I never predicted that Bush would lose. From time to time I may have said he was in real danger of losing. And you know what, brilliant mind-reader who thinks he can identify trolls? I was g-ddamned right. He was in real danger of losing. It was a close election.
Complacency is never good in politics. Do I tilt toward
making negative points about our problems? Probably. Is this bad for FReep? I don't see why. If FReep comments were primarily negative, I might change my tune. But there is a lot of poorly sourced, and equally poorly argued, optimism on FReep. I call it chest-beating.
As for my supposed 95 percent failure rate on predictions, go ahead. Find 20 predictions I made, 19 of which were wrong. I don't think you can.
Delay will beat the remaining charges, I'm confident. If you remember, the conspiracy charge was the first count Ronnie Earle sought, and he made a very big deal about it. But when he discovered there was or could be a problem with the statute of limitations he immediately went to a second GJ which, funny enough, refused to indict Delay on money laundering charges. Earle then went to a third GJ which did indict the former Majority Leader on money laundering charges. I think Earle was desperate, I think the remaining charges will be easily defeated in court and I believe Earle should be investigated for abuse of his office.