Long time coming

I think it's nice that Mr. Bush fired his lawyer, former Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, and replaced her with an even stronger defense lawyer.

His lack of consideration for all of us ad for his job is admirably reflected in the way he discarded this faithful companion when the lap-dog breed became less useful.

But I do think that letting him wreck the house for the past 6 years should be enough, there's no reason to waste the time of another 20,000 of us for an unknown duration.

These factoidal anecdotes come together to show us the Rove/Bush method at work again, defending the CEO against stockholders and employees. I hope it will backfire, but the intention is solely to put Democrats in an uncomfortable position, risking potential antipatriotic labeling in 2 years. I just hope it doesn't backfire by forcing Iran's hand. His cronies aren't competent to stand that trial.

Why is my father-in law an asshole?

Over the holidays, I was rousted from sleep by a loud exchange in my kitchen. Sis-in-law, who has dated an actual black guy, was apparently attempting a discussion involving openness in human society. Pops wouldn't have it. He sees black people on TV, and despite the black neighbor he knows and basically likes he's sure black culture is the problem.

Now, I'm no black guy. I have a dusty but genuine Arkansas Ave. ghetto pass, I dated black girls at a frequency roughly mirroring demographics, and I can make fun of you very well. I think I’m in a better position to report on ‘Black Culture’ than most of us out here with no claim to it. I grew up in Wilmington, DE, in Claymont and then near Edgemoor. There were race problems, but it was the perception of race problems that gave the problem a body. Then (1970s), there, white people found themselves at the bottom, for the first time forced into contact with the Black people. "Who the hell let them in here?"

Remember, it was in the 1950’s that Black Americans were given the right to be seen in public. The co-incidence of wild economic disparity with the arrival of an essentially new ethnic minority implies linkage in newspapers and television, which ignore socioeconomics. Strip away insinuated status, and people see themselves busting their ass and resent the influx of others chasing the same precious paycheck, devalue the other’s contribution. America has attracted people from all nations, and has hosted plenty of racism and ethnic tension. But this father-in-law’s brand is the beer-hall variety, the dishonest cry of a chronically disgruntled working class. There is no outside object, no external cause for their lament. Hell- this guy doesn’t even have to go to work anymore! He just didn’t mature, never gained the personal confidence to meet difference with serenity. He still thinks the Sharks are going to come to his neighborhood and woo the chicks (and I think he thinks he’s a Jet!).

I’m fascinated that the short period of time that brought us birth control and sexually transmitted disease, sent many to Viet nam (sent this guy to friggin’ Greenland!?!?!?!) and a few to the moon liberated only a retarded xenophobia among some blue collar types, and that so much of our culture is frozen in that period. A guy my age recently cited Hanoi Jane as a good reason to vote for George the Lesser. WTF?

My son's grandfather isn't a racist, he's lazy- more of a bigot. He's another boomer, raised with the daydream of silver spoons, rudely awakened to the truth of life in Capitalism by the 1970s economy. He and the majority of his cohort stopped believing in idealism or hope and started bitching about the bounty. Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, everybody is a problem because he never outgrew his infantile vanity to see the other people standing near him in the mirror too.

Again, he's not a racist. He's a colicky baby. He's got discomfort with the facts of his world, and he complains. He doesn't do anything to alleviate the discomfort, which is important- because he can't do anything about it, can’t even narrow his irks down to a single problem. He's confused and dummed by too much television and not enough life, and like many gravitates to other bitchy people professing common sense. Black culture is the problem. Social liberalism is the problem. The fat cats are the problem. But the fat cats aren’t pawing his daughter, so let’s look a little deeper into the blackness.

