Punditman tweets...In view of the resurgent Republicans and their Tea Party insurgents winning back the House of Representatives, punditman can only paraphrase Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
King Arthur - "Well, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."
The United States is a silly place.
Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts
11/2/10
The Right Wing Gears Up to Suppress the Vote
Peacenik hopes Peacenik can avoid the news today, and for a while. Watching vote suiciders vote is not pleasant. Watching the results of vote suiciders is not pleasant. Today will illustrate what is wrong with the U.S.A...again...
There are lots of reasons to lament the missed opportunities of the last two years. Peacenik watched the Bush crime administration commit crimes for two terms. And Peacenik watched the bankers and Wall streeters commit crimes. But no one has been punished. Remember how Karl Rove just ignored a subpoena. And Harriette Myers ignored a subpoena. The Democrats didn't investigate anyone while they had control of Congress. Will the Tea Partiers and Republicans return the favour. Peacenik doesn't think so. Obama couldn't even get his appointments of judges approved even though the Democrats were in control. Now Obama won't be able to get a dog catcher approved. Now the Republicans can investigate whether Obama is a muslim and whether Obama was born in the U.S.A. While the country circles down the toilet.
by Laura Stampler
On November 2, GOP and Tea Party election observers will be coming to a polling center near you. Although Republicans cry “voter fraud” almost every year, this election is unique in that the GOP now has an army of Tea Party foot soldiers to man the polls.
Numerous reports have documented how state GOP chapters, local Tea Party groups and organizations like Americans for Prosperity are mobilizing across the country—holding training sessions and posting instructional videos on their websites about how to challenge suspicious voters. But the right’s concern about widespread voter fraud has virtually no basis in empirical reality; a 2007 study by the Brennan Center for Justice found that “an American is more likely to get struck by lightning than impersonate another voter at the polls.”
Yet many conservatives believe that voter fraud is all the rage among progressives. Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin announced recently that “We are all voter fraud police now.” The 600 people who attended California’s Central Valley Tea Party coalition meeting on August 5th were urged to join an “Army of Republican Poll Watchers” because (according to their website) “it’s not just Bosnia that needs election observers to keep voter fraud in check.”
11/1/10
Now What?
Jim Kunstler asks a very good question. And Peacenik is afraid that the answer is that there is no answer. Politicians in the U.S.A are not able to solve the problems that Kunstler lists in the article below. And the soon too be elected Tea Partiers only offer solutions that will make the problems worse. Peacenik thinks lots of Tea Partiers will get elected tomorrow. Is this the beginning of this sucker going down bigtime? Can the U.S.A and world economy be saved? Peacenik doesn't think so. Do you?
On Tuesday, when the Republican Party and its Tea Party chump-proxies re-conquer the sin-drenched bizarro universe of the US congress, they'll have to re-assume ownership of the stickiest web of frauds and swindles ever run in human history - and chances are the victory will blow up in their supernaturally suntanned, Botox-smoothed faces.
But don't cry for John Boehner, Barack Obama.
The President and his Democrats may have inherited this clusterfuck from the feckless George Bush but they flubbed every chance to mitigate any part of it, ranging from their failure to restore the rule of law in banking (by prosecuting the executives of major banks who oversaw the systematic swindle), to mis-directing our dwindling resources toward ends (such as "shovel-ready" new super-highways) that won't promote a credible future for this society, to misleading the public in the fantasy that alt-energy will offset the disruptions of peak oil (and allow us to keep running suburbia, the US Military, and WalMart by other means).
9/20/10
Puke Time
Our county fair put me in mind of that American classic, Moby Dick, this year. So many white whales among the try-pots bubbling with rendered blubber, where crews of savages from all corners of the world toiled to bring forth batter-dipped Mars bars, Pop Tarts, corn dogs, funnel cakes, and other rarities of the deep fryer... and then the whales ventured a little further down the midway where they mounted the engines of swirling cosmic death, and were flung about in the centrifugal pods of fate on the ingenious mechanical arms of innovation, until their sickened souls gave forth with a mighty spewage of corn byproducts that rained down upon the moiling innocents below....
Like most metaphors, this one limps a bit, as did Captain Ahab himself, with his whale-bone peg-leg. But when everyday life gets detached from reality, metaphor is all you've got left. And in this ridiculous, sickening culture, with its toxic stream of electronic simulacrum politics sucking all the oxygen out of the collective brain-space, the mind is left wandering numbly across a kind of wilderness where twisted sign-posts point to mutant evangelists, freakish ideologies, false prophets, deadly miracle cures, phantoms on horseback, angels with bat-wings, and the ghost of Spotted Elk lying dead in the snow with his stiffened arm beckoning the way to extinction like Melville's Ahab corded to the hump of his sounding white whale. Oh, America, pull your head out of your electronic ass while you still can! And look out below!
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