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Where are the Republicans?
Yes, the Democrats wussed out. But the Republicans flat
out betrayed.
Magginkat, one of the commentators at the Mytown.ca webside and a fellow Lying
Socialist Weasel, wrote an open letter to Senator John Kerry the other day. It
began, “Your emails arrive in my mailbox on a regular basis begging for
donations. Why? You ‘Cut and Ran’ from the presidential election of 2004 after
promising to see that all votes were counted. You allowed that election to be
handed to the worst human being who has ever occupied the office in spite of the
fact that the statistics showed that you were winning.”
That matched very nearly my reasons why I will never support Kerry again, and
why I believe it would be a waste of his and everyone else’s time if he were to
run for President in 2008. He had his chance, and when crunch time came, to
quote a recent “Get Fuzzy”, “He choked like a chicken gargling a bowling ball.”
Maggie writes terrific copy, and I decided this piece was worth sending along to
my news list, which normally includes several folders on Usenet. (For those who
missed it, it’s at www.mytown.ca/magginkat)
I didn’t agree with all of it. Oh, I know liberals are supposed to march in
complete and utter lockstep, chanting in union, “We are individuals”, and that’s
why there’s never any battles in the Weasel den. (The tooth fairy is real, too!)
In this case, though, Maggie blasted Kerry specifically and the Democrats in the
House and Senate in general for failing to take stands on such things as minimum
wage while voting themselves pay raises. I knew in that case that Kerry and the
Democrats fought against such unanimously, although for every example like that,
I could think of dozens where they caved – the Roberts nomination, for example,
or bankruptcy “reform”. So even if some of the items weren’t warranted, the
overall critique – that Democrats are spineless, gutless sellout who are scared
to death of the right wing falangists and their whores in the media – was
certainly valid enough. And it’s unlikely that Kerry will ever do anything to
regain our trust and respect. But they didn’t create Putsch and the creatures of
his junta.
Another Weasel, Mr_Antone, read Maggie’s comments on Usenet, and not only
responded the same way I did, but took his thinking one step further, and put
his finger squarely on the basic problem: it isn’t the Democrats who are to
blame for this disgraceful junta that is running the country. It is the
mainstream Republicans who have abdicated their duties and responsibilities and
sold their country out to fascists and falangists.
Mr_Antone wrote, “Another reason why this country is being dragged down the
toilet. The problem is not the Democrats. Or with Kerry. They are not destroying
this country. The problem is the Republicans in office. All across the board,
top to bottom. Federal, state and local levels. I never heard anything from
these Republicans about the Bush administration. Nothing. Not a peep. Sure there
were a few who whimpered about 'no child left behind' or Medicare imbursements.
But nothing about all the other stuff being pulled by Bush.
“Six years of dead silence.
“That crimes committed by the Bush administration should continue because the
Democrats can't get their act together is missing the point. It's not the
Democrats, it the Republicans.
“Every single one of them.”
Just by coincidence, I sent out a news story earlier in the day that detailed
how Tom DeLay’s name would remain on the ballot in Sugarland, Texas, despite his
having resigned a month earlier due to a huge and varied collection of scandals,
and also despite the fact that the man now resides in Virginia. The news story
reported that DeLay might decide to vigorous run and get elected back to his old
seat. I put it out under the header, “Think of this as a moral test for
Republicans.”
Let’s suppose the good folk of Sugarland are cynical enough, or ignorant enough,
or both, to send this vicious little criminal back to the House. Keep in mind
that the House doesn’t HAVE to accept him, since by House rules, he had to
resign. Will the Republicans stand by their guns, or will they meekly accept his
toxic leadership again? Remember, there’s few in the House where were more
directly antipathetic to rights and freedoms than DeLay.
The Republicans have abdicated their responsibilities as Americans. Not the
falangist religious nuts who want Jesus to have primacy over the United States,
and not the sour little fascists who think that the wealthy have absolutely no
obligations to the civilization that made them rich: I’m talking about the
rank-and-file Republicans, the ones who believe in small government, separation
of church and state, individual rights, privacy, balanced budgets and avoiding
foreign entanglements.
Where the hell ARE these people? Every belief, every tenet, every preference
they have ever held has been shredded by this lying, criminal administration,
and they’ve proceeded to do so by invoking the name of the very people they are
shafting the hardest.
I defy any mainstream Republican to tell us how spying on ordinary people in the
US reflects GOP values of privacy and unobtrusive government.
I defy any mainstream Republican to tell us how occupying two countries that
offered us no threat and abusing and murdering the inhabitants meshes with
Republican ideals of avoiding foreign entanglements.
I defy any mainstream Republican to tell us how huge tax cuts and record
deficits equates to their belief in fiscal probity.
I defy any mainstream Republican to explain how accusing newspapers of treason
for reporting government malfeasance jibes with Republican beliefs that the
government serves the people and not the other way around.
I defy any church-going Republican to explain how Jesus came to be a
supply-sider who believed the rich have no obligation to share anything with the
poor.
I defy any responsible and public-spirited Republican to explain how having a
shadow right wing media deliberately lie to the public (as Fox News did last
week while promoting Senator Santorum’s phony “WMDs found story) fits in with
the notion that a free and independent media is essential to a democratic
process.
And finally, I defy those freedom-loving and democratic Republicans to explain
how they can support a party that fights against allowing anyone but those in
the pockets of the very rich to run for office, or which promotes sleazy,
partisan companies that push easily corrupted voting machines on the general
public.
Where the hell are these people, and when did they decide to quit being good
Americans? I defy them to explain that to us.
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