There’s quite a difference in the attitude of our two majority leaders. Here’s Pelosi:

Pelosi announced during a news conference on health care reform Wednesday that she had “no question” that Democrats in the House have the votes they need to secure the passage of the bill.
This announcement was a surprise to many, given recent opposition to the bill from the party’s more moderate members who call for drastic changes to provisions thus far set forth by President Obama.

and here’s Harry Reid:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed today that the Senate will not take a vote on a massive health care overhaul proposal before lawmakers return home for the August recess — meaning a key self-imposed deadline that Congress has been working toward for months will be missed.

“Working with Republicans, one of the things that they asked for … was more time,” Reid said during a press conference. “I don’t think it’s unreasonable.”

Quite a contrast, these two - and while some of the bravado or lack thereof is the result of the balances of votes in each branch, Harry Reid always seems to be lacking in motivation, strength and political will. Reid forever reminds me of the weakling from the Charles Atlas cartoon “The Insult That Made a Man Out Of Mac.” The only difference is Harry doesn’t get angry, doesn’t become strong and doesn’t beat the bully. He just sits there.

As Senate leader, he is the poster child for inaffectual leadership and hollow rhetoric. Personally, I think he’s the most useless politician of the last 25 years and his inability to get ANYTHING done is pissing me off to the point where I’m willing to run against him myself - even though I don’t live in Nevada. Everytime he speaks, the following personality points come through:

• My beliefs and powers of persuasion are not strong enough to win a debate.
• Cave on everything. It’s easier than losing in an actual fight.
• Never embrace a controversial issue.
• Never “own” any issue.
• Show you’re an individual against the President’s suggestions at the expense of everything else. It’s really a form of cowardice, but maybe others will see it differently.

Reid and the Senate democrats are willing to go down in flames by NOT trying to agree with anyone in their party (seemingly a badge of honor for these people) and sacrificing the larger good so they can hold onto their small, sometimes insignificant piece of the puzzle. Reid has no sway with the Blue Dogs, all of whom should be shot as they are rabid hounds.

Healthcare reform MUST pass and, in the end, Reid is the roadblock - a man without one ounce of courage when it comes to the good fight, but can bark aggressively behind the glass as long as he knows it will result in absolutely nothing.

Verbal Paintball democratic cowards, harry reid, nancy pelosi

From KYMA Arizona:

Four Phoenix boys are behind bars. They are young, only between 9 and 14 years old, but allegedly committed a heinous crime. Police say the four boys raped an 8-year-old girl last week.

The boys allegedly lured the girl into an empty storage shed July 16th, offering her gum. There they restrained the young girl and sexually assaulted her.

In a devastating twist, the girl’s parents disowned her. Police say the parents blamed her for the attack and said she brought shame to the family.

The girl is in custody of Child Protective Services.

Being a parent of two children, the thought of this action by 9 - 14 year olds sickens me, but what makes it worse is the callous attitude of these parents. This child has just gone through a horrifying ordeal and their response is, what, TO DISOWN HER?

As much as the kids should be rehabilitated so they never commit this kind of crime again, I would personally like to see some measure of authority beat the living shit out of these parents. Now, I’m aware of certain idiotic cultural issues that certain groups have regarding shame on a family. I don’t really have any sympathy for these cultural issues. Pakistan men sometimes kill their wives for leaving their house on their own and “shaming” a family in doing so. This has less to do with culture than it has to do with dramatically insecure and immature people who have no idea how to face complex problems.

What this girl needs is parents who can comfort her. What she gets instead are two pieces of shit that, in the long run, she’s probably better off without. Here’s hoping she finds a good foster home with people who actually care about her well being over their own petty self-image.

Fuck these two parents. I hope they rot in hell.

Verbal Paintball gang rape, Phoenix rape

From Washington Post:

Wall Street, helped by improving profits, is on track to pay employees as much as, or even more than, it did in the pre-crisis days. So far this year, the top six U.S. banks have set aside $74 billion to pay their employees, up from $60 billion in the corresponding period last year.

