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REPUBLICAN PARTY GETTING MEDIEVAL ON ITS OWN ASS
APRIL 5 -- Well, we've got ourselves an interesting situation here, folks.
We're all aware of how the minions of the Li'l Buckaroo have been spending their time and money discrediting and demonizing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who would have handily beaten Dubya for the Republican nomination in 2000, had it not been for the hastily arranged, yet successful, and therefore ongoing, smear campaign the Right Wing of the Republican Party mounted against one of its own.
The Rightist Putsch -- I mean, Purge -- is widening its scope. Now the Far Right is screeching for the heads of Republican Senators Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island; Jim Jeffords of Vermont; and, of all people, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. You may remember Specter as the guy who wanted to impeach Clinton a second time, after Bill had left the White House. You'd think that making that big an idiot of himself on behalf of the 'Pubs would have guaranteed him lifelong immunity from criticism, but no.
So, why are the Far-Right Whackadoos out for the blood of these guys?
They voted for the amended version of the Li'l Buckaroo's tax plan, which reduces the cut from $1.6 trillion to a paltry $1.1 trillion.
You see, in the beady little eyes of the Rightists, anyone, regardless of party, whose politics stand even slightly to the left of Jesse Helms is a Communist. And anyone who doesn't vote without question or reservation for the Bush Agenda is to be excised.
Immediately.
You know, if John McCain had won the 'Pub nomination, and the election, this website would not exist. I could have lived with McCain as President, not as happily as with Gore, but at least McCain has his own mind, which is why the Rightists destroyed him.
And McCain would never have stood for winning the election any way other than fair and square.
I predicted on Coronation Day that we would get to witness the public spectacle of the Republican Party devouring itself as a result of this [s]election. I just didn't realize it would happen so soon.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
"MY DEATH-COUNT'S BIGGER THAN YOURS!"
APRIL 9 -- In 1999, an acquaintance offered to e-mail me a copy of something called the "Clinton Death-Count," a document which implied that the Clintons were whacking their enemies and former "accomplices" left and right, apparently with impunity. I think his purpose was to try and cure me of my flagrant Leftist stance, which in my case is congenital and permanent. I politely advised him, much to his disappointment, not to waste his time, or space on his disk cache.
I've since seen it in other places online, however, and I can easily dismiss it as coincidence, conspiracy, and a good healthy dose of wild-ass conjecture on the part of the Far Right; evidence of their increasingly desperate, and proportionally pathetic, desire to "get" Bill and Hillary on anything they can. I say "can" rather than "could" because they're still at it. Hell, at least they're consistent.
There are several online locations, which will go unnamed and unlinked here, which recently began displaying a document that goes by the equally subtle moniker of the "Bush Death-Count," which, through the same methods, strives to achieve the same results as regards the Li'l Buckaroo. I have to admit that I perused the latter with slightly more interest than the former, but I've never claimed to be objective about our new [p]resident or his puppet-masters. In the end, my opinion of the two documents is the same.
They're both crap.
I have repeatedly asked both sides for concrete evidence to back up their claims, and both sides have, in return, questioned my loyalty to country and/or party. I've never been shown any real proof in either case.
Now, before you take my site off your "Favorites" list, thinking I've turned on you, let me finish. I'm only gonna say this once, so dig the 'taters out of your ears, kids.
It should be apparent to anyone who looks at this site that the Li'l Buckaroo and his Buddies are not my favorite people. I think the [s]election was more crooked than my bottom teeth, and that the Far Right was behind it. That much should be blindingly obvious to anyone who hasn't been living under a brick for the past ten years. I think the Shrub is exercising squatter's rights in Al's house. I'm not afraid to name names and say that, in my opinion, certain 'Pubs, such as DeLay, Hatch, Helms, Lott, Santorum, Specter, Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, the notorious Gang of Five, and others of that ilk (especially Rush Limbaugh), although they are unquestionably human beings and therefore entitled to life and the security of their well-being, give your average froth of pond-scum something to feel superior about.
But here's where we come to the crux of the biscuit. If the right people spend the right amount of time looking in the right places, we can find plenty of REAL stuff to blow their credibility. If we start to go the route of rumor and innuendo, what we're doing is no different from, nor any better than, what the 'Pubs were and still are doing. We have to do this right, or not at all; otherwise, we WILL be dismissed as nothing more than a bunch of goofballs, and rightly so.
Making stuff up will NOT further the cause.
So cut it out. ANYONE UP FOR A GAME OF SPIN-THE-STORY?