African American as an ethnic group is a minority in this country. Very few of them gain the attention of the popular media. Those people are interesting to Wall Street, to Ted Turner but not to Jane Fonda, because they are interesting to CONSUMERS who are interesting to WALL STREET. To delude himself into thinking (he's not actively deluding OR thinking, just parroting teenage angst) he understands black culture from his lengthy excursions into television programming is a thought crime. He doesn't trust the media, but uses it in place of perspective. Instead of looking and talking and assimilating into American society, he waits in his storage facility for the news to come to him. He has come to the conclusion that the people of Blackdom are drugged up gangsta thugs with no jobs, no ambition, and no respect for the American way of life. Of course, the reinforcement of that opinion is a contortion: the Rappers and comics and talk show hosts and obnoxious athletes in his complaints do have jobs, ambition, and exhibit perfectly the American way of life, if crass.

Having an opinion about Blacks, Asians, Eskimos is fine. Embracing the idea that the media is a lie, basing your life on being discomforted by change, and then slavishly attending to every dot and dash broadcast from Wall Street makes people stupid, and people who stupidize themselves are assholes. Internal inconsistency is neurosis. A reflective, critical mind wouldn't tolerate the hunger for disinformation and the mistrust of it, certainly ought to shut up with the baby complaints with no possible resolution and turn off the fucking television.

If what you want can't exist, then pick something else. Your lot in life isn't the blacks' fault. It’s life and it’s pretty good here. The Capitalists, stock brokers and speculators are the people with a stake in your opinion, and they hold a little more leverage over your satisfaction in life than TO. Would we know anything about Owens’ bad classless behaviour without the banks financing the stadiums, the manufacturers sponsoring the halftime shows, the media broadcasting his name? I called him an asshole, in front of our whole family, and I did it pretty loud. I felt bad that it wasn't in context, but now it is and I feel better.

For a scholarly treatment of the above topic, please read What’s the Matter with Kansas? By Thomas Frank.

100% Rule

Why is it that despite years of non-stop gross incompetence (Bush, Rumsfeld, et al), conflicts of interest (The Vice President), lying to start a war, lying about conduct of war (War. It's serious still, isn't it?), graft, bribery, contempt and outright sedition (the constitution smells like white-out, black sharpie and eraser crumbs), after painting itself into two corners at once in Iran and North Korea, losing top-dog status to Communist China and converting the middle class in America into capital's serf class, why is it that only now that another Republican Congressman has turned out to be a gay lecher the Christian bloc is reacting to values confusion on the Hill?

How can homosexuality trump mass death?

Why is the party that appointed and supported Foley as co-chair of the don't-bug-kids committee apparently falling apart now? Shouldn't that have happened when Bush doubled the national debt? Didn't he campaign on a no-nation-building platform? They're saying into microphones that government should provide electricity, and until Iraq's does, we won't stop killing ourselves there... ? That doesn't make sense- they also say government shouldn't provide anything while they stuff their families' pockets to avoid accusations of personal enrichment.

Safavian, Abramoff, Norquist, Norton- all these names in the paper today are headliners for the RNC, and they're all knee-deep.

I think the RNC stands for chaos. It must be defanged, neutered, descented and protected in a zoo somewhere so children can see what happens when we buy the lie that we can all be 100% selfish.

Casey vs Santorum

I don't know who would win the fight. I suspect Santorum has a roll of coins in his pocket, but looks like more of a slapper, while the quiet adult Casey could probably do serious harm on the ground.

But the question of Santorum's work ethic was finally raised. We've known for years that he drives south to go home (PA is north). We know his thoughts on lobby reform- coopt the problem and use it to strengthen his party. We know he wants to be the President and Pope, and that he expects us to believe his 6 kids live in the 3-bedroom house in Pittsburgh.

But I hereby question his work ethic. He worked for starting and works for continuing the spent after-sex cuddling into which the Iraq war has degenerated. That does nothing for me here in PA. He's the front man (since the others involved are in jail or on their way) for the K Street Project, and that's in DC. Again, not helping me at all. The Islamic Fascists are in Iran. We invaded Iraq. That's an ex post facto bait and switch. Run and cover. Not good for me, really.

Ricky's not working for us, he's working for the RNC. The RNC isn't working for us, just helping those who help themselves to government largess while trying to make it cheaper to be rich.

