Not getting it, Stupid Party style
In the past few months, the Stupid party has rolled over on
- bagman Roberts
- bagman Scalito
- Maximum Leader Genius's long-running illegal spying on American citizens
- There are others, of course, but the latest round of photos from the goddamn American gulag has concentrated my ire to the point where I'm not thinking clearly.
And has only managed to rise from its slumbers to threaten Paul Hackett's contributers as part of a (successful) attempt to drive him out of the Democratic Party, because primary elections, well, if you do those then the wrong sort of candidate might win the election.
And what do the moderates say in response to this?
Simply put, Senate and House Democrats have decided, based on the advice of the consultants, not to have any replays of 2002. If there is any issue of national security this year, other than Iraq, that is a 50-50 issue where Democrats can risk any losses by taking a stand, then the lesson the consultants have taken from 2002 is that it is better for the party to not let Bush move to their right. The consultants apparently have convinced the Capitol Hill leadership that it was too risky for Democrats to mount an all-out offensive on the NSA spying issue if the polling numbers were no better than 50-50 and if there was any chance at all that Rove would succeed at doing what he clearly said he was planning to do this year: ram national security down our throats this fall. So as a result, there will be no frontal challenge to Bush on the NSA issue this year because the Capitol Hill leadership has decided to play it safe and try and gain parity this fall in both houses by running a cautious and yes, conservative campaign that doesn’t get caught flat-footed on national security again like they did in 2002. I’m not saying its right, and I’m not condoning this, but it is now clear to me what game is afoot between now and November.
. . . Let it go. Waging war on our own Senators and representatives between now and November is just what the GOP wants. Sure, we feel the Democrats are potentially making another big mistake this year by not challenging the GOP and White House, but the decision has been made and the consultants have gained the ear of the leadership once again to play it safe and hope the six-year itch will turn out the GOP through a cautious campaign based on “culture of corruption” and “we’re not a rubber stamp.”
--Steve Soto, writing in the Left Coaster
And then he asks "Will it work?"
I'd think that this is a huge joke, but later on in the same article he says "Let the GOP attack both of those ideas this year, so that we can shift the argument on these two issues onto turf more favorable to us while we act like we are joined at the hip with Bush when it comes to monitoring Al Qaeda."
That klunk klunk klunk sound you hear? That's me, pounding my head against the table and screaming "No, no, no!" They did this in 2002. They did this in 2004. And, while Osama bin Laden ran free, Al Qaeda went from strength to strength, and the goddamn United States of American went on a fucking torture and murder spree, the incompetent pack of morons who stood by and picked their noses as Al Qaeda chatted nonchalantly about their terror plans (we know this because the US government was already spying on them, but didn't bother to do anything because it was vacation time for the B*sh junta) got close enough in the polls so they could "win" the elections again, and again, and again.
"Let it go"?
"Let It Go"?
Oh, fuck you. Fuck the lot of you. I'm not going to *let it go* because I've let it go for too damn long already, and I've been left holding an empty bag again and again. I'm not going to be the Democratic Party's monkey once again -- find yourself a whole new bunch of rubes to fleece because I'm done with you.
And your stupid focus-group tested pretend "issues" (universal heath care, but not single payer or socialized, because that would be like the mapleleaf menace from the North) or "public funding" of campaigns (remember the last time congress passed a bill about campaign financing? The one where the Evil Party defanged it by getting John McCain to cosponsor it, and which ended up being filled with loopholes so that the Evil Party could continue to rake in their millions while blocking the traditional Stupid Party donors. Oh, yeah, that's the sort of fucking issue that will make the unwashed masses just *fly* to the polls)? You can fuck yourselves with them, because nobody will believe that the milquetoast party would ever pursue those pretend "issues" if they were stupid enough to give you the reins of power again.
If I want to support the Argentinianisation of the United States, the growing network of deathcamps, or the looting of the treasury or the planet, I'll just give money to the Evil Party because I know that I'll get $ome immediate payback for it.
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Double extra-strength bravo.
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Bravo!