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Found these matched gems back-to-back at Steve’s House of Plain Speaking.

First, his commentary on reports that the Green Party in Pennsylvania may – hold onto your hats! – be a stalking horse for the GOP.

No, the Green Party is run by the dumbest set of motherfuckers since Doug Feith and his crew.
Does this assclown Romanelli think he's playing the GOP? Does he?

This kind of stupidity is the reason that the Greens are a joke. Yeah, Bob Casey is to the right, and he's not getting my money, but Santorum has to go. It's just that simple.

They're like runaways turned out by their pimp boyfriend who "needs the money". They're too dumb to realize how they're being used. Do they think they're going to "get their message out"? Do they think they're outsmarting the GOP?

The Dems aren't left enough for them, so they go to the right. Logic right out of Stalin telling the German communists to not fight the Nazis, because things would get so bad that the communists would eventually win. Jesus fucking christ. What idiocy.

Here's the deal: politics as temper tantrum suck. People need sane people in office more than you need to feel right. I could give a shit about Bob Casey, but Santorum has to go. My lab partner is a monkey could do a better job than Santorum.
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Well color me shocked: that in Sin City – which is where we ALL live, baby, and don’t you forget it – the idea of soiling their starched ideological flounces so terrifies The Pure that they believe handing the world over to the vastly-greater-of-two-evils is preferable, because it hastens the day the whole system’ll crash.

N’then we’ll take the fight to the streets, dude!

N’then...something something...and a fucking miracle is passed...and we get Walden III with hot chicks and hash for everyone!

Or at least that’s how I used to feel.

I used to think that of COURSE that’s not how the real world works. Or has ever worked. Ever. At any time. Under any circumstances.

I used to mock such thinking as lazy. As a cheap, sugar-high-quick course taken because the hard-scary-long-duration-low-reward answer requires too much patience and persistence.

Because from here it is so bitterly, ironically obvious that the Pure jump down precisely the same rabbit hole side by side with the very people they despise -- the Fundies, the Fascists and maybe the Commies. And they do it for precisely the same reasons. Each in their different colored togs, but each drunk off the same bottle: that through some kind of supercool, Blowed-Up-Real-Good controlled demolition of the status quo, they will lead the survivors of the dust and slaughter and will Create a Better World.

Of course, there will have to be sacrifices. (Translation: A whole LOT of people are gonna hafta die before we get to the Rapture/National Socialist World State/New Communist Man Utopia)

Except, of course, that there are several billion regular people who would much rather you not play ducks and drakes with their lives. Who would just like to not have their governments and corporations kill them. Who just want to raise their kids and breathe the air.

And except, of course, the dust never clears. The carnage never stops. The New Order never rises; it just gets worse, as the OCD Pure keep trying to cleanse it all with their particular brand of holy fire.

But this by Billmon (also via Steve Gilliard) opened my eyes and spun me right round, baby.

Right round!

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So here's my confession: At this point I really don't give a flying fuck whether the Democrats take the House or the Senate back. No, wait, that's not true. The truth is I hope they don't. It wouldn't save us from what's coming down the road, in the Middle East and elsewhere. It wouldn't force President Psychopath to change course or seek therapy. But it would make sure that the "left" (ha ha ha) gets more than its fair share of blame for the approaching debacle.

That may well be the natural role of the Democratic Party in our one-and-a-half party system, but I don't want any part of it any more. Which means that when I say it's a bad sign (consensus opinion always being wrong) that Charlie Cook now thinks the Republicans are likely to lose their House and/or Senate majorities in November, I just mean that it's a bad sign for the Democratic Party and its professional hangers on.

For the rest of us, and for whatever is left of this country's soul, it doesn't really matter. We've already lost.

Of course Steve give the usual, muscular Liberal rebuke to that kind of talk with this kind of talk with this kind of talk…

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It's easy to sit back and say nothing will happen to Bush, because nothing will happen to you. But if you're fighting with the VA . it fucking matters. If your kid is in Iraq, it fucking matters. Fuck the shit which comes with Bush, there are people who need the help, even minimal help, a Democratic Congress can provide.

A lot of nice, middle class progressives forget that the fight isn't for them. You think for one second I believe Ned Lamont knows what it's like to be working class, much less working class and black, living in a New Haven housing project?

What I know is that Joe Lieberman turned his back on those people and put his foot on their necks in so many ways I've lost count. It's their kids dying in Iraq, coming home to a fucked up VA, not getting their benefits.

At least Lamont wants to listen and Lieberman stopped long ago.

You better remember that if you see a vast sea, there are some folks drowning and the question is whether you save them or leave them to their fate.
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Which may have persuaded me back in the day, but now I realize that even though no one in their right mind expects moral purity and ideological congruence with their garbage man, teacher, doctor, journalist or pastor…in politics it is perfectly reasonable to demand faultless adherence to my unique set of principle or priorities.

That although a rule-of-thumb, “good enough” strategy is usually good enough for the way we deal with practical problems in the real world – where we constantly have to triage our problems and ration our time -- in politics only an unbroken record of all-holes-and-both-hands chastity will suffice. You must be hand-glove with me from the Persian Gulf to pot to the FCC: anything less is an insult to the Glorious Cause!

Which is why I'm voting straight Snowflake Baby ticket this Fall and in '08.

Because when it comes to contests of sinlessness and flawlessness, no one can beat a Snowflake Baby. And anyone who is not perfect and pure is equally as bad as everyone else who is not perfect and pure.

And once we hand every instrumentality of power over to thugs, I’m sure the ensuing Dark Ages will be so fucking awful that one day what’s left of the people will rise up from their misery, hunger, Family Guy reruns and exhausting labors. They will charge the wire, and swat the gunships from the sky with, uh, something something...righteousness.

Then someone will pass a fucking miracle and sweep the Snowflake Baby Party to power. And the old world shall pass away, and all shall be made new again, and from then on it’s just babes and hash.

So as election day draws near, please remember the Snowflake Baby Party motto:

"Pol Pot and Paul Lind -- both equally worse than a Snowflake Baby."