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17 November 2006
The triumph of the machinery...
Well, gentle reader, as expected in the 21st Century, the quiet political machinery working behind the scenes has triumphed once more.
While I have no idea whether the ethics allegations against Murtha are true, I do know that the newly-elected Majority Leader has worked his ass off to undermine the incoming Speakeress. And I also know that the ex-ballerina elected caucus chair, being an "out" DLC triangulating corporate whore, will do everything in her power to pull the party toward the middle as defined by the neocons.
So everything that this party absolutely must do as soon as the 110th Congress convenes now stands athwart the triangulations to come. John Conyers Jr.'s decision to open hearings on impeachment; Henry Waxman's hearings on the fraud, waste, and corruption of the Iraq Fiasco; and any chance of overturning some of the horrors from the 109th Congress (starting with the Military Commissions Act of 2006) now all stand in danger of the so-called "moderates."
The reason the Democratic Party keeps losing (once you put aside Republican vote fraud, specious ballot issues, and a thorough brainwashing of the "base" by its attendant media echo chamber) is that in its triangulation creep it's become a pale reflection of the Republican Party.
And Democrats simply will never be able to out-Republican the Republicans.
Let's start with the theocons: fuck 'em! The Democratic Party can survive very well, thank you, without dipping quite so low into the murky puddle that's the theocon gene pool. Any non-crazy Christian will recognize the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men for the scourge to avoid, and the crazy ones are absolutely welcome to stay with the Republicans.
As for the corporate whores and neocons sucking up to K-Street and the endless corporate donation trough through the Church of the Democratic Leavings Council, fuck 'em as well! This party has never represented the interests of the moneyed elite, so why the fuck should we start now?!?!
And while we are at it, let's also say fuck you to the Republican Fifth Columnists in the Democratic ranks. Anyone advocating changing Democratic positions on Iraq, energy, global climate, Iran, deficits, and the whole plethora of issues the new DINO Majority Leader will try to sway the caucus should be drummed out of the party. Though we ought to do it a lot more thoroughly than we did it to Independent Joe. Allowing that asshole to be the king-maker in the U.S. Senate will only open the door for the putz to stab Harry Reid in the back. Just you wait!
Robert Scheer, bless him, has been right all along: Democrats win when they behave like Democrats, and this election was about the country wanting to change direction, not fucking stay the course! So if the incoming Democratic Leadership insists on moving toward the neocon-defined center, it will be the end of the Democratic Party as much as a Haggard ass, a Foley dick, and an Abramoff checkbook were the end of the Republican one. -- Technorati
Yes, gentle reader, I've shared this with you five days ago: Independent Joe may yet screw the Democrats out of the Senate Majority, and just now it is confirmed!
Now will every single Democrat who voted for Independent Joe apologise to the rest of the country for betraying the Democratic Party yet again?!? I sincerely doubt it.
Damn it, it sucks being right about this one! I just hope the Connecticut Democrats will start their recall/impeachment process today! -- Technorati
So the insanity of the election season really took a toll out of me. It was nice to take a break and to take stock of what's happened with the story so far.
On the positive side, we've won a majority in both houses, but it's a very slim one at that. The majority includes the assumption (and quite the assumption it is!) that Independent Joe won't screw the Democratic Party. We'll see what happens there.
Also on the positive side it's wonderful to note the end of political careers by such Republican luminaries as ex-Senator Cat-Killer Fristy-pants, ex-Senator Macacawitz, and most wonderfully ex-Senator Frothy Mix of Lube and Fecal Matter! Someone did a reasonably funny bit on Air America a few days ago saying that while Senator "I've Been Tortured By the Vice President to Support Torture" was at Carlo's baby's christening this election eve, the Democrats went and took out the heads of the five families (the future Seven Dwarves) "for him"...
Sure, the 2008 Republican nomination will end up so bloody that the party will (hopefully!) finally collapse into the three totally alien groups: the real conservatives, the neocons, and the theocons. The neocons have lost most of their value/bluster/hot fetid air out of their balloon with the clear denunciation of the Iraq Fiasco by the American electorate. The theocons will, hopefully, field one of their own in opposition to the "liberalism" of the real conservatives. And those poor lost souls will be left with the ruins of what once was the Republican Party.
