Sunday, April 10, 2005

Sunday Mornin' Coming Down...


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I watched Sunday teevee and sipped coffee and typed a little bit of what I saw. Maybe I’ll do this more regularly. Anyway be apprised that I’m not a court recorder and this is not a transcript: All quotes are imperfect and not direct attributions but are, shall we say, impressionistically correct

Meme wars this morning!

Harry Reid going great guns on the Heaven’s Gate Republican “impeach and possibly waste all judges who oppose Tom DeLay’s Divine Will” nuttery on CBS this morning. This Mormon kid’s got some heat!

driftglass FYI: As of next week, 205 out of 214 judges from Bushville will have been confirmed. That’s 96%...a rate of blockage or 4%. During Clinton’s term, Republican Senators blocked 35% of President Clinton’s nominees. See 35 is MORE than 4! I know that some of my GOP friends will have to take off their shoes and socks to cipher numbers that high, but trust me, like Evolution, it’s really true!

And as a matter of historical interest, in the Clinton years, Republicans threatened to stop all confirmations or just obliterate judicial positions outright, demanding they were entitled to choose half of the judges themselves. And the only reason that Bush even has so many vacancies into which he can pack so much rancid Republican Peanut Butter is because the GOP blocked so many Clinton nominees in the first place...

...and every time you hit the lever for Republicans, you enable this kind of Anti-American bullshit to run unchecked.

Harry Reid catches the meme: “These are not "mainstream" Republicans; these are the extreme, hard Right.”

On the Bolton Nomination: "We're not going to allow someone who is an embarrassment to the country.”

“If this goes on, we'll just become an extension of the House of Representative.”

Bob Schieffer: “Is there some kind of compromise that is being worked on...”

Bob don’t get it, and I'll get to that in a longer piece on what I’ll call the “Tyranny of Artificial Bisection” at a future date.
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On This Week –
Sen. Santorum, calls Tom DeLay. “passionate and effective” and apparently the MEDIA is the problem.
Wow, so it’s the MEDIA, eh? Not much of a deep game the GOP has these days, is it? We're back to insisting that the problem is not Res Ipsa Loquitor (like DeLay or people being gunned down in broad daylight in Iraq, for example) but publicly reporting on the existence of the thing itself and not simply regurgitating straight Rightwing propaganda as “news.” Shocking, no?
Senator Christ Dodd: “DeLay rigged the rules. He becomes the poster child for everything the Dems think is wrong with the Repubs.”

Pattern developing. Pattern is good. driftglass likes the Shape of Things to Come.

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Fox – Just Can’t Watch it for more than a few moments at a time, Maalox or not.
Bill Kritol – Another reliable Tom DeLay assclown.

Brit Hume – So this is what Gumby looks like without the Botox?

Hume: “Not a whole lot of daylight between Cheney the Preznit and DeLay.”

Bwahahahah! Bless you, evil feculent Bizarro Gumby! Bless you for explicitly tying the whole line of Republican boats to the fate of Tom "BTK" DeLay, as that chunk of vile, high-density, neutronium disappears beneath the waves!

Seriously, why does anyone that can use opposable thumbs to open a book watch this asslickery?

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CBS - McCain. His constituents ask him “Why are you guys always fighting?” He opines a few seconds later, “I think both parties...”

Fuck you, McCain. And as regards Dear Old Tom DeLay and his reeking-so-bad-it-makes-Baby-Jesus-cry scandals, McCain opines further, "I'll take him at his word" and "I'm not is a position to comment on DeLay."

So...Big John, how exactly did you vote on the Clinton Impeachment again? I believe part of what you said went something like...this,” Although I may admit to failures in my private life, I have at all times, and to the best of my ability, kept faith with every oath I have ever sworn to this country. I have known some men who kept that faith at the cost of their lives. I cannot--not in deference to public opinion, or for political considerations, or for the sake of comity and friendship--I cannot agree to expect less from the President.”

(From Bill Shakespeare who was, most definitely, not making the rounds this Sunday Morning:
He was my friend, faithful and just to me;
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.)

