Random Nuclear Strikes

I have a natural aversion to groups. Lemming-ism, is what I call it. Even if said group isn’t heading over the cliff at this particular moment in time, they will sooner or later. I’ll head over a cliff when I’m damn well good and ready, TYVM, and not when everyone else does.

Plus, there is the Group-Think mantra, where everyone has to say the same thing, the same way or else they’re subjected to everything from dirty looks to ostracism. And when the group does stupid things like back an idiot, even going so far as to talk about changing the Constitution so that he may rise into national politics, my spidey senses go off and I get weirded out.

When that idiot goes and does things like this, I want to ask all of those who wanted to change the Constitution for him exactly what the fuck they were thinking.

People who refuse to obtain health insurance could be tracked down by the state or a private contractor, enrolled in a plan and fined until they pay their premiums under one proposal Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration is considering as part of his vision for covering all Californians.

The proposal, which administration aides said was one of many the governor was considering, was presented at a meeting Tuesday with representatives from insurers, hospitals, doctors, business groups and consumer advocates.

It drew immediate criticism from critics of the central tenet of Schwarzenegger’s healthcare approach, which is to require all Californians to obtain insurance.

The whole mandated “heathcare” idea was insipid enough to begin with, but now to even consider an enforcement department makes me want to move the hand on my personal doomsday clock.

Yes, I know this is happeneing in California and not Washington; but what happens there makes its way here in just a few short years.

So go find a “Ah-nold for President” asshole and ask them “What the fuck were you thinking” for me, mmm-kay?

(Link found at Right Thinking)

Another bit of establishment politics that if find deserving of spite is when a decidedly Republican publication goes and says stupid things like this

Romney is the new Reagan? When the fuck did that happen? The guy is as bad, if not worse, than Ah-nold. He couldn’t position himself out of a paperbag. And if he did manage to come out as pro-this,that or the other, it probably wouldn’t be a fiscally conservative position.

Granted, last Friday Michael Reagan wrote a piece about how Fred Thompson is looking in the race (even though the guy isn’t even technically running yet), but it was just a fluff piece. While it wasn’t really negative, it wasn’t positive either.

But group-think is usually pretty rampant at NewsMax. Which is why you don’t see too many links from here to there.

As the DNC Chair, I would think he would be smarter than to say something like this:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today demanded an end to Republican efforts to play politics with voting rights after two recent New York Times reports outlined a persistent campaign by Bush Administration officials to undermine fundamental voting rights for countless Americans. Dean’s comments come as recent reports have highlighted a five-year political campaign by Bush Republicans in the Justice Department, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the White House to trump up charges of voter fraud in order to pursue restrictive voter ID laws that disproportionately disenfranchise minority, senior, student and disabled voters.

But apparently not.

Whch party had large numbers of its operatives arrested, tried and convicted of hindering voters the last couple go-arounds?

It certainly doesn’t have a name that begins with “R”.

And I do love how, in the very last go-around, there were magically no post-election allegations of voter fraud from the left.

Coincidence?