When I get rich, I want to help people. People like me who live in PA. Goodbye for now Rickypoo.

Trouble with Korea?

The problem may be as simple as the Republican monolith, whose White House spokesman questioned the significance of North Korea's nuclear test in an apparent administration effort to dim the lights on the role of their pinheaded foreign policy in bringing about today's situation.

The President said out loud on international television that Iran, Iraq and North Korea were the same thing, and invaded the least relevant one before he even fully dealt with our organized and effective enemies in Afghanistan. Therefore, the surely unreasonable Kimmy Illy Jongy-yo Tupac understood the bluff and called it by increasing the histrionics over there. Where the Clinton Administration was pushing to mellow the North's crazy, the Bush Administration was ready to meet the North's crazy with crazy and dying for a drink.

The historical problem, about which this administration can't plead ignorance, is their defensive position. The previous administration's engagement policy wasn't derived in a vacuum, other countries in the area including our ally in South Korea were pursuing engagement as a way to bring about change there. It won the Cold War, after all (complemented with a serious arms race).

This administration abruptly cancelled the "sunshine policy" and unilaterally started invading countries on the list the RNC's all-talk bullshit arts major/mannequin laid out. If they were serious about exerting American will and bringing an end to the chicanery over in Korea, they would have made some changes to weaken NK's defensive position.

What would work? I don't think anything will be good for South Korea, it's not the same as German unification. That was painful enough. Help build a bigger wall on the border with China. Call the bluff with an embargo. Drop a million copies of the Wall Street Journal on Pyongyang. Best of all, a coherent international strategy unfettered by the financial considerations of the Vice President and other capitalist elites in the administration would have retained the credibility and cooperation of the world and not left us out of the loop, impotent and stretched very thin.

Our friends in South Korea, left stranded on the tip of the peninsula there, might want to spend a few months sailing. Japan will be forced into the uncomfortable position of bedding again with US forces at a time when Japanese public opinion shows they're tiring of the trouble with ( a very small minority of ) US Marines misbehaving with impunity on their soil. China is nervous about the collapse of a populous state on its border, but they'll figure that one out.

The immediate victims here are US allies, until someone gets one of these smallish nukes into North America. The world will point to Bush, who clearly doesn't give a crap about allies or international committments.

The real world is clearly an endorsement of the Democrats this fall. Their message has been consistent: Engage, lead the world.

2000

Hi! I'm from the past- the '90's. Clinton was managing a thriving economy, despite the constant ankle-chewing he was getting from the party of social and sexual repression, childish angriness and unquestioned unity.

During that time, the RNC learned to dominate the political debate by buying- or rather being bought by the media. Hard to say, but not the real point.

Also during that time, the 'state' of Florida advanced the political career of another of its own, the homophobic cheerleader Foley.

But in Clinton's last year as President, at least one of their team was informed of his proclivity for young boys. Teenagers actually, he performed some unwelcome one-way email sex on some of the volunteers who carry the coffee, fetch the files and otherwise lubricate the wheels of government. Jim Kolbe found out in 2000. He told some of his RNC colleagues- not the police.

Then the present speaker and majority leader of the house found out, at least two years ago. Representative Foley has been an interesting Republican, member of a Pro-Choice RNC coalition. But his appointment and retention as co-chair of the committee charged with protecting children from exploitation means something serious:

Conspiracy by the Republican Party to commit acts of perverted and unwelcome sezual opportunism.

Write!

Good morning!
(If you're going to read any of these posts, please keep in mind I have zero respect for several people mentioned here by name. I made an effort to change my tone a few months ago, but it's been hard to afford the time it takes to write.)

The bad guys are having a hard time hiding their badness (see John 3:20, below). The press is starting to cover it, smelling blood in the water. Democrats have been successful at letting them do their own damage, but now we have to swoop in, take the issue and run with it.

Now is the time to work the body (I fight- watch out for flying metaphor!), and as Carville says, time to work the ref. We're looking for a TKO, which is worth exactly as much as a KO, which is as good as a decision.