And then McCain has a hearty laugh about how effectively Bush cornholed him in 2000.

Hehehe! Lookit the funny draft dodgy creep who ran a fixed-bayonet attack right at genuine war heroes. Impugning their service at war and in POW camps, slandering their good names, during the period when Der Bush was apparently too knee-walking drunk to bother to show up for the cushy job his rich daddy poached for him. Letting some poorer, smarter, low-born thrall go off to the jungles and suck up bullets.

Man! Bush-dick must taste like Belgian Chocolate! So yummy, that you just can't get it out of your mouth!

McCain again: “It shouldn't be partisan...” and fond recollection of the good old days of “Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill...”

When the Party of God starts puling about the good old days of compromise, keep your hand on your wallet. C’mon, John. When you’re Party quits napalming Democracy...our party will quit boosting hubcaps, OK?

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On This Week – I watch Eliot Spitzer for a few seconds: Community values, government helping people to get wealthy, fighting for them on their behalf. Jeez, somebody get Hillary on the wireless: Hil, you ever want my vote...say shit like this every day. Believe it. Act on it, center your chakras on it. Touchstone it. And never give up. And then you get my vote. Of not...bye-bye.

Timmuh -- talkin' about Intelligence Failure.

The committee reports says, "Every piece of fresh evidence (uranium hunting, anthrax planes, weapons labs) had been tested and disproved by the UN Inspectors.”

Sen. Pat Roberts. -- loyal Bush Family houseboy. He assures us that it was not only a failure of US intel....but the Whole World, Timmy!. Even the Russians! Even the FRENCH damn it!

Driftglass aside: WTF?! Why is it every single fucking time these dust mites get caught lying their asses off they scamper and hide like the puling little bitches that they are behind the French. Is there a stronger word available to the civilian consumer than "coward"? Is 'cuntily" a word?

We are the fucking United State of America. We spend more money on Intel than most countries spend on...everything. We brag on it harder that any suburban warrior brags on his new Hummer to his Camry-driving neighbor. We went to war on big, brave, macho, firm, unambiguous, declarative sentences made by Bush, Cheney, Rice, Perle, Wolfman and Powell. And now, when the going gets tough, they run and hide behind the skirts of a nation they mock and despise as weak and ineffectual.

Roberts launches New GOP Talking Point: “The assumption train.” Well. OK. Somebody was sure as hell pulling SOME kinda train, and everyone that fell into line got a nice, sloppy reach-around from Bush an Cheney.

But we are assured that There is Good News: we've swapped out the defective bureaucrats who were the REAL problem. (Gotta love that Ken Lay Enron defense: It just keeps giving!) The Department of Fucking Everything Up is getting a new Director! Yay!!! So...does he get a Preznit Medal of Freedom up-front, or is there like a probationary period?

Wow. I must be old. I remember dimly back when the Republicans would have been positively shrieking for a Special Prosecutor and an unlimited line of credit when a Prezint fucked-up-and-lied this nakedly, and over silly shit like jizzed-up dresses.

Robertson on the other part of the report he promised. The part about how was it exactly that the White House rolled out nation into a war based on these amazingly transparent lies. Are they just all stupider than six pounds of pasta? Or so ideologically blind that they are incapable of rational thought? Or just a pack of lying rodents? Or “D” – all of the above?

Roberts explains that, well, we're very busy, y'know. Very, very busy. Got confirmations. Judges. Social Security. Doing our taxes. Cleaning out the gutters. Buncha stuff. But don’t you worry, America: we'll get ‘round to it one to it eventually, one of these fine days.

And, yes, these are the same people that all but shut the government down to impeach Bill Clinton over some consensual fellation.

Has to stop watching. Going out to see “Downfall” now, although watching a movie about a raving, hate-mongering fascist in complete denial about his own monstrousness, surrounded by sycophants willing to burn their own country to the ground rather than irritate the boss seems...anti-climactic.

45 comments:

Mister Roboto said...

