A tiny toll of The Great Political Depression of American Governance

You know, it really was wishful thinking in the end that somehow, some way, the lumbering, blundering, bickering bureaucracy of American Governance would change. As it turns out, it has only gotten worse. And now, I am sick of the word "change". I am sick of the kids up in the forecastle running our sinking ship with their braid pulling, towel snapping antics, as the sea rises to swallow us. I am sick of a Supreme Court shackled by party lines rather than by prudence of any kind, juris or otherwise. And I am sick of a president to whom I turned my heart over, only to discover much like the Tin Man, he had none of his own.

And finally, I am sick of a public who has become lazy by allowing political entertainers to do their thinking for them. Personalities selling propaganda like the late night, male enhancement pump peddlers they are.

It is a Great Political Depression of American Governance we find ourselves in—a hopelessness this weary optimist can believe in.

I can not believe that is where we are. But it is. And when I listen closely for some sort of hint that I might just be all wrong about this, the only thing I hear is the haunting, long cry of a fiddle string.

While home burns.

(I have nothing more to say. I'm shutting this blog down. A tiny toll indeed.)

A Mass Grave for Healthcare and anything else worthwhile

I don't know what to make of it really.
I'm speaking of that unfathomable Senate seat win by Republican, Cosmo centerfold, Scott Brown.
It's enough to raise Teddy from the grave.

Well one of the many theories is that this is a wake up call for incumbents (even though Martha Coakley, his Democratic opponent, had nary a trace of incumbency blood in her).

If so, this is what voting "against" votes "for":

pro military spending/anti spending of any other kind
pro tax cuts for the wealthy/anti paying for the military spending
pro life/anti choice
pro Christian, heterosexual rights/anti homosexual rights
pro waterboarding/anti human rights
pro failed neo-con policy/anti diplomacy
pro no/anti yes

Some point!
Good job!
Just what the Liberal Lion would have wanted!

Frankly, it doesn't make any sense.
I don't buy any reason I've heard from the pundits of cable news entertainment.
What does make sense is that there are way too many voters who are as fickle as a squirrel crossing the road, and unfortunately they may just get squashed as a result.

Limbaugh's Rush to Heartless Hell!

Rush Limbaugh, in his typical senseless provocation, has moved into territory I never thought even Rush Limbaugh would move into. His commentary about President Obama's rush to help Haiti to "boost his credibility with the black community", comparing our country's immediate call to action on behalf of millions of Haitians and yes, 45,000 Americans disfavorably to the three days it took before Obama spoke about the failed Christmas airline bomber with all the implication trimmings, was heartless as much as it was hell bound.

There must be zero tolerance for Limbaugh's incessant, inflammatory monologues of stupidity gutlessly spewed from his radio studio bunker! Period!

I am in the process of identifying his advertisers on his radio program. I will be publishing the list as "Companies who Sponsor Hate, Fear and Ignorance".

Enough is enough of this idiot!

and now for the usual terror and freedom illogic

i will be the first to admit i don't get it.
every time a "terror" plot, no matter how big or small, succeeds, fails or is publicly foiled, we scurry to two fundamental declarations:
1. bomb the bastards who hate our freedoms
2. suspend the freedoms the bastards hate

first, i'm not a fan of either.
wiping out countries where supposed freedom haters roam seems to me to be akin to lopping off a leg to remove a supposed toe hating corn.
and this notion that "tapping private lines or searching personal property without reasonable cause is an acceptable breach of my basic freedoms as long as i have nothing to hide", might just be the most convoluted piece of logic i have ever heard.

but more than my rejection of either, how am i to make sense of them as a single, coherent thought?
that one naturally follows the other?
i can't because they don't.
it's that simple if you really stop and think about it.
a little.

if they are anything, they're the result of "beliha" logic (i.e., beck, limbaugh and hannity).
the kind of logic born from a lack of any intellectual mischief, like the logic one might extract from a high school cafeteria or gym.
oh yeah, that's right.
that's where those guys ended their formal education.

no wonder.

can't wait to hear this beaut!

the fun part of listening to the limbaugh, beck, hannity, palin and bachmann party is the imagination garnered to connect dots out of mole hills.
and with all weekend to do it, i can't wait to see how they place the nigerian nudnick responsible for the failed christmas airplane bombing in the bosom of the obama secret plan to islamize america (except certain parts of new jersey).
and i bet you dollars to doughnuts it's through that dastardly kevin bacon, who seems to connect just about everyone to anyone, which always leaves me wondering why we don't just lock him up now on general principle.
but noooo ..
we let him wander about, creating networks of god knows what.

