i truly feel sorry for rational republicans, and i feel most of all sorry for all of us
sam bee's piece linked below (the temporally preceding post, yet the following one in blog order) is a stunning piece of cinema verite. expressing their insistence on mitt romney's prerogative to decide for himself his position on abortion, these unwitting (for that is exactly and literally what they are--unwitting) party lemmings are articulating exactly why their platform should not be forced onto the population at large. yet they, in their ignorance (yes, weeks after akin's ignorance was roundly and profoundly repudiated from all sources and sides, this woman in the video STILL swears women are almost never impregnated as a result of rape) cannot find the wit or the ken to see the staggering and stunning flaw to their illogic, and that they are so easily able to articulate the simple and compelling reason why their proposal can never be right for this country.
i truly feel sorry for rational republicans.
while reasonable and responsible people, capable of cogent and compelling thought, are vying to stand against the extreme and sordid excesses and illegalities of the present administration, any hope that their points will be heard, let alone respected, is washed into the gulf of mexico like so many south louisiana sharecroppers shacks, pitifully unable to withstand the hurricane surge tide of idiocy and inanity with which the apparent majority of their party remains insistent to blather and drown the (our) country.
the case against barry o is open and shut, and compelling. rather than change, he continued dubya's treasury-busting and best-and-brightest-sacrificing-for-nothing wars, and added at least two new ones of his own. rather than change, he extended and expanded the immoral and unconstitutional "patriot" act (it still galls me to the point of choking that such a proud word should have been whored out for this mephitic, steaming pile of bullshit) along with a litany of expanded and newly-initiated executive orders that, among many other terrifying things, enable the administration to pursue, detain, torture and even kill citizens of the united states without due process, and they won't even deny that they'll do it right here on american soil if they feel like it. rather than change, he compounded the fiscal irresponsibility leftover from his profoundly irresponsible predecessor and presided over the largest ballooning of the national debt in the entire history of this now-bankrupt country. (for, yes, there is no question to anyone with a passing understanding of accounting and unfunded liabilities that we are, indeed, already bankrupt even though our creditors have not yet started to call in their notes--but you know they will). yet, he still remains, after all that, so obviously rational and sane compared with the braying mob of asses (irony that the GOP symbol isn't the jackass instead of the elephant) that would be the largest contingent in opposition to him. and so we all lose.
we ALL lose.
republicans of any intelligence and sense lose first of all--there is no defending these statements that flood over the airwaves like so much of isaac's surge over the levees of louisiana, and they are left to be considered idiots for associating with such, and, frankly, i'm telling you right here and right now that these otherwise intelligent and sensible republicans deserve to be thrown out with that baby's bathwater. the statements are absolutely indefensible. absolutely.
but most of all, we ALL lose. we should be repudiating the present administration and rushing it out of office as quickly as we can. it has done what walter sobchak would characterize as fucking a stranger in the ass, and watch here for what walter knows should be done to anyone who would fuck a stranger in the ass. (fifteen year old daughter rule, and i could not be more proud that she absolutely understands the true meanings of the expressions here, and the politics to which they refer). barry obama and his administration has been fucking this country in the ass for going on four years. enough ought to be enough.
but it's not, because these are the voices of the opposition.
sad.
i truly feel sorry for rational republicans.
while reasonable and responsible people, capable of cogent and compelling thought, are vying to stand against the extreme and sordid excesses and illegalities of the present administration, any hope that their points will be heard, let alone respected, is washed into the gulf of mexico like so many south louisiana sharecroppers shacks, pitifully unable to withstand the hurricane surge tide of idiocy and inanity with which the apparent majority of their party remains insistent to blather and drown the (our) country.
