Swami Richard sees little change ... he has spoken!

I spoke with Swami Richard from Connecticut (left -- a slightly dated photo ... taken when I visited him while he and his wife were living in a library -- really! -- a little closer to New York City) via cell phone while I was waiting to go in to teach at Grays Harbor College this evening. He asked that I pass the following predictions to you. In short, he sees almost no change in the current Congress ... only the change in Joe Lieberman's affiliation, of course. In other words, he really sees a swing during the next two weeks towards the Republican Party. (Sob!) That is, he sees a swing over the next two weeks from what most of the various polls are saying today.

His numbers are:

Senate:

Democrat 43
Republican 55
Independent 2
(Only change is Lieberman's new affiliation.)

House of Representations:

Democrats 202
Republicans 232
Independent 1
(No change at all here.)

Ouch! Hopefully, my inner feeling that the country will react smartly and meet the challenge will override Swami Richard's pessimism.

[Of course, he could be an optimist in a peculiar way, secretly wanting a Republican victory on November 7, although I am 100% positive that my beloved and very bright brother does not want continual carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan and a continual erosion of our liberties and protections from the Bill of Rights over the next two years. I assume he will let us know which it is ... whether he's an optimist or a pessimist -- and how/why ... vis-a-vis his predictions above ... in either a comment to this posting or a posting of his own on Rummy Watch. At least I can assume from his blog that he wants to see the departure of Donald Rumsfeld from his job as Bush's SecDef.]