(no subject)
In the little tiny non-political corner of my brain, I need to cherish every moment I have from now until February. In the larger arena of my mindset these days, I would gladly hand over the next 23 days of my life if it were election day right now. In many ways, this election has such a higher stake than in 2004.
This election, when it comes down to it, will be a referendum not only on our President, but the entire Republican ruling class as a whole. Until now, there was nothing that could stop the GOP in what has been almost 12 years of their contract with America. Rigging elections, using their own voter base like cheap whores, and politicizing everything from God and Jesus to the deaths of over 3000 Americans five years ago has finally caught up to them. They're finally tripping over their own gigantic clown shoes and all the supposed ineptitude within the Democratic party can't stop the change that's going to come on November 7th.
There has been no oversight in our government in the past 5 years. There have been no checks, no balances, nothing that could expedite the colossal implosion of the Grand Old Party that we're currently witnessing. Perhaps it's better this way. Perhaps this is the best way to demonstrate to the people of this once great country that the ideals of a once great party has disintergrated into one is built around a philosophy of giving tax cuts to those who don't need it, cronyism, hate-influenced legislation, and a vaccum of accountability and personal responsibility. The party in which America put their faith in 1994 has become an amorphous blob of incompetence, finger-pointing, and buck-passing.
That being said, to soon-to-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to [hopefully] soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to Dick Durbin, to Joe Biden, to Hillary Clinton, to Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Evan Bayh, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Chuck Shumer, to Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Artur Davis, to Tom Vilsack, to Bill Richardson, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, even to Antonio Villaraigosa, I want you and all the others in your party to remember this, just remember this moment.
Remember this moment and grant us this one request:
Please don't fuck us.
Your rivals and our President had an amazingly unique opportunity to unite this entire country even before 9/11. They promised to change the tone in Washington [assuming it needed changing] and to usher in a new wave of compassionate conservatism [assuming that isn't an oxymoron. Now the Democratic party has that same opportunity. They can reverse the complete absence of responsibility in our government. They can clean up Washington. They can change the tone when it's needed a good shake-up more than ever.
Now the Democratic party has an entire wide-receiving corp, all alone in the endzone. Don't blow this pass and don't give up.
Most of all, don't let us down.
This election, when it comes down to it, will be a referendum not only on our President, but the entire Republican ruling class as a whole. Until now, there was nothing that could stop the GOP in what has been almost 12 years of their contract with America. Rigging elections, using their own voter base like cheap whores, and politicizing everything from God and Jesus to the deaths of over 3000 Americans five years ago has finally caught up to them. They're finally tripping over their own gigantic clown shoes and all the supposed ineptitude within the Democratic party can't stop the change that's going to come on November 7th.
There has been no oversight in our government in the past 5 years. There have been no checks, no balances, nothing that could expedite the colossal implosion of the Grand Old Party that we're currently witnessing. Perhaps it's better this way. Perhaps this is the best way to demonstrate to the people of this once great country that the ideals of a once great party has disintergrated into one is built around a philosophy of giving tax cuts to those who don't need it, cronyism, hate-influenced legislation, and a vaccum of accountability and personal responsibility. The party in which America put their faith in 1994 has become an amorphous blob of incompetence, finger-pointing, and buck-passing.
That being said, to soon-to-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to [hopefully] soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to Dick Durbin, to Joe Biden, to Hillary Clinton, to Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Evan Bayh, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Chuck Shumer, to Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Artur Davis, to Tom Vilsack, to Bill Richardson, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, even to Antonio Villaraigosa, I want you and all the others in your party to remember this, just remember this moment.
Remember this moment and grant us this one request:
Please don't fuck us.
Your rivals and our President had an amazingly unique opportunity to unite this entire country even before 9/11. They promised to change the tone in Washington [assuming it needed changing] and to usher in a new wave of compassionate conservatism [assuming that isn't an oxymoron. Now the Democratic party has that same opportunity. They can reverse the complete absence of responsibility in our government. They can clean up Washington. They can change the tone when it's needed a good shake-up more than ever.
Now the Democratic party has an entire wide-receiving corp, all alone in the endzone. Don't blow this pass and don't give up.
Most of all, don't let us down.