I am fucking furious!
I was at the supermarket today. There was a young woman with military tattoos on her arm, terminating in a chromed hook where her hand should be. She was bagging my groceries.
BAGGING FOR A LIVING! Making this brave young person do a job so awkwardly inappropriate that it defies everything I thought we stood for. She's here because this governing body has betrayed her from BOTH sides of the aisle.
We are let so far down that it's getting a little Hellish around here these days. This can't ALL the doing of the psychotic PNAC slaves in Red Status. There's been a failure with our security system, installed to keep them from poisoning our way of life. The Democrats. You know, like in Democracy? They've become the lazy, out-of-shape bank guard that sleeps through the robbery.
The Neo's have always been in uniform, soldiers with a mission. Take over. The Dem's were supposed to stop the assault.
What happened?
With Joe Lieberman leads the way - The wrong way. Lots of Wishy-Washingtonians out there, letting their opinions be bought - er, I mean - known. Only a handful of Democrats are worthy of their own title or position. The rest are a bunch of bowling pins, aligned to be mowed down for sport. Useless or worse, incredibly harmful.
Our respect for politicians is no longer implicit. They must all prove themselves far beyond the previous boundaries to erase the stench-by-association of their corrupted cesspool.
So, here goes:
(All are invited to have a gander as well. You in the Conservative camp, keep distancing yourselves from this tumor on America's future. You're doing good. Keep going. Soon you'll be free of the sinking ship and live to tell the tale. Smart cookies. Thank you.)
That being said, my gripe is directed elsewhere.
To the Democratic Reps almost acting as if they are in office,
Permit me to be candid, or don't. Too bad. This country can't afford to give a shit how you feel about our opinions at this point. You're supposed to give us what WE ask for. Employee break over. Remember when you were the ones that COULD be reasoned with? The ones who would listen and make change?
When did the Democratic Party come down with a case of Ballsheimers Disease?
Your job is to protect us from corruption, not to become the picture we see when we look the word corruption up in the dictionary. The responsibility lies not with the wolf, but with the guard at the gate. The Right feigns strength and the Left feigns weakness.
I offer my services as a coach to whip your asses into shape. Get it together and act as a unified front RIGHT NOW! Spare us any speech about YOUR personal freedoms. You've let too many of OURS be stolen away right under YOUR noses. America is suffering from a national abandonment issue. You have not been ideal parents to this country. You've left us to the whims of our alcoholic Step-Government, getting abused in every way imaginable.
Our kids over in Iraq are getting killed and maimed in staggering numbers. The things they've been forced to see and do have left them in a state of mental shut-down. Blown to bits for a lie.
Which side of this atrocity are you on?
Your inaction may not be identified as a crime today, but today ain't tomorrow. This accusation towards you is well earned. Bullshit won't get you out of this, it's what got you in. You're the great examples of integrity for America's youth to emulate? Not quite.
None of your political careers are more important than one of their arms or legs. NOT A ONE OF YOU! But of course, you're "just noble idealists, hanging in through this storm of discomfort while the opposition slowly evolves by proximity of your example." Hmmm.
You're going WAY too slow for our taste. The only appropriate response to this is to become honest and brave. Don't waste our precious time with a statement. We don't trust those things anymore. Let us read up and find out if you got it right. Actions will have to do the talking for you from here on in.
America is beginning to wonder if the larger corpo-ruption involved in our decline hasn't seeped into your cracks as well.
Enough. Stop being "Good Cop" while you share a laugh with the "Bad Cop" behind your two-way mirror. Stop being so alike.
That's right, one of your constituents is bossing you around just like it was supposed to be. We tell you what to do. Now DO IT, or admit to what you've really become.
You want us to understand and show compassion while you get proper footing in your new setting. Absolutely. How can we expect you to hold onto that the ball when your palms are so heavily greased?
Go wash up, you're filthy and getting it on everything you touch. We're waking up to how many of you may have been throwing the fight and letting the bullies trample you. If I were a ruthless corporate head, I'd try to purchase you. To a soul-less suit, it makes perfect sense. Cover all the bases with your primary resources, money and the greed for it.
How much does a Democrat cost?
Can we all chip in and buy you back?
Stop being Pro-War! You're rebelling against YOUR OWN AUTHORITY, YOU MORONS!
Goddamned right I'm pissed!
Non-binding things don't stick. Stop being so "Safe"! There's nothing more dangerous. You have to know that's true. Even our POTUS-Giest isn't that stupid. If this is seen as a huge chess match to you, how many of us pawns are you willing to sacrifice to stay in the game? Stop treating your position like a career, it's made you shallow and manipulable. Do your job honorably and then LEAVE! Do something else. Hey, we're all forced to take on second careers these days. Well join the parade, you trembling sloths!
You're REALLY good at protecting yourselves. Now you might want to consider covering your asses by doing the right thing in this time of change. Any complicity to the contrary will be noted by the American people. If things turn around and our house is finally fumigated, ridding us of these vermin - Argentina's going to get pretty crowded. You certainly won't be welcomed here anymore.
Nobody has the right to swear an oath unless they intend to keep it. Impeachment of the President is off the table? Too much has gone on underneath that same table. We require you now to risk everything to impeach Cheney and Rove. Cut off the dragon's head. Let an unguided Spurious George flop around on the floor of the Oval Office, like a fish in a bucket. Do this and you might just win our trust back. Hurry up though - chop, chop!
Time is no longer money. It is now measured in the lives and limbs of brave our American military. The number of innocent citizens killed over in Iraq is as of yet unknown, but you could have done more. You blew it. Discontinue the practice of blowing it this instant. Stop being strong against your own constituency and start being strong against the crooks on the Right.
The happiest day of my life will be when I admit how wrong I was about you, but while I typed this, another bomb went off near another un-armored vehicle. A truck filled with our own.
Democrats, you have the power - NOW ACTUALLY USE IT!