Bush's dick tastes like Belgian chocolate? So yer sayin' that DUH-Bya's been packin' the fudge, are ya? :-D

Sorry, I couldn't resist. BAD Loveandlight! BAD! BAD! {/me flagellates himself to the point of splattering blood all over the room Opus Dei style}

Anonymous said...

Damn, that was some righteous (lefteous?) smack, beee-otch. I had to blog it; forgive me.
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Anonymous said...

The man (Driftglass) is finding his way into a National leadership role of influence. A position well earned.
He (Driftglass) certainly has that ability to clearly state that which we all clearly see, but many of us have difficulty stating.
Papa Hemingway would probably have correctly said "Man, I tell you, that Driftglass sure has a built-in crap detector".

TJ said...

Save some smack for the rest of us, man!
Definitely looking forward to reading more.

Anonymous said...

Best smack since Steve Gilliard. No question. I'm glad driftglass is on our side.
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Anonymous said...

hot damm, u sur can write!

could you do a compare and contrast between right-wing ideology and left-wing ideology?

i watched Hillary this morn give a barn-burner, but she talked alot of there id, and no self examination [or would that be too much a show of weakness?]

Just wish the left could take a look at our own hard-liners. i think the left would come out way ahead, but people like my parents think we are all euthansia'ists, abortionist, killer kodlers, gay preditors and the rest.

Anonymous said...

To anonymous..... "Just wish the left could take a look at our own hard-liners". You are so right my friend and you and I must keep on saying it over and over. It's not a waste of time to stop our Lwingnuts from scaring the hell out of the vast center of voters (as they fight the Rwingnuts), but a necessary correction to the first law of politics ( in the minds of the voters and in your own eyes, you know it to be true - " Perception is in fact Reality". ) It may not be fair, but WTF, there it is anyway. The object is to gain enough political power to win and then make changes to government, not simply to fight, just to piss Rwingnut extremists off / with a side effect of scaring the hell out of the masses in the center .......... and don't even get me started on that mindless bullshit mindset about "we shouldn't be thinking strategically". How in the hell are we going to have a winning strategy if we don't think strategically? AAARRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!

Anonymous said...

"It may not be fair, but WTF, there it is anyway. The object is to gain enough political power to win and then make changes to government, not simply to fight, just to piss Rwingnut extremists off / with a side effect of scaring the hell out of the masses in the center .......... "

I'm not quite sure who you're referring to by "left-wing hard liners"?

"Anonymous" mentions Hillary but she's hardly "left-wing" in anybody's definition. She supported the war in Iraq. She's made anti-immiration and anti-abortion noises.

And it seems to me that all the Democratic Party does these days is to engage in "self-examination". I guess someone, somewhere could pick someone off of Counterpunch and do a Sister Souljah on them but I doubt it would have much effect.

It seems to me that the Democrats is currently bending over so far to accomodate "the mainstream" that they've lost all sense of their own values. The "left" in the United States simply isn't very large or very important. There's no "left" equivalent of the anti-abortion movement, the effort to pull Darwin out of the public schools, or the effort of the right to control peoples' private medical decisions.

There's no "left" equivalent of the media's whitewashing of the Catholic church's pedophilia.

Anonymous said...

Or to put it a bit more succinctly, the "mainstream" needs a huge helping of "self-examination" more than the "left".

Will it win votes?

Well, I don't know. But it seems to me that if we pander to the "mainstream's" religious mania, hatred of gay rights and womens rights, and willingness to overlook the abuses of the right (the war in Iraq, the pedophilia of the Catholic church, the superstition and religious mania in our own country) than we're no longer "the left".

We're no longer anybody.

Why don't we lead instead of following.

Anonymous said...

Can you remember the results of the last two presidential elections?

Yes. In 2004, we decided to run an establishment, pro-war, self-proclaimed Catholic war hero instead of Howard Dean and we lost.

Jesus. How far do you want the Democrats to tack right? Should we come out against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to win back the south.

Because that's the crux of it isn't it? Take away the old Confederacy and the Democrats are the majority party.

The real question should be, "how do we deprogram the South?".

