Lord of the Pants

We're So Over That

The Vietnam War was a chance to burn off the WW II surplus ordnance and keep the Baby Boomers off the labor market. When those goals were accomplished and the war looked like a mid-term political disaster for Nixon's second term, it was over, or rather, reduced to a political vendetta called the Drug War.

The war in Iraq was about contracts, munitions sales, and making George Bush a war hero and dictator. Mission accomplished, except for that "hero" part. The war that our war economy and the Republicans need doesn't need to be in any specific place. Time to 'move on'.

When asked how he felt about leaving Iraq, a British trooper said "What's the fucking difference? They'll just send us off to fight some other bloody war."

And that's the bottom line.

What Are They Taking?

Apparently the Republicans have been huffing until they're ready to sail off the edge of the world.

According to McCain, electing a black man President would be just more of the same, but electing an old white millionaire male President would be exciting change.

What kinds of drugs is he on, anyway?

And Sarah Palin thinks electing an experienced and capable Senator for VP would be just more of the same, but electing a lying small-town sack-of-shit "Christian" demagogue, the kind of person we moved to the city to escape from, would be exciting change.

At the bottom line, the Rs are hoping their racist war-mongering "Christianity" will carry them over the finish line one more time, and to hell with the good of the country. It's not a very inspiring message.

I was about to say that McCain now has a bunch of 'supporters' who are wishing for his speedy death (after he wins the election, natch), but, as immortalized in the Slog, one of McCain's 'Christian' supporters has already said it.

Here's mud in your eye, John!

A Bunch of Damn Lies

Republicans say that Sarah Palin working as Governor is just the same as Hillary Clinton. Except, of course, Clinton's daughter is in one of the best British colleges, and Palin's daughter, still in high school, is pregnant. There'll be a wedding soon, when they find the shotgun.

Common sense would declare "Game over" right here, but because we're being told not to discuss Palin's family life, I'm going to say we have a duty to discuss Palin's family life. She wants to make birth control illegal and "abstinence" the only sex ed taught in the schools. That is to say, she wants to spend public money paying religious groups to push their failed doctrines in the public schools. So much wrong here.

She ran for mayor on the platform that right-wing Christians should be able to deny everyone else in town their civil liberties. One of her first acts as Mayor was to demand the resignations of all city department heads, to prove their loyalty to her. She didn't understand that their loyalty, in fact, should be to the citizens, the town charter, and the U.S. Constitution, in whatever order, but not to the Mayor.

If I had been asked to name, say, 80 million people who could be the next Vice President of the US, Sarah Palin would not have been on that list.

And we have a right to ask- do you think high school girls should become pregnant? If not, why are you pushing a program that guarantees that result? If you do, why did you slash funding to a residential center for pregnant and new mom teens? Or are you just a bad parent, somebody who should be getting counseling from the social services of Alaska?

These are just a few of the questions we have a right, and a duty, to ask.