Behold, a Birthday Fundraiser!
Welcome to my annual birthday fundraiser, launched a little early this year because A) I will be on the road during my actual birthday week this year and, B) the cupboards are looking a quite bare right now.
Today, we visit the Year of our Lord 2005, when late George Carlin said this out loud:
Then we jump to 2018 -- today, now -- where the mortal remains of Mitch McConnell is at last enough at ease with his own depravity to finally convert the Right's longstanding, savage private agenda into official public position of the Republican Party. From Newsweek, yesterday:
MITCH MCCONNELL CALLS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID CUTS AFTER PASSING TAX CUTS, MASSIVE DEFENSE SPENDINGAt this point I should probably mention once again something clever about the Left being right about the Right all along, but just at the moment I'm sunk knee-deep in midterm melancholy, so maybe next time.
After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem," McConnell said of the deficit, which grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018. McConnell explained to Bloomberg that "it’s a bipartisan problem..."
However I have found that an excellent tonic against despair is taking action, such as door knocking or phone banking for my local Democratic candidate.
So I'll see you out there on America's sidewalks, striding purposefully towards you, clipboard in-hand.
3 comments:
Dear Bitch, er Mitch, I meant Mitch,
Republicans are the majority party. You have both Houses of Congress, the Executive and now the Supreme Court. In this system, the majority party calls the shots. So, no, Mitch, this is not a bipartisan problem. It is a Republican problem. All of the problems are Republican problems, Mitch. You bought them, you created them, you own them. All of them, Mitch. All the problems are yours.
My mail in ballots finally showed up, so I will be filling them out and sending them in a little later today, and that usually raises my spirits a little.
And I just found out that a ballot initiative that would roll back the stranglehold that prop 13 has had on the taxation of business and commercial property for 40 years has just qualified for the 2020 election, so I still have something to look forward to after I mail these ballots in.
That's gonna be a political fight of epic proportions, with business interests already promising to dump $100 million on it, and proponents promising organization and mobilization on the kind of scale that effectively counters that much money.
Perhaps the beast, sick of being starved, will turn and take a massive bite out of the posteriors of the starvers for once, but it's hard to tell this far out.
Also, we sometimes do some fucked-up things with the initiative process, prop 13 for example, so you know there will be work to be done there.
-Doug in Oakland
I received this present in my local paper.
I figure it is a perfect moment to re gift it.
Enjoy
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