Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Reasons for Backing Bush..Sort of
By the time the year 2000 came around, the Clintons had worn out their welcome. With Whitewater, Nationalized healthcare, blowjobs, giving nuclear secrets to the Chinese, tax increases and the pardoning of scumbags, it's amazing that anyone in America would still say those two were great leaders. Al Gore talking down to everyone and not practicing what he preaches about the environment made him a candidate that wouldn't win the presidency. The fact that he got more votes nationwide was nothing more than an interesting statistic because it didn't matter. John Kerry?! The fact that he is not Bush is not a good enough reason to vote for him and I believe he would have been the worse choice for the country at the time.
W's First Term not Bush
After 911, a lot of democrats I knew admitted they were glad it was Bush in charge and not Gore. He handled that crisis very well and the public gave him the highest ratings for a president ever. When we threw out the Taliban, the world was with us. Although the war in Iraq is still unpopular, there were many reasons to go in with at least some military action there. Inspection violations, Oil for Food program corruption, the capture of several notorious terrrists including the mastermind of many bombings, Abhul Abbas, the threat of a biologic warfare program and a nuclear program. Any WMDs could easily have been smuggled out to Syria or could just be buried in the Iraqi sand. Europe complained loudly only because they were scared of their oil interests in Iraq.
Can you say Trend?
Let's also remember that this isn't just Bush that is changing the country so much. The Senate, House and now the judiciary are dominated by conservatives. Why? Because the public voted them all in! Are you really surprised that conservatives would choose (what the?!)conservatives as judges?! I wonder how it would have gone if the lefties controlled everything? Call me crazy, but I think we would have a court filled will leftwingers! The solution for those that don't like the direction the country has gone since Reagan started it all should walk the talk by voting every chance they get and by living the way they believe is most progressive. The whining has done nothing but make the dems look like the left wing nut jobs they've become.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Where is the Republican?
Saturday, January 28, 2006
None of the above

Pretty much the only reason is that he's not Bush.
Even better at showing the lack of a choice in a comical way was the Jib-Jab Video, This Land. Did you ever see that? Was hysterical.
But comedy aside, there was ample evidence that Bush was not just a moron and a lyar, but surrounded by some of the scarriest people to surround a president since Nixon. You're going to give a guy with a record like that another four years to fuck things up more? No way. I threw my vote away in 2000 and voted for Nader, because I couldn't stomach voting for Gore OR Bush. After seeing Bush in action for four years, I would have voted for anyone over him the second time. Even Gore, probably. Kerry wasn't quite as bad as Gore.
Yes, I think the Republicans have been taken over completely by the right wing since Reagan's time, but I think a good many of true Conservatives have real problems with Bush's foreign policy too. Have you listened to Pat Buchanan lately? He's a right wing nut job at times, but really a pretty smart guy. I actually like to listen to him. He's does a better job than any Democrat at coherently trashing Bush's policies.
I don't think the Democrats have been taken over by the left, as much as they just don't know what the hell they believe in. They were much more to the left back when they were running candidates like McGovern and Mondale, than they are now. Clinton brought them back to the center, and if he hadn't "blown" his opportunity, and then saddled us with Gore, the Democrats could have been that more centrist party that we desperately need.
Talk radio, and cable news shoutfests have been the other dividing point. Common ground doesn't make for good ratings. Just put on a couple loudmouths like Rush and Hannity who will throw out a handful of cliches over and over again to fire up all the "fat and stupids" (actually I think the quote was fat, DRUNK, and stupid) and just sit back and watch the stupidity spread.
I'm tired. Let finish talking this over next week at Kitten's.
I have to admit, W is the kind of guy I'd like at my backyard bar-B-Q, I voted for him twice now but it is only because Al Gore and John Kerry are close to being my least favorite people ever. Who the Hell drives in a fleet of giant SUVs to go lecture people on global warming (Gore) or better still, announce plans to filibuster a supreme court candidtate without enough votes to pull it off from friggin Switzerland?! Another Curley Stout please!
What is really disturbing about the Conservatives these days is the fact that they are driven by the Christian Right. I know these guys well from being in the middle of it all in North Carolina for two years. They have no interest in dialogue with anybody, they think they know all the answers based of course, on their interpretation of the Bible. They have run a powerful campaign to dupe peole into thinking that thisa is what America truly is but I think most people don't realize what their agenda is. Dean Wormer once said "Fat and stupid is a terrible way to go through life" and unfortunately most Americans don't bother with politics all that much. If we voted every four years for the greatest American athlete, we'd get 90% voter turnout! I'll tsalk more about this later, I need another beer. Sure it's only 10am but it must be happy hour somewhere......
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Let's get this to spread
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Funniest line I've heard all week
What about these guys?
Just something to to until I get a better job
Mitt has been so transparently running for President ever since the day when he stepped in to rescue the Republican's from certain doom. Remember Jane Swift?

Before him it was Paul Cellucci who was just a caretaker until he got something better to do as Ambassador to Canada. He scooted out of here the first chance he got, leaving Plain Jane to care for the state about a month before she gave birth to twins.
And Cellucci was only in there because Weld got bored with the job after loosing out on his shot at an ambassador job.
Now Mitt is outahere after one term, doing a pretty lousy job of denying that he has intentions to run for President.
Mitt, you're a liar, and you're lying now.
That said, I'll admit to having voted for all of these guys. Weld, I truly liked, and thought was a great Governor. Did you know he was running for Governor of New York now? And who was I going to vote for that year, Silber? After that it was just partly the lesser of two evils, and partly the fact that, even as a Democratically leaning independent who has never voted for a Republican for national office, I will admit that the Democrats in the State House are as much an embarrassment as the Republican in the White House (just can't resiste putting this photo in):
There does need to be a check on their power.
All I ask is that the next Republican Governor prove that they are in the job to be Governor of Massachusetts and not just waiting around until Washington calls.
And Scott, If you truly want this to be an equal debate, you must cede partial control of the administration of this site, so I can fix that godawful site description you wrote.