The increase in set-asides for employee pay has raised the ire of Washington, where lawmakers denounced financial leaders for returning to old habits and vowed to enact measures governing executive compensation.

Is it me, or does it seem like banks and financial firms look for any excuse to increase employees and management pay. In contrast, I’ve worked at companies where I busted my ass for years and got a 10% pay raise. I’ve had to LEAVE companies to move up on the corporate ladder and get considerable pay increases.

These people produce NOTHING, but play with large numbers. Those firms seem to be intent on increasing the reality of a salary in the marketplace by making obscene salaries the norm.

While I don’t work at these companies (I actually went to college and studied a profession that requires me to do more than make a few calls and shift a few papers), I suspect some of the conversations go something like this:

“Hey, Bob, I saw you cleaned your desk this month. I’m raising your bonus pay by $300,000!

“Hi Sheryl. It seems you’ve brought in four clients accounts that increased our investment capital by $90,000. We’re giving you a $250,000 raise!

Now, I could be completely ignorant on this, but HOW do you explain this rush to incent? There are millions out of work across this country because of the reckless actions of these people. Their actions have created this result. Whatever results they’ve created in the last 1/2 year, it can’t possibly make up for the massive depletion of capital they were responsible for the previous three years or more.

In my opinion, none of these people deserve one cent more until everyone who’s lives they’ve destroyed are able to create new lives, maybe with the help of a loan from them. Until that time, they should live the lives the rest of us do:

– Work hard, and when there’s real, true legitimate increases in revenue (not projections based on money that may or may not exist - or is the result of tax payer funds) then you get a pay increase…of 10%.

– Stop telling the rest of us you NEED this $300,000 bonus increase because your Summer home’s deck is only 1600 square feet and it is dwarfed by those of your neighbors.

– Live within your means (i.e. your “MEANS” do not mean personal expenditures of over $100,000 a month and a mortgage of $12,000 a month).

If you cannot do that, well, maybe your bank doesn’t deserve tax payer bailout money. Maybe your bank needs to have a special increase in corporate taxes based on the percentage of salary and bonus increases.

Want healthcare reform paid for? Increases in social security and medicare? THESE firms will be your cash cow unless they stop acting like arrogant, callous little bitches who have NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR.

Verbal Paintball bank bonuses, salary increases, wall street bonuses

From Huffington Post regarding Obama’s birth certificate:

Asked directly by King if she actually thought Obama was born in Kenya, Cheney responded, “No, I’m not saying that.” But then she kept going. “I’m saying that people are fundamentally uncomfortable and fundamentally I think increasingly uncomfortable with an American president who seems to be afraid to defend America, stand up for what we believe in.”

Fellow guest James Carville seemed momentarily flabbergasted before responding, “These poor pathetic people are believing stuff just like Ms. Cheney tonight. She refuses to say this is lewd, ludicrous because she wants these people to believe this.

What an absolute trash bag this woman is. The Cheney’s, I’m sure, are very proud of themselves and their child-raising skills. They’ve sired a daughter that’s a chip off the old block.

This family really seems to get off on NEVER answering a question directly, insinuating falsehoods and, in no uncertain terms, allowing them to fester and grow. Dick Cheney did so very cleverly with the Al Qaeda/Iraq connection - wording his answers so carefully as to ensure that the not-so-sharp portion of society (a very large portion) concluded that there WAS direct connection to the two.

This practice is abhorrent. More than abhorrent. Thousands have died as a result of actions taken based on these kind of lies. Unfortunately, most of the news media doesn’t have the balls to call her on it so, like the Bush’s, the Cheney’s get a pass.

In Liz Cheney’s case, she’s attempting more than just question-raising about Obama’s birth home. She’s playing a not-so-subtle game of descrimination that she knows her far right constituents - those who still feel it’s unfair for a black man to have the same rights as they do - will lap it up.

These people are not worthy, nor responsibly capable, of holding any power in our society. They are bottom dwellers of the human experience and morally vacant, content to stir the pot of hatred for their own benefit, the rest of us be damned.

