Dateline People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, from their Korean Central News Agency.

Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) — Americans are becoming increasingly discontent with the economic policy pursued by government.
According to the opinion poll announced on September 1st, most of the respondents expressed their dissatisfactions with the government measures, 66 percent with the deficit and 62 percent with the unemployment.

It was easier for Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to amass “Unity”, even against rumblings of discontent from the populace and a deep recession in the later 1950s, due to the problem of how things would play in the enemy Soviet Union’s Pravda.  Today we don’t have all that much concern with Kim Jong Il and the KCNA playing our period of massive Discontent.  I guess it’s a sign of the limitations for our external enemies.

The dire problems faced in our governing body.  Chuck Hagel castigates his Party, yet again, probably pining for the days of the Bush Administration when he first castigated his party.   Hagel is fast becoming either an adjective or a verb.

And you have Congressional staffer Mike Lafgren doing the same, on grounds that are familiar.

It’s odd to hear this from a not-too-unconnected functionary of the Republican Party.

…………………  More fundamentally, Lofgren argues that today’s Republicans believe they are better off if government as a whole is shown to fail, not just this Democratic Administration. Republican hard-liners might seem to have “lost” the debt-ceiling showdown, in that they wound up even less popular than the Democrats are. But in the long view, Lofgren says, unpopularity for anyone in Congress, including their party’s leaders, helps the Republicans: “Undermining Americans’ belief in their own institutions of self-government remains a prime GOP electoral strategy,” because it buildings a nihilistic suspicion of any public effort, from road-building to Medicare to schools. (Except defense.) As I say, read it for yourself.  ……………………….

Yeah, and then there’s…

One thing that especially resonated with me about Mike’s piece is the importance of “low information” voters. The mainstream media absolutely fails to understand how little attention average Americans really pay to what goes on in all forms of government. During our 2008 race, our pollster taught me (hard to believe it took me 24 years to learn this) that the average voter spends only 5 minutes thinking about for whom to vote for Congress. All the millions of dollars of TV ads, all the thousands of robo-calls and door-knocks, and it all comes down to having a message that will stick in the voters’ minds during the 5 minutes before they walk into the voting booth. 
The media likes to call this group “independents,” which implies that they think so long and deeply about issues that they refuse to be constrained by the philosophy of either party. There may be a couple of people out there who fit that definition, but those are not the persuadable voters campaigns are trying to capture. Every campaign is trying to develop its candidate into an easy-to-remember slogan that makes him or her more appealing than the other guy. Actually, because negative campaigning is so effective, they are more often trying to portray the opponent as more objectionable (“I guess I’ll vote for the crook because at least he won’t slash my Medicare”).

See too…
 In responding to a question on the “entertainment component,” Pawlenty quipped, “I thought about shooting sparks up my butt.”
Blah Blah Blah… “Sock it to me”, blah blah blah  “Tippercanoe and Tyler Too”, blah blah blah Jonathan Swift’s commentary, blah blah blah Roman “bread and circuses” — without the bread.

Y’know… a random thought.  If things maintain at “Hell”, one might be able to bring those casualties back to Biblical Precepts being thrown out — gay marriage and all… hm.

Back to the Korean government’s press…
Cuba’s moving upward, right?  Efficiency is Job 1!

117 268 000 kwh of electricity was saved in Cuba till August 30 this year. This is equivalent to saving 2 700 tons of fuel.
This was made by the paper Granma on September 2.

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