Bring It On! Election 2008

Here it is, straight from the douchebag’s mouth:

This just in — Hillary Clinton is “hard and brittle” (as Sleazebag puts it). She’s also “a bitch,” of course; and she “calculates almost everything, including her accent and laugh.”

Here’s where Rover turns into a comedian: his advice to the ultimate Republican nominee is to “Tackle issues families care about.” Of course. You mean abortion and gay marriage, right? I know those are the first things on my mind when I’m struggling with the bills.

Oh my God, Hell has frozen over and pigs are flying. The issues he’s referring to are “jobs, the economy, taxes and spending.” OK, I get it. When the wingnuts get through spinning this one, “taxes and spending” will mean anything having to do with health care, job training, the environment or the infrastructure. “Jobs and the economy” will mean “what’s good for Halliburton/Exxon is good for America.” Will American voters be as stupid and gullible next year as they were in 2004?

Goebbels Rove also says “but some issues that used to be ‘go to’ ones for Republicans, like crime and welfare, don’t have as much salience.” Then again, words like crime and welfare mean different things to different people.

Here is where the term “Orwellian” really gets stretched into bizarre shapes and sizes that poor old George never would’ve dreamed of: “Concerns like health care, the cost of college and social mobility will be more important.” Yes, this is exactly what CEOs and Republican VIPs have been agonizing over for the past seven years. Let’s see how they spin this one. If only Marie Antoinette could’ve translated “Let them eat cake” into “I’m sooo concerned about the plight of the poor and downtrodden.”

And now the pusbag starts spinning even faster and more furiously: “Aggressively campaign for the votes of America’s minorities. Go to their communities, listen and learn, demonstrate your engagement and emphasize how your message can provide hope and access to the American Dream for all.” Yeah, you do that. Record profits for the largest corporations, higher taxes for working people and a bloated multi-trillion-dollar Pentagon — this is exactly what minorities and working families are clamoring for.

Uh oh, now the mask is getting peeled off and we see The Blob for what it really is: “Be strong on Iraq. Democrats have bet on failure. That’s looking to be an increasingly bad wager, given the remarkable progress seen recently in Iraq.” Yes indeed, “remarkable progress in Iraq.” Easy to say for a pasty-faced triple-chinned shitwipe who wouldn’t know a military uniform if it bit him on the ass. Contact your recruiter, Asshole.

BTW, this article has some interesting comments at the end.

David Sirota has a piece up about Hillary’s position on NAFTA and the new NAFTA expansion the Senate will vote on next week. He made a YouTube vid of her response last night in the latest round of Presidential debates held on CNN.

Hillary is a DINO for the most part. She is a Rethug in Democratic clothing on many of the important issues. NAFTA expansion is one of THE most important domestic issues facing us today. NAFTA has affected our workforce as no other bill passed by our congress ever has in the last decade or so.. imho.His article about her position is here. Its short and sweet, so let me give it to ya now:

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John Edwards probably doesn’t stand a chance of getting elected. The rightwing smear machine will have a field day with his “pretty boy” image, and millions of gullible voters will fall for it.

But Edwards has made a campaign pledge: If Congress doesn’t pass his plan for universal health care, he’ll take away Congress’ health coverage. Ah heck, they won’t mind. After all, it’s Socialized Medicine. You don’t even get to choose your own doctor. And why should taxpayers keep giving away their hard-earned money to these leeches anyway? Members of Congress will finally have a chance to get out there and hustle just like the rest of us.

Members of Congress have made periodic soundbites about receiving the same “socialized medicine” that nobody else should have. But as far as I know, this is the first time a presidential candidate has turned this issue into a campaign pledge.

Edwards said: “There’s no excuse for politicians in Washington to have heathcare, but America doesn’t have healthcare, and I think we have to shake this place up a little bit. What we would do is we would submit legislation saying if universal healthcare is not passed by this summer, that the Congress and members of the administration would lose their healthcare coverage.”

This same article has a video of Edwards’ speech and a PDF file that gives the details of his healthcare plan. Check it out.

This phrase was uttered by a Louisianna state representative that is running for reelection. She actually said it to one of her supporters. The elected official is….A Democrat.

“Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat, acknowledged that she ended a Thursday night conversation with Hazel Boykin by saying, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.” Dartez had been thanking Boykin for driving voters to the polls.”

Politicians normally break down into two camps in my book. The first are the “what will this do for me” crowd. You know who they are - the ones that look at political office as a stepping stone to power. Throw a rock into a crowd of politicians and you are sure to hit one that fit’s that description. I’d say they are a dime a dozen, but that really seems like over paying in my mind.

The second type of person who seeks office, the unfortunately much rarer kind, is the person who seeks office not out of self service, but a genuine desire for public service. The men and women are willing to give up careers, money and all semblance of privacy to help make the country a bit better. It isn’t always easy to tell one type of candidate from the other. Nobody stands up and says that they are a selfish power hungry empty shirt, Vote for me (Republicans just assume you know that already - insert rim shot), but you know as well as I know that’s what most of them are.

Is it any wonder our political system is so screwed up?

That’s why I’m really happy that I’m working on the Alan Grayson campaign. I don’t want to turn this into a campaign commercial, but sometimes you just have to pump up the good guys a little bit. Alan is definitely not in this race to further his career.

Case in point. While the other candidates in the District 8 race are doing the normal political shuffle, my candidate is in Somalia. Yes, Somalia. Why? So that he can go see the aftermath of George H.W. Bush’s failed “Nation Building” first hand. If you think going to Somalia is a fun trip, you’re a better person than I am. I’m not sure there is an amount of money that would get me there, and yet Alan thought it was important to go there.

He is just that kind of guy.

What did Alan learn in Somalia? He learned that we are repeating the mistakes me made in that country on a greater scale in Iraq under the second Bush. Mistakes that are costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives. It’s not hard to see the parallels.

However, just like Somalia, he hopes that history repeats itself and that a Democratic President can fix President Bush’s disasterous mistake by ending the War in Iraq. “That’s our choice in the next election,” says Alan. “And, when I am elected to Congress, I will vote to end this war and bring our troops home.”

You can’t say it more bluntly than that.

Imagine if we had a Congress filled with people who wanted to know the truth bad enough that they would put themselves in harms way by going to Somalia, or Iraq or other dangerous hot spots? Imagine if we had a government run by people who cared more about getting it right than about what they were getting? Tell me that wouldn’t make a difference in this country. Tell me we don’t need that difference more than ever. You can’t.

Alan Grayson is the kind of politician we need in office no matter where you live. Every state, every seat, every vote is critical to help end Bush’s disastrous folly. Alan Grayson is an uncommon candidate. I’m proud to work on his campaign.

www.graysonforcongress.com