I think editors are biased against professional-looking letters and fruity language.
I know editors are interested in length, I'm sure they have two column inches to fill sometimes.

The above text is 97 words long. Try not to go over 200 words. Anything over 200 words has either too many ideas or too many words.

Pick a topic dear to you, and express yourself. "corruption in DC" is very broad. "War" is broad. Be specific, and tie it to local races and issues:

Senator Santorum leads the fight against the National Weather Service, favoring private enterprises. But private companies can't mobilize the National Guard or evacuate cities, which should have happened in DC when the National Weather Service started sounding the alarm about Katrina about a month before it hit land. Our Senator should not be guilty of helping President Bush wipe a black blue city off the map by carefully ignoring the warnings we know he heard. But he is guilty in the Katrina failure, so we are tainted by his false residency claim and psychotic behavior as Senator. Punish that asshole*!

Yours,
Joe

*I would encourage the use of less 'vivid imagery' in letters to the editor.

John 3: 20

“For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” –John 3:20

I assume the Bush administration has already purged every desk under its influence of all but the loyalest loyalists in his sect of the RNC party, so the list of incendiary leaks coming to light from the Executive and various Legislative committees can only mean one thing for sure. I infer a second thing.

First, professionals and Americans left in government after DeLay (see Developmental DeLay, Sunday Mail.blogspot.com), et al, purged the Legislative branch and the Executive of all but the loyalest loyalists are more afraid of the evidence they promulgate than being branded unpatriotic and terrorist-loving by the Republican Party, presently the government’s HR department.

I think the leaks are better late than never, that they reflect positively on the press for forcing accountability on the zero-liability accountability president. My second thing, an inference: it’s likely much worse than we think. I don’t think we can trust any Executive- or Legislature- produced information generated in the past six years. Now they’re saying the NIE doesn’t say what it says.

Change Congress in November, so America can check the pockets of this administration when they leave DC. PA should lead this movement: Joe Pitts is a DeLay/Abramoff pocket-mate; Ricky Santorum speaks very well for a psychopath; the Inquirer reported Specter voted for a piece of legislation Specter himself calls “unconstitutional on its face”!!

Lynn Swann doesn’t deserve to be pilloried for being the current RNC strategy stooge, it’s a shame the PA Republicans weren’t allowed to have debates or a primary. But since they follow National RNC orders, we must assume he’s another carefully chosen incompetent or criminal this RNC leadership and this RNC administration and their automatons at the RNC US Congress have burdened our payroll with since 2001.

Vote for Houghton, Herr, Murphy, Casey. And demand a receipt; the RNC may have paid for the voting booth.

Geography Lesson

Could you find Pakistan on a map?


Their nuclear border with Afghanistan runs to nuclear China. A line runs from Beirut through Syria, Iraq, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. From Morocco, we travel east along the southern coast of the Mediterranean through muslim Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. These states are all more 'islamofascist' than they were before BushCo, right across the vital oil route from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

I'm not intersted in making the investment required to ensure safe passage of petroleum from there to China, so we should all prepare ourselves to compete for Canadian oil.

And we’re in a corner at the UN. Iran is persuading the world to their cause. John Bolton is an idiot. What's the price of oil going to be when Iran cuts production? Are we so grateful to China for the cheap DVD players? Are we ready to lose Indonesia to the dark side? South Korea appears to be justifiably turned off to us, since we’re impotent in nuclear North Korea.

English again

Islamofascism. Brilliant word.
Problem:
The US is the party making demands and seeking extraterritorial influence, and thus BushCo seeks to be the appeased party. I agree we need to prevent a nuclear Iran, but I also know better than to trust our Executive's information. So when Santorum brings it up again remember he thinks US Treasury Bonds are worthless when it’s convenient.

These Republicans seek general war. It's the only reason they're so carefully pushing the Islamic dictatorships into the same corner with their enraged fanatic subjects. Nothing at the RNC happens by accident. We have to assume they’re succeeding- they get paid too much to be incompetent.