That's of course if things go as they should. In this past election, thirty House races were won by the slimmest of margins. How many of them would have gone Democrat if there weren't all the election tampering attempts by the Republicans? Just think about it: the Democratic Majority could have actually been +46 instead of +16, and you can just imagine the sort of an effect that level of a win would have had on the dregs of American society laughingly referred to as the Republican Party...
And let's not forget: unless the Democrats focus and fix our election system, Tom Feeneys of the world will continue to flip their elections with a touch of a few buttons. We aren't out of the woods here; we're just beginning to see the path.
Finally, the Democrats have got to be wary of the neocons in their own midst: the ex-ballerinas and other triangulating whores from the Democratic Leisure Council. There is little difference between the DLC whores and the AEI whores; maybe the color of their tie (or kneepads).
So we have plenty to do, plenty to consider, and plenty to uncover still. But at least we won't have congenital idiots telling us that the Iraq War won't last more than six months, or that the Internet is made up of tubes, or that global warming is not based on solid science.
You can imagine how happy I feel, but I do have to raise the following spectre: Independent Joe may yet screw the Democratic Party one more time. He might caucus, and vote, with the party that brung him, the fat old sleazoid greedy white men.
And of course that's not all. Today's admission by Rush Limpdick that he's been lying for the Administration only underscores how deeply this complete repudiation of the Republican Party will hurt them!
Well, there's very little left now until the new Congress is sworn in, and begins its proceedings, except that I would encourage any Democratic candidates with any proof that Republican vote tampering of any kind caused them to lose is encouraged to come out and publish the evidence to shut the fright wing noise machine once and for all.
But most importantly, we must remember that the reason the Democratic Party won was because the progressives have stepped in. This election saw a conservative puff-piece get defeated in the Tennessee Senatorial race, while a progressive managed to wipe Talentless Wonder off the Senate map.
So a warning to the ex-ballerina DLC (Democratic-speak for "neocon" or "corporate whore") shill: this is not an endorsement of your idiotic triangulation. If you read it as such, Democrats will lose their slim majority just as soon as Turd Blossom's disciples have created themselves more believable Republican golems! -- Technorati
With the wins in Montana by John Tester and in Virginia by Jim Webb, the Democrats now control both Houses of the hitherto-errant Congress.
Imagine what it will mean to have John Conyers, Jr., heading up Impeachment hearings, and Henry Waxman heading up fraud and waste hearings, and Charlie Rangel heading up tax-cuts for the super-rich while more and more people slide into poverty hearings!
And just imagine that ugly evil-ravaged visage of Vice President Sidius as he keeps getting subpoenaed and then found guilty (at first!) of contempt of Congress!...
The vicious blood-sucking vampire, the nightmare ghoul who used to haunt the E-Ring of the Pentagon is resigning! Now if only Vice President Wicked Witch of the West and his Treasonous Flying Monkey, Squinty McLuddite, would do the same!
Now that we have control of Congress, it's never been more important to investigate, indict, impeach, and incarcerate these venal traitors! -- Technorati
Let's extend a hearty "FUCK YOU!" and a double-handed middle finger to the neocon side of the aisle...
The inconceivable has happened. With all his bald-faced lying, with all of Turd Blossom's vaunted 72 hour masturbation programs, Chimperator Caesar Deciderus is no longer the unchecked and uncheckable neocon tool that he was.
I just hope that when Democrats go back to form the new majorities, they extend the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men a hearty "FUCK YOU!" right into their faces, along with a bunch of middle fingers: it's time to start putting America back together.
So while John Conyers, bless him, will begin hearings on Impeachment, the rest can repeal the Military Tortures Act of 2006, US Patronizing Act, and other over- and under-reaches of the Perfidious Monstrosity. And in the mean time Henry Waxman can start subpoenaing the CEOs of Halliburton, Raytheon, and Boeing!
Of course Vice President Sidius, being a fascist at heart, said that he would fight "to his death" any attempts to subpoena his fat old sleazoid greedy white ass. Oh, what fun! Sending him to jail for the contempt he's expressed and fueled toward Congress and the law should be fraught with delicious irony!
But at least we can begin dismantling the corrupt Republican machine that is sucking money and blood out of United States.
