Ranting

electricparadise · 09-20-2005, 01:52 AM

This guy "rants sooooo much better than I .Just had to share his article on our wonderful leaders.
The Storm That Ate The GOP
Who will pity the soulless Republican Party now that Katrina is mauling
their regime?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
September 14, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/09/14/notes091405.DTL

Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that
compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a
vise?

Why, it's the GOP, and they're screaming, "No, no it can't be, oh my God,
please no, this darnable Katrina thing is just an unstoppable PR disaster
for us!"

After all (they wail), who woulda thought dissing all those poor black
people and letting so many of them die in filth and misery in the Superdome
while our pampered CEO president enjoyed yet another vacation would cause
such an ugly backlash, such harsh criticism of the glorious, rich-über-alles
GOP creed?

Who knew it would lay bare our deeply inbred agenda of social injustice and
civil neglect, and our systematic abuse of the country? This storm thing is
so not the thing we need right now because, oh my God look, just look! We've
been so golden! We've had the run of the candy store! We have been gods
among swine!

Can you hear them? Hastert to DeLay to Frist to Santorum to Rove to Cheney
to Bush himself, across the board and all down the snickering party line
they keen, "It's not fair! We've been planning this regime, this overthrow
for 40 years! We've worked so darn hard to drive a wedge into the culture
and an ice pick into the heart of the nation, working like demons on meth to
mangle this country's economy and sense of pride so as to boost corporate
profits and lock down our wealth and empire!"

And now Katrina. And now a furious backlash we never predicted that could
very well spell the death of our wanton free-for-all gluttony. darn you,
Mother Nature! darn you, uppity female!

Just listen. Isn't that **** Cheney, lying awake at night as the leeches
drain his soul, muttering his woes to a well-narcotized Lynne? "******,
Lynney, what went wrong? We've got the House locked up and the Senate locked
up and we can cram through any law or any referendum or toxic Patriot Act we
like with next-to-zero outcry and no discussion on the floor ..."

We're successfully stuffing the lower courts with hundreds of homophobic
neoconservative misogynist appointees and now we even own the Supreme
Court -- the Supreme Court, pudding-thighs! -- and even the increasingly
impotent California governor is more in our back pocket than we imagined.
We've had the whole goddamn country under our thumb for five years,
squirming like a stuck rat as we make out like robber barons.

What a run we've had! We've threatened major media into numb compliance and
we run the FCC the way a pimp runs a cheap hooker and we've got a loudmouth
right-wing pundit manning nearly every ideological outpost in every corner
of the media globe while millions of stupefied 'Murkins still believe Fox
News is a genuine source of integrity and honesty. Look at us go!

And don't forget, to back it all up and shore up the base, we've got so many
hate-spitting pseudo-religious bonk jobs broadcasting their bile across
roughly 1,600 militant Christian Midwestern talk-radio shows it would make
Jesus himself cringe in pain, and even that soulless cretin Pat Robertson is
comfy enough to start suggesting we assassinate foreign leaders who dare to
dis BushCo.

Look what we've accomplished! We launched two brutal, devastating,
unwinnable wars. We've let Osama bin Laden run happy and free for over four
years, and counting. We just passed an obscene $12.3 billion energy bill
that ensures our heroin-like dependency on foreign oil for the next two
decades while misinformed 'Murkin GIs die in Iraq protecting us from $5
gallons of gas. darn, we're good!

We torture innocent detainees in Iraq and abuse inmates at Guantánamo and
chip away at women's rights and demonize homosexuals, and we strip the
forests and gut the Clean Air Act and pollute the water and devastate the
economy and cut welfare spending (whew!), and still the lemming people think
we're gods because we keep them wrapped in fear and a whole pile of
carefully orchestrated Rove-ian lies. We are, in short, f--ing geniuses.

But now, this. Now BushCo's spineless Katrina response and our party's
obvious contempt for lazy poor people who don't own SUVs and Lockheed-Martin
portfolios means Dubya's ratings have plummeted below 40, as many of his
precious pet agenda items head for the Dumpster, including the gutting of
Social Security and the gutting of Medicare and even more tax cuts for his
wealthy cronies. darn you, Mother Nature!

