May 15, 2008
It’s weird when the POTUS holds hands (isn’t that gay or something?) with a religious dictator anti-women freedom-hating dude.
It’s even weirder when the family ties go back generations. (hat tip to some commenter at Balloon Juice)
We have to have a HUGE national Woodstock of a party when Bush is gone. It would be great.
May 15, 2008
We can all agree that storing anger and disgust is unhealthy. You just have to let this stuff out, or it will destroy you.
So it is hard to avoid the notion that the GOP is going to find out that the release of anger and disgust is a powerful thing. I have a feeling the metaphorical orgasm is coming. You can see some drips and dribbles in the special elections, but my sense is that we’re just building towards the Big One. And what a great one it could be.
November 5 is going to be an interesting news day. I took the day off. If a lot of other people do, it would be a really funny thing to see a spontaneous national party break out. I can’t think of anything more embarrassing to Bush.
Plan ahead. What a great message it would be. Nothing is worse than being laughed at, having your high-and-mighty platitudes simply dismissed as comedic jerk off.
I love fantasy politics.
Update: The REALLY funny thing is that I’m a libertarian-leaning, borderline anarchist educated voter who thinks the system is so corrupt even the Democrats are shit. At this peculiar point in our history, I’ll take the lesser of the two evils. It’s way lesser.
Update: Great minds and all…
May 15, 2008
You have to see it to believe it.
This is what the Republicans have left to debate. It doesn’t matter if they actually know what they’re talking about, a certain X of the American public will believe it, and the current psychotic incarnation of the GOP counts on it. People listen to this man on the radio.
Poor Kevin. I hereby nominate this for the most embarrassing TV appearance of the year.
What. A. Moron. Craptacular!
May 15, 2008
We have become sadly and somewhat curiously, if we’re able to detach ourselves emotionally from the whole nightmare to a sufficient degree, immune to fantastically stupid, vicious and corrupt politics and policies.
We’ve developed a callous where our sense of decency used to register pain, shame, and embarrassment.
Let The Rude Pundit say it as it really is, I like to say.
May 14, 2008
You’re a Republican elected official running for a political upgrade in a state that could go either way. Things don’t look very good for your party.
It’s time to go to the airwaves, to convince all the geniuses who let the Great Tube of Learning determine their vote, and you do this.
This is profoundly funny stuff. I mean, do these people not understand Teh Google? How far out of touch do you and your staff have to be to vet this kind of thing far enough along to air it?
May 14, 2008
Mrs. Greenspan, Chris, and Pat Buchanan tackle the touchy issue of uneducated voters of low income who look at race when considering their vote.
Watch Crooks and Liars for the video. Though I’m sure this one is going to be all over the place.
The tension actually woke me up from a nap. It was funny and weird. Pat, of course, was arguing that people are supposed to vote racist, or that black people voting for the first ever possible black President are themselves racist, whereas white people who told pollsters race was a factor in their vote was the same. Or something. It got pretty tense, and in the end, remarkably real for TV.
It’s gonna be one interesting summer and fall.
I’ll see if I can find this gem myself as soon as possible.
Update: Bingo! God I love the internet.
Update 2: A great measure of how far the conservative movement has fallen is my gradual gain of “respect” for Pat Buchanan. He’s a brilliant man in many respects, a terrific historian, and most of all, he’s honest and forthright about his own rotting, archaic soul. I appreciate that.
May 13, 2008
Mississippi-01. The GOP has held this district forever, and if the Dem wins there, a 50-50 proposition, you’ll see some very sweaty palms among the GOP leadership.
Sure, they’ll be encouraged by whitey’s overwhelming support in W. VA., but do they really want to be the electoral party of uneducated racist white voters?
Wait. Sorry. The GOP is already happy with that. But the math is changing, and it doesn’t look good over the long haul. Youngsters don’t care about your sexual orientation, among other things. Even a lot of GOP youngsters. The libertarian wing lives.
Time is on the right side, as it always is when it comes to culture wars. Or, perhaps, the “inevitable” side. Culture drives politics, despite what the GOP would have you believe.
Too bad time isn’t on my side.
