The Politics of Cowardice

Post-9/11, the Republican Party refashioned itself as the Party of Fear-Mongering. And for 7 long years, manufacturing fear of the Muslim Other has been its stock-in-trade.

But now, it looks as if fear--indeed panic--has started to overtake the GOP. The mortgage-banking crisis serves as a pre-text to use the Federal government to funnel a trillion dollars into the insatiable pockets of the Republican Party's Wall Street base. This amount is on top of the billions of dollars being poured each month into the Military Industrial Complex's Iraq and Afghanistan fiascos. Wall Street, K Street, and the Pentagon are the Bermuda Triangle upon which the Republican Party stands.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Now, even war-hero John McSame appears to be shaking in his boots. He wants to avoid debating Barack Obama and he sure as hell wants to find a pre-text to postpone indefinitely D-Day (Debate Day) for Sarah Palin. What an ill-considered act of pandering she has turned out to be.

It's down to Diebold, the Electoral College, and more Supreme Court shenanigans.

The real question is: have the American people finally had enough of being soaked by the Plutocratic War Party's fear-mongering Robber Barons, or will they dutifully line up once again, bent-over bare-assed, and chime in unison: "Thank you, Sir! May I have another?"

Like Tacitus Before Me...

I fear that Obama will win the popular vote and lose in the electoral college, like Gore and Kerry before him. The Republicans have the system down to a science.

In addition, the US remains a staunchly racist country. So people who are voting for McSame give totally irrational reasons for wanting to do so, i.e., Obama is a Muslim, Obama is a Socialist, Obama will take away their guns. No amount of evidence to the contrary will disabuse them of these notions, so they are clinging to them not because they truly believe them, but because saying “I won’t vote for a black man” would make them appear to be ignorant. Never mind the fact that the reasons that they profess make them look equally ignorant.

I don’t know how I could do another 4-8 years of Republican mis-rule. Sarah Palin makes W and Dan Quayle look like rocket scientists. She and McSame are refusing to talk to the media except in very brief and highly scripted sessions. This country is poised to be a “kinder, gentler” Third Reich, but a Third Reich nonetheless.

Like Tacitus before me, I long for the bad old days of the republic…

When You Hear "Palin"...

Think "Quayle."

When asked if she is ready to be "one heart-beat away" from the most powerful office in the world, Sarah Palin's reply runs something like, "I know that I am ready because I have that readiness that makes me ready."

Well, alright then. I guess that settles that.

As it was with Poppy Bush, so it is with Poppy McSame: it is reckless to choose clueless.

One Trillion Dollars for Wall Street

NPR reported today that, with the Federal government's seizure of AIG, the Bush Administration has now poured close to ONE TRILLION DOLLARS into Wall Street bailouts.

One trillion dollars for Wall Street, not one penny for health care!

Is this a great country or what? It's touching, really, to see how flexible those Bush Administration free marketeers can be when their cronies run into trouble. Just like with the savings and loan debacle under Poppy Bush. Like father like son.

I sure hope the Republican miracle continues for at least another four years under old man McSame. I'm a little worried though. I mean, the man's prostate has to be the size of a grapefruit by now. Thank God he had the foresight to choose as his running mate the moral and intellectual equivalent of Dan Quayle. OK, so she'd never heard of the Bush doctrine before her recent interview with Charlie Gibson. She's been busy these last six years! I mean, she's got herself a whole slew of kids and that big state of Alaska to look after--and she can look right across the Bering Strait and see the Commies lying in wait, hoping we'll blink! Ok, so maybe news travels slowly in the great white north...

ATTENTION! FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS! THIS ELECTION DAY, SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE AMERICANS ARE NOTHING IF NOT CONSISTENT! VOTE AGAINST YOUR OWN ECONOMIC SELF INTEREST AS YOU HAVE DONE ELECTION CYCLE AFTER ELECTION CYCLE! VOTE FOR THE 10% MAVERICK, JOHN MCSAME!