Even the media has stepped it up, taken off the kid gloves and begun hurling
angry, pointed questions at BushCo for the first time in four years, ever
since we muzzled them with one part threat and one part Rove and all parts
corporate stranglehold. ****, the darn media was on the ground in New
Orleans within 24 hours of Katrina, beating our untrained monkeys from FEMA
by three days. Who the **** do they think they are?

Ain't it a tramp? And now there are those who say the impermeable fortress
o' pain known as the GOP might just lose the South next election due to its
obvious lack of care for the lower classes, unless we can somehow scare them
poor people into not voting again, or tell them if they vote Democrat they
won't get any health care or food stamps or relief money or any of Barbara
Bush's patronizing rich-grandma cookies. Hey, it worked last time.

So goes the GOP lament. Of course, it's not all bad (they say). ****, the
oil companies are as giddy as schoolgirls at being able to falsely jack up
prices to over whopping 70 bucks a barrel, despite a recent (temporary) glut
of supply. Halliburton is squealing like Jenna Bush at a kegger at scoring
the contract to help rebuild New Orleans' infrastructure thanks to the fact
that the former head of FEMA is now a Halliburton lobbyist, and the GOP plan
to decimate FEMA and militarize emergency efforts is going -- pardon the
pun -- swimmingly.

But something has shifted. Something is ugly and toxic in the water. This is
what, I imagine, the GOP overlords are asking each other over cocktails and
baby seal kabobs and whale-blood transfusions: Do you think the people are
finally beginning to sense it? Are they finally waking up? You think they
know that the fact that Bush is finally taking a modicum of responsibility
for his administration's failure -- something he never, never does -- is a
sign of true GOP desperation? Do you think they recognize that BushCo isn't
really spending a dime on Katrina relief, that the $52 billion they just
crammed through Congress without any discussion isn't actually going toward
repairs and rebuilding at all?

You think people sense that all of it, every single dime, is going toward --
you guessed it -- PR? Spin control? You know it's true. Every government
truck and every National Guardsman and every aid package and every miserable
FEMA agent you see is merely in place to try and shore up Bush's miserable
poll numbers, his dwindling support. ****, it's the only reason Bush -- or
his party -- does anything for the "good" of the nation.

But holy crap, it sure is expensive. It sure is annoying. It sure takes the
GOP off its game of warmongering and finger-pointing and padding the pockets
of the rich and pulverizing the economy like a ... like a ... yes, OK, like
a hurricane. darn you, Mother Nature.

©2005 SF Gate

mr belvedere · 09-20-2005, 02:14 AM

All true Electric Paradise. I am saddened by the loss, pain, and injustice that has been the aftermath of this great failing of humanity in the face of such devastation. And I hope you feel my remorse and sorrow. But let me ask one question: where were the "real" leaders of the nation in all of this? They were you, and the others on this board and others that started fund raising drives. And millions of Americans who had no obligation, much to lose, and nothing to gain by donating their money, time, and energy to helping the situation. Why do we tolerate such injustice and inequity in our governmental system? That includes the DNC and their pundits who only point out and attack the disgusting behavior of their opponents. Why do we put up with any of them? Really. Because we have no choice, that's why. I say to all of you: be vigilant, be tolerant, and above all, be thankful that things aren't worse than they are. Good luck.

electricparadise · 09-20-2005, 03:11 PM

Me thinks its gonna get much worse. Now one way we could pay for the clean up,and its just a thought, is to stop the excess military spending. example, it is costing Billions to put in the "star wars anti missile shield" (t h a t d o n ' t w o r k) . Ex. # 2 it cost about 500 million dollars a yr. just to hanger our b2 bombers , that cost 2 billion dollars a piece( you know the ones that couldn't fly in the rain for awhile)that really have no enemy to fly against. finnally we this peace loving nation spends almost 500 billion dollars on defense a year. Thats 47% of the total worlds expenditure. I think ,and somebody correct this figure, we spend 10 times as much as the next 15 nations combined! Boy do I feel safe! Oh BTW the white house spent 250,000 of your tax dollars to have the Pres speak in front of that churh in NO at nite, Sure was impressive, Mr. Rove does such a good job. but hey now I'm starting to Rant & don't want to , (want to be kind & gentle) And Mr. Belvedere I agree ,we need lots of luck, (and a smattering of decent leadership might help a hella of lot.)

West Side Tanner · 09-21-2005, 07:43 PM

How about the millions for the bridge in Alsaka for 50 peoples? Wasted moneys!

