The Rude Pundit: Time to Punish Republicans

[meegbear]

They need to be punished. It's really about the only thing Americans as a whole understand. You try to fuck up someone's shit, you gotta pay.

The Obama administration is, to some extent, misreading the zeitgeist of the election. When many, many people voted for "hope" and "change," what they were voting for was to punish those fuckers who fucked it all up. Americans like to punish. For good or ill, it's one of those things we're particularly skilled at. Take the economic crisis. What David Axelrod understood and what Tim Geithner misread was that the vast majority of Americans don't want the president of Wells Fargo handed a shitload of cash and be told to keep it above the waist. No, they want him set on fire on the steps of the Federal Reserve.

This idea of punishment is not a simple thing. Remember: the election in November was not the revenge. It was a vote to set up the comeuppance. Truly, if it were a different era and we were a different people, the Bush administration would have been hanged in toto sometime in 2006 or 2007. We're not that far removed from that savagery. At the end of the day, there's gotta be consequences for people's actions or there's gonna be chaos.

Which brings us around to the Republicans in the wake of their behavior during the economic stimulus debate and passage. They have violated almost every rule of negotiating in good faith. They smiled in Barack Obama's face and then headed back to the cloakroom to giggle at what clever little liars they were. They decided that the path to relevance was irrelevance. As expected, they threatened to cut out the kidneys of anyone in the caucus who was veering towards voting for the bill, so that, no matter how much good it might do for, say, a hurricane devastated district, they would vote "no." And then some of the fuckers end up praising the thing they voted against because of all the cash money that's going to their constituents.

Which brings us back, in a roundabout way, to torture and other Bush administration crimes and ethical reamings. See, when the Obama administration was sending out signals that it would be willing to forgo serious inquiries into who-authorized-what as it relates to the various -gates from the previous administration, that was an olive branch to Republicans, a way of saying, "You give us some shit we need, we won't spank you for being accomplices to crimes" (by the way, Democrats don't get away clean on this). It was, in terms of the DC circle jerk of power, a pretty fuckin' big concession. Republicans took that olive branch, broke it, shit on it, and flung it back at the White House.

So this is where you get to punishment, which has gotta be far more subversive than a good ol' crops-burning. As more and more comes out about how very fucked things were, especially in the Justice Department, it becomes easier to sell and less divisive to a public that is unified behind President Obama that a full investigation of Bush-era scandals is a must, with the possibility of a few prosecutions (because, let's face it, no matter how much immunity you grant Karl Rove, that cockmonger ain't gonna talk).

Then Republicans will be faced with having to support disgraced criminals and incompetent lackeys or with turning on the leaders they previously supported. Implosion, motherfuckers, careers made and lost on that decision. Now that's how you punish.

And as for the chimera of bipartisanship? What Obama is doing now is redefining it. Fuck the Republicans in Congress. Who needs them when you can say that GOP governors are on your side?

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[Motown_Johnny]

1. K&R

[Peace Patriot]

2. Yup, public stockades, where people can throw rotten GMO/pesticide-drenched fruit

and wadded up, looted pension documents, and canceled medical insurance forms, at these fuckers' faces. Maybe sack cloth and ashes for some, the lower level remorsefuls. They can walk on their knees up the capitol steps to the Peoples' House, and they can kneel there, rending their garments and begging forgiveness, for whatever length of time we decide, to avoid jail. Capital punishment? Hanging? No way. The main jerkwads need to suffer on earth for a good long time. After they get pilloried by every registered voter in the country who wants to, then they, a) give all the money back, and b) spend the rest of their lives cleaning bedpans in veterans' hospitals.

And I hope we don't wait 30 to 50 years to do it, like some South American and Asian countries have had to do. We need punishment NOW. We need to inflict the lesson NOW. We need vengeance NOW.

Rude Pundit has a lot of good ideas. One of them is to force current Pukes to defend torturers, thieves, traitors and dirty rotten spies and blackmailers. I hadn't thought of that. Boy, what an opportunity Obama seems to be throwing away. He could bury them all! Investigations of Bushwhacks should be RAGING in Congress, at the DoJ and around the nation, for the necessary purgative of dragging the current lot through the fires of hell, having to choose to defend or not defend, and forcing them to reform their political party or be gone.

It has been the Democratic game all along to protect these heinous criminals. Obama needs to abandon that toadying policy and create the future--a torture-free, thief-free, war-hating, open and aboveboard U.S. government.

[malaise]

3. I love me some Rude Pundit

He's 100% correct. Fuck them up!!

[ThomWV]

4. Call it revenge, call it Rule of Law, either way, we gotta get us some.

[IDemo]

5. I can handle rudeness like this

[Danascot]

6. GOP leadership steamrolled members

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) says he talked with 10 or 15 Republican colleagues in the House who were in favor of the $787 billion federal economic stimulus bill, but feared Republican leadership too much to vote for it.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=ACBJ&date=20090216&id=9613383

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Do I ever disagree with Rude? ........ Nope.

[tblue37]

13. Don't you mean F*** NO! ?? nt

[mike_c]

8. automatic rec....

:thumbsup:

[Raster]

9. Torches, pitchforks and heads on pikes.

Time to pay the piper. All hail the Rude One! Pass the chainsaw!

[Raster]

10. I LOVE your sig line. Love it!

[BanTheGOP]

11. Ban the party while you are at it...

...because it's the APPARATUS that nurtures and creates the criminals. Destroy the apparatus and you destroy the ability for a McCarthy, Nixon, Goldwater, Reagan, or Bush to flourish.

[tblue37]

12. Republicans were ready to block Kansans from getting their paychecks!

Here in Kansas, we were told that we state employees (I teach at KU) might not get our paychecks this week—or for some time to come.

Why not?

Because the Republicans, who control the state legislature, were blackmailing Gov. Sebelius. They wanted her to sign a budget that contained draconian cuts to education, far more draconian than she was willing to accept. Since taxes are mostly not collected yet, the sate is having a temporary cash-flow problem. In the past, a temporary loan from other state funds has allowed the state to function normally until tax receipts would accumulate. This is just how it always is at this time of the year, just before tax season.

But this time the Repubs, playing political chicken, insisted that she do things their way, or they would shut down the state.

Sort of as Gingrich did with Clinton.

Arnold is having a similar problem with the Repub legislature in California. They are forcing him to essentially shut down the state ebcause they won't pass an interim budget.

And, of course, we have this bullstuff with the Republicans and the stimulus bill.

What the Kansas Repubs don’t get is that even in Republican Kansas, a lot of employees work for the state, and if they have to worry that the Repubs will let them go for two weeks or several two-week periods without their paychecks, they are not going to be proud of the Repubs for “standing on principle.” They are going to be pissed because their water or electricity or gas was shut off for nonpayment. Or because they can’t buy food or gas to get to work.

Things are tight. People are living from paycheck to paycheck. Most people cannot afford to miss one paycheck, much less two or more. Yet the Republidopes were prepared to let all state employees go without a paycheck in order to blackmail Sebelius into signing their version of the budget, with no compromise.

I would have been OK for a couple of checks, because I live very frugally, but most, especially those with kids, would not be OK. I think the Repubs have tin ears for the people’s mood these days.

Sebelius finally got them to compromise some, and she signed a bill today:
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/feb/17/governor-plans-tuesday-afternoon-press-conference-/