Settling In

Things are beginning to settle in. Will is falling into some fairly normal routines. He has been known to sleep for 2.5 to 3.5 hour chunks of time at night and in the late afternoon, so all is good. My Mom and Dad are in town and it has been fun to visit with them and to see them interact with Will.

It has been particularly challening trying to balance work with home. Working halftime is kind of a joke....I have meetings for the entire time I am in the office (10 am until 3 pm) and have no time in the office to accomplish anything. My meetings stayed with me and I lost my get stuff done time. Yuck! My parents leave on Tuesday evening and so I will be taking next week off completely so that Cambra can have some more time to adjust before she is home with Will for extended periods of time by herself.

On a completely different note, I find it quite amusing that John Kerry announced today his plan to try to garner support for a filibister of the Alito nomination for Supreme Court. It is clear the votes are not there to support the filibuster and numerous recent polls showed that the between 65-75% American people believe that Alito should be confirmed by the Senate. You can't get 65-75% of the American people to agree on anything it seems. And, it is clear by the vote counting that the filibuster has no chance. Ed Kennedy has also joined in in vocal support of the filibuster. So, either Kerry and Kennedy can't count or they are simply interested in propping up a Kerry 2008 presidential bid by blatantly pandering to the extreme left wing of the political spectrum. As if the Democrats have the guts to nominate anyone other than Hillary in 2008. Mark it down folks, it will be a Hillary Clinton running with either Barak Obama, Henry Ford, or Mark Warner as her VP nominee. If the DNC had half a brain in its strategy, they would understand that the current electoral map is so tilted to the South (where the Republicans rule the day) that they simply have to nominate a candidate who can break that block. The Dems have not been able to elect anyone who came from outside of the South (LBJ, Carter, Clinton) since JFK. If the Dems had vision, they would nominate a ticket of Mark Warner (Moderate Democratic governor (socially progressive, fiscally conservative) of Va and pair him with Barak Obama from Illinois (pacify the extreme left flank of the party) or Bill Richardson from New Mexico (Richardson could help break into the Mountian West....New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada). The Dems just don't have that kind of vision (at least it does not look like it right now). They would rather run a true blue, Northern, urban liberal and lose than run a moderate and win. They are making the same mistake the Repubs did when they ran Bob Dole.

Enough politics for now. Will needs to go to bed.