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The economy, the war, gas prices, encroachments to liberties and the promise of higher taxes aren’t enough.  And crapweasels like Clinton, Obama, McCain, Pelosi, Reid, Bush, Craig, Snowe, Biden, McClellan, Warner and Lieberman, and any of a dozen other political names in the news this week… you’d think the American people would give a rip, at least enough to vote.  Not so much.  It’s been 40 years since we had voter turnout of 60% or higher.  Not even half that for primaries now.

The Secretary of State’s Office is still waiting for final results, but it estimates Idaho’s turnout at about 25 percent, which would make this election one of the most ignored primaries since 1994.

Ada County’s turnout was about 21.4 percent of registered voters, while Canyon County’s was 27.9 percent.

But one of our greatest Founders saw it all the way back at the beginning

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
                                            - John Adams

I’m sure you all have heard the weeping and gnashing of teeth about the horrible economy and the United States being in a recession already.   Why, didn’t Warren Buffett say so on Sunday (while he was looking to spend 35 Billion devalued American bucks on European companies for his portfolio)?  The market today is bouncing up and down, confused it seems, because the GDP numbers for the first quarter came out this morning… up.  Yes, up. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy plodded ahead at a 0.9 percent pace in the first quarter — slightly better than first estimated — but still underscoring caution on the part of consumers and businesses walloped by housing, credit and financial problems.

They had expected anywhere from 0.6 to slightly negative.  May I conjecture that the “slightly negative” economists tend to be Democrats?  Or is that just me being an evil conservative blogger reading my own beliefs into the news (you know how we are)? 

Whatever.  If the “official” definition of a recession is three two quarters of negative GDP growth (?), we aren’t there yet.  But then, these numbers are “government” numbers, so who really knows?  After all, these are the same folks who keep telling us that inflation is stable at 2%.  What?  Food prices and energy prices?  Fuel costs?  Oh no, much too volatile, so we can’t count those.  Just trust us.