Blame It On Steinski

A political post that doesn’t count as ranting and raving because it ends on a sane note

A short explanation: when I began blogging, during the second of George W. Bush’s terms as “president,” I wrote because I needed to vent my considerable anger and frustration. My style (a generous term) evolved since I’d noticed something about the various Republican regimes that had ruled since Reagan – they always had a few (or more than  few) raving nutcases that they kept around to make the rest of their lunatics seem sane. In Reagan’s cabinet, for instance, there was James Watt, a Secretary Of The Interior who wanted to sell all of the country’s natural resources, privatize the national parks, and cut down all the trees, because “Jesus might be coming any day,” and what was the use of a few birds and squirrels?

Daddy Bush had his share of assholes like that, and W had more of these people in every department than you would have thought existed outside of the slow classs in grade school. They became a key part of Republican negotiating tactics: “You see that guy over there? Well, he thinks that Jews, blacks, and women are actually only 3/5 citizens, and the only people that should be able to vote are white male born-agains. He wants to cut down every tree in the continental U.S. because the bible told him to. You want to deal with him? Of course not. So you’d better deal with me; I only want to cut down half the trees in the country.” The logic being, of course, that a plain, everyday murderer looks good compared to a serial killer.

I decided I wantd to be one of those people for the Left. And I wasn’t acting; I meant every word I wrote.

Now, for my own sanity, I evetuallly had to stop reading the papers and being so aware-every-day about health-care reform and the other issues of Obama’s first term. I was becoming so incensed that it was distracting me from work, and all I did was walk around fuming and mumbling, which bothered my wife and scared the cat.

But I did catch wind of that insane Supreme Court decision about Citizens United vs the FEC.

My reaction was (and is): lynch them. Kill them without a fair trial. Hang all 5 Supreme Court Justices, leave their bloody bodies in front of the Capitol, and teach the Republicans and the corporate whores a real lesson.

Now, you don’t want to deal with me, do you? I’m crazy.

Lucky for all of us, one of the best thinkers of our generation, Lawrence Lessig, is on the case to protect you from people like me AND the Supreme Court.

Visit Fix Congress First, and support Lessig in his efforts to call a convention to amend the constitution so that the corrupt congress – The Best Government Money Can Buy ®©™ – can be transformed into something more closely resembling representative government.

Why a constitutional convention? You certainly can’t trust Congress to pass a law doing anything about this; that’s like asking the Mafia to give everything back and leave quietly.

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Karl Fitzherald

March 30, 2010 @ 8:41 pm

Lobbyocracy is the hypocrisy of democracy.
1 vote 1 value has been replaced by 1 dollar for 1 decision!

The key reason why so much legalised bribery is permitted is that the masters of the Electro Magnetic Spectrum must be paid exorbitant advertising rights to ensure that ‘freedom of speech’ can be maintained on what once was called ‘the public airwaves’.

Great to see that Lessig is calling for reduced advertising costs. Lets hope he goes further by calling for a genuine economic democracy, an Earth Rights Democracy.

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