They're Extreme - We're Mainstream
Thank you, Shaun. That irritating little neologism, which I think started with Gingrich, has stuck in my craw for years.
It is indeed an insult, and I'm sure a calculated one. In fact, the unanswered insults just keep on a-comin' from those fuckers, who know they can get away with them.
As for example "Turn Off the Mike" Sensenbrenner's refusal to let John Conyers hold hearings in a proper hearing room and shuffling him and his speakers off downstairs to some fucking broom closet. Did anybody in the Democratic power structure speak up for Conyers? Did Pelosi? Did Reid? Not to my knowledge, though I could be wrong.
And don't even mention Conyers' Ohio election report, which seems to have slipped down the ol' memory hole. Time to move on, and all that.
When you think about it, the entire Republican agenda is an insult to the Democratic Party and to all Democrats, who happen to revere the New Deal programs--especially Social Security--that were put into place by Franklin Roosevelt. These were made a part of the social fabric so as to make life a little easier for everybody. This is domestic-tranquility democracy with a small d, and this is why the current doctrine of Republicanism--fascistic capitalism as personified by Bush, his criminal junta, and his Congressional enablers--must be eliminated from our civic discourse.
We would like to think that the Democrats would be leading that charge. But this craven bunch? What a disappointment.
When wingnuts say the Democrats have no balls, how can we argue?
And yes, maybe I'm being too hard on the Ds. They may be starting to turn things around. Social Security "reform" was stopped in its tracks, and somebody--Jack Murtha--finally stood up and said Bush's "plan" for "victory" stinks. (Of course, Pelosi took two weeks to finally agree to this publicly.)
All well and good. As Molly Ivins says, The first rule of holes is, when you're in one, stop digging. Maybe Reid & Asso. are finally putting the breaks on this political terrorism, as the Constitution mandates.
Is it too little, too late? Stay tuned. The Republican legacy to America--a $7 trillion deficit, unregulated corporate rapine, and a bloody, unwinnable war--is a pretty deep hole to get out of.
Which brings me to civil disobedience. On the part of our Congresspersons. Meaning, fuck civility; do they think the Republicans give a shit about civility?
Sensenbrenner turns off your mike? Throw a fit, right there in front of C-SPAN. The Speaker pulls one of those voice vote things, where it's obvious that the Dems won, but he calls it for the Republicans? Rush the fucking podium, demanding justice!
Make a scene! Stop taking shit!
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