Why Don't We Just Impeach Everyone and Start Over
I've been too busy to blog these days, but fortunately there's people like Mike that can keep rolling day in day out. In this post he vents off some vitriol which I've been feeling as well.
What no one mentioned there was that those attorneys were all Republicans. I first heard of that on Countdown but I figured that I'd offer the Andrew Sullivan link instead. Can't say why. One would expect the current administration to wipe out the previous admin's appointees, but not their own. One of the AG's was the chief investigator in the Duke Cunningham case. Coincidence? No, not possible.
Will someone please tell me how this country continues to function with the shit that DC is pumping out 24/7? Is it because the corrupt shit is lubricating the gears of profiteers and power brokers? Are we comfortably numb? Anesthetized to the lies? Has cynicism and apathy won?
I can't see how anyone on either end of the political spectrum can be happy about this. I know people want to bash conservatives since most of the Republican party claim to be conservatives, but I think definitions are being muddied. The Republican party's claim to cultural conservatives is dead on, but that's it. I've ranted in the past about how fiscal conservatism has been lost on the formerly Republican controlled Congress (Bridge to Nowhere. Now that should be a song). As for Constitutional conservatism, the Republican party's a fucking joke. It's so bad that even John McCain, a man I used to admire, has been corrupted by this perverted need to re-work the Constitution to push the neocon agenda.
Anyone notice how the Republican controlled Senate wanted to kill the need for supermajorities to end filibusters but now that they're in the minority they've used to kill non-binding resolutions to voice disapproval over W's Iraq nonsense?
And no, the Democrats aren't free from this malaise. They've failed to show any Constitutional backbone either. And now, the party elite are moving most of the primaries up to early February of '08 to make sure that the candidate of power gets the nod locked up several months before the convention. Forget any long shot candidates. If you don't have the war chest NOW, you're done. Who do you think that favors? It's one conspiracy theory that I'm certainly willing to back.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: No more Bushes and no more Clintons in the White House. It's time to move on.
On Pink Floyd's album, The Final Cut, there's a song entitled "The Fletcher Memorial Home". It's a suggestion that we take all of our leaders, irregardless of nationality, and send them to a sort of "old folks home". Although written in 1983, it has even more pertinence now.
Although I've been drinking heavily this evening, it hasn't been enough to overcome my fear that the government is watching for certain keywords or phrases on the internet. With the domestic spying/surveillance program, I think I'm justified in that fear. When I get this angry, and drunk, my proposed solution to the mess in DC becomes a bit more violent. It's probably why I support the 2nd amendment so much. It's the last refuge for an oppressed populace. Call it the last "check and balance" on our government. The Founding Fathers put it in there for a reason. They knew all too well the evils of tyranny and its corruptive influences. It's something that we've forgotten how to recognize in ourselves, even as we're shuffling off to foreign lands to rid others of their tyrants.
So, you can call me a coward for censoring myself or stupid for blogging while intoxicated or what have you. But the truth of the matter is that I fear for my country and the sinister places where idiots/malfeasants have led us, blindfolded, all the while insisting that we trust them. I can't help but wonder if it's already too late.
I know I'm going to regret this tomorrow.
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DED
What no one mentioned there was that those attorneys were all Republicans. I first heard of that on Countdown but I figured that I'd offer the Andrew Sullivan link instead. Can't say why. One would expect the current administration to wipe out the previous admin's appointees, but not their own. One of the AG's was the chief investigator in the Duke Cunningham case. Coincidence? No, not possible.
Will someone please tell me how this country continues to function with the shit that DC is pumping out 24/7? Is it because the corrupt shit is lubricating the gears of profiteers and power brokers? Are we comfortably numb? Anesthetized to the lies? Has cynicism and apathy won?
I can't see how anyone on either end of the political spectrum can be happy about this. I know people want to bash conservatives since most of the Republican party claim to be conservatives, but I think definitions are being muddied. The Republican party's claim to cultural conservatives is dead on, but that's it. I've ranted in the past about how fiscal conservatism has been lost on the formerly Republican controlled Congress (Bridge to Nowhere. Now that should be a song). As for Constitutional conservatism, the Republican party's a fucking joke. It's so bad that even John McCain, a man I used to admire, has been corrupted by this perverted need to re-work the Constitution to push the neocon agenda.
Anyone notice how the Republican controlled Senate wanted to kill the need for supermajorities to end filibusters but now that they're in the minority they've used to kill non-binding resolutions to voice disapproval over W's Iraq nonsense?
