Let me say at the outset that this blog is not moribund. It can be hard to tell with me, so I thought I’d just put that out there.
I just got back from my first road trip since moving to WNC, and I have some thoughts about that, but then I saw this piece from the NY Times about how the Democrats are planning to protect the Party from losses in close elections and it got me thinking. The thing is that congressional elections – especially for the House of Representatives – are MY elections (or YOUR elections) and I kind of resent either National Party interfering in them.
Here in the 11th District in North Carolina we’ve got Jeff Miller running against… well, he’s apparently running against Nancy Pelosi (and the President) and that doesn’t make any sense to me. His TV spot talks about how he wants to defeat Nancy Pelosi, and I don’t give a rat’s ass about Nancy Pelosi. I don’t believe she’s on my ballot. I have concerns about Heath Shuler, the 11th District incumbent (and I’ll be writing about some of them), but his campaign is all about folks in Western North Carolina and his representation of us. That’s what I’m looking for.
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According to the mainstream media – according to the National Parties – the 2010 elections are between Nancy Pelosi of the 8th District of California and John Boehner of the 8th District of Ohio. To my mind, that is a perversion of democracy, and it irritates the crap out of me. (For one thing, it assumes that both Boehner and Pelosi will win reelection in their districts.) My hope would be that neither National Party would win a majority of seats, and that the Speaker of the House would be elected by the full House.
As a post script (and while I’m at it), Ms. Pelosi’s official website refers to her as “Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi,” and, at the risk of sounding like just another crabby old man, that irritates me, too. In our bicameral legislative system there are two houses of Congress, and I’m pretty sure she’s a Representative. (The same thing goes for Representative Shuler.)
Well said!!!!! John Boehner isn’t even my problem although I thought about moving to the 8th district so I could help him lose. He makes our state look bad with the inane things he says. I hope and pray he gets his ignorant butt kicked out of office.
The teabagger running against my representative here in Ohio’s 16th district keeps calling him Nancy Pelosi’s puppet. To be honest, to me it’s refreshing to have a rep who actually DOES something important like support healthcare reform and jobs bills unlike our previous rep who no one ever heard of in his over 20 years in Congress. We have 12% unemployment in our county and the state as a whole is hurting. He is working to make things better.
That said, hell yes, I’m volunteering for John’s re-election campaign and have been since he began it!!!!
I am torn on this one as I am concerned what will happen to our national agenda if the Democrats lose the majority in the House. I am not thrilled at the idea Republicans might spend their time investigating Obama, like they did Clinton, and thereby screw us a lot of ways. By sending money to help Democrats in states where they might lose (unlike where I live), I can see the temptation. I haven’t yet but I have sure thought about it.
I often wonder how much of a frenzy is whipped up by the media merely to serve THEIR own interests. The news networks are continually focused on the “race” not the issues and I am suspicious of these perpetual polling numbers. I wish there was less emphasis placed on reporting about the elections and more coverage of the actual governance from our representatives; maybe we wouldn’t have a third of our population thinking our president is a Muslim.
Robert, I am not a fan of what passes for journalism today; clearly they’re playing for ratings instead of information. On the other hand, it doesn’t speak well for the republic that a significant percentage of the population hasn’t bothered to become informed. It boggles the mind that people like Beck and Limbaugh make room and board, much less have an actual following.
Rain, I hear what you’re saying, and at the end of the day I think it’s up to each of us to do what we think is right. My district is a toss-up right now, although I still haven’t heard anything from Jeff Miller’s campaign that has anything to do with NC-11, so I might have to reach out to Heath Shuler’s campaign. I just hate that it’s come to this.
You make me wonder if the way races are run these days is a result of the 24-hour news cycle and the access we have to information all the time. Our small congressional districts seem so irrelevant on that scale, so each party’s nominee runs against the big names. It actually helps to keep the level of discourse vague enough to let plenty of incompetents in and keeps each district’s needs and interests irrelevant. Really, when you think about it, it’s cynically brilliant.