( – promoted by buhdydharma )
So I spend a fantastic, lost weekend at a semi-Illuminati wedding in West Goopersville, California (just north of where Tricky Dick is buried but apparently not forgotten), and while I’m gone, all hell breaks loose.
I actually think ol’ Steno Steny surprised even himself at just how many Dems he was able to sign up for his cunning plan to delete the Fourth Amendment. The count was so big the Majority DINO must have felt like running right out and having ‘111’ inscribed on his gavel – an idea Bob Novak (of all people) floated a couple weeks ago.
The same source said Pelosi indicated that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer would be her eventual successor as speaker, even though she opposed his election to the second-ranking leadership position.
God help us.
And speaking of bad numbers, how about that 1st Madame Speaker of ours huh? Identity politics my ass. Woman, man, or hermaphrodite, Pelosi will still go down in United States Congressional History as one of the most craven hacks ever to bang a gavel. That is, if there still even is a United States after the 110th Congress is finished with it.
Welcome to the new and improved United-States-In-Name-Only, where privacy is in the toilet, your USINO biometric identity card is in the mail, and your ballot is in the black box.
Meanwhile Barack Obama is looking increasingly comfortable in his new role as presumptive Unitary Executive. (‘President’ is just so 9/10.)
“Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue, but the President’s illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over.”
Stellar legal analysis there, Barack. The illegal program to spy on Americans will be over because the new legislation now makes that same program legal. Thanks for nothing.
And to think that this guy once taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. Who hired him? John Yoo?
I’m also now really looking forward to more Obama compromises. Like with the TELCOS on Net Neutrality, and the oil companies on Global Warming, and the HMO’s on Health Care?
Something tells me Change is about to become a four letter word.
The bride looked lovely, BTW.
Update: Thanks for the bump Buhdy.
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for a very raw time.
Not Steny F’in Hoyer? That would be like making Tom Hagen Godfather…
From the Intersex Society of North America:
Sometimes trying to be cute with one’s word choices can be problematic.
But the surrealism around us is growing exponentially.
– Denying global warming while rowing down city streets.
– Debating the meaning of torture while legal scholars the world over call our president a war criminal.
– Economists shocked at the low level of consumer confidence. What could explain it?, they wonder.
– Granting a serial scofflaw and committed constitution-
gutterer wide-ranging powers to spy on Americans.
Pelosi still has the best quote of all, pre-vote:
Is she saying, “Ha ha, it’s his fault?” Is she trying to give him enough rope? Is she naive? Stupid? Laughing up her sleeve at us? Don’t ask me.
Welcome back.
How’s this for an idea?
Everytime someone calls for a poll say that you’re going to vote for Nader or Cynthia M. If this ‘follower’ tracks the polls then he might follow the people to the left.
him for his VP Candidate. We need someone near the White House that actually understands POLICY as well as has the huevos to stand up and fight for what is right.
as I got off my ass and went down 3mos ago and volunteered for Obama’s campaign. I worked my ass off grassroots. Like a fool I thought well at least for once we have a decent candidate. Then the shoes started dropping, the same ones that have been raining on our heads for years. The ones that defy reality.
Today I woke up and read geomoo’s short sweet essay regarding electoral leadership. I thought about my time and money in the campaign for Change. I would do it again, what I got from this was not the belief that Obama was going to lead us to the promised land but an eye opening optimistic mind altering look at what people, real people can do when they decide that it’s up to them.
The movement that gave Obama the nomination is what is important. It’s still there. It is not just wonks and activists it’s a cross section of people who were willing to believe that they could and would take back their country. They may be united behind this pol, but they are really united behind the movement. This is good.
My other ‘hope’ was the people I talked to Greens, Clintonites, wingers to the apolitical, the ones who opened their doors. They all know where this is headed. They may think that they cannot do anything but I was amazed at how much they wanted to hope. Greed and fear, are weighting in at 23%.
Obama may have created a movement for unitary power but I think that he’s going to find his ‘message’ will become a ball and chain if he tries to bamboozle us with fear. What will happen I don’t know but their are a lot of citizens who now belive they can and will stop this shit.
and Pelosi is SINO (Speaker in name only). Notice how often she actually challenges Steny–it’s as if she knows he will organize opposition behind her back if she takes any stand that he opposes–so to save face she just does goes along with Hoyer’s stands. I would write my Representative to demand that he never vote for Hoyer for Speaker, if that should ever come up for vote–but I might have burned my bridges with my “Rep”. He was one of the 111 of Hoyer’s anti-4th amendment team (but not a bush dog!???) & I wrote him a very SWL telling him how disgusted I was with him. Oops.
as far as being informed: Voters say McCain better suited to handle Iraq than Obama.
Houston, we have a problem here. Unfortunately, while we progressives are fighting for single issues–albeit what IMHO, one of the most important issues–the average voter is buying the crap that McCain is selling about his “experience”. This is just depressing….:
IMHO, If we don’t fight McCain in every way possible, we’re doomed to lose the Constitution, the Supreme Court, more of our treasury, and countless more lives in Iraq.
I tried not to get tangled up in the fringe around the edge of the tablecloth!
And just to add to the frivolity, here’s another thought. Some Obama supporters are part of he grassroots wave, but some aren’t. It could be argued that he has made things worse by siphoning off naive or low-info voters who nonetheless veer toward the sensible, which is another way to say agree with me. It’s another way to marginalize true progressives. Many of the goody two-shoes who want a savior will look at criticisms of Obama as radical, unrealistic, and other of the marginalizing terms we are all so accustomed to. In short, a lot of the energy for change was poured into a man who looks increasingly like the SOS. I wish we had all donated our money to some movement that would make the corporations and their stooges truly pee their pants.
I still cling to some hope for Obama to do some things right. That hope feels like a life raft, but I’m also a pretty strong swimmer. I don’t forget that so easily any more.