At least today we take our first step out of the neocon nightmare. -- Technorati
Do not stifle the truth just because some Republican tool in the CNN offices is going berzerk and seeing his or her future lucrative lobbying career go up on the barbeque of appeasement of this atrocity of an Administration!
Do not let a few negative responses sway you from telling it like you have been, like Keith Olbermann has been, like Helen Thomas has been, like Randi Rhodes has been, like Rachel Maddow has been... Need I go on?
We haven't anyone else left, Mr. Cafferty, who is willing to tell the truth day in and day out (the future President and Vice President on Comedy Central being the only exceptions, but they are always included in the lists of truth-tellers, and sometimes right into their fright-wing faces!). So please don't stop. -- Technorati
Chellie Pingree is wondering whether this election will be stolen, while quoting Jimmy Carter on all the reasons why American elections don't qualify under the Carter Center rules for monitoring.
First, someone else's response:
Answer - not necessarily - but yes, if necessary.
And I think it will be deemed necessary today. So what have we (crafty Republican operatives) been up to?
(1) Set the stage for enough confusion in enough places (HAVA, premature technology, strange voter ID regs, etc).
(2) Spend six years appointing sympathetic judges.
(3) Prepare and fly in teams of lawyers - challenge and litigate.
If you win in court, fine.
If not,
(4) announce that the country cannot stand prolonged uncertainty at this crucial time, etc, (same argument that stopped the count in 2000) and therefore you are declaring the election void - make some noises about holding it again next year.
Any protests - well, let's see, we got rid of habeas corpus, we got Halliburton to build detention centers for the DHS, and we federalized the National Guard - so we should be well set to handle any untoward shows of disaffection.
Conspiracy theory. Tin hattery. Could never happen here.
Of course not. By: maantoninus on November 07, 2006 at 09:44am Flag: [brilliant!]
... and then there's my response:
FUCK yes! The unprecedented grab for power by the Republican Party will only continue! They will do whatever they can think of to steal this election, because they know what would happen if both the House and the Senate went blue:
Investigate. Indict. Impeach. Incarcerate.
This is why every vote counts. Call your friends, relatives, acquaintances, and remind them to (1) vote for anyone other than a Republican, and (2) make sure that vote is counted right! -- Technorati
An astounding election-eve condemnation from Keith Olbermann...
Keith truly is a star. This latest in his string of Special Comments, addressing the unfettered lame-footedness of the Administration, drives the point home: this country has had enough of the Boy King and his court!
Tomorrow's election is being fought in the trenches. Republicans are pulling out every dirty trick ever invented. And while it'll be all very nice when Democrats file their lawsuits to bankrupt the Republican National Committee (their fines can be as high as $500/call times tens of thousands of calls!), it still doesn't change the fact that with these races all being so close, these dirty tricks may very well help the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men to keep control of both Houses of Congress, and forego any and all oversight over this treasonous Administration.
Without a large turn-out and an overwhelming vote against these bastards, this democracy will be relegated to the history pages.
Stop the Republicans tomorrow! Vote, and don't let them ignore/miscount your vote! Remember, 1-866-OUR-VOTE if you notice anything untoward! -- Technorati
The most important election in anyone's lifetime ...
Gore Vidal feels threatened by the possibility of the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men remaining in power.
Indeed!
Mr Vidal,
How right you are. The Republican insistence on unbridled single-party rule is so Soviet I feel like I've been transported back in time to Brezhnev's USSR.
The biggest difference, though, was that in the Soviet Union, the vast majority was already hip to the communist hypocricy; whereas here in the United States of Happy Families, we still have somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of the population so brainwashed that nothing, but nothing, seems to be getting through.
I wonder what catastrophic event or chain of events could break through that authoritarian follower conditioning.
Of course, this isn't a problem Mr. Vidal can solve... -- Technorati
Blogger is going down in a few minutes (these denial-of-service attacks are creeping up everywhere!), but I just had to post this: via Digby and Crooks and Liars,
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed a system which will in essence make it mandatory for you to have permission before leaving or entering the country, effectively putting everyone on a no-fly list unless the government says otherwise.
Back when I was twleve, my parents set me down and told me we will be seeking exit visas to leave the Soviet Union, to get out from under an oppressive totalitarian regime. That process took two years, and we eventually left for what was supposed to be a free country.
Of course, what was before the neocons have had their way.
