As those of you who regularly stop by know, I try to theme these as best I can. Sure, sometimes I just say “Screw It†and toss something up and see if it sticks, but that is the exception more than the rule.
I was having a hell of a time with this week’s. Too many minor subjects and nothing really stood out until I popped in a disk containing today’s tunage.
The Washington State Repub Caucus screw up this weekend was one of the minor topic ideas I was bouncing around. I mean, after the BS in 2004 I’d figured folks would be competing to see who could do it the cleanest.
Boy, was I wrong. The Repubs put on their clown shoes got in their little clown car and went on a nationwide media parade.
As I said earlier this week, I couldn’t hold back the bile long enough to sign a party pledge for either party and definitely not a pledge for any candidate still in the running. After being brought flowers and given some smoochin’ by the Repubs earlier this decade, I’m feeling differently this year for them.
When they had it, they apparently didn’t want it, and now that they’ve lost it, they want it back. I’m talking here about (R) Party Unity. They tossed it away for cold hard cash. People were saying they’d leave if the spending didn’t stop, and they’re answer was “Where you gonna go to?â€
And now they have their answer: We’re going home.
I’m pretty sure that I care enough to keep a (D) out of the White House with my own vote, but not sure that I care enough to even suggest to folks split that they should vote for the candidate with an (R) after his name. I guess I’m just tired of getting bent over whenever I raise an objection. And getting bent over is the subject of today’s tunage.
I’ve answered emails from both folks who read RNS and from members of “The Establishment†who say that I should join the party and try to bring about change like Larry Elder did. Depending on how much I like their request determines just how nicely that rope is hard to piss up, but that I would rather enjoy watching them try.
The main reason for this is that it just isn’t in my nature to be gentle enough to be a player in the politics that takes place during an election season, and especially not the Reindeer games that go on outside of election season.
Some ideas just don’t deserve any consideration and deserve to be loudly and immediately derided as ignorant. That doesn’t make you many friends. Which is why I blog and why I don’t give speeches.
About the only time I “reach across the table†is to smack someone across their stupid melon head, and that isn’t a good negotiating tactic (or so I’ve been told).
I am one who should only represent myself.
But enough about me, let’s get to the music!
Dr. Joe would probably find this track appropriate. Just keep in mind that the Repub pols are the fellas and us voters, the ones they should be catering to, are the ladies, and you can keep up from there.
Fuck her gently – Tenacious D
Enjoy!
Btw, my favorite “posish†is the freedom to keep the government out of my personal property and lowering my taxes.
I’m still trying to find a track for the Dems. That might be next week. Suggestions welcome (I’m currently thinking “Closer” by NIN)
UPDATE: You can buy the album here (forgot that part)
Update the second: Jeep’s back. Pics tomorrow.
The wife sent me my absentee ballot, and she is always worried about hers. I opened the packet up and was pissed. I forgot that WA now makes you pledge allegiance to the party for which you want junk mail from. There was nothing else on there but Presidential Primary. How much money was spent for something that doesn’t matter due to the caucus(es)?
But I vividly remember my first primary in 1998. Ellen Craswell, more non(R)’s pushed for her, and now I laugh at the survivor-like tactics in politics.
Nice touch with Kyle and Jack!
Jilted lover syndrome, buddy, and you’ve gottit bad. You went the extra mile for Fred, who looked GREAT, but refused to campaign hard enough to make a difference. Fred lost, and you were jilted.
How’s this for a party platform:
“Small government,
Small farms
Small business
Small arms.”
That’s “justthisguy” in FL touting the new American Conservative Party.
You’ll get fired up again, we all will. The new APC (Could that party nickname be “45”?) should fit our pistol, so to speak. If APC gets 5% in any state, it is an official party, then it’s off to the races. If it gets hot enough, fast enough with righty voters, it could rival the votes cast for (R)s in 2010, and THEN, the APC would be able to dictate terms to the (R)s in 2012. I would imagine those terms would be, “no RINOs or Hucksters need apply”. With a resurgent and VERY vocal Right in 2012, coupled with the likely lackluster performance of whichever Commie gets elected, 2012 could EASILY be in play for the Right.
I love that tenacious D song. You have made my day, and that was hard to do seeing how it has started out so far. Damn that is twice you have changed my day with the soundboard (first was Skinny Puppy).
I’m not quite ready to “calm down” as Sen. McCain (D) wants me to, and have been thinking awfully hard about changing parties, but I need to find a way to do it so that D’s don’t gain power. Part of me wants to stay and fight, and part of me wants to bolt.
The part of me that wants to try to get the GOP on the right track wants to see a (figurative) bloodbath. So I felt cheerful knowing that there are some who are trying, and a RINO was successfully hunted down and slain in a primary this week in Maryland’s (more conservative than most of the state) Eastern shore district:
http://www.targetrichenvironment.net/?p=1495
Sorry for link-whoring but RINO-hunting should be done more often, particularly if we can get a Congress that’s more toward what R/D pointed to above.
Great song choice!