09-20-2005, 01:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
electricparadise Waiting Confirmation Join Date: Dec 4 2002 Posts: 415 Rep Power: 0	This guy "rants sooooo much better than I .Just had to share his article on our wonderful leaders. The Storm That Ate The GOP Who will pity the soulless Republican Party now that Katrina is mauling their regime? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist September 14, 2005 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/09/14/notes091405.DTL Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a vise? Why, it's the GOP, and they're screaming, "No, no it can't be, oh my God, please no, this darnable Katrina thing is just an unstoppable PR disaster for us!" After all (they wail), who woulda thought dissing all those poor black people and letting so many of them die in filth and misery in the Superdome while our pampered CEO president enjoyed yet another vacation would cause such an ugly backlash, such harsh criticism of the glorious, rich-über-alles GOP creed? Who knew it would lay bare our deeply inbred agenda of social injustice and civil neglect, and our systematic abuse of the country? This storm thing is so not the thing we need right now because, oh my God look, just look! We've been so golden! We've had the run of the candy store! We have been gods among swine! Can you hear them? Hastert to DeLay to Frist to Santorum to Rove to Cheney to Bush himself, across the board and all down the snickering party line they keen, "It's not fair! We've been planning this regime, this overthrow for 40 years! We've worked so darn hard to drive a wedge into the culture and an ice pick into the heart of the nation, working like demons on meth to mangle this country's economy and sense of pride so as to boost corporate profits and lock down our wealth and empire!" And now Katrina. And now a furious backlash we never predicted that could very well spell the death of our wanton free-for-all gluttony. darn you, Mother Nature! darn you, uppity female! Just listen. Isn't that ** Cheney, lying awake at night as the leeches drain his soul, muttering his woes to a well-narcotized Lynne? "**, Lynney, what went wrong? We've got the House locked up and the Senate locked up and we can cram through any law or any referendum or toxic Patriot Act we like with next-to-zero outcry and no discussion on the floor ..." We're successfully stuffing the lower courts with hundreds of homophobic neoconservative misogynist appointees and now we even own the Supreme Court -- the Supreme Court, pudding-thighs! -- and even the increasingly impotent California governor is more in our back pocket than we imagined. We've had the whole goddamn country under our thumb for five years, squirming like a stuck rat as we make out like robber barons. What a run we've had! We've threatened major media into numb compliance and we run the FCC the way a pimp runs a cheap hooker and we've got a loudmouth right-wing pundit manning nearly every ideological outpost in every corner of the media globe while millions of stupefied 'Murkins still believe Fox News is a genuine source of integrity and honesty. Look at us go! And don't forget, to back it all up and shore up the base, we've got so many hate-spitting pseudo-religious bonk jobs broadcasting their bile across roughly 1,600 militant Christian Midwestern talk-radio shows it would make Jesus himself cringe in pain, and even that soulless cretin Pat Robertson is comfy enough to start suggesting we assassinate foreign leaders who dare to dis BushCo. Look what we've accomplished! We launched two brutal, devastating, unwinnable wars. We've let Osama bin Laden run happy and free for over four years, and counting. We just passed an obscene $12.3 billion energy bill that ensures our heroin-like dependency on foreign oil for the next two decades while misinformed 'Murkin GIs die in Iraq protecting us from $5 gallons of gas. darn, we're good! We torture innocent detainees in Iraq and abuse inmates at Guantánamo and chip away at women's rights and demonize homosexuals, and we strip the forests and gut the Clean Air Act and pollute the water and devastate the economy and cut welfare spending (whew!), and still the lemming people think we're gods because we keep them wrapped in fear and a whole pile of carefully orchestrated Rove-ian lies. We are, in short, f--ing geniuses. But now, this. Now BushCo's spineless Katrina response and our party's obvious contempt for lazy poor people who don't own SUVs and Lockheed-Martin portfolios means Dubya's ratings have plummeted below 40, as many of his precious pet agenda items head for the Dumpster, including the gutting of Social Security and the gutting of Medicare and even more tax cuts for his wealthy cronies. darn you, Mother Nature! Even the media has stepped it up, taken off the kid gloves and begun hurling angry, pointed questions at BushCo for the first time in four years, ever since we muzzled them with one part threat and one part Rove and all parts corporate stranglehold. , the darn media was on the ground in New Orleans within 24 hours of Katrina, beating our untrained monkeys from FEMA by three days. Who the do they think they are? Ain't it a tramp? And now there are those who say the impermeable fortress o' pain known as the GOP might just lose the South next election due to its obvious lack of care for the lower classes, unless we can somehow scare them poor people into not voting again, or tell them if they vote Democrat they won't get any health care or food stamps or relief money or any of Barbara Bush's patronizing rich-grandma cookies. Hey, it worked last time. So goes the GOP lament. Of course, it's not all bad (they say). , the oil companies are as giddy as schoolgirls at being able to falsely jack up prices to over whopping 70 bucks a barrel, despite a recent (temporary) glut of supply. Halliburton is squealing like Jenna Bush at a kegger at scoring the contract to help rebuild New Orleans' infrastructure thanks to the fact that the former head of FEMA is now a Halliburton lobbyist, and the GOP plan to decimate FEMA and militarize emergency efforts is going -- pardon the pun -- swimmingly. But something has shifted. Something is ugly and toxic in the water. This is what, I imagine, the GOP overlords are asking each other over cocktails and baby seal kabobs and whale-blood transfusions: Do you think the people are finally beginning to sense it? Are they finally waking up? You think they know that the fact that Bush is finally taking a modicum of responsibility for his administration's failure -- something he never, never does -- is a sign of true GOP desperation? Do you think they recognize that BushCo isn't really spending a dime on Katrina relief, that the $52 billion they just crammed through Congress without any discussion isn't actually going toward repairs and rebuilding at all? You think people sense that all of it, every single dime, is going toward -- you guessed it -- PR? Spin control? You know it's true. Every government truck and every National Guardsman and every aid package and every miserable FEMA agent you see is merely in place to try and shore up Bush's miserable poll numbers, his dwindling support. **, it's the only reason Bush -- or his party -- does anything for the "good" of the nation. But holy crap, it sure is expensive. It sure is annoying. It sure takes the GOP off its game of warmongering and finger-pointing and padding the pockets of the rich and pulverizing the economy like a ... like a ... yes, OK, like a hurricane. darn you, Mother Nature. ©2005 SF Gate

