Minimum Rage: The law of political karma is now in effect.

[chat_noir]

Even as the Republican Party keeps handing the Democrats elections on oil-and-blood-soaked platters, the donkeys can't seem to kick the elephants out of the house, or the House of Representatives. It still amazes me that anyone in America, in any town, precinct, county or state, would consider voting for the monstrosity the GOP has become. In the past six years, the party of fiscal conservatism, personal responsibility and family values has morphed into the Party of Corruption, Greed and Death, which has cast a pall over the land that will take decades to clear away with national acts of goodness.

The latest miserable failure of Republicanism began in March 2003, when the Congressional GOP worked overtime for Bush/ Cheney/ Rice/ Rumsfeld to pull off a bloodless coup. Hell, they even roped a bona fide war hero, Colin Powell, into doing their bidding, until he wised up, resigned and now is going around the country crying in his beer. Somehow, as per Gen. Powell, I'm reminded of what Mad Dog Cheney told the anti-coup Sen. Pat Leahy on the floor of the Senate chamber: "Go fuck yourself." I'm also put in mind of something that appears in Ron Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine (excerpted in Time last week). In it, Suskind reports that after his daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001 -- the one about the memo "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S" that provided details about commercial jets being hijacked and flown into buildings -- Bush told the CIA official who'd briefed him, "All right. You've covered your ass now." Then Bush, on one of his endless Crawford vacations at the time, went fishing.

Since then, the GOP has allowed the worst and most destructive president in history to circumvent the Constitution and go to war, all the while robbing Americans of our rights, our treasury and what remained of our respect around the world. Earlier this year, it seemed as if the Republican leaders in Congress, having seen the FUBAR writing on the wall, expected the American people to give them a Mulligan on the Iraq War, a "do over," if you will. Sens. Chuck Hagel and Lindsey Graham--two of maybe 13 GOPers in D.C. not certifiably insane--simultaneously broke ranks with the scandal-laden, 29-percent-approved White House. Even they, however, realized that no amount of state-sponsored, taxpayer-funded propaganda can paint pearls on that swinish endeavor, so they've turned back to the tried and true: the Swift-Boating of any Democrat who dares to question Der FUBAR-in-Chief.

<snip>

Finally, though, the knockout punch is the Senate's refusal to raise the minimum wage, which has been stuck at $5.15 for 10 years. Such pay, in a time of inflation, guarantees the vast majority of us are headed straight for the Mendoza Line of permanent poverty. As one GOP foe of a wage raise put it, "This is a classic debate between two different philosophies."

Finally, some truth from a Republican!


http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:159877

[liberal N proud]

1. And GOP philosophy is to keep the poor where they are while creating

new poor people.

[Vidar]

2. Preet good rant.

[Sadie5]

3. Lindsey Graham

Makes me sick to my stomach every time I have to look at his ugly face. I wouldn't trust Graham to flush the toilet after he uses it. Beware of Graham.