All the rasping noise about the media being biased for Obama is annoying the (ex) Cowboy's whiskey-ringing ears. Listen, they do like the guy more, um we all do. And no one should have to apologize for that. But here is the reason why for the frustrated and pundificatory amongst us. Maybe if we write this down now we can save a few million trees from the op/ed pages next week, and just start the drinking early:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Biggest GOP Defection to Obama yet?
In a mildly surprising turn of events last night Barack Obama received another endorsement from a defecting Republican.
“I am afraid for the country if we don’t elect this guy as soon as possible..” offered the lifetime GOP Stalwart.
“I can’t see any way past the, really the almost stupid reality at this point. The latest increase in venomous negativism from the Palin McCain Campaign has started to break apart whatever remains of America’s ability to be seen as an ethical center for the world and for main street here at home. I mean, look; the race card? Scmidt and Palin and those guys are just about shoving the race baseball bat straight up America's anus at his point. My friends, well, all of my friends are stunned that we have to face any kind of reality here in the GOP. However, it has just gotten to be un-American, un-christian and un-dignified, the way this campaign is being run by the GOP campaign leadership. ”
“Sure, it’s a bit awkward, but let’s face it, our elephant has become an ass and Obama’s inspiration has turned the Democrat’s donkey into this great, sort of national inspirational elephant in the room. So it’s almost, to paraphrse the bible here lightly, it’s like the elephants have become asses and the asses have become elephants”
“I will be handing out these stickers to show my support for the guy. I really hope he wins, it will just provide us, me and my friends a chance to get out from under our fear.”
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Apre's le Deluge, Tois (Revising Down Bush)
(What did you see at the empire, oh Peggy dear?)
Uber neo-con "statesman" John R. Bolton just came out (on the pages of the Murdoch's WSJ, of course) as the first, in a very long line, of Righties waiting for the freedom to flay George W. Bush.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385733887027383.html
Once the term is over the great Bush Cheney loyalty-of-message gag order will no longer apply to the average Republican's free speech. They will scatter in the night, like wounded coyotes, cackling and darting about, nipping now at each other and now at the flames of media spotlight, as they sort through their own bones and ash to seek a new leader for their pack. (More on that later - it is not Newt but he might be from Arizona.)
Uber neo-con "statesman" John R. Bolton just came out (on the pages of the Murdoch's WSJ, of course) as the first, in a very long line, of Righties waiting for the freedom to flay George W. Bush.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385733887027383.html
Once the term is over the great Bush Cheney loyalty-of-message gag order will no longer apply to the average Republican's free speech. They will scatter in the night, like wounded coyotes, cackling and darting about, nipping now at each other and now at the flames of media spotlight, as they sort through their own bones and ash to seek a new leader for their pack. (More on that later - it is not Newt but he might be from Arizona.)
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
A Day That Will Live in Ignominy
A Day That Will Live in Ignominy
Sin to Win becomes Pray to Stay
The Old Man and the Sea
The Green Flash
The Sound of train not running
Has been keeping me awake…
- Chris Knight w/ Del McCoury: Moneyland
Yesterday, September 29th, 2008 was a day that will live in ignominy.
It was a barrel of bad whiskey for the American soul, a bonfire of the “vanitas”, a rebellion without applause. It was a double-armada of “Big-Bopper” plane crashes hard into the spotted liver of the American Dream. Like all good plane crashes it was caused by a 500 mile an hour mixture of bad weather and deranged addiction.
The addicts are still stumbling through the smoldering ashes like zombies, many are headless or limbless but they all retained a single finger to point. As with all hard-core junkies their words fail to mask their obvious, light of day desperation for another fix. One party in particular, but both to degrees, have burned down main street as they over dosed on that powerful re-election heroin.
It is about the economy, stupid. Mark the (ex) Cowboy’s words, they were wrong and YOU were wrong. We are all in the smoke now. An army of rusted bagpipes are firing up dirges, but this time the flag may well ride down main street inside the pine box.
Nancy Pelosi is getting (justified) blame for bad leadership but let’s be realistic. The Republican Sin-To-Win machine hit is nadir yesterday. They deployed the Vietnam strategy and are stuck now crying that they had to destroy America in order to save it. The complaint that Nancy Pelosi threw gas on a fire cannot escape a greater truth. The fire in question was a dirty nuclear bomb. 65% of the GOP did not hesitate to place their partisan and personal re-election greed so far ahead of our nation’s security that our future stability is not even visible behind them on the horizon.
The Republicans also managed to destroy their core, and I mean really deepest core, ideology. Which is where you complaining GOP voters get to share some blame. Most Americans remain skeptical that the bailout crisis is real. Most voters, conservatives especially, are unable to process the desperate, massive, terrible downside to the Paulson Plan’s failure. The real intel, as they say, is as bad as bad gets, and no average joe can comprehend it in a day or a week.
I heard a GOP guy at the gym say that we should allow the economy to collapse to teach the other party a lesson. That’s everything you need to hear about Republican patriotism in one sentence. This crisis is not about avoiding a few bad years, kids. The BEST CASE scenario is now that we have the hardest decade in any of our lives ahead.
(Consider this: After recent meetings with Paulson the White House confirmed orders that place forward elements of the 4th Infantry Division on alert for “training” under a Northern Command program to control civil unrest inside the united States.)