Verbal Paintball Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Liz Cheney

From Washington Post:

Lacking unity on an alternative agenda to Obama’s health-care plans, Republicans have instead focused on a strategy of rallying public opposition and wooing the conservative Democrats in Congress, whose votes will ultimately determine the fate of any health-care bill. That plan depends in large part on Congress going on break before it votes on a bill. On Monday, though, Republicans made clear that they see an opportunity to derail the legislation now.

Here are the current members of the Blue Dog Coalition (from House.Gov):

Blue Dog Leadership Team

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Administration
Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Policy
Rep. Charlie Melancon (LA-03), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Communications
Rep. Heath Shuler (NC-11), Blue Dog Whip

Blue Dog Members

Altmire, Jason (PA-04)
Arcuri, Mike (NY-24)
Baca, Joe (CA-43)
Barrow, John (GA-12)
Berry, Marion (AR-01)
Bishop, Sanford (GA-02)
Boren, Dan (OK-02)
Boswell, Leonard (IA-03)
Boyd, Allen (FL-02)
Bright, Bobby (AL-02)
Cardoza, Dennis (CA-18)
Carney, Christopher (PA-10)
Chandler, Ben (KY-06)
Childers, Travis (MS-01)
Cooper, Jim (TN-05)
Costa, Jim (CA-20)
Cuellar, Henry (TX-28)
Dahlkemper, Kathy (PA-03)
Davis, Lincoln (TN-04)
Donnelly, Joe (IN-02)
Ellsworth, Brad (IN-08)
Giffords, Gabrielle (AZ-08)
Gordon, Bart (TN-06)
Griffith, Parker (AL-05)
Harman, Jane (CA-36)
Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie (SD)
Hill, Baron (IN-09)
Holden, Tim (PA-17)
Kratovil, Jr., Frank (MD-01)
McIntyre, Mike (NC-07)
Marshall, Jim (GA-03)
Matheson, Jim (UT-02)
Melancon, Charlie (LA-03)
Michaud, Mike (ME-02)
Minnick, Walt (ID-01)
Mitchell, Harry (AZ-05)
Moore, Dennis (KS-03)
Murphy, Patrick (PA-08)
Nye, Glenn (VA-02)
Peterson, Collin (MN-07)
Pomeroy, Earl (ND)
Ross, Mike (AR-04)
Salazar, John (CO-03)
Sanchez, Loretta (CA-47)
Schiff, Adam (CA-29)
Scott, David (GA-13)
Shuler, Heath (NC-11)
Space, Zack (OH-18)
Tanner, John (TN-08)
Taylor, Gene (MS-04)
Thompson, Mike (CA-01)
Wilson, Charles (OH-06)

Now, I’m not necessarily one to promote bullying or threats as a tactic of persuasion, but what we have here in the healthcare debate are a group of people who see obstructionism of this issue as constructive. I’m sure there are some that are genuine about getting a healthcare plan through, but, being a cynical person, I assume most of them are either owned by their healthcare lobby, motivated only by politics alone - or just plain cowards.

Whatever they consider themselves to be as politicians or human beings, we have a duty in this debate to brand them as obstructionists if they decide to become the Ralph Nader’s of this reform bill. As a blogging community we actually have the power to shape the votes of these folks - and the power to punish them if they don’t show the backbone necessary to do the job. Most posts from the Daily Kos alone show up on the first page of a Google news search for any particular subject - and I’ve found that lists like these are very closely monitored by Washington (one of my most viewed posts on my own blog involved republicans who voted against the stimulus but took the money. Every other visitor to the site was from either the Congress or the Senate according to my tracking software. One senator even enlisted a blogger to debate me on that particular subject and put in a good word for him).

Advertising, branding and PR are powerful tools. While we all need to call their offices and push them to pass this bill, we also need to threaten that we will duplicate this list on thousands of blogs and brand the proper people as “Healthcare Reform Obstructionists” or maybe “Hx’s”. (Come up with something more catchy, anyone. I don’t work for BBDO).

Going after the republicans on this one is a lost cause. They’re so thoroughly owned by special interests that their only action can be whatever is worst for us. Fuck them.