anyway, that's the fun part, which may explain why i travel in circles of one.

held hostage by the know nothings

i see the polls.
i hear the arguments.
i taste the sour.
i smell the defeat.
and since i'm big with taking personal responsibility, i feel my own pain, thank you very much.

it doesn't matter what issue is at hand, the republicans are united in one objective: create doubt in anything the majority seeks.
as for the democrats, they are united as well.
they are united in their affinity to self destruct.
i'm certain now that if the democrats owned every seat in congress, they'd still be unable to pass health care.

as a result, the country is held hostage by the "know nothings", and the tea bag movement is it's poster child.
filled by organized talking points laced with lies, misrepresentations and fear, the less mindful among us clamor to decry death panels, socialism and the cooked books of global warming.
on the other side of the fence, aroused by fighting the good fights, liberals are blindly taking the progress out of progressive, leaving only "i've", as in "i've got to have this or else".

after a decade of angst, i was ecstatic at the possiblities just a short year ago.
boy was that ever squashed in short order—completely turned upside down by nonsense, stupidity and stubborness.
i'm downright depressed frankly.

my only solace is that i'm certain i'm not alone.

palin about to share some sarah science on global warming

oh boy!
i'm all mashugga with ice age hope.

i can't wait to read from simple sarah's scientific facebook journal just what the state of our atmosphere is in.
guessing by the view from her alaska porch, it's going to be much better than al gore would have us believe with his climate kooky buddies global warming the books and all.
why it wouldn't surprise me if she even reveals the results from some of her own stupidiments carried out right in her frozen backyard.

oh i can't wait for this bundle of frenetic energy to run on the tea party ticket with that "great protector of any life unborn but not so much after", ricky insantorum.
that's right!
you heard it first, here at the political pond.
girl wonder and boy i wonder joining stupid hero forces as the scream team for rupert murdock's mavericky political newcomer, the tea party, currently under the leadership of glenn "mr. fabulous" beck.

ah yes, it's gonna be nothin' but brackish skies and hazeshine my friends as soon as we dispense with that ... um ... young colored family walkin' the hallowed halls of 1600 pennsylvania avenue!
after all, it is called the "white" house just in case you need some remindin'!

(wow, i covered a lot of ground in a short time there. a little scary to tell ya the truth.)

what a subtle declaration of war sounds like.

"I declare here that with the grace of God, the Iranian nation will produce 20 percent (enriched uranium) fuel and anything it needs itself," Ahmadinejad told a cheering crowd of thousands in the central city Isfahan.

in other words, iran has rejected the international option to safely enrich uranium elsewhere, knowingly leaving israel with little choice but to bomb the existing enrichment sites and to do so promptly.

i give this mess to occur in four weeks, eight on the outside.
just another thing to blame on obama.
god, when will i come to understand how much better off we'd all be if palin were in charge?

about the huckabee pardon

do you hear that?
that sizzling sound?
it's mike huckabee and he's cooked completely through (or at least his goose anyway).
all because he followed his christian valued instincts and pardoned a convicted felon from prison nine years ago.
a real dukakis moment by any stretch for the then gov of arkansas.

and it's a shame really.
i don't hold the righty mike responsible for this slaughter in seattle any more than i held the lefty mike responsible for willie horton's despicable post pardon crimes.
yet, i can hear the forks being stuck into mike by whitehouse wannabes while he still sizzles.

i may disagree with just about everything pastor mike may say but he is a decent man who would make a formidable and respectful presidential candidate in 2012.
and now it's over.
because of this.

and it's almost laughable when i hear neo-con nudnicks like o'reilly support his pardon while socio-lib lards like huffington bludgeon his decision.
a real reversal of fortunes from the dukakis days.
yet that's what they do.
they twist and spin everything until it no longer resembles truth.
both sides of the partisan dmz!

oh well, i always thought mike was too good for all this anyway!

about glenn beck's new book, "arguing with idiots"

i look forward to mr. beck's new book coming out soon, "arguing with idiots".
finally, he will explain how it is he, hannity and limbaugh construct their thoughts and opinions.
kind of an inside look into how their brains process information and develop ideas so that normal folk might develop an understanding of how to reason with them.
that is, how to reason with idiot brains.
i mean, given the title, what else could it be about?

and i suspect it will be a quick read too.
nice.