…until all the tea-bagger Kool-ade drinking misogynist Neanderthals stop gloating.
There’s no such thing as local politics anymore. It’s really the height of irony that all these groups who pour money into other states’ ballot issues and elections are the first to howl about the federal government interfering with their states’ freedom to make whatever kind of regressive laws they want. *sigh*
No, I’m not bitter, no, not at all! It’s just so frustrating when health insurance reform has so much impact on small businesses, entrepreneurs, the self-employed and other people who are working so hard to escape terminal penal servitude to Huge Corporate Profits.
It didn’t help that the weather totally sucked today. It snowed all day here in Pepperell. Naturally, all the Brown Moonies have huge SUVs (or chauffeurs), the people who need health reform probably had trouble getting to the polls. I left my house at around noon and immediately got stuck at the mouth of my own driveway!! Fortunately, I got free in just a minute or so of scraping snow away from the tires with my boots and rocking the car, but, gods.
The polls were really busy. The poll worker for my precinct knows me now, she even remembers my address! 🙂 Pepperell was covered with campaign signs for Brown, I don’t think I saw a single Coakley sign anywhere. The only campaigners outside the polls were all for Brown. He carried this little one-horse armpit by a 2-1 margin. Pepperell has a lot of knee-jerk conservatives and truly stupid people, I’m afraid. I’ll bet all the Level-3 sex offenders voted for Brown (yes, we have a bunch of them). :-p
I ran a couple of errands but being on the roads was no fun today. When I got home, I went down to the end of the driveway and shoveled back the snowbanks until the driveway mouth was twice the width it had been and was clear down to the bare ground (and “ground” is the word, my driveway is unpaved). At least the comparatively mild temperatures meant that was a lot easier than I feared it would be. But it snowed all afternoon and was still snowing at sunset.
I finished the first, biggest phase of this huge book review blog database project, I have the initial list compiled. Whew, what a job! Now I need to go through it and sort out places to query for reviews, especially for Cat the Vamp. It’s just hard to keep plugging onward when I’m feeling so bummed out. 🙁