These folks above will turn this debate. Not Obama. Not Harry Reid (useless) or Nancy Pelosi. The republicans spent years strong-arming their fence-sitting members. We cannot shy away from doing the same here.

What this group needs to know is that no matter what they do in the future or have done in the past, their obituary will say “Obstructed healthcare reform, subjecting millions to bankruptcy and certain death.” They may feel their conservative stance on this issue in commendable. What they need to know is how long its tentacles are and how vulnerable they are to get caught in them. We ACTUALLY as a group have the capability to produce this kind of result.

Duplicate this list above and speak your mind on this.

Verbal Paintball blue dog democrats, healthcare reform, republican obstructionists

Many folks have huge issues with profanity on this site. I’ve witnessed comments - some on my posts, some on others - that discredit a post purely based on some of the language used. In fact, on Daily Kos I contemplated titling my post “Sarah Palin is a filthy, lying bitch” with that exact title (did it here). I thought the title, and my description of why I made that kind of statement, are part of the discussion. Didn’t do it because of the PC nature of that site. I felt bad about having to make that choice. I think the post explained in fairly clear terms why I would call her that. Most seemed to “get” that.

Here’s my feeling about all this. Cursing has it’s place. It has a raw emotion to it. It can sometimes wake up a reader at the very point they need it to. It’s not always used for lack of a better vocabulary or unnecessary shock value. Sometimes that shock value is absolutely necessary. While I appreciate the argument that cursing devalues your message - and I understand that many people cannot get past it when reading a post (and, as a consequence, disregards your post), I still feel it is a similar discussion as the one’s people had when debating whether showing simulated sex in movies or extreme violence enhanced or detracted from certain movies. I think it depends completely on the subject and the message - and the openness one has in giving it consideration.

Profanity, at least in my case, can denote a certain trust or lack thereof. I’ve lived in New York and Los Angeles. People in New York curse more. I trust the folks in LA less. When someone tells me to go fuck myself, I know where I stand with them. When they say “have a nice day” and tell others to fuck me over, I’ll give that less credence.

Words. William F. Buckley used words like “dithyrambic” and “tergiversation” to describe the actions of other writers or those debating him. I always thought to myself he could gain more ground by saying something more gutteral, such as “You don’t have a fucking clue what you’re talking about.” It’s not that I didn’t understand him, or felt that he was not expressing himself truthfully - I just felt that his arguments could have benefitted now and again by a display of raw emotion that curse words provide. It’s okay if some members of the audience are offended. Maybe they should be.

It really comes down to Freedom and Truth - the freedom for a writer to say whatever it is he wants to say, be it loving, hateful, smart or stupid - and the truth to not pussy-foot around what it is he’s trying to say with language that cloaks it. While I may not agree with a typical hate-filled rant, I am reminded of the value of freedom of speech and how recently we’ve had people in office who didn’t attach the same value I did to it. When I see a writer curse, I don’t ask whether the word offends me but whether it’s “supposed” to offend me and if it fits the discussion. A poster named The Eyewitness Muse had a recent article titled “f*ck, f*ck, F*ck.” Many posted about their distaste of the title. I read the article and found it to be completely justified. It was about the emotion and frustration he was feeling in firing an employee. Should he have censored himself and titled it something like “Oh, Beans!”? Don’t think so. Others might disagree. Doesn’t mean they’re right.

Sometimes it’s necessary to curse. When I refer to George Bush and Dick Cheney as “pieces of shit” it is justified. They are murderers. Someone needs to get angry about that and say something that resonates. Words have power. Curse words, used skillfully (and sometimes not so skillfully), have extraordinary power.

John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are “scumbags.” Sarah Palin is “gutter trash”. Those who spew racism are “human garbage.” Michelle Bachmann is a “bitch” and Richard Shelby is a “prick.” Granted, some of these people give speeches and rants that might not use profanity (well, with the exception of Boehner), but their rhetoric is hurtful, divisive, ugly, and many times racist - hidden under the cloak of a smile and a few “kind” words.

Personally, I’d rather they tell me to go fuck myself. At least I’d know where I stand.

Verbal Paintball Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, profanity, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity

From Huffington Post:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sharply criticized a national advertising campaign partly directed at centrist Democrats wavering on health care reform on Thursday.