Update: Current results are here. Thanks to DKos. This one will hurt, if you’re a Republican political pro.
May 13, 2008
I would have to say she has the uneducated racist white vote locked up. Personally, I think she might be the best suited Dem to capture the GOP base of uneducated racists.
Terry McCauliffe said Hillary’s speech would be one of the “best of all time.”
That could mean a lot of different things. He’s seen it, though, so that should count for something. The problem is, he’s a money-whore shill of craptacular proportions, so his definition may be different than mine.
Update: Exit poll: 95% white. 68% to Clinton of whitey. 72% whitey earning less than the median. 74% women whitey. 65% without a college degree. She’s gotta be proud.
MS-1 is where the action is tonight.
Update: I’m not making fun of people without college degrees. I grew up with them, lived with them, love them, and respect them. It’s just that they’re not all that politically attuned. And, for the record, college educated voters are not very politically savvy, either. Many of them want no more than to know which candidate will lower their taxes. That’s it. The rest of the country should just work harder.
May 12, 2008
And that one reason is that Media Man’s love of St. McCain knows no bounds.
Rarely do I give a hat tip to Digby, since she’s a genius in her own right and doesn’t need tips, but Steve Benen of the never-shrill Carpetbagger Report has this right. Read it. It’s embarrassing in the extreme, the way the press has anointed Mr. Maverick Straight Talk of the Lobbyist Express as the one person in national politics willing to deviate from prostitution. And I won’t count Obama in the pure club, either, since I largely agree with this. Where I disagree, strongly, is that Obama has made it very clear he understands that change comes from the ground up. That’s a start, and Arthur should understand that, even if I agree that it isn’t the finish.
What people have to understand, and clearly don’t, is that to do any good as a national leader you have to say some things you might not believe in your heart of hearts to be true, because if you don’t get elected you can’t do jack-squat. Obama threw Wright under the bus to get elected, and I’ll bet both of them will consider it a good deed should Obama win the election, and get 1/4 of what he’d like to get done accomplished.
Bill Clinton sacrificed his sexual mores on the alter of doing this country a favor, and personally I think he was successful. Did he move the proverbial progressive ball as forward as I would’ve liked? No, he didn’t. But our Constitution was not built for radical change. And our years under his watch were almost indisputably OK, at worst, in terms of peace and prosperity. And his sex life had nothing to do with anything except infotainment.
IMHO, everyone needs to chill out a little bit, give up on the Obama-as-Messiah theme (Yo! Arthur! Has Obama ever suggested he was a Messiah? I can’t remember him doing so; feel free to correct me), and give up on the gender-based tribal politics of Taylor Marsh or Jeralyn Merritt, and try to find out a way to move this country forward, even if only incrementally.
(OOPS! Two reasons: The other being the idea that Hillary supporters will either sit it out in Nov. or vote for St. McCain. My apologies.)
And McCain ain’t it. The only thing more stupid than the Obama as Messiah complex is thinking he’d be worse than McCain.
That would be virtually impossible.
Update: I couldn’t argue my way out of a paper bag where Arthur, Steve, Jeralyn, or Taylor are concerned. At least not in writing. But I also wouldn’t be the first person who observed that genius, as commonly defined, didn’t include the occasional inability to tie one’s shoes. Just sayin’.
Update: OOPS again! Race. I’m just taking that one for granted now, so I skipped it.
May 12, 2008
The Cubs could win the World Series.
They’re wailing on their 4th straight sad, pathetic victim. They’ve gotten off to a good start. They seem to have good chemistry and people who need rest are getting it. They have players who can play multiple positions, and they have role players who seem OK with their roles. The pitching is adequate to good where it is needed. They can hit it all over the place (including a few of their pitchers), and play good defense.
For the first time in as long as I can remember, they’re willing to take walks.
They’re honestly pretty good this year.
Sure, there’re downsides, one being my chronic inability to let it go and avoid getting my heart broken (it happened first in 1969, when I was 10, knew every stat in the league, and was in love, so gimme a break), though that problem has subsided a lot over the years. Now it’s just big fun if they’re competitive, win or lose.
The main downside is that damn apocalypse thing.
