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[WinstonSmith4740]

21. A wise, wise man.

Unfortunately, we're losing that generation to time's inexorable move forward, so there soon will be no common memory of a time when The Great Depression caused such a horrible societal breakdown. The forerunners of today's lunatic right-wing did everything they could to keep the status quo of the very wealthy as comfortable as possible. As Lawrence O'Donnell has said, they called the GI Bill "welfare".

In the wake of the 2004 "election" debacle, the late, great Molly Ivins wrote an absolutely BRILLIANT essay on why the United States wouldn't elect another Republican for a long, long time. Part of it can be found here: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/28/molly-ivins-was-right/, but I'll bet most of you are familiar with it.

Mitt is indeed, a dead chicken. I hope we don't have to be re-taught this lesson.

On edit...the link doesn't work. Here's the part of the essay that was published.

A few days after the 2004 elections, the late Molly Ivins found a small sliver of a silver lining in the reelection of George W. Bush.
If the GOP nominee runs against Bush, he risks alienating the GOP base, none of whom he can afford to lose. If he runs with the president, he'll have a very hard time peeling off 20 or 30 percent of independents, without whom he can't win.

Some people think you cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin’ chickens, but my friend John Henry always claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog’s neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast. Thing’ll smell so bad the dog won’t be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won’t kill chickens again.

The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.