We have 19 more days to shop for our candidates. The mud is slinging every which way and will continue right up to election day. Will the Dems take the House, will they take the Senate, will they take the house and Senate? We are in deep trouble in this country and there won't be anyway through it but through it.
Some of us are old enough to remember Sam Ervin, Jr. who chaired the Watergate Committee that ultimately brought down Richard Milhouse Nixon. A friend of mine "M" sent me this quote by Mr. Ervin spoken about the Nixon administration. It could easily have been written for Mr. Bush and his administration.
"They had forgotten, if they ever knew, that the Constitution is designed to be a law for rulers and people alike at all times and under all circumstances; and that no doctrine involving more pernicious consequences to the commonweal has ever been invented by the wit of a man than the notion that any of its provisions can be suspended by the President for any reason whatsoever.
"On the contrary, they apparently believed that the President is above the Constitution, and has the autocratic power to suspend its provisions if he decides in his own unreviewable judgement that his action in so doing promotes his own political interests or the welfare of the nation. As one of them testified before the Senate Select Committee, they believed that the President has the autocratic power to suspend the Fourth Amendment whenever he imagines that some indefinable aspect of national security is involved.
"I digress to reject this doctrine of the constitutional omnipotence of the President. As long as I have a mind to think, a tongue to speak, and a heart to love my country, I shall deny that the Constitution confers any autocratic power on the President, or authorizes him to convert George Washington's America into Gaius Caesar's Rome."
I must say, as concerned as I am for this country on the one hand, on the other hand, I just stand back and watch as they destroy the constitution and march daily toward dictatorship and we hardly say a word. Everything is set up now for Martial Law and we don't say anything at all. We are living in GWB grandfather's and great-grandfather's fascist state and we don't see it at all. Or maybe we do see it as a nation and we don't know what to do about it.
The US Draconic Chart http://www.solsticepoint.com/dragontxt.htm (derived from the US Natal chart) offers us some fascinating clues into our future.
On July 8th 2011 a rare event from the US Chart to the Draconic; by Solar Arc every progressed planet in the US chart returns to the Draconic. A return if you will, to the soul of the nation. Joe Trippi, a liberal pundit, wrote a book about the Silent Revolution, I am not sure if that revolution has started now or will be starting then, but I do know America, the collective will be examining their roots, what they believe democracy is, why democracy has been important to them or even if democracy of this nation is important to them. I don't honestly know if we will reclaim our country or will have given it all away by then.
The Dept of Defense has effectively neutered the military. All those in the military who see what's happening are systematically being removed and people like General Pace who thinks Rumsfeld is talking to God are being put in their place, almost all the people who wouldn't think twice about a treasonous act such as martial law against their own people when there is nothing to warrent such an act.
The Draconic Sun in the US chart is Pisces. Pisces will often endure suffering, deprivation and hard circumstances without complaint particularly if there is an "ideal" involved, it become almost a religious fervor; such as the birth of a nation, a war of honor, a better life or at the extreme end, a returning messiah. The question in 2011 will be whether we as a nation perceive we have lost our ideal and need to reclaim it, or whether we believe we are waiting for a messiah, but we will be in an ideological war, we are in one now. Some are fighting for the returning messiah and some are fighting to save this country, still others are just fighting and they know not what.
We are moving into another confusing twisted election and no matter how it turns out there will be an uproar and it might be the GOP because the country has turned left and even anti incumbent. As a side note the eastern half of the country could be knee deep in storms.
Missouri will be one of the most watched and Mary McCaskill actually has the edge.
Lieberman still has a few days to go before we see a fall, the artificial poll that came out showing him 17 points ahead did not do him any favors and has already been debunked.
I am 90 percent certain Schwarznegger will win, but there is a big 10 percent in my mind that could see him swept up in the anti-incumbent plus arrogant "out damn spot" placement on election day.
Ford in Tennessee is still up in the air, actually he may be depending too heavily on "showing" how religious he is by his ads in a church. For some in Tennessee it could be the wrong church.
DeWine and Blackwell in Ohio can only win by election fraud because the GOP has lost the state.
Katherine Harris is also on the ropes and would need a Secretary of State like her to get her home.
Colorado Governorship is in more question than it appears.
I think among Liberals there is a dream that by winning at least one of the houses things will be back to normal in this country, but they won't, not for quite awhile (longer than 2 years) the best to hope for would be to stem the tide of a dictatorship or fascism, but we don't know how far to the right the Democrats have gone. I look at John Edwards who has pulled away from the DLC and people like him who still have democratic principles. I am not impressed by the number of politicians in Kansas, as an example, who have left the GOP and are now running as Democrats. What does that mean for the Democratic party except a pull to the right. The GOP has become so far right even to go to the center is still right. It's important to nurture the Constitutional dream of this country, "justice for all." Liberals and Conservatives have lost their way, and it will be up to people like Keith Olbermann, John Edwards, Chuck Hagel (GOP) Sharrod Brown, even Ted Kennedy to help us find the way back.
POST SCRIPT The first comment under this article has a short delineation of today's New Moon as it relates to the coming month. It's not lengthy or involved but does capture the over-all flavor. But I've been looking and looking at this New Moon chart and there is something that very much troubles me. The Moon, Sun and Mars in this New Moon chart conjuncts exactly the Mercury of the 2000 election chart. Somehow this election is tied to the 2000 chart and would indicate a real fight for power. There will be threats, fear to the maximum. In 2008 Election Mercury itself will be at the same position as the 2000 Election only it will be direct, not retrograde as it was then. I don't think we will know or understand the meaning of this election until 2008. The group in power will feel they have to save or protect that power at all costs. An angry populace is ahead of us. On Election day Mars and Uranus will be in a trine could be an upset affecting either side. Chiron conjuncts Election Day 2000 Uranus, a shift? a wounding?