Sunday, April 02, 2006
I remember the days when Arlen Specter wanted to impeach Bill Clinton after he left office. Nowadays, of course, his thirst for justice is a little subdued, shall we say. “Whipped” is an adjective that comes to mind. “Cowed” is another.
Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Arlen has always been a craven little shit, toadying for his masters while apologizing for their excesses.
When Grover Norquist and his masters say they want to shrink the size of government (this is Grover “Bathtub” Norquist we’re talking about) they really want to reduce it to an army, police, judicial, and fire services, and basic public works funds (outsourced to private companies) to maintain roads and what not.
The really cool thing is that, if you want some demented inverse of Communism, you can outsource everything in government. You can even have the military outsourced. Check out the Blackwater USA story at Thinkprogress.
Mercenary armies? Why not? It makes sense the good ol’ USA would pioneer transnational mercenary armies. We did it unofficially in the twentieth century, renting our army and navy out to fruit companies to protect their property in Central America. Why not make it official?
We are a country that is famous around the world for loving our guns and loving capitalism. Just put the two together. It makes sense. Mercenary armies are the most accurate expression of what America is about that I have ever seen. Blackwater USA really should just change its name to just “USA.”
The corporatists run the GOP from crotch to crown, and the GOP runs our government from ass the antlers. Bolten being appointed as chief of staff is a signal of that. W may be lost when it comes to appealing to his disenchanted base, but he always has the pulse of the corporate world and a hotline to their leaders.
What amuses me is how, even when he repeatedly Cheneys them in the face, they still approve of him. This guy just shoots a load of birdshot right in their face, and they apologize to him. It’s like a car wreck: it’s gruesome but I can look away. Katrina, the Dubai Ports Deal, immigration, spending…it’s incredible. In addition to being rampantly criminal, he just keeps slapping them in the face, and they don’t really care. All the religious right wants, apparently, is a pro-life candidate who throws them a Terri Schiavo bone once every few years. I say invite them into the Democratic Party. Dems can accommodate that, and they can do it with less criminality and hypocrisy than She Does Respond. I mean, honestly, has it ever made sense that the party of Corporate America is in bed with Christian Fundamentalists?
One guy who hasn’t forgotten where his party’s base is is John McCain. It must take a few drinks to kiss Jerry Falwell but you can’t win the republican nomination for president without the far right. John has learned that over the past ten years. He had to swallow his pride to kiss Bush’s ass after 2000 in the Bush halcyon days of 2001, 2002, and 2003. This can’t be that bad.
This is clearly a set up for 2008. You don’t need Jerry Falwell’s type to win Arizona’s senate seat. You need it to win the national race in southern states.
I love how McCain cries about the tough interview at the end while simultaneously reminding everyone he’s a war vet. Oh, touché, McCain. You are as deft and subtle as Mark Twain, minus about 150 IQ points.
McCain shouldn’t just be given a tough interview after courting Falwell, he should be pelted with rotten vegetables and booed off camera. People should jeer at him and flip him off while his car drives away from the studio. He should be mocked, disregarded, and dismissed in polite company.
You can’t advocate for a famous liar, bigot, and demagogue and still be highly regarded by mainstream media types, John. You can’t be CBS’s favorite senator and the far right’s favorite senator at the same time.
John is tired of being CBS’s favorite senator (OK, truth time: that nickname is not my invention, but instead an epithet I’ve heard applied to McCain on numerous right-wing websites). He knows that it’s nice to be popular with mainstream folk, but mainstream media can’t nominate him for the presidency.
Maybe he’s bitter because Bill Frist and G.W. Bush can court the right but he gets shit on when he does.
It’s the guy you chose, John. Go to Dobson the next time you want to go to the Deep Well of republofascist religiosity. Dobson is just as batshit crazy, without the long, public history of lying his ass off and saying God is trying to punish homosexuals with everything from AIDS to 9/11. He, for no really good reason, is regarded in a more positive light in the MSM.
Is John just figuring this shit out? Am I a brilliant political strategist, or is he that stupid?
Maybe neither. Maybe he knew it was coming, and he was dreading it. I hope so. I’d hate to think one of the leaders of the GOP is crooked and dumb.
I’ve criticized Neal Boortz before, but this last incident deserves mention. Neal “save the rich people first” Boortz launched into a personal, infantile attack on Rep. Cynthia McKinney recently. Boortz has his own little Hall of Shame over at Media Matters. Check him out.
What is it with the high school catty girl talk? Remember that post a few days ago with Mark Levin and Sean Hannity calling up a radio show with Alec Baldwin on it and ambushing him? Levin and Hannity were going off about Alec Baldwin being “50 or 60 pounds overweight” and not having acted “in a film in six years.”
Granted, Baldwin called Hannity a “no-talent whore,” but, then again, Baldwin didn’t call up Hannity’s show with a friend on conference call and try to attack Hannity.
Few people are as vile and low-brow as right-wing media types, and more deserving of simple dismissal.
Almost as much as MSM types like Paula Zahn who run Inside Edition stories that read like an episode of Jerry Springer’s TV show and then accuse dems of having no ideas.
Maybe if you knew anything about politics, Paula, you wouldn’t be so ridiculously stupid. Maybe if you didn’t spend your time focusing on such important issues as the “Breast Milk Black Market” and “Can Voodoo Make a Comeback” you might know what democrats stand for.
Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Arlen has always been a craven little shit, toadying for his masters while apologizing for their excesses.
When Grover Norquist and his masters say they want to shrink the size of government (this is Grover “Bathtub” Norquist we’re talking about) they really want to reduce it to an army, police, judicial, and fire services, and basic public works funds (outsourced to private companies) to maintain roads and what not.
The really cool thing is that, if you want some demented inverse of Communism, you can outsource everything in government. You can even have the military outsourced. Check out the Blackwater USA story at Thinkprogress.
Mercenary armies? Why not? It makes sense the good ol’ USA would pioneer transnational mercenary armies. We did it unofficially in the twentieth century, renting our army and navy out to fruit companies to protect their property in Central America. Why not make it official?
We are a country that is famous around the world for loving our guns and loving capitalism. Just put the two together. It makes sense. Mercenary armies are the most accurate expression of what America is about that I have ever seen. Blackwater USA really should just change its name to just “USA.”
The corporatists run the GOP from crotch to crown, and the GOP runs our government from ass the antlers. Bolten being appointed as chief of staff is a signal of that. W may be lost when it comes to appealing to his disenchanted base, but he always has the pulse of the corporate world and a hotline to their leaders.
What amuses me is how, even when he repeatedly Cheneys them in the face, they still approve of him. This guy just shoots a load of birdshot right in their face, and they apologize to him. It’s like a car wreck: it’s gruesome but I can look away. Katrina, the Dubai Ports Deal, immigration, spending…it’s incredible. In addition to being rampantly criminal, he just keeps slapping them in the face, and they don’t really care. All the religious right wants, apparently, is a pro-life candidate who throws them a Terri Schiavo bone once every few years. I say invite them into the Democratic Party. Dems can accommodate that, and they can do it with less criminality and hypocrisy than She Does Respond. I mean, honestly, has it ever made sense that the party of Corporate America is in bed with Christian Fundamentalists?
One guy who hasn’t forgotten where his party’s base is is John McCain. It must take a few drinks to kiss Jerry Falwell but you can’t win the republican nomination for president without the far right. John has learned that over the past ten years. He had to swallow his pride to kiss Bush’s ass after 2000 in the Bush halcyon days of 2001, 2002, and 2003. This can’t be that bad.
This is clearly a set up for 2008. You don’t need Jerry Falwell’s type to win Arizona’s senate seat. You need it to win the national race in southern states.
I love how McCain cries about the tough interview at the end while simultaneously reminding everyone he’s a war vet. Oh, touché, McCain. You are as deft and subtle as Mark Twain, minus about 150 IQ points.
McCain shouldn’t just be given a tough interview after courting Falwell, he should be pelted with rotten vegetables and booed off camera. People should jeer at him and flip him off while his car drives away from the studio. He should be mocked, disregarded, and dismissed in polite company.
You can’t advocate for a famous liar, bigot, and demagogue and still be highly regarded by mainstream media types, John. You can’t be CBS’s favorite senator and the far right’s favorite senator at the same time.
John is tired of being CBS’s favorite senator (OK, truth time: that nickname is not my invention, but instead an epithet I’ve heard applied to McCain on numerous right-wing websites). He knows that it’s nice to be popular with mainstream folk, but mainstream media can’t nominate him for the presidency.
Maybe he’s bitter because Bill Frist and G.W. Bush can court the right but he gets shit on when he does.
It’s the guy you chose, John. Go to Dobson the next time you want to go to the Deep Well of republofascist religiosity. Dobson is just as batshit crazy, without the long, public history of lying his ass off and saying God is trying to punish homosexuals with everything from AIDS to 9/11. He, for no really good reason, is regarded in a more positive light in the MSM.
Is John just figuring this shit out? Am I a brilliant political strategist, or is he that stupid?
Maybe neither. Maybe he knew it was coming, and he was dreading it. I hope so. I’d hate to think one of the leaders of the GOP is crooked and dumb.
I’ve criticized Neal Boortz before, but this last incident deserves mention. Neal “save the rich people first” Boortz launched into a personal, infantile attack on Rep. Cynthia McKinney recently. Boortz has his own little Hall of Shame over at Media Matters. Check him out.
What is it with the high school catty girl talk? Remember that post a few days ago with Mark Levin and Sean Hannity calling up a radio show with Alec Baldwin on it and ambushing him? Levin and Hannity were going off about Alec Baldwin being “50 or 60 pounds overweight” and not having acted “in a film in six years.”
Granted, Baldwin called Hannity a “no-talent whore,” but, then again, Baldwin didn’t call up Hannity’s show with a friend on conference call and try to attack Hannity.
Few people are as vile and low-brow as right-wing media types, and more deserving of simple dismissal.
Almost as much as MSM types like Paula Zahn who run Inside Edition stories that read like an episode of Jerry Springer’s TV show and then accuse dems of having no ideas.
Maybe if you knew anything about politics, Paula, you wouldn’t be so ridiculously stupid. Maybe if you didn’t spend your time focusing on such important issues as the “Breast Milk Black Market” and “Can Voodoo Make a Comeback” you might know what democrats stand for.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 2:47 PM 
