Change

According to Don Boudreaux, I probably have more change in my pocket than either major-party candidate would actually be able to bring to government. He argues that people’s fears and/or hope of “change” are ultimately irrational, and predicts that neither candidate will ultimately effect much of it.

I agree with him. Any “change” that results from this election will be minor and incremental, and there is unlikely to be much change from a Republicrat administration anyway. Even the GOP rallying cry of judicial appointments is something of a non-argument, as two full terms of an Obama presidency would be unlikely to shift the balance of the Supreme Court. The most likely Justices to be replaced are all from the liberal wing of the court, Stevens and Ginsburg.

Family Feud

It has been widely reported that Tom DeLay’s wife is planning to vote for Bob Barr over John McCain. A slightly lower-key story to come out of yesterday’s news, however was that Hillary “Hilldawg” Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, was now considering himself a voting free-agent.

He was apparently going to vote for his sister if she had obtained the Democrat’s nomination. Now that she is out of the picture, however, he is not necessarily going to support Obama.

Does that mean, Fiore asked, Rodham would vote for Republican John McCain?

“I didn’t say that. It could be Bob Barr,” he said, referring to the Libertarian presidential candidate who, as a House member from Georgia, was a prime player in the impeachment of Rodham’s brother-in-law, Bill Clinton).