The End of an Era, AKA “The Same Ol’ Sh-t”

I keep hearing how the GOP is dead come the fall elections, how the party is tired, out of ideas, on the defensive, reeling from Bush imcompetencies and quagmires.

But what it really boils down to is this: the Republicans haven't done anything for common people, just like the Democrats hadn't done anything for the common people, and the common people are sick of it and going to kick them out.

So what we’ll likely have come January is a Democratic Congress and White House. I predict pretty much the same results as the Republican Congress and White House. There’s no real difference between the two parties. The only thing that changes is how much worse the little guy gets screwed with each year that passes.

When are we going to get fed up and form a serious third party in this country?

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a…Superdelegate?

My mind, having been numbed like everybody elses, is still trying to figure out how the heck the Democrats nominate a president, I’ve come to one conclusion. The Republicans (no matter how much you like/dislike them) trust you. The Democrats don’t.

Why else would they have this bizarre, Byzantine method? I doubt Einstein could’ve made relativity more complicated. I do know that the supers carry special weight, which I interpret as ‘well, let’s not trust those voting idiots too much.’ What other explanation could there be?

Poor, Pathetic Rush

Rush Limbaugh is fat and a drug addict. But I digress. He’s pissed, ostensibly at John McCain. But really it’s all you idiots out there who refuse to listen to him when he issues his commands from on high (pun intended) on who to support. Along with Laura Ingraham and a plethora of others.

It’s a funny election this year. Republican and Democratic alike leaders are clearly nervous; the voters aren't listening to them either. Maybe that’s because for two decades now, they’ve thrust so many losers at us in presidential campaigns. Bush, Clinton, Mondale, Dole, take your pick. Oh, some good men, to be sure, but not really too much meat on them bones.

But anyway, back to Mr. Limbaugh. The anger he feels is the first stage of grief. Why grief? Because nobody is paying enough attention to him these days. His precious conservative movement has splintered like a toothpick and he’s busy running around trying to find the pieces and glue them back together. A word of advice, Rush—that’s an effort in futility. Mainly because Reagan’s dead, and no matter how many times people try to resurrect him, he ain’t a’coming back. I half expect conservatives to invoke some voodoo spell in desperation to raise him from the grave. That wouldn’t work, by the way. There wasn’t much left upstairs when he died, poor soul.

Fact is John McCain’s the best the Republicans have this year. The fact that he’s willing to work with the Democrats (heresy to conservatives that Congress should actually compromise—what a DIRTY word) really sticks in conservatives’ craws. A bit of a history lesson, Mr. Limbaugh, Ms. Ingraham—that’s how democracy works. Nobody gets everything they want, and all—that’s all—need to compromise in order to get business done. Or the country gets locked up in ideological debates whilst Rome burns. Like what’s been happening in Congress for the last decade. With the way the voting’s been going this year, it seems voters are finally fed up with the nonsense of ideology, by both conservative and liberals, and want things actually done instead of merely talked about.

And so, my dear pundits, you have been rendered irrelevant. Sadly, you just haven't gotten it yet. And so I urge you, accept the inevitable. Embrace your irrelevancy. President Bush has.

368 Days Left...And Counting

It’s just about one year left for the depths of evil known as the Bush administration. 12:01 PM on January 20, 2009 can’t come fast enough for me and many others.

But I’m getting increasingly nervous with each day that passes. I am hearing the same rhetoric, almost word for word—replace ‘Iraq’ with ‘Iran’ in any of Bush and Cheney’s pre-war speeches and you'll see what I mean—that we heard before the Iraq invasion.

I’m hoping this is all bluster, that these war-mongers won’t start yet another one they can’t finish. But I worry…

Cheaters Really Do Prosper

Lance Armstrong. Barry Bonds. Mark McGuire. Floyd Landis. And last but not least, the latest and greatest cheater, Marion Jones. And let’s not forget major-league pitcher Mark Byrd.

All big sports stars. All multi-millionaires. And all, if reports can be believed, users of illegal performance enhancing substances.

Asterisks after records, denials, disgrace, stripped of medals and reputations. And, let us not forget the most important consequence, the loss of millions in endorsement deals.

It seems to be rampant. In cycling, track, baseball. These days I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about it in professional bowling or NASCAR.

What should we do? The answer is easy. If athletes want to use performance enhancing substances…let ‘em. That would even the playing field, save millions of dollars in testing, and eliminate the need to debate whether records are legitimate or not.

It's All A Dog and Celebrity Show

RE: Ellen Degeneres

It's good know we've been able to get back to all the celebrity hyper-stupidity after 9/11, Iraq, Katrina, Darfur, etc...

Yes, We KNOW Genocide is Bad

The Democrats seem a spectacular job when it comes to screwing themselves (and thus our country) up. Here we are again with their latest and greatest feat of self-immolation, the Armenian genocide bill.

First of all, let me note that I, and most everyone reading this, believe genocide is a bad thing. Genocides are savage atrocities that should never happen again, yet they do. Going from that point, however, this is a knuckleheaded stunt of biblical proportions.

I cannot believe the United States House of Representatives is wasting our tax dollars and time on this bill. The United States hardly has the credentials to lecture other countries when we systematically committed genocide on the Indians and officially (and unofficially) oppressed blacks for centuries. (Neither, incidentally, do those European powers that were busy slaughtering and enslaving whole continents while enriching themselves at their victims’ expense.)

Does Wounded Knee ring a bell with Ms. Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership? Does Birmingham jostle their memories back to the time of black oppression?

Why are the Democrats harming relations with yet another Muslim country, and one friendly to us at that? Aren't they convinced our reputation is bad enough in the Muslim world as it is?

Ms. Pelosi says that in her 20 years in Congress, it’s “never been a good time for this bill.” She’s probably right on that one, but there’s never been a worse time for it, either.