09-20-2005, 02:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
mr belvedere DERFERATOR Join Date: May 10 2005 Age: 39 Posts: 8,591 Rep Power: 52	All true Electric Paradise. I am saddened by the loss, pain, and injustice that has been the aftermath of this great failing of humanity in the face of such devastation. And I hope you feel my remorse and sorrow. But let me ask one question: where were the "real" leaders of the nation in all of this? They were you, and the others on this board and others that started fund raising drives. And millions of Americans who had no obligation, much to lose, and nothing to gain by donating their money, time, and energy to helping the situation. Why do we tolerate such injustice and inequity in our governmental system? That includes the DNC and their pundits who only point out and attack the disgusting behavior of their opponents. Why do we put up with any of them? Really. Because we have no choice, that's why. I say to all of you: be vigilant, be tolerant, and above all, be thankful that things aren't worse than they are. Good luck.

09-20-2005, 03:11 PM	#3 (permalink)
electricparadise Waiting Confirmation Join Date: Dec 4 2002 Posts: 415 Rep Power: 0	Me thinks its gonna get much worse. Now one way we could pay for the clean up,and its just a thought, is to stop the excess military spending. example, it is costing Billions to put in the "star wars anti missile shield" (t h a t d o n ' t w o r k) . Ex. # 2 it cost about 500 million dollars a yr. just to hanger our b2 bombers , that cost 2 billion dollars a piece( you know the ones that couldn't fly in the rain for awhile)that really have no enemy to fly against. finnally we this peace loving nation spends almost 500 billion dollars on defense a year. Thats 47% of the total worlds expenditure. I think ,and somebody correct this figure, we spend 10 times as much as the next 15 nations combined! Boy do I feel safe! Oh BTW the white house spent 250,000 of your tax dollars to have the Pres speak in front of that churh in NO at nite, Sure was impressive, Mr. Rove does such a good job. but hey now I'm starting to Rant & don't want to , (want to be kind & gentle) And Mr. Belvedere I agree ,we need lots of luck, (and a smattering of decent leadership might help a hella of lot.)

09-21-2005, 07:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
West Side Tanner Join Date: Dec 27 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 2,548 Rep Power: 5	How about the millions for the bridge in Alsaka for 50 peoples? Wasted moneys!

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