So here i am again sleepless in Alabama, slightly inebriated and looking to complain to the inter-tubes. So my question tonight is are we getting just plain dumb(er)er? We won, yes that much is true. We now are trying to sort through the mess that was left us by the Bush administration and although i feel as if we are making tremendous headway, somehow i feel as if we are walking headlong into the mouth of an awaiting lion.
Ah oh drunken master what might that be? Well children i am glad you asked. I believe, (like that i feel usage?) that the threat we are not acknowledging is one of too much to do and too little time. We want solutions yesterday. Yep that is our shtick in America, find a problem and whine till it gets fixed. Oh and boy howdy are we good at whining.
So anyway i look at the inter tubes and find various articles about the torture stuff and the liberal (oh yeah i love it when they say it is just us liberals) outrage over not stringing someone up for the torture that went on during the Bush Cheney rule. Well i agree with the sentiment, but i tend to believe that rather than going after the peons that actually did the torture, i believe that we have much bigger fish to fry. As a former supervisor at a union factory i know one thing about our government. It is like trying to catch an greased rattlesnake when trying to bring someone down.
So to try and shed a little light on the situation, let's put ourselves in Obama's shoes. If we go after the little fishes, then the big fishes have plausible deny-ability (spelling?) or someone else to put it on. So since i feel like we elected a Constitutional Lawyer for our president, then i feel like this is like his home turf, and i trust that he has a plan. When he decides it is time to de-nut someone for the crap that went on, (and i have faith he will be de nutting someone soon) then i know that all the ducks, or dominos will be in place so that no one of importance gets off the hook.
Oh drunken master, what shall i direct my lieral outrage at whilst the great one works on getting the dominos in line? Well my boys and girls, how about something we know is quite important and something we all enjoy doing? Making fun of the conservative (that seems almost like a bad use of that word, since nazi would be a better word)media outlets and faux news.
Seriously, if you have not noticed the republicans and nut jobs accociated with the fundamentalists are in the middle of political party un-civil war. Just today some conservative woman (kristen something) was telling sean hannity that he was an idiot. The head of the GOP (Steele) was not allowed at a tea bag party, and Megan McCain was saying.........
from Huff post
Speaking to an affectionate crowd of Log Cabin Republicans on Saturday evening, Meghan McCain ridiculed the party her father headed this past election, declaring that "old school Republicans" were "scared shitless" of the changing landscape.
The Senator's daughter, who has quickly become something of an iconic figure in the gay conservative community since the end of the election, took repeated shots at the GOP for its antiquated mores.
"I feel too many Republicans want to cling to past successes," said McCain. "There are those who think we can win the White House and Congress back by being 'more' conservative. Worse, there are those who think we can win by changing nothing at all about what our party has become. They just want to wait for the other side to be perceived as worse than us. I think we're seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party. But it is not between us and Democrats. It is not between us and liberals. It is between the future and the past."
Later, she called out those officials in the Republican tent who insist that tactical improvements, technology and brass-knuckle politicking are the path back to relevance.
"Simply embracing technology isn't going to fix our problem," she said. "Republicans using Twitter and Facebook isn't going to miraculously make people think we're cool again. Breaking free from obsolete positions and providing real solutions that don't divide our nation further will. That's why some in our party are scared. They sense the world around them is changing and they are unable to take the risk to jump free of what's keeping our party down."
huffington post
to me this is a great time to be a liberal because guess what? We won finally, but to stay in power, we have to continue to push to keep the focus on just how far behind the republican fundamentalist movement really is. This does not happen by lying down on the job, so make sure you keep pointing out just how dumb and bass ackwards the GOP really is.
blah now im sleepy so goodnite