Reid said the he was unaware of the campaign targeting Democrats but that it was a “waste of money.”

The ads are funded by a wing of the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for America, controlled largely by President Obama.

Asked to elaborate, Reid added, “It’s a waste of money to have Democrats running ads against Democrats.”

Don’t like the ads? Well, I have an idea for you, Reid, - you stupid, useless, ineffectual fuck - get the votes you need for healthcare. You have that, the White House (and, for that matter, the majority of the American people) won’t have to strong arm you about shit you should already be forceful on.

You see, Harry, the biggest problem as always is you. You have proven yourself in the last three years of Democrat majorities to be nothing more than a company man for the Senate. You would rather make compromises and deals behind the scenes, complain of insurmountable obstacles to votes or just plain throw your hands up in the air and claim sabotage than DO YOU JOB.

Remember Tom Delay? Asshole, right? He was - but he got the votes he needed by pushing the hell out of people and, when that didn’t work, he threatened them. Sure, he probably put more pork into a million bills than you guys have, but I hardly think any of you are pure. Bill Frist? Hell, he did your job better than you and ALSO got the votes he needed. The bottom line is that NOTHING gets done in the Senate - and you are to blame. Nobody else. Don’t look around and call the small minority of republicans the culprits. You have division in your ranks (blue dogs, etc.) and are unable to corral them for the right reasons.

Furthermore, you need to OWN some issues, not be a fucking pussy and water down bills so some of the useless republicans can vote for them. Fuck them. They fucked all of us for eight years. The American majority doesn’t care about them, only results - and you’re falling flat on that. Also, don’t give me this guff that the democrats don’t fall in line like the republicans do. It doesn’t wash. Your job is to get them to.

Simply put, if you can’t get the votes for healthcare reform, the senators with the courage to give their votes easily, those who actually care about the rest of us, ought to take you out behind the senate chambers and beat and kick you DeNiro-style.

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From MSNBC:

When asked about a Republican alternative to the Democratic health-care reform plan, Boehner replied, “That’s the real crux of this — how do we help those who don’t have insurance get it and, secondly, this does nothing about the cost of health care in America. And if we are serious about fixing our health-care system we [have] got to go to the cost and the cost side is pretty simple. We have to do something about reforming junk lawsuits that drive up the cost of health care for all Americans.”

When pressed for more specifics like cost of the GOP plan, Boehner said, “We are continuing to draft our bill, and we hope to have it soon.”

Look for the GOP to continue to tie health-care reform directly into the issue of the poor economy. Expect more statements on fiscal responsibility, how health-care reform hurts small businesses and how it’s too much, too soon.

Here’s the real problem with the healthcare debate: it’s EVEN a debate.

Senators like Cantor and Boehner DO NOT CARE whether you have a shaky healthcare plan from a company that might not be around in two months. They could give a shit whether you have a pre-existing condition that precludes you from ever getting the kind of coverage that would cover it without constant challenges from the billing department and the potential that your healthcare insurer will drop you like a bad habit.

They don’t care about these kind of things because it is not their concern. They WANT to be ignorant on the issue. Listen to them. They have a million reasons at their disposal as to why the Democrats program won’t work and not a single good explanation of what will. They are OWNED by the same companies that have saturated the airwaves with commercials telling you that the Obama plan is “socialized medicine” and will set this country and your wallets back. Look at their faces. Look deep into their eyes when they spew this filth on the Sunday morning talk shows. Behind that indifferent stare is a brain that is gleaming with calculations of how much money will fill their coffers for their next campaign. It makes perfect sense to them to blame you and your lawsuits for the problem. In their world, that benefits them.

You see - you, the taxpayer, are collateral damage to these pieces of shit. Consider that strong language? Well, how would you feel if you had a parent or loved one about to collapse under an unjust healthcare system and the only thing standing in the way of them and the next generation getting some relief are these indifferent, callous fuckheads.

