Republican National Committee

markets itself as a non-profit, just like Tom DeLay's charities, Rick Santorum's charities, UNICEF and Habitat for Humanity. But there's an important difference.

Although anyone has a right to ask their representatives to support or fight a piece of legislation, those RNC assholes pay themselves to lobby themselves.

Lobbyist organizations like Abramoff's, Ralph Reed's, Santorum's, Pat Robertson's, etc. really ought to pay taxes to support their right to exercise rights in a free country, where everything's free only if you don't pay for it.

So the RNC sent me a nonprofit postage-paid voter registration form with Smirky G on the front. Some banners:
"Winning the War on Terror", although we've had to admit terrorist incidents have risen drastically under Bush and since Iraq.
"Securing our Borders" by granting Dubai-based shipping company access to our territory.
"Growing our Economy" by swelling mortgages and credit debt, transferring resources free-of-charge to profitable companies like Exxon.
"Restraining Government Spending" on some things like help for people or quality of lives, but in the aggregate spending more than anyone in history.

It goes on to cite record-low unemployment, meaning it's good to lose your job and take two to replace your salary. Obligations don't go away, especially since they've changed bankruptcy law from the easy pass it was when GWB got his.
Disingenuous, the count isn't based on hired people, just people no longer looking for work.

MoveOn and PFAW solicit input from Americans from time to time. WHat should they do to help save the democracy? Attack. Perhaps the most serious issue in the 2006 elections should be the lies, theft and ulterior motivation of the ruling party and its membership, who clearly must profit.

Not-for-profit my ass!

(I deliberately renamed Ralph Reed as Rex a few years ago, intending to merge the two identities: The useless, effeminate and somehow slightly popular Rex is a movie critic. Ralph is the useful, effeminate tool of the Armageddonist anti-Free Nazi Party of Faith, with illegal fraud money income, lobbyist cash, more access to your representatives than you, and probably a slightly sore asshole from the time he 'tried it' in college.)

Those wacky oil prices and ports

When Oil hit a record $58/barrel, I stopped driving. I have a diesel automobile. It weighs thousands of pounds, and still gets better mileage than an SUV.

I stopped driving because, as a representative of Bush's jobless 'recovery (recovering from unprecedented plenty and prosperity)', I started my own business doing what I know how to do. And my family needs me to make good decisions. Like not paying $3/gallon for fuel or invading a country because I'm an asshole. Even though I'm an asshole, I won't invade your country without a reason, without a plan.

That's what happened that day. Fuel shot up in price to $3/gallon. Gasoline went up first, but then leveled off a little lower than diesel. Diesel fuel seems like simple unrefined petroleum to me. Certainly costs less to make. But $3. Overnight!

Now oil fetches a groovy $68/barrel, and the price of diesel in my market is back down to $2.65. Not a big deal, but certainly doesn't reflect economics.

How did the fuel companies make the record profits last year, even given the surge in raw material costs? I drove less. So did you. Demand went DOWN. Prices went up. A lot. I remember a cozy $1.25/gallon Clinton price. But when the world heard of the disputed US election in 2000 and foreign investment slowed, US operations of foreign companies like every drug maker on earth stopped research projects. And the oil companies represented by our President and his Men made big bucks.

It couldn't have been all the free real estate and mining rights passed out by the Republicans in government, that happened after all the bucks.

Perhaps there's an election dividend at work. They got their money, they're getting about the same per gallon, but it's a symbolic suspension of the raw rules of supply and demand working to keep our high fuel prices lowish while the Republicans run for cover under the smoke provided by the now-successful quagmire in Iraq and the kind blown up asses by the liberal media.

We're from Texas: You OWE Us!

Perfect, huh? It sounds so right. It agrees with everything we've seen for the past 5 years. Look out America, here comes Texas.

Texas, where the ubercrooked Tom (Developmental) DeLay used laundered money to create extra Congressional seats for the Texas delegation. Texas, home of lots of dirty Abramoff swindles and even the 'holy' Rex Reed's dirty fingerprints. Texas, where Jesus is in charge, and Satan leads the charge.

What am I talking about? This morning on CNN, I watched some footage of the previous night's Mardi Gras festivities, replete with a filthy Texas family carrying a sign in struggling New Orleans:
We're from Texas.
You OWE Us!

Anthemic, right? The Great Satan itself, descending upon us all in the guise of a state where most of the church-going happens, none of the forebearance and free charity.

I hereby invite Texas to secede from the Union. We get most of our oil from Canada, and most of our hairspray harlots, Sunday-school sluts, birdie-hunting empty-headed he-men and way, way too much talk.

Oops- forgot to mention the poseur Bush. Mr. Connecticut.

We owe them nothing but the back of our hand. Fuck Texas and the assholes it rode in on.