APRIL 11 -- The crew of the spy plane is leaving China, and of course we're all relieved that someone finally tore the Li'l Buckaroo away from his Nintendo and marched him to his desk to write that "I'm sorry" note he'd been putting off. Yes indeedly-doodly, kids, the words "apologize" and "very sorry" were indeed used in the letter that convinced the Chinese to release what the White House and assorted Corporatists were steadfastly refusing to call hostages, exactly one day after Jesse Jackson volunteered to do what no one else knew how to do: tell the Chinese what they wanted to hear in order to bring the situation to an end.
I personally think it was EXTREMELY stand-up of Jackson to even make the offer, considering what the 'Pubs have done to him over the past few weeks. All right, the man has an illegitimate kid. At least he's standing up and acknowledging and supporting her, which is more than can be said about Dan Burton (R-IN) and the son he ignores. You may remember Burton as one of the Congressional Pubs who was most interested in Bill Clinton's sex life. The only thing worse than a hypocrite is a perverted hypocrite.
Of course, the Right didn't want Jackson to go, probably because he has a good track record in such situations (most recently in Kosovo). Also, by volunteering for the job after the trashing he's taken at the hands of the Whackadoos, if he had gone to China and succeeded, Jackson would have made Bush look not only like a complete idiot, but also a VERY SMALL complete idiot.
But now we have to deal with that perennial favorite dance at country-club cotillions, the Right-Wing Spin. Tell you what, chilluns, I've been subjected to so much spin over the past twelve hours that my kids are gonna be born dizzy. As if the 'Pubs don't leave me feeling distinctly vomitous on the best days. The big thing going through the conduits today is all about how tough and competent the Li'l Buckaroo is because, although we don't get the plane back, and he said he was sorry for [a] and [b], he didn't for [c] and [d], which, in effect, means that he didn't actually apologize for anything.
Well, to adapt the Rightists' favorite Clinton quote to my own evil purposes, "I guess it all depends on what your definition of 'very sorry' is." HATEFUL HUBRIS AND HALF-ASSED HAUTEUR
I check out all manner of websites when I surf, both conservative and liberal. A lot of the liberal websites I've checked out, while I essentially agree with them, tend to go a little over the top with the whole thing about the 'Pubs stealing the election. I personally don't see the point in hammering that one bit over and over for two reasons:
1. Everyone who agrees already agrees.
2. Everyone who disagrees will continue to do so, no matter what you say or do.
So I just occasionally mention the[s]election and/or the
[p]resident. Call me subliminable if you like.
But while we liberals tend to go overboard on that point, the conservatives of this country are going WAY overboard on a little thing I like to call arrogance.
While the Li'l Buckaroo stumbles through the labyrinth of trying to act like someone who possesses an atom (or even a neutrino) of intelligence, his backers are busy ramrodding their agenda into a certain anatomical region of the nation that generally doesn't appreciate being ramrodded. When met with any sort of dissent, they tell the dissenters to (a) leave the country; (b) stop whining; (c) get over it; or (d) all of the above.
America, welcome to Compassionate Conservatism.
Now bend over.
On Monday, along with his usual refusal to answer any questions, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer proclaimed that Dubya has, indeed, united the country, and we can all go on to happily re-elect him.
Funny, I don't feel united.
Our friends on the Right began this administration by saying that Dumbya doesn't have to travel, because all the other countries of the world should come to him. On their knees.
Right.
Now they're declaring that if California doesn't get rid of its Democrat governor, its residents may find themselves being invited to leave the country. After all, why should the Shrub give them any help when they voted for Gore? Too bad, they say, too bad.
They pontificate about our "intelligent and courageous President" and our "beautiful and classy first lady," as in, "Our intelligent and courageous President has shown China who's boss, while our beautiful and classy first lady concerns herself with women's work, as all women should." You can't make this sh!t up, folks. Whenever I see statements like that, I can easily picture a jackbooted officer slapping his truncheon into his open hand as he says it, just daring you to disagree.
But while other liberal websites condemn the arrogance of the Right, I applaud it. I want them to, ahem, "arrange" the 2002 election so that they have an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress. I want them to pass and execute every single facet of their agenda, and to go after all dissenters with a vengeance not witnessed since Newt Gingrich's last divorce. I want to see them dehumanize and vilify all who don't enthusiastically endorse their agenda. I want to see a new era of McCarthyism.
I can hear you screaming, "WHAT?!?!" But it's true, and the reason is simplicity itself.
First of all, conservatives are good at giving orders, but not so hot at taking them. The infighting and backstabbing would reduce the Republican Party to smithereens within a year.
Secondly, if their agenda were to be applied, they'd have no one to blame but themselves when it all went to hell. By that point in time, their blaming of the nation's woes on Bill Clinton, plus $2.74, would get them a large half-caff low-fat no-foam mocha latté at Starbucks, but nothing more.
And then, after we've all seen what they really are, we can toss them out on their corrupt, corpulent asses.
So go to it, 'Pubs. I'll be watching.
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