Go ahead and check my sources, but this looks like yet another step in creating a fascist dictatorship under a thin veneer of pseudo-democracy.
It has never been more imperative that we take our country back from these treasonous parasites! Vote for anyone but a Republican on Tuesday!!! -- Technorati
"Will a cock up a Haggard ass finally prove to be the undoing of the Republican Party?" If we are still talking about the United States of America in the year 2006, the answer is, Not likely! ...
Yes, gentle reader, with only two days to go to the 2006 Election, yet another scummy Republican comes out of the denial closet.
Is it any wonder that they are so desperately trying to steal this election? Is it any wonder that those of us who've been right all along about this monstrous horror of an Administration stand back and point to all of those deluded millions of bushtards while desperately trying not to laugh our asses off?
There is nothing wrong about a man wanting to have sex with another man. There is nothing wrong with a man wanting to pay for sex with another man. There is nothing wrong (save the damage to his own body) with a man wanting to take recreational substances while engaging in sex with another man.
What is incredibly, indescribably, indisputably wrong is for that man at the same time to denigrate and deny rights to and demand punishment of men who want to have sex with other men, justifying it all with a concoction of choice mistranslations from that whole intentionally mistranslated book of fables the Christian Taliban only use when they want to justify their insane homophobia. Let's face it, if it weren't for the fact that Jeezus had nothing, and I mean nothing to say about gay anything, they would only ever focus on the Greatest Hits!
What is even more wrong is for that man's influence while screaming such obscenities about gay people to be so repugnantly pervasive that he had a weekly phone conversation with his moral equivalents in the White House, often discussing with other men of questionable sexuality specifics about using gay people as their convenient political scapegoats in rallying the authoritarian followers with closed minds to their cause.
And what would be even more wrong would be for those same authoritarian followers to come out on Tuesday and despite all evidence in front of their already-blinkered eyes return these fat old sleazoid greedy white men back to power that they have never truly deserved.
And remember: if you notice anything weird this Tuesday, document it with visual evidence if at all possible (even a cell phone photo might do it!) and then immediately call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and then hope and paray that we can still have that 5-4 majority of sanity in the Supreme Court! -- Technorati
The latest in the heinous Republican tactics: Denial-of-service attacks on HuffingtonPost.com ...
I don't know about you, gentle reader, but over the last couple of hours most of my attempts at perusing articles that are more than a couple of days old on HuffPo keeps coming back with this:
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later. Reference #6.a73bf546.1162712318.548fd3b
This generally means that the server is working its little CPU cycles off trying to deliver pages, and it can't.
Now, HuffPo being one of the top 10 blogs on the net, this will most likely start happening if there were "denial-of-service" (malicious) attacks taking place.
And with just two days left to do whatever they can to muddy the waters sufficiently (as though Junior's EPA clean water enforcement wasn't muddying them up already) before Tuesday's election to just possibly squeak out a death grip on at least one of the Houses. Most likely, this will be the Senate, where, as someone quipped today on one of the blogs, only Republicans could end up with having to rely on Burns and Allen, with not a shred of Talent among them. But then with Senators like Monty Burns of Montana and Senator Macacawitz from Virginia, is it any wonder that Claire McCaskill is in a dead tie with Missouri's Talentless Wonder?
As old Uncle Joe used to muse to his close friends (before sending them off to the gulags), "it's not who they vote for that counts, it's who gets to count the votes." Keith Olbermann used it recently, and so have a number of other bloggers, but its simplicity cannot be underscored: the Republican monsters will not give up their corrupt stranglehold on power in this country without the dirtiest fight we have every witnessed.
And the culmination of that fight will be on Wednesday morning, when we find out exactly how many elections were actually stolen by the party of fat old sleazoid greedy white men.
Remember! Document any irregularities, and then publish them to as many sources as you can (blogs, Black Box Voting, etc.) and even if you couldn't document them, make sure you call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and report it to the army of lawyers who are ready to challenge the GOP's theft of power. -- Technorati
Yes, gentle reader, the network that so lovingly brought you the Imaginary Pathway to 9/11: It's All Clinton's Fault, having proved its bushtard credentials to Vice President Sidius, gets to finally reap its reward: a Kerry- and Hillary-bashing fawning acceptance of this atrocity of an administration.
I sincerely wish I did, but, unfortunately, once again, I shit you not.
