What the fuck is going on at 1600 Pennsylvania? What the fuck is going on at Democratic headquarters? One should certainly hope they are doing some fucking planning down there that involves some fucking aggression, anger, and malice toward the right, or once again, we are going to see power slip into the hands of the fucking Republicans—like in 1994.
Guess what they’re going to do? You guessed it—exactly the same thing they did back then: constant trials and inquisitions of Democratic officials, representatives, senators, and yes, certainly our president Barrack Obama. Mind you, like Clinton’s impeachment, none of it will actually pertain to the governance of our country, or address the myriad problems our nation faces.
Republicans know they have no solutions they can offer this nation—their intentions are only to fulfill the wishes of their corporate sponsors. They’ll make their political hay on who people fuck and trumped up ethics violations, pretending to be the moral compass of Washington to sway the fools in the bible belt, while deregulating business, disavowing business and the wealthy of their tax burden, and further unionizing moneyed interests with the powers of government. Who knows? Maybe this time they’ll succeed in privatizing social security and get us into yet another war, while again running the economy into goddamn ground.
One would think that for a party run primarily by lawyers with bachelor’s degrees in Political Science or History, the Democrats might have learned their lesson, but by all accounts, they haven’t. They haven’t gone far enough with any of their reforms, they haven’t given the public a clear portrait of why their road has been so difficult, and they haven’t done enough to energize the middle and lower class.
Of course, in some sense, we should respect the fact that Obama hasn’t used his office to play politics the way Bush did. And no one can deny it has been an uphill battle—the full horrifying, corpulent weight of the vultures in the corporate media have been an echo chamber for Republican interests, spreading lies, misinformation, and malcontent unabashedly, with a greedy fucking smile on their face from ear to ear.
However, the fact remains, that the Democrats have made one key error in their judgment: moderation in their agenda hasn’t accomplished anything that more brazen, and frankly more effective policies, wouldn’t have also accomplished. Look, either way, Fox News and the shit heads they employ are going to bitch, whine, lie, and distort everything that Democrats do anyway. You’re going to get called a socialist or a communist either way, so why not show some real guts and do something to engender support from the largest segment of the voting public: the lower and middle classes. You’re certainly didn’t impress us by immediately selling out the public option for health care, never mind completely ignoring the concept of a single payer system. Couple that with a stimulus package that was way too small to stem our economic hemorrhaging, continued wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that apparently still have no end in sight, and a financial regulation bill that was stripped of any real power, and it appears to the little guy that Pete Townshend was right after all: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
And for all of that, Fox still hates you, the Republicans still don’t want to cooperate in the Senate, and you’ve legitimized the idiots in the Tea Party’s complaints about big, ineffective government, backroom deals, and unchecked corporate power. Now if they weren’t half racist, batshit crazy, or both, I could really get along with these Southern assholes.
When are the Democrats going to understand that you don’t earn respect by asking the guy who fucked your girlfriend and hates you to calm down and be more reasonable? The Republican party, and please, please, know that I am spot fucking on here…The Republican party is LOST—they have no idea what they are talking about, they don’t care how bad the economy gets as long as they can get elected, and I can promise you, they don’t give a shit about anyone unless they can fuck them or give them money.
They are the bad guys. There is no compromise with bad guys. Luke Skywalker didn’t fly his X-Wing over to the Death Star to see if he could talk things over with Darth Vader—he fired his fucking photon torpedoes into the exhaust port and blew those fucking bastards to hell! Who does Indiana Jones hate? That’s right: snakes and Nazis. And he doesn’t try to ask them to be less creepy or anti-Semitic…he fucking burns them, kills them, and steals their biblical treasures so that they can’t use them in their war against humanity. Snakes, Nazis, and Sith lords all like Republicans. They vote for them, donate to their campaigns, and feed them coke and prostitutes (the well known fuel of the Republican party). Hell, they thought about nominating Voldemort for the presidency in 2008, but they weren’t sure how the whole wizard thing would play with the religious right. Thank God Harry put that one to rest.
So here’s what we need to do, progressives and Democrats: stomp on the throat of the Republican party. Put them down, dig a 6 foot hole big enough for Rush’s fat fucking face, bury them in a steel coffin, weld it shut, and then fill the hole with concrete. No more waffling, peacemaking, or compromising. We’re done. If someone watches Fox News, you should laugh them out of the room—the facts and the truth are always on our side. If someone talks about the deficit, ask them whether or not they support spending more than the rest of the world on our military budget, or if they support the billions of dollars in tax breaks Republicans have secured for oil companies and the wealthiest Americans. If they talk about freedom, ask them why according to Republicans and the Supreme Court, the rich are far more free than the rest of us, or why Republicans don’t support the DISCLOSE Act, which would lend transparency to campaign donations. If they talk about the economy, why haven’t Republicans been out front on getting a larger stimulus package, and why have they held up unemployment benefits and food stamps, when both liberal and conservative economists agree that every dollar of unemployment/food stamp spending generates nearly $1.75 of economic activity.
I’m not all that happy with what we’ve gotten out of our Democratic government these past two years, but it’s a hell of a lot better than what the Republicans are going to give us. The fact of the matter, however, is that if we lose this fall, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. You simply can’t waffle your victory. You have to take it—violently, if the need arises.
1 comment:
Right on! Loved the pop culture references.
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