, it will continue to become more and more of a minority party. It must appeal more to independents and swing voters in order to win. America is no longer swinging to the Right, and given the horrific failure of conservatism in action in recent history, it is hard to imagine that the GOP is going to be able to swing the country back to the Right anytime in the near future. And with the identified Dems and liberals solidly controlling the under-25 demographic, the ability of the GOP to swing the country back to the Right is only further diminished.

The YRs have a long, tough, lonely road ahead.

JMJ

Even though the Jewish community was basicly Conservative (in their
religious affiliation-meaning, the bible was not translated literally, but
subject to interpretation and evolving), I seldom heard any positive
remarks from my non-Jewish friends and classmates about it. Just plain
old anti-religious types..if not ourright anti-Semtism.

Frankly, w/o the Jewish community ( involved in business and the
services), I doubt the community would have survived.
But that is another story.

Let’s face it, what we now have in the USA is a government of one party, the Democrats. There are some moderates in the party, but most are
very liberal. My state has one liberal (Boxer) and one conservative Senator.

I wish in the next election, Sarah Palin would run for Senator.
Maybe then we would have a better balance representing
all of California?

Sarah is visiting Simi Valley..as part of her journal to regain
some of her lost prestige..and put her in contention for a national
office. She will be speaking before Republican Women.

With the tragic loss of Senator Coleman…and the entry of
someone who is basically a poor comic..and the other Republican
shifting to the Democrats, let’s all face the reality of our poor
status. It’s also possible that a liberal may become next SC
Justice?

I ask, how much farther down can we moderate to conservatives go?

We need a David Axelrod type..who can SELL the Republican philosophy
to the majority of the American population. It’s all about numbers, and the Democrats don’t have it.

Obama’s popularity is almost as high as ever, even though he has
destroyed the US credibility for years in foreign affairs, and whose
economic policies are yet to be felt by we Americans. When they do
look out.

He has repeatedly said that even though the US is coming out of the
recession, unemployment takes longer..it’s just economics.

Soooooo, Iran is making a nuke, No. Korea is making more nukes,
Chavez still sells Citgo gas in the US, Syria and Fatah are demanding
Israel both stop any further settlement growth and relinquish
the Golan Heights prior to any negotiations, (growth meaning any
construction in land taken after 1967 in israel’s defensive wars, if lost, there would be no Israel today but lots of more Holocaust museums).

Back at the ranch, Obama’s staff understands he got nothing
at the G8 meeting, except previously funding…Russia wasn’t impressed
by his efforts to get Iran to comply with the UN or stop it’s illegal
manufacture of enriched uranium or start behaving like
a democracy. There were no rants and raves for Obama in
Moscow, but hard, shrewd, tough talk.

It is now known that Obama’s foreign policy team is rethinking
his approach.

Basically it comes down to this: the liberal fascists have taken
over our government. Their “volk” approach is based on govt
in our lives..every aspect, from education to child rearing (see Hillary
Clinton’s past).

Saul Alinsky is laughing in his grave., as is Adolph.