English

Play pool? English is what you put on the cue ball to make it spin correctly. You can make the cue ball ride all the way around a ball to hit the target, which could be set to spinning too. Sometimes you have to. But the shot happens once and it's over. The game continues, but no two shots are identical.

So why does the Blame the Democrats First party consistently try to spin "Blame America First"? I think we've all made it pretty clear we blame the Republicans. The whole mob tries like crazy to spin the story around the big ball in their path.

"Redeploy" is another piece of English. This time, it's us Americans being polite. Republicans of every stripe (maybe there are Republicans with other than a white stripe down their backs) complain: "Why don't they say 'withdraw' or 'surrender'?" I think what we're saying is this:

"Thank you very much Mr. Bush, you've done a super job. But now it's time to stop screwing up everything you touch. Go back on vacation. You said it yourself: Mission Accomplished. It was hard to ignore, you rode in a plane, landed on a carrier in the Atlantic and strutted before a big banner that read 'Mission Accomplished.' Still we wage war, so I guess that's the mission. Afghanistan was easy, relevant and incomplete- and with no oil or strong allies it wasn't causing any global trouble. Permanent war is the mission. I understand. Go back to Texas so we can return to a leadership position in the world. Ousting you would give us back the moral authority you squandered ineffectively as poilitical capital."

But this wouldn't be the first time they didn't read the memo.

Thank you Stentor Santorum!

(Stentor is a filter-feeding aquatic microorganism. It attaches itself to a piece of rot where the circulation of fresh water gives it plenty of fuel to sustain itself. Like Rickypoo, it is a bottom-feeder and its peers are slime.)

According to a giant billboard in Philadelphia, Ricky helped defeat Colo-Rectal Cancer. My aunt, a PA native has been living abroad for a while, in Texas and now Virginia. She got it anyway. But fact-based reality won't affect Ricky. Three important things should.

1) Instead of arguing about when to pull out of the RNC frat party in Iraq, they keep steering it back to 'whether'. That's unfortunate. As Ricky himself shrieks, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad speaks for Iran, which is a psycho. Let's sketch the 'When' discussion. Will we pull out of Iraq now, while it's a mess, or in ten years, when it's a mess? I'm asking because unlike Mahmoud, Iran's going to be there for a long time. And with 70% of the Iraq population, any increase in democracy swings power to Shiites. The only Shiite state in the world is our dear enemy Iran, which already holds more social sway there than we do. On behalf of Iran, let me thank Sentator Santoru, Reps Joe Pitts and Gerlach for doing their part on behalf of the people of PA to ensure they have smooth roads, running water and stable electricity when the Ayatollas come to take possession of the second-biggest oil reserve we've also taken the trouble of plumbing for them. That's one thing that should matter to ol' Rickypoo, but it's beyond him.

2) I heard it first from President Bush, but Ricky repeated it passionately at the PA Press Club: Those IOUs in a file drawer in Virginia (he should know) are worthless. The IOUs are actually US Treasury Bonds, for decades the most stable investment in the world. They are what Social Security owns. They are what the Chinese government buys when they bankroll the small-government party's voracious pork diet. Before Bush, government jobs were pretty good, but now it's the only way for Bush to hide unemployment: Hire people to work for the government. Sure, right now there are relatively few informants and secret police. But as we've known all along, open markets change society. And we're taking so much from China it's only a matter of time. Either we learn to speak Chinese, or we'll end up having to repay some of the worthless IOUs in the file drawer. Debt matters, China matters, and the government's role in the economy matters to me and other Pennsylvanians, but with his US-Government pension, he's beyond worry.