I’ve never been one to wish bad things on anyone. It’s ugly in concept, let alone actually applying it. Still in all, I’m reminded of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan. Wallace spent most of his life fighting to retain segregation and promoting hatred. During his Presidential campaign he was shot and paralyzed. By the time of his death he had renounced his earlier ways. Could it have been that as a paralyzed man he may have faced some of the adversity that blacks have faced in society - at least enough to give him a small amount of enlightenment? And as for Reagan, who helped cultivate the power of the recently demoted religious right - would have been so eager to support some of their issues, including stem cell research, if it could have helped him in his future. Ironic as always.

The best way to be out of touch in this world is to say “no.” When you find yourself promoting a way of life/work/thought that is mired in the past, built on lies or prejudices or narrow thinking, it’s good to understand that you are wrong before you even begin going down that path. There will also come a point when your narrow thinking diverges into discrimination - and possibly visceral hatred. Those who choose to hold onto the past, like the current crop of republicans regarding healthcare, can only get uglier and more divisive in their rhetoric. They don’t know this because they’re too caught up in hateful thought.

Cantor and Boehner will likely go home to their families tonight, sit at the dinner table, enjoy the simple pleasures of life and feel pretty relaxed and comfortable within their small little world. They can use us as “examples” and “chess pieces” because they have that luxury. But God forbid the real world enters their privileged little lives and either they or their loved ones have to face challenges that only the “little people” have to generally endure. What will they think then? Fortunately for them in the here and now, ignorance is bliss.

Verbal Paintball boehner, cantor, healthcare reform

From Huffington Post:

After its bonus payments ignited a firestorm of criticism earlier this year, American International Group Inc. is asking the federal government to weigh in on the insurer’s plan to resume paying millions in promised retention incentives next week, according to media reports.

AIG, once the world’s largest insurer, has asked the Obama administration’s compensation czar, Kenneth R. Feinberg, to approve the payments in order to head off any public outrage, The Washington Post reported Thursday evening.

The budget of my company’s clients have been cut in half due to the economy. We’re just hanging on, really, in hopes that things will bet better by the end of the year. Most people are in the same boat, well, except for Taylor Swift who seems to be doing very well.

Meanwhile, you have these shitbirds at AIG arriving at the rationale that they must pay millions out, once again in less than a year, to these pigs who:

a) can’t get by on half a million or more,

b) have so many offers from other tainted financial institutions that they can string along their current company for more of OUR money,

c) are simply the vessel to which companies like AIG continue to play loose and fast with other people’s money and align their own pockets, or

d) have compromising photos of all the top executives at this firm and can bribe them for whatever they want.

One of my old bosses was a guy who made it big as a commercial director many years back (he is now gone) and was driven EVERYWHERE around Manhattan because he no longer had a license nor did he need one. It was the first time I heard someone utter the phrase, “Once you step into the limo, you never step out.” The difference with this man is he actually worked his way into his position, arrogant as he was.

These paper pushers at AIG are speculators - bad one’s at that - and the failure of that company is incentive enough for NO ONE there to receive one cent more than their previous salary (if that).

I am so fucking sick and tired of these companies insulting my intelligence with this bullshit about how their “best and brightest” will fly the coop if they don’t plop down another million or more in front of them to keep them on. Here’s a word of advice: YOU DON’T HAVE ANY BEST AND BRIGHTEST! THEY ARE WITH THE FIRMS THAT DON’T NEED TAXPAYER BAILOUT MONEY! Your best and brightest are responsible for this mess, and this culture of throwing six to seven figures around like it’s monopoly money is an insult TO EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO REALLY WORKS!

My wife and I live in New York. We make a combined salary of 185,000. We consider ourselves pretty lucky and relatively well-off, even though the national consensus is that we are simply middle class here in New York. Well, let me tell you something. We still take vacations. We still save for our kid’s college education. We still pay all of our bills without worrying (partly because we bought a house we could afford and not a McMansion we couldn’t to show off), we save for retirement and life is not tough - so this suggestion that these fuckheads can’t get by on their base salary (which could be anywhere from $150,000 to $650,000) is a big, steaming pile of crap.