So Mr. Five Deferments, Mr. Secrecy About My Favorite Torture Techniques, Mr. There Were WMDs is now telling us that everything is going swimmingly in Iraq. And after six years of the most outrageous bald-faced lies and hitherto unthinkable incompetence and venality of the hackocracy he runs we are supposed to buy it?!?!
Twice in one day I have to ask, "You've got to be fucking kidding me, right?!?!?!"
Remember, bring a digital camera (or a phone that can take pictures) with you when you vote, and document the rampant election theft! Publish it on blogs, Black Box Voting, BradBlog, and anywhere else you can think of! We MUST take our country back!!! -- Technorati
The tour bus has just stopped at one of our regular spots: the aisles of the "You've Got To Be F@#%ing Kidding Me?!?!?!" Department ...
Oh, my gentle reader, this was something out of a Kafka novel: I saw this piece of garbage on HuffPo by a fucking neocon, and it just went way beyond the pale! He actually still contends:
My most fundamental views on the war in Iraq remain as they were in 2003: The war was right, victory is essential, and defeat would be calamitous.
You'd think I'd be shitting you, but of course, for something this important, I am not.
As you can also imagine, I had a few fine points to make to this swine:
Aw, gee, a member of The Neocon Bunch refuses once again to see reality? Shock, horror, al Qaeda!
Mr. Frum, your brand of horseshit just won't pass the smell test here: this is a war about lies, profits, torture, and desperate clinging to power! There was nothing right about us going into that war, there is nothing right about almost 3,000 Americans killed in combat, and there is absolutely nothing right about 655,000 Iraqis murdered!
What I am wondering is why the fuck are you pushing your drivel on HuffPo, rather than somewhere more your style and your notion of substative debate, like TownHall.com? There you are welcome to flatulate freely about Chimpy being either a great president or the greatest president, but you see, we know better: he is a piece of scum that needs to be wiped off the global political map. Maybe a Democratic Congress with a permanent "veto the Boy King's idiocy" approach to his proclamations might do that effectively, but I digress.
Your insane ideas, your astounding arrogance, and your blithe ignorance of reality have brought us to where we are today, and you dare come to a liberal blog and tell us that it's Junior's hackocrats that are responsible for Mess-O-Potaimia, and if only they executed his "brilliant" orders, everything would be peachy-keen?
Well, why don't you go embed yourself with a unit outside the Green Zone for a few months, eat the same spoiled and contaminated food KBR serves them, drink the same contaminated water KBR sends them, and get your brain shaken in your head a few times by an imporvised explosion or two, and then we might consider what you have to say on the subject of Iraq.
For now, the best thing you can do for the world is to shut the fuck up.
Got that?
I sincerely doubt that he'll even see this... -- Technorati
It's a simple question, gentle reader: how much is enough?
How much is enough to spend on a war for profits?
How much is enough to spend on maliciously false advertising?
How much is enough to spend in lives for idiotic goals of neocons?
How much is enough to spend to give more corporate welfare to Halliburton, Boeing, Raytheon, Black Water, and other blood money profiteers while refusing to budge the minimum wage?
How much is enough to spend on a Congress that's abrogated its responsibilities?
How much is enough to spend on false science?
How much is enough to spend on boosting the already obscene profits of ExxonMobil and ChenvronConoco?
How much is enough to spend on even more tax cuts for the plutocrats?
How much is enough to spend on the Republican cronies instead of Katrina victims?
How much is enough to spend on protecting the Biggest Ball of String in the World instead of New York and Washington?
How much is enough to spend on lying advertisements to American people with public funds?
How much is enough to spend on stealing the election rather than honestly persuading the public?
Now you see my dilemma, gentle reader? I simply do not know how much is enough. In fact, I suspect that they are unfamiliar with the concept of "enough".
For those who don't spend as much time as I do looking at blogs and listening to the news, you may not have noticed that the 2006 election theft has already begun. Voters voting early in Maryland, Ohio, and other critical States have reported wholesale cheating by the Republicans (individual votes as well as straight party tickets are being converted from Democratic to Republican in front of their eyes). And as amazing as it may seem, NOT ONCE has anyone reported the reverse to be true!!!
How much is enough to spend on voting machines that are specifically designed to make election theft easy?