3) Investigations probably do matter to Rickypoo. We built an infrastructure in Iraq, but not in Afghanistan where Bin Laden's gang lived and trained. With no oil revenues ever, they have no exports or indigenous industry and actually needed the help. We accomplished our Iraq mission, according to the President several years ago, but still we wage war. Is that the mission? Santorum, Gerlach and Pitts are going to have to explain where the money went when 'Fuckoff' Dickie's ol' boys got the Iraq job and stole billions of dollars from the Treasury they all mean to drain. Hurricane Katrina wandered slowly north from the tropics, and the Republican FEMA (Financing Exotic Millionaire Acreage) did nothing to help these blue black states. Terry Schiavo was headed for peace, and the entire government showed up and worked late to write laws against natural death.

Politics is about priorities. Ricky and his childish dimwit friends in the RNC have prioritized lionizing Iran, turning Korea into a bogeyman we are powerless to affect, pouring the country's current and future treasure into vanity wars, strengthening communist regimes, expanding the size while diminishing the strength of government and throwing money around like it's theirs over improving the conditions for freedom and prosperity in their home states. And now Iran is stronger, Korea more desparate. China and Cuba are no longer the only remaining Red states. They're screwing up the whole world.

Give that funny-head slanted grinner a retarded test.

3-way with Ricky Santorum?

I'm interested in the rebirth of Ricky. Normal Catholics aren't reborn, but this one has to (tack left) appear more moderate now, good with the environment, pragmatic in his approach to sucking George Bush's dick. I guess sometimes he doesn't finish, and that's when Georgie gets frustrated and looks for less high-profile Americans to fuck in the ass.

But I can't forget Ricky's eloquent arguments against privacy as a Constitutional protection on the Senate floor. Equating homosezuality with bestiality seems a bit fucking loopy. And his book calls for an end to women in the workplace. Press materials for that book said he knew it was extrmee, but he had to be honest. And when he drives home from Washington, he goes south to Virginia. Like he actually drives. So he's what- extremely moderate? He can live in Virginia, represent Texas, and get paid in PA?

Now get this: Ricky recently endorsed an approach to generating stem cells he's comfortable with destroying in research. All you have to do is create a modified human! If it's not quite hunman, he won't mind. But a real human like Terry Schiavo has no right to die. Mortality will be a crime, and cyber-geno-manic stem-cell parts cars are part of his plan? A second class of humans, and of course a master race?

As the #3 man (could #2 smell worse?) in the RNC, Ricky IS the Republican Party, and he IS responsible for ruining 50 years of progressive movement in government, he IS part and parcel with the K Street/Abramoff/DeLay/Ney/Ralph Reed dung heap running our country, the proxies of Texas maniacs.

These RNC feds botched Katrina, right? After Ricky's skillful appointment of incompetents, we can't ignore Ricky's earlier calls to disband the National Weather Service (Which accurately and adequately raised flags during Katrina's approach) because the Weather Channel can do the same thing for profit. Bush was told about it to his face, and we have it on video. It was hard to ignore, but Ricky, Georgie and the rest of the frat pack rose to the occasion. Watching it on TWC would have helped how?

Now he's trying to reverse himself symbolically to rebrand as suitable for high office. Just forget everything he's said, done, participated in, where he lives or who he breaks bread with.

Letters to Editors

I read Newsweek once in a while, and I've been reading the letters in our newspaper. I'm surprised at the lack of depth in some of the would-be reflective souls producing these letters.

For example, in last week's Newsweek a Republican (They usually say "I'm a Republican but...") wrote about how green his party is. Was. Teddy Roosevelt was green enough to turn vast tracts of the US into parkland for us to preserve and enjoy. Now they're building condos on those parks. Republicans are, because they're the ones benefitting from the real estate 'boom'. Banks, financiers, big machine dealers, lumber cutters and DuPont (that wrappy stuff around your house under the siding).

And what was going on when Nixon signed the Clean Water and Clean Air acts? This Republican hero had no real political power, his government was controlled by Democrats who wrote the bills and passed them.

The delusionists on the other side have a lot of reconciling to do. They're so bad they're even betraying the Nixon legacy by putting bullets in his Clean Air Act.