Money is not money to these people. It’s poker chip. Status. A way to measure their shallow lives against that of the broker friend in the next cubicle who just got a summer home in Nantucket and asks you where you’re taking your summer?

The rest of us are paying our taxes and that money is finding it’s way into these people’s pockets - and mind you, they don’t appreciate the weight of that. All that matters to them is that they are getting as much as Jimmy over at Goldman Sachs because they can’t afford that new Lotus unless they do.

I’ll never fault someone who really earns their money, but most of these shitheads don’t. They do menial jobs that anywhere else would be considered middle management - and they’re fleecing us for all we have as we struggle to work through this year. Dicks.

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Far right. I know we don’t talk much, primarily because you think you know everything and consider me a fucking douchbag (your words, not mine). Nonetheless, let’s address the root of your credibility as it exists in ANY argument you may have now or in the future:

Sarah Palin, your savior, your standard-bearer, your 2012 candidate, has just quit her position as governor of Alaska because….well, we don’t know what because is. What we do know is that she couldn’t handle random bloggers creating photoshop files of her image. She’s threatening litigation against anyone who looks at her cross-eyed. She couldn’t deal with letting the public know the truth about anything, therefore trying to have operative during the McCain campaign lie about her husband’s secession membership. She just couldn’t handle the heat…so, naturally, she still leaves the impression to 75% of us that she had no business being part of a Presidential campaign or public office of any sort.

Mark Sanford? Well, once again, a Governor who just couldn’t seem to leave his personal preferences about gay marriage and other issues away from the Governor’s desk, a man who decided ON HIS OWN that the stimulus money would NOT go to those who need it in his state but would, instead, go to paying off the state debt…well, this man has cheated on his wife, lied to her and his children, lied to his staff and the state, and disappeared for a week without any ability for followup. It’s nice he’s in love, but his actions leave the impression for 75% of us that he has no business being in high office and would have been a terrible candidate for President.

John Ensign, Mark Foley, Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde, Bob Barr, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Tom Delay, Ted Stevens, Scooter Libby, Helen Chenowith, Jack Abramoff…do I REALLY need to go on? I could list in detail the crimes and failures of these scumbags, but will it matter to you?

Yes, I’m talking to you - 25%ers - the people who cannot seem to let go of this idea that George W. Bush was a great President and the republican party of the last 20 years was great and true and honest. Do you REALLY want to have this argument anymore? We outnumber you. Our facts outnumber your innuendos, rumors and lies. Our level of accomplishments outnumber your idiots’ countless fuckups, illegal maneuvers and outright disasters. Our moral authority trumps yours. Our ability to act like functioning, responsible, intelligent adults outnumbers your ability to act like spoiled, nasty, ignorant, self-centered children.

Our President is doing the things that smart adults with a grasp of the weight of their decisions does - and is changing our world for the better (on the back of a disasterous economy YOU helped create and a continued obstruction your leaders (heh!) continue to push). Don’t like it? Don’t care for the change in our government? You think your opinions and strategies are still valid? Well, THEY’RE NOT! And, by the way WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW!? Take a good, hard look at the list about of the people you spent so much time throwing in our faces as the saviors of our political process, the incorrupable Elliot Ness’s to our radical, counter-culture Al Capones.

Let me state this in the clearest terms I can: YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING IDIOTS! YOUR CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVES AND POLITICAL IDOLS ARE EITHER FUCKING IDIOTS WHO COULDN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU OR ME - AND AREN’T SMART ENOUGH TO COUNT TO 2 or they’re MEDIA PUNDITS who play your emotions and push your buttons TO MAKE THEMSELVES RICH! They ALSO couldn’t care about you and, very likely, don’t even take your side of the argument seriously! Unlike us (that is, the 75% of real Americans out there), you are not SMART ENOUGH to understand that when someone bends you over and takes you up the rear without your consent they’re not making love to you. THEY’RE RAPING YOU! These heroes of yours are RAPING YOU and poking the rest of us in the process.

Go back to school. Read some books. PLEASE become something other than ignorant, stubborn lemmings who couldn’t recognize reality from an acid trip. Please. And if you absolutely won’t then go crawl under a rock and STAY THERE!

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