I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. (Dwight David Eisenhower)
Everyone has a place or sound that says “peace” to them. Peace can be the sound of a house after all the kids have gone to bed or the silence of new snowfall. Peace can be the plaintive whistle of a far away train, or a song, a place in the mountains, or by the ocean or in the woods, or the last gunfire of a war. It can be the ticking of a clock in a quiet house or crawling into bed after a hectic day and the sheets are clean and fresh; it all says and feels peace. It can also be the sound on November 8th and the news saying “the Democrats control both the House and Senate and Donald Rumsfeld has left the building. Any of these experiences will leave you with a sense of peace for a few moments, a night or several days.
Now what? The Democrats have taken both the House and Senate (kind of, it’s hard to count Joe Lieberman and not all races have been determined) Rumsfeld is gone, he’s off to some never never land where all is going well in Iraq. Daddy and his Technocrat friends have raced in to help George Jr. out of the god awful mess into which he has landed. This will be very interesting, because if the neo-cons have seen their day, the technocrats have also seen theirs. I think daddy’s friends will have their hands full.
A technocrat can be an individual who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion. This definition is usually applied to political decision makers who use this method to guide their actions. Technocrat (derogatory), a derogatory term used to describe a person with technical skills who doesn't always consider all possible consequences of their use (Wikipedia)
The secret machinations so evident the week leading up to the elections were in obvious play with the “support” and then immediate “dismissal” of Donald Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 5:40pm, Chicago, Ill. (Saturn has just passed a Conjunction to his Jupiter and coming to a square with his Chiron) In Rummy’s Minor Progressed Chart Venus and the Sun were squared by Uranus (Venus rules his natal MC his career) he did not see this coming and Cheney certainly didn’t expect his old friend to be unceremoniously dumped. The DOD Chair wasn’t even cold before Mr. Gates was setting up his filing so someone behind the scenes had George’s agenda for the next two years picked out. I would say those “someone’s” were Daddy’s friends. Perhaps if Cheney and Rumsfeld had worked in the CIA like Poppy and Gates they would have known their little run was about over or at least picked up some clues.
Now we have to listen to everyone’s fears that a WOMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO is going to be Speaker of the House. OMG what horror might befall this country with a WOMAN in charge? And a liberal to boot. No one has been able to explain to me why there is a fear of liberals, what do they think “liberals” might do? They might do away with the torture prisons, they might balance the budget, they might give us Habeas Corpus back, they might straighten out the mess of this last administration. There are more women than ever in Congress and the Senate. That’s the real fear I think, “women” are creeping up into power and the next thing you know they will want equal pay for equal work. I think that’s the deep seeded primitive fear. After all, Nancy Pelosi has threatened to use her “mom” voice. Beyond that, you will find her to initially take a hard line with the Democrats in the House, and that won’t be an easy task as she has a multi-generational group she must communicate with and supervise.
Just as today’s corporations must face the challenges of a work force from the Seniors (born before WWII) the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (Or the Millennials) so must the House and to a certain extent the Senate. Each of these groups has a different focus on what should be done, a different work ethic, a different approach to accomplishment, different values, a different idea of hierarchical power. To add to the convolution of all that, the Senate and House face new people coming who seemingly possess real authenticity; Jon Tester, McCaskill, Whitehouse, they will not be so impressed with a Chuck Schumer trying to placate a Joe Lieberman, especially since both men left their authenticity at the door a long time ago.
The pundits are trying to spin this as a “fluke,” a detour if you will on the way to a complete “liberal” fall in two years. I don’t think so, and I don’t think it’s a move to the center. I think we are in the midst of a shift toward something new, eventually a new party, a new way of doing things and a new expectation of the way this government conducts business and we aren’t there yet and the Democrats will need to be on their toes. All the damage that’s been done in the last six years cannot be undone in two and the GOP will hang on to try and hang the liberals or centrists or progressives or whatever they are calling themselves now. Transiting Pluto and Solar Arc Jupiter has been in an inconjunct pattern to the US Mercury, unearthing scandal after scandal (thank you blogs) and Solar Arc Jupiter is still there, plus Progressed US Mercury is moving toward a conjunction to SA Jupiter. That aspect brings about the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The challenge for us, the people, is not to become so discouraged that we give up on our ideals for a Democracy.
For now, we have shifted into a period of history that has nothing to do with GWB and his neo-con friends, and it has everything to do with the Bush family agenda. Those horses James Baker III and George Bush Sr. rode in on aren’t white, but they have the money, connections and Carlyle Group behind them and we have been moved to phase two of the re-making of America. Not to worry, as the energy changes for us down the road, it changes for everyone.