[MD] Gun smoke in the shape of a fake letter and not a mushroom cloud

[david buchanan]

Hey MOQers:

Have you heard about Ron Suskind's book yet? There are lots of ways to get the word. The author is doing interviews all over the place, but I heard it from Olbermann first...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzVsV5z8mYw&feature=related

Sadly, this is a window on their general way of doing things. They put polluters in charge of environmental protection, put union busters in charge of labor law and even the Justice department was stacked with political hacks. Conservatism used to be a respectable position, but in my adult lifetime, since Raygun, they've become monsters. They don't just take bribes and cheat on their wives anymore. Worse than Watergate cause nobody was killed and it didn't cost a trillion dollars. This goes way beyond the bounds of normal human folly. Domestic spying, torture, secret imprisonment, political persecution, censorship, abuse of power and now a fabricated pretext for war. These are very high crimes indeed. By their fruits ye shall know them? Based on their fruit, I'd say these guys belong behind bars or at the end of a rope. Not so much because they deserve to suffer but there needs to be a large public ritual, a concrete demonstration of disapproval for the sake of posterity. This authoritarian style of government has to be condemned with great pomp and ceremony. We need some goats and a freakin exorcist! If this party retains control of the government, I think democracy will die here. If McCain wins Arizona by 1% and loses everything else by at least 5%, that'll demonstrate a thing or two pretty clearly. 

the good news, in my view anyway, is that I don't just have to be against them. I've always had to hold my nose in the voting booth cause the choices stink but this time I can vote with a smile. Obama's intelligence, humor, clarity and centerness are very impressive. Its a real breath of fresh air after nearly 8 years of drivel and lies. He was always against this stupid war. He's against stupidity in general. Yesterday he said something about the Republicans that really warmed my heart. He said something like, "These guys think its funny to mock what's true. (Properly inflated tires save gas.) Its like they take pride in being ignorant." The crowd applauded, cheered, rose to their feet for a standing ovation and laughed pretty hard too. My point? I want to believe that most Americans are just as horrified as I am, that everybody sees how awful the GOP has become. Well, everybody but the GOP, that is. But I bet a lot of them are freaked out too.





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