This is not a celebrity re-enactment of the great depression, with bottled water and fresh sushi to help us stay the course. This is worse than that, this is the civil war; this is Washington drowning in the Delaware River on that fateful Christmas eve. That hard to accept reality is why the Republicans failed so ominously.
They are the party of representative government. All campaign balderdash about Elitists in the DNC aside, Republicans, by historical definition believe that an elite, educated, informed and upper crust layer of society should control the critical power and leadership. They hold that the masses, the temperamental and emotionally charged mob of the citizenry is not qualified to make life-or-death decisions.
In this case, the GOP abandoned that premise like a wounded dog on a rain swept highway. Congressional Republicans bowed, in slavish election year desperation, before an archetypical case study of a shocked, ill-informed, prejudiced, angry and fearful mob. Everyone who voted “no” yesterday was unpatriotic. This regardless of what Nancy Pelosi said to hurt their little feelings; regardless of what your and my main street sentiment is; Regardless of whether they would get re-elected next month.
The sun also sets tough guy.
Yesterday was the end of the Post 9/11 primacy for the Republican Party. Even if they bring the head of Bin laden home as their “October Surprise”, even if they bomb Natanz, Iran. The (ex) Cowboy watched closely yesterday and saw the great burning orb of Republican fire fall down below the horizon. There was a piercing Green Flash and then only an ear-ringing silence remained.
Ignominy:
(n.) Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
(n.) An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.
Thanks for letting me Share
Ride for the High Country
Sin to Win becomes Pray to Stay
The Old Man and the Sea
The Green Flash
The Sound of train not running
Has been keeping me awake…
- Chris Knight w/ Del McCoury: Moneyland
Yesterday, September 29th, 2008 was a day that will live in ignominy.
It was a barrel of bad whiskey for the American soul, a bonfire of the “vanitas”, a rebellion without applause. It was a double-armada of “Big-Bopper” plane crashes hard into the spotted liver of the American Dream. Like all good plane crashes it was caused by a 500 mile an hour mixture of bad weather and deranged addiction.
The addicts are still stumbling through the smoldering ashes like zombies, many are headless or limbless but they all retained a single finger to point. As with all hard-core junkies their words fail to mask their obvious, light of day desperation for another fix. One party in particular, but both to degrees, have burned down main street as they over dosed on that powerful re-election heroin.
It is about the economy, stupid. Mark the (ex) Cowboy’s words, they were wrong and YOU were wrong. We are all in the smoke now. An army of rusted bagpipes are firing up dirges, but this time the flag may well ride down main street inside the pine box.
Nancy Pelosi is getting (justified) blame for bad leadership but let’s be realistic. The Republican Sin-To-Win machine hit is nadir yesterday. They deployed the Vietnam strategy and are stuck now crying that they had to destroy America in order to save it. The complaint that Nancy Pelosi threw gas on a fire cannot escape a greater truth. The fire in question was a dirty nuclear bomb. 65% of the GOP did not hesitate to place their partisan and personal re-election greed so far ahead of our nation’s security that our future stability is not even visible behind them on the horizon.
The Republicans also managed to destroy their core, and I mean really deepest core, ideology. Which is where you complaining GOP voters get to share some blame. Most Americans remain skeptical that the bailout crisis is real. Most voters, conservatives especially, are unable to process the desperate, massive, terrible downside to the Paulson Plan’s failure. The real intel, as they say, is as bad as bad gets, and no average joe can comprehend it in a day or a week.
I heard a GOP guy at the gym say that we should allow the economy to collapse to teach the other party a lesson. That’s everything you need to hear about Republican patriotism in one sentence. This crisis is not about avoiding a few bad years, kids. The BEST CASE scenario is now that we have the hardest decade in any of our lives ahead.
(Consider this: After recent meetings with Paulson the White House confirmed orders that place forward elements of the 4th Infantry Division on alert for “training” under a Northern Command program to control civil unrest inside the united States.)
This is not a celebrity re-enactment of the great depression, with bottled water and fresh sushi to help us stay the course. This is worse than that, this is the civil war; this is Washington drowning in the Delaware River on that fateful Christmas eve. That hard to accept reality is why the Republicans failed so ominously.
They are the party of representative government. All campaign balderdash about Elitists in the DNC aside, Republicans, by historical definition believe that an elite, educated, informed and upper crust layer of society should control the critical power and leadership. They hold that the masses, the temperamental and emotionally charged mob of the citizenry is not qualified to make life-or-death decisions.
In this case, the GOP abandoned that premise like a wounded dog on a rain swept highway. Congressional Republicans bowed, in slavish election year desperation, before an archetypical case study of a shocked, ill-informed, prejudiced, angry and fearful mob. Everyone who voted “no” yesterday was unpatriotic. This regardless of what Nancy Pelosi said to hurt their little feelings; regardless of what your and my main street sentiment is; Regardless of whether they would get re-elected next month.
The sun also sets tough guy.
Yesterday was the end of the Post 9/11 primacy for the Republican Party. Even if they bring the head of Bin laden home as their “October Surprise”, even if they bomb Natanz, Iran. The (ex) Cowboy watched closely yesterday and saw the great burning orb of Republican fire fall down below the horizon. There was a piercing Green Flash and then only an ear-ringing silence remained.
Ignominy:
(n.) Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
(n.) An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.
Thanks for letting me Share
Ride for the High Country
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