And no, the Democrats aren't free from this malaise. They've failed to show any Constitutional backbone either. And now, the party elite are moving most of the primaries up to early February of '08 to make sure that the candidate of power gets the nod locked up several months before the convention. Forget any long shot candidates. If you don't have the war chest NOW, you're done. Who do you think that favors? It's one conspiracy theory that I'm certainly willing to back.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: No more Bushes and no more Clintons in the White House. It's time to move on.
On Pink Floyd's album, The Final Cut, there's a song entitled "The Fletcher Memorial Home". It's a suggestion that we take all of our leaders, irregardless of nationality, and send them to a sort of "old folks home". Although written in 1983, it has even more pertinence now.
Although I've been drinking heavily this evening, it hasn't been enough to overcome my fear that the government is watching for certain keywords or phrases on the internet. With the domestic spying/surveillance program, I think I'm justified in that fear. When I get this angry, and drunk, my proposed solution to the mess in DC becomes a bit more violent. It's probably why I support the 2nd amendment so much. It's the last refuge for an oppressed populace. Call it the last "check and balance" on our government. The Founding Fathers put it in there for a reason. They knew all too well the evils of tyranny and its corruptive influences. It's something that we've forgotten how to recognize in ourselves, even as we're shuffling off to foreign lands to rid others of their tyrants.
So, you can call me a coward for censoring myself or stupid for blogging while intoxicated or what have you. But the truth of the matter is that I fear for my country and the sinister places where idiots/malfeasants have led us, blindfolded, all the while insisting that we trust them. I can't help but wonder if it's already too late.
I know I'm going to regret this tomorrow.
\_/
DED
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posted by DED at 10:20 PM
4 Comments:
Good post, DED. I feel what you're saying. As to the question:
Has cynicism and apathy won?
I think so. I fear that many of us are as angry as you & I. But the anger is fueled from so many sources so all we can do is sputter and mutter and rant & rave. Then, when the energy dissipates and the calm returns, all we can do is give in to cynicism and/or apathy.
And meanwhile, it's business as usual.
Has cynicism and apathy won?
It has with me. I went on a rant spree some time ago, I'm mostly over it now.
And no, the Democrats aren't free from this malaise. They've failed to show any Constitutional backbone either.
I think they are afraid to do anything, either because they don't want the blame when things go wrong, or because they are corrupt, could be both.
No more Bushes and no more Clintons in the White House.
Agreed, but I don't think we're going to have much of a choice.
So, you can call me a coward for censoring myself or stupid for blogging while intoxicated or what have you. But the truth of the matter is that I fear for my country and the sinister places where idiots/malfeasants have led us, blindfolded, all the while insisting that we trust them. I can't help but wonder if it's already too late.
I never criticize BWI, and it is too late, not because it is too late, but because nothing will change for the better until things get really bad. Train wreck ahead. Well said, Ded (applause).
On Pink Floyd's album, The Final Cut, there's a song entitled "The Fletcher Memorial Home".
Great song from a great album. I bought Final Cut on iTunes last fall after not having listened to it and years, and Fletcher Memorial (home for incurable tyrants and kings) immediately jumped out at me for it's current relevance.
Actually, there are a lot of songs that were written during the Reagan/Thatcher years that stand up perfectly well during this, the reign of George the Dumber. Queensryche's Spreading the Disease comes immediately to mind.
Mike: "all we can do is give in to cynicism and/or apathy."
I'm inclined to give in to cynicism, although I don't want to. I really want to do something to change the system but all I've got at my disposal is this blog. I sign my name to petitions and send money to charities and political groups (causes, not parties) that I think are doing a good job. If everyone will pardon the Queensryche quote, "There's a Revolution Calling", but I don't know how to answer the call. I've got responsibilities to my wife and kids and they come first. So this need to change things festers, and nothing that festers is good.
Mort: I have to agree with what you wrote. Unfortunately, when the shit hits the fan, I don't know if things will get better or worse.
Toast: Wow, a third album we both like. Heh. Just bustin'. ;)
But your observation brings up another point, "Where are all the protest songs?" Not the flower power stuff, but something current. The Dixie Chicks seem to be the only well known musicians protesting through their music. In the metal community, we had Queensryche do Mindcrime 2. Disturbed had a song on Ten Thousand Fists and COC's The Arms of God had its collection of Southern Sabbath Doom Metal, but the lyrics are very generalized and could be applied towards any time period. The same could be said for Iron Maiden's latest, A Matter of Life and Death. Anyway,with the death of radio, this sort of thing is marginalized, if it's even out there at all. I can't fault any cynic for saying that corporate entities have squelched dissent, but then again where is it? Maybe rock is too cynical to care.
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