The GOP'ers are in their final stage and the prognosis is not good.

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31. Not enough!

I know it's probably impolitic to say what I feel here - but I actually WANT a one-party government for a little while. Just maybe through the next (hopefully) Democratic presidency immediately after President Obama's.

WE NEED TO FIX THE SUPREME COURT. And that seems to be the only way to do it. Keep the White House in Democratic hands, with a solid wall of Dems in the Senate, solid enough to blunt ANY of the enemy's attempts to block court nominations.

And we have to fix the appeals courts, too. Those bastards are keeping some really great and progressive-thinking judges like Goodwin Liu off the bench. If judges like him can't get to the appeals court level, they can't affect change at that level OR be well-positioned to advance to Supreme Court consideration. Too many CON-leaning judges have gotten in (of course there was no resistance from our side when bush/cheney and reagan/bush were packing the courts from coast to coast), and that is the talent pool that is critical here.

I want the republi-CONS as much of a shriveled weenie as they've been rendered here in California. There are still some in the state legislature. Thankfully, though, not enough to make trouble of any real significance. They don't have the numbers to obstruct. And frankly, that's how I like it. Just me, I know. And yeah, I know about the "loyal opposition" stuff and everything else. But too many of them are fucking up our country, our legal system, our civil rights, all the progress we made as a country through the 60s and 70s, hell, since the New Deal (which they hate and yearn to dismantle completely, mind you). WE HAVE TO FIX AND SECURE SO MUCH OF WHAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO DESTROY!!!!!!!!

(Sorry to yell, but I can't help it. I find this emergency-level urgent!!!!)

We HAVE TO do this at the state level as well as nationally. What we're seeing in Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas, and more, in terms of women's reproductive rights, voting rights, marriage equality, and so many other issues we care about, should be proof positive of how urgent it is to remove and replace as many of the GOP as possible with Democrats.

I've begun to feel kinda like one of reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet" monsters did. Industrialist justin dart was one of that little private backstage cabal of off-the-books advisors that helped steer that idiot's policies from early-on. He had NO regard whatsoever for environmental protection or preservation and regarded it as a nuisance in the way of big business and corporate profiteering. justin dart was once quoted as saying we should plan to preserve about 100 acres of trees - "for the kids." The rest were to be sacrificed on the altar of the lumber and real estate developers' industries. That's how I feel about the republi-CON party these days. We should aim to see to it that there are about 100 of 'em in office throughout the country. You know (she said, smirking). "For the kids."