Anonymous said...

First of all, the ideals of the LWN's is not "our" Democrats ideals, it's their (LWN's) ideals.

Maybe we should define our terms before we debate.

What "left wing ideals" are you talking about?

Gay marriage? Well, the Democrats came out against it.

The war in Iraq? The Democrats were for it. John Edwards came out and did the best dirty Harry impression during the Democratic convention then faded into obscurity?

Support for Israel? The Democrats won't even allow debate on the issue.

Social Security? Yeah. I guess the Democrats are againt destroying it.

Abortion? The majority of people in my state are pro-choice. A pro-life candidate simply couldn't win a state wide election. Once again, the issue is the south. Take away the south and the country is pro-choice by a huge majority.

Anonymous said...

To SWR......( Why are you bringing up the South?) My good friend I really do see your point, but think thoust does not mine.

It's simple...... "Perception is Reality".

I don't give a "flying duck" how we win. I am willing to lie to the liars, cheat the cheaters, go lower than the low, as long as we win. Nothing is gained by being idealistic losers.

The path you are advocating is for losers and has a track record of zero wins and all loses. After we win, then we can be as liberal as we like. If we win, then we have earned the right and power to inact our agendas. If it takes waving the bible and carrying a 'Mercan flag in my ass cheeks to win, well then.... drop my drawers and watch me strut.

It's not about being honest with middle America, it's about getting their damn votes, anyway we can. We've simply got to put all our cute little artsy fartsy sayings aside and get a flying grip on reality.

Good conversing with you my friend. You keep on swinging away but do try to get over that hatred for the south.
Best Regards
Trainwasher (aka Charles)

Anonymous said...

I don't give a "flying duck" how we win.

Really? How far would you go?

Demagogue immigration?

Throw some innocent Muslims in jail?

Bomb a country totally unrelated to anything anybody's done to us?

Make alliances with white supremicists?

Sell drugs to raise money?

I have to know this. Where's your line in the sand?

And, btw, I don't hate the South. What I said is simple reality. The Democrats are still losing because of the Civil Rights Act.

Every state in the country (save possibly Utah) could go either Republican or Democratic. The South is as solidly Republican now as it was Democratic in the past.

The real issue is how we win the knuckledraggers in the south without becoming like the knuckledraggers in the south.

Anonymous said...

BTW Charles, you dodged my question.

What "left wing ideals" are we talking about?

What "left wing" ideas are keeping the Democrats down?

Why not list them so we can be on the same page.

Anonymous said...

To SWR..... Tsk, tsk, tsk.....you still are missing all the points along the rallyway. Don't read what you want to read - just to "Republicanize" your argument, read what is written. Go back to square one and start over again. You started out by saying " you waste your time on that shit?" and are now starting to degrade an honest and open opinion (and hellfire, we can't have any of that stuff) made by "anonymous" ( and about 50 million other Democrats) into another spiralling far left cosmic diversion of outhouse gas. You say nothing of substance, only criticize the thoughts of others and demand absolute conformity to a far left- biggitry of the South.

Pssssssttt, just to let you know a little secret. The South "is" middle America and some of us would like their votes. (But keep that just between us)

I've really got to get back to work.... so I'll let you take the last shot. Now don't choke, make that last free throw a good'en and win the game for......?

Anonymous said...

You say nothing of substance, only criticize the thoughts of others and demand absolute conformity to a far left- biggitry of the South.


That's why I asked you to list what you mean by "far left" ideas.

You've listed one, hatred of the South.

Buzzt. You lose. I voted for Clinton, twice, who, last time I checked was a southerner.

But hey, I'd be perfectly willing to run John Edwards in 2008 if it would help us win. But didn't we already do that in 2004?

But once again, why don't you list what you think are my "far left" ideas.

You've had, what, 4 chances now and you can't seem to think of any.

Anonymous said...

The South "is" middle America and some of us would like their votes.

The South is the one part of the country that isn't competative between both parties.

I just mentioned that and you elevated it into "hatred".

Strange.

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