>The Washington Generals
>Gosh. Will they ever win a game?
>
>© 2005 Bryan Zepp Jamieson
>1/7/05
>http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/VRWC/generals.htm
>
> The Democratic Party has sold out. It has become the Washington
>Generals to the GOP's Harlem Globetrotters.
>
> The Democrats know the GOP stole the 2000 election, and they seem to
>have concluded that if they just agreed to GOP demands to eliminate the
>paper trail, the GOP wouldn't steal the 2004 election. Idiots.
>
> After a long and determined effort to get one senator, just one, to
>object to the certification of the electoral college vote based on the
>wide spread failures and irregularities in the Ohio vote, a total of one
> count ‘em, one Democrat did so. Credit where credit is due: Barbara
>Boxer has more courage than the rest of the Democrats in the Senate
>combined, and more character than the whole sorry lot in the Senate,
>even if you don’t bring down the curve by counting Dick Cheney.
>
> And what sort of rationale do the timid, timorous, weak, sniveling
>Democrats offer for this display of craven acquiescence? One of my
>readers, RC in Ohio, quoted his county chair, one Susan Gwinn, who said
>this to the NY Times: “There was a point where this served a purpose.
>But I think we passed that. We need to move on.”
>
> Move on to what, exactly, Sue? Move on to pretending American
>elections are still honest? Move on to pretending that there are still
>two parties in America? Move on to pretending that the constitution and
>freedom still mean a damned thing?
>
> What, exactly, is she moving on toward?
>
> RC had an idea. We have apparently moved on to the point where the
>“Will of the People can fall asleep and into corruption, crime, torture
>and downright evil.”
>
> I don’t know about the “Will of the People” but the Democratic Party
>sure has slid into the role of Pancho Sanchez with nary a wince. One
>hundred thousand dead in Iraq, including nearly a thousand US troops (at
>the time), and the Democrats KNOW that Putsch lied about why we went to
>Iraq, lied about why we’re still there, and is lying about just about
>everything else under the sun. The man is a pathological liar,
>supported by a cold and vicious pack of neo-fascists who are
>contemptuous of Democracy, America, and Americans.
>
> And what was the Democratic Party’s response to this nightmare? The
>best the Democratic Party could cough up was a worn out old hairball of
>a Senator who once made his mark opposing a futile and unjust war, but
>who now lacks the courage to protest an even more futile and unjust war.
> No wonder he rolled over for the GOP without a whimper.
>
> The Democrats replaced the ineffectual and meek Tom Daschle with an
>equally ineffectual and meek Harry Reid. The only difference is that
>Daschle wasn’t prepared to cave in to the religiously insane blob squad
>and ban abortion. Reid is.
>
> The Democratic Leadership Council wants to maintain a course of
> being
>“Republican Lite” which amounts to class warfare against Americans
>without the race baiting and gay bashing that is the hallmark of the
>neofascist GOP. That’s like getting to choose between Hitler and
>Franco. The DLC keeps insisting that the only way to win elections is
>by pretending to be just like the other guys.
>
> There was an Ipsos-Reid/CNN poll out yesterday. It asked
> respondents
>about various elements of Putsch’s policies.
>
> Now, you might expect that a President who supposedly just won
>reelection to a second term would do fairly well in such a poll, and
>historically, presidents in such a position usually have pretty good
>numbers, running from 60% approval on up. In only one category, the war
>in Iraq and on terror, did the poll give him positive numbers. Sort of.
> 50% approved, 48% disapproved. That was his BEST return. On the
>economy, which is supposed to be a strong point for him, he trailed,
>51-47. On health care, the environment and education, he trailed by a
>whopping 13 points.
>
> Does anyone believe for one instant that this widely despised clown
>really won the election fair and square just two months ago? Sure, the
>economy has the blind staggers, Putsch is promoting economic policies
>designed to cheat working people, and Iraq is a hideous clusterfuck.
>But that was all true back on the day of the election. Nothing has
>changed.
>
> Yet here’s a poll, from notoriously Putsch-friendly Ipsos,
> showing him
>with the lowest approval ratings ever given a president prior to the
>inauguration.
>
> Are the Democrats screaming about this, or at least pointing out,
> when
>the Republicans start babbling about their “mandate to rule,” that they
>are, in fact, widely hated and mistrusted?
>
> Nope. Not a peep.
>
> Granted, some of it is America’s disgraceful mass media. CNN,
> with a
>perfectly straight face, claimed that Republicans were “flabbergasted”
>by the vote by Boxer to have two hours’ debate on the voting in Ohio.
>As if they were actually really surprised, and had heard nothing of the
>campaign by people all over the country to get a senator to support
>house members this time. Maybe CNN didn’t cover the 2000 election. And
>of course, CNN and the other networks carried little or nothing of
>the debate.
>
> Mustn’t get the American children to wondering if George is
> really all
>that popular, you know. Media “access” depends on pleasing their
>corporate masters.
>
> The Democrats seem determined to become pale shadows of the GOP, and
>join the Whigs, the Free Soilers, and hundreds of lesser parties as
>historical footnotes. Already, two major groups Progressive Democrats
>of America, and Reform Democrats have formed, and thousands of people
>are flocking to these groups, which are prepared to fight back against
>the neo-fascists of both major parties and their corporate masters. And
>take America back from those corporations that have so twisted America
>into a sad parody of itself.
>
> In the meantime, unless there is major reform of the election
> process,
>including adoption of the Oregon plan and Clean Campaign reform, don’t
>expect me to discuss the coming campaigns. I won’t cover them for the
>same reason I don’t cover pro wrestling matches. It’s why bookies didn’t
>accept bets on how the Soviet elections would go. American elections
>will be as much a sham and a farce as the Iraqi elections that Putsch is
>promoting in the face of all reason and sanity.
>
> Does anyone really CARE what the stats are for any of the players
> for
>the Washington Generals?
>--
>Election 2004
>The Triumph of the Swill
>"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost
>duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation.
>It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our
>nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation
>of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national
>life."
>Adolph Hitler, My New World Order,
>Proclamation to the German Nation
>at Berlin, February 1, 1933
>
>
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