Nice letter from Santorum

"Thank you for emailing me. I have detected, however, that your email message was not submitted through my website. Therefore, I am unable to process your email request. Please go to www.santorum.senate.gov and click on the "contact information" link and then select "Email Senator Santorum" at the bottom of the page. If you need further assistance, please feel free to contact my office at: 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510

Telephone: 202-224-6324

Thank you again for contacting me."

SenatorSantorum@santorum.senate.gov

Lynn and Rudy on a raft out of town

Today's paper described a fundraiser in King of Prussia (where nobody lives) featuring America's mayor Giuliani stumping for Lynn Swann in the PA governor's race.

A quote: "somebody new...what we need in America right now."
Another quote: "When things aren't working, we need to bring in new people."

I agree we need a new president, the current one is too stupid and crooked, lacking character so acutely it's astonishing he got to where he is with sheer avarice.

But another telling line from the mayor: Lynn's candidacy helps to build the party."

Das Party. Again with building the party, again with ignoring the STATE of PA.

The Republican Party is about government failing people, and they have been successful elsewhere. We can't let them achieve defeat here.

I consider Swann the perfect candidate for the RNC: No experience, some name recognition, educated with the RNC three-week "How-to-campaign" course, briefed with the Cliffs' Notes, and bankrolled from out of state.

No Lynn Swann, and now Rudy Giuliani can go fuck himself.

Liars and tigers and Republicans- oh my!

Interest anybody that we've gone through at least 50 years without hearing about any forged documents, but when BushII came to town we got false AWOL documents to prop up his image and fake spy docs indicating phony nuke sales to Saddam?

And now, the informants! Informants are everywhere. We're the police state we won the cold war fighting against.

Keep voting for Republican candidates, who can't govern. Vote for them despite their committment to undermining government. That's how you get your armageddon. It's a fantasy until you whip the unprincipled and untalented popularity merchants on the hill (pick a hill) into a stupid frenzy and they start firing missiles everywhere.

And because Bush's team seems to be ignoring the North Korean missile tests, assume it's important.

Swann? Lynn Swann? Really?

That PA Republicans had neither debates nor a real primary, looking to their Texas bosses instead of Pennsylvanians to choose their candidate for governor is more offensive than presenting a collecibles-peddling former celebrity as a reasonable choice. No company should consider an entry-level candidate for their executive position, even if he is famous in Pittsburgh.
The RNC is calling us stupid. PA Republicans are being asked to help them execute their plan to diminish government through careful promotion of incompetence and meticulous disregard for common good.

Joe Matthews

GOP Liar Coward Pansies

I apologize to any honest, pious pansies offended by this post. You are not included in this slur.)

Are you a Republican? An Eisenhower Republican or an Eisner Republican? Living in modern USA or Post-modern Hometown, Disney? Are you distracted by your crooked down-south business dealings and social Cleansing, or did you help the whole world win a just war and caution your countrymen about the amoral overthrow of your government by business politics? Do you support cynical and unamerican behavior at home, or only as part of your foreign policy?

Newsweek got some bad info and riots killed dozens.

GOP lied and Iraq II killed thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

Newsweek apologized.

That's why we're in such a state. The personal responsibility party is also the zero-liability party. If nothing else, TORT reform is certainly carte blanche for somebody. Not you, but somebody must want it. Imagine suing someone who cuts off the wrong hand. Now imagine having no recourse at all.

Lying, evasive, cowardly, weak, pale, idolatrous, impious, pansy Republicans. That's who wants tort reform.

(Republicans don't understand the world of today due in part to their platform of stoic adherence to ignorance of the world as is happens. We just went back in time to speak the language of Das Good-Ol' Party in calling them names likely to anger them most. My parents were among the first to grow up with television, and almost nobody in national government is a Veteran- though almost everybody in the country is a baby-boom kid from the same cohort. In the 1950s, when their social utopia was realized-- if only on television, 'sissy' and 'pansy' were much worse than 'fag', which apparently didn't exist in the Republican-spun Golden Age of Nixon. I apologize to any honest, pious pansies offended by this post. You are not included in this slur.)

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.)