The title of this piece is taken from a supposed comment by a baseball loving and betrayed shoe shine boy as Joe Jackson came out of the court that had banned him from major league baseball forever. Shoeless Joe Jackson and 7 other White Sox players were accused and found guilty of throwing the 1919 World Series game; The White Sox became known as the Chicago Black Sox and they left a stain on baseball that lasted for decades. Shoeless Joe Jackson himself said he took the money but he tried to give the money back and he did not participate in throwing the World Series but he was found guilty just the same. Whether he was guilty or not, has been debated since his verdict of 1920, but the fact remains a few baseball players sold out the National American pasttime for a few shekles of gold. Jupiter was conjuncting Neptune in Leo, making them think they could get away with it all.
What does this 87 year old blot on the name of baseball have to do with politics and the Democratic Party caving in to a corrupt administration yesterday, giving the President every slimy thing he wants to continue this unholy war? From my perspective, everything. We just witnessed the same stunning and shocking betrayal of a "team" we trusted and millions of Americans are saying today, "say it ain't so."
May 22, 2007 the Democratic Party, elected by the people to end this war, caved in to Bush and gave him a bill with all the money requested and absolutely no oversight on how it's spent. Not any different than what we have had since 2003. Dick Cheney predicted in April that the Democrats would cave and give them what they wanted and he sure enough was right.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607R.shtml
I used a 12:00 Noon chart because I didn't have the exact time but the Sun and Saturn were moving into an opposition to Neptune and opposing the Moon and Uranus in their party's own natal chart, the backlash to their decision will be shocking to them and far reaching. In the Democrats natal chart, Uranus is in his own sign of Aquarius, they may have just planted the seeds of their own destruction and paved the way for a new party. Transiting Saturn oppose their Uranus points to their fear of taking a stand and that fear will come back to bite them.
Today, the House introduced a bill to stop price gouging of gas prices and Bush threatens to veto. The Bush administration has this Congress on the ropes and he knows it and so do the Democrats; the bully has won. He won the moment the Dems capitulated to the White House demands.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18825910/
The Senate first joint setting of Congress in Washington DC was Nov. 17, 1800 at 9:00am, right now transiting Neptune is squaring their natal Saturn and transiting Saturn is squaring the natal Neptune, Congress has lost their power and it remains to be seen if they can get it back or if they even want it back. Both Congressional parties have been found to have feet of clay.
Yesterday's Sun was conjunct the Democratic Party's Sun giving them, I'm sure a belief that they could handle the anti-war progressives in their party. They were wrong. Mars was squaring the US Jupiter encouraging a stream of BS regarding the troops and a need to protect them. Mercury was conjunct the US Mars giving rise to the angry words from Democrats and Independents from around the country.
Both parties are playing politics and power with the lives of innocent Iraqi's and soldiers. Yesterday was the most dramatic concern this country should have as to whether this President takes the country to war with Iran.
By what band of energy holds this country hostage to the band of thieves and traitors in Washington? Voices, credible voices have all risen against this administration; politicians, former administration officials, statesmen, reporters, businessmen, other countries, soldiers, career officers have all raised their voices in a loud chorus screaming "foul, corrupt, evil, treason, impeach," and yet nothing changes. What band of energy is out there holding this country back from re-claiming their Constitution and Bill of Rights, what immobilizes the leaders we've elected from stopping this run away train? What hold could the Bush administration or a group more sinister, possibly have over all of us?
We voted in November 2006 with a clear message to our leaders "end this war." We had their promise that they would do so and yet less than six months after taking the oath of office to uphold the Constitution, to demand accountability we have a Congress pleading with Karl Rove to please talk to them, an Attorney General steeped in lies and corruption laughing at them. A Congress who sits by while this administration basically tells them "up yours" when they subpoena documents; a Congress who stood by while habeas corpus disappeared from our legal system, Congress sitting by while this President gave himself unprecedented powers over all of us and now this latest betrayal. What is really going on here and is it too late to stop it? I wish I could answer that question.
"Say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so."