Obligatory, 10.29,15; A few comments on news items

There's plenty of news out there, but I'll comment on only a few things.

As for the debate last night, the consensus is that Bush lost.  Nobody seems to like Bush.  I know I didn't like him all along.  As for the rest, a bit of surprise is the weakness of Huckabee.  He seemed to poll pretty well in the last cycle, but he isn't doing so well this time.  As for the big picture, there is a claim that it is now down to four candidates, maybe six.  If it has winnowed down this much, it strikes me as another case of having the thing decided for us before anyone votes.  Let the voters decide.

Does it matter who wins?  Unless the GOP finds a way to restructure the electorate, the outcome is almost guaranteed to be a Democrat victory.  I don't see anything like a restructuring happening, unless you figure in Trump.  But Trump sounds a lot like a Democrat, so it fits in with the notion that the GOP is just another version of what we've already got.  Unfortunately, what we've got is not.

It's the money that wins.  The money never loses.  You can tell that from the AGW discussion.  Who wants AGW legislation?  Money people.  Why?  So they can rip us all off even more.  There is a subpoena for information from NOAA about the climate research.  What are the grounds for refusing to comply?  Amongst all the possible things that could be requested, the least controversial should be information about scientific research.  That proves to me that it is all political.  There shouldn't be an controversy about the release of any material whatsoever about climate research.  Everybody should be able to see everything.  There's nothing confidential about the subject at all, unless you are trying to hide something.

As far as I can tell, there's nobody trying to get at the reasons why things aren't improving the way they should.  Trump is tapping into the feeling with what he has been saying about winning.  "We don't win anymore."  Perhaps that is what could make the difference this time.  Money talks, BS walks.  If he can show the way to winning, it may be the thing that carries him to victory.  But if money wins, do we win?