the case against barry o is open and shut, and compelling. rather than change, he continued dubya's treasury-busting and best-and-brightest-sacrificing-for-nothing wars, and added at least two new ones of his own. rather than change, he extended and expanded the immoral and unconstitutional "patriot" act (it still galls me to the point of choking that such a proud word should have been whored out for this mephitic, steaming pile of bullshit) along with a litany of expanded and newly-initiated executive orders that, among many other terrifying things, enable the administration to pursue, detain, torture and even kill citizens of the united states without due process, and they won't even deny that they'll do it right here on american soil if they feel like it. rather than change, he compounded the fiscal irresponsibility leftover from his profoundly irresponsible predecessor and presided over the largest ballooning of the national debt in the entire history of this now-bankrupt country. (for, yes, there is no question to anyone with a passing understanding of accounting and unfunded liabilities that we are, indeed, already bankrupt even though our creditors have not yet started to call in their notes--but you know they will). yet, he still remains, after all that, so obviously rational and sane compared with the braying mob of asses (irony that the GOP symbol isn't the jackass instead of the elephant) that would be the largest contingent in opposition to him. and so we all lose.
we ALL lose.
republicans of any intelligence and sense lose first of all--there is no defending these statements that flood over the airwaves like so much of isaac's surge over the levees of louisiana, and they are left to be considered idiots for associating with such, and, frankly, i'm telling you right here and right now that these otherwise intelligent and sensible republicans deserve to be thrown out with that baby's bathwater. the statements are absolutely indefensible. absolutely.
but most of all, we ALL lose. we should be repudiating the present administration and rushing it out of office as quickly as we can. it has done what walter sobchak would characterize as fucking a stranger in the ass, and watch here for what walter knows should be done to anyone who would fuck a stranger in the ass. (fifteen year old daughter rule, and i could not be more proud that she absolutely understands the true meanings of the expressions here, and the politics to which they refer). barry obama and his administration has been fucking this country in the ass for going on four years. enough ought to be enough.
but it's not, because these are the voices of the opposition.
sad.
posted by kad barma at 11:02 AM
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This issue isn't black or white, but rather a whole set of shades of gray.
At one level the question is, how controlling is a Party Platform, or is it guidance? I have been watching conventions since 1952. Platforms come and platforms go.
At the next level the question is, when DOES life begin? That seems a squishy question. Is there a hard answer to that? My suspicion is that the answer is "it depends", based upon one's political sensibilities.
And, the whole thing about it being the woman's pregnancy, in which she has total freedom, brings up the question of when a man becomes involved, from a legal point of view. What does a man owe the woman who took his sperm, love aside? (I am not minimizing love as a very powerful factor.)
Then there is the whole rape vs pregnancy thing. Does it happen? Yes. Are there bodily defense mechanisms? To deny that is to deny science.
And how did "Incest" get in there? It is either rape (even if statutory) or it is consensual. Are we in a Pre-scientific age where we believe the offspring will be literal monsters?
The real problem is that the Venn Diagram has a lot of overlap. Some 85% think abortion is wrong and some 85% think abortion should be legal. I am sure there is some form of compromise in there. However, absolutests will kill the opportunity.
Regards — Cliff
My point is directed squarely at the inflexibility and "absolutist" nature of the Republican platform, even while all it's slavish adherents can so quickly and easily articulate why that approach is wrong. We live in a patchwork quilt of overlapped Venn circles, yet the elephant donkeys refuse to stand down from their vicious insistence that only their circle counts and all other circles must be outlawed to "save" the quilt.
I say enough. The Republican Party has become a joke. If the hateful, oppressive morality-legislating planks weren't in the platform, we'd have a Republican president come this January, and some hope of change. But, instead, we're going to have four more years of treasury gutting, rights abusing warmongering, and that's entirely because the majority of Americans know that it is wrong to legislate morality.
Sad.
It absolutely is wrong to legislate morality. Yet Chief Justice Maggie Marshall said it was OK to legislate against incest and polygamy, when she said it was wrong to legislate against homosexual marriage. Where did that come from? We have this Western Cultural Deposit about what is right and what is wrong. Some is being shed. Some is being retained. All sides need a bit more humility.
Regards — Cliff
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