Steven Weber: G.O.P.: R.I.P.

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/gop-rip_b_185447.html


G.O.P.: R.I.P.
Steven Weber


So there it stands: a naked, pigeon-chested old man, random strands of white hair on its boney shoulders; its swollen-knuckled hands clasped over its dead genitals, looking at once forlorn and menacing, shivering with self-loathing and xenophobia, raging pathetically at its timely and appropriate defeat at the hands of Reason.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Republican Party.

With every passing day, the people who stubbornly, maddeningly cling to an obsolete ideal and who stand in the way of the cultural advancement of this country, this America, spew the base reality of their caustic ideology into the air.

The Republican Party is like a dying tyrant, mad with syphilis, ironically like that very Stalin they would accuse their enemies of associating with. How else to account for their desperation to resurrect the wraith of Joseph McCarthy; the hammy and baffling utterances from high level party officials like Boehner and McConnell; the blatant desire on their part to let the country fail out of sheer resentment; the wanton sedition of Conservative shit-stirrers ranging from the quasi Madame Defarge Michele Bachmann to the porcine, pill-popping porcine propagandist Rush Limbaugh?

It is an all out assault on reason, on progress, on truth. What is the difference between the Republican Party and, say, the Taliban? A rogue by any other name would smell as rank. Their frantic accusations all churned out in a futile effort to explain their current pariah status is as pathetic and draconian as stoning a woman in the street.

I feel I must apologize for my own particularly febrile anger. It's unseemly and ugly. But finally, the enemy is clearly outlined. We can see it for what it is and what it always has been. It exists not in myth but in a reality which has plagued humanity for millennia: utter, hateful ignorance born from a fear of truth, indeed a fear of life itself; a mad and impotent pursuit of some long-forgotten ecstasy having spawned generations of paranoid power addicts who chase the past at the expense of the future, cloaking their real intentions in perfumed patriotism and the seductive swoon of religion.

It's so fitting that we are living in an age where beheadings, torture, piracy and now unbridled power mongering are all common place. Perhaps that element of humanity is going back into hibernation and is snapping at any and everything before its eyes finally close. In our lifetime the choice has never been so stark.

Don't be intimidated by that naked, pigeon-chested old man. His party's over.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. The thought has passed my mind...

It's so fitting that we are living in an age where beheadings, torture, piracy and now unbridled power mongering are all common place.

It's getting so 18th Century around here.

[lamp_shade]

2. I wish I had a naked picture of this guy.

Herbert the Pervert.

[DCKit]

4. Close, but the first thing that came to mind for me...

'cause your's just doesn't embody the eeeeeeevil.

[Deja Q]

5. I wish I had a picture of Steven Weber naked.

:shrug:

[Peace Patriot]

3. The Pukes are not a dead party as long as Puke corporations own the 'TRADE SECRET' code

in all the voting machines in the country, with half the states conducting no audit (automatic handcount of paper ballots to check for machine fraud) at all--and the other half doing a completely inadequate 1% audit. Half the systems have nothing to count--no ballot, no paper trail whatsoever. The other half lock 99% of the actual votes away in a box where they are never seen again.

Rightwing Pukes own and control the 'TRADE SECRET' code which tells us who won. The big three...

ES&S, whose initial funder and major investor is reclusive, far rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals (among other things).

Diebold (now called "Premier")--brethren to ES&S (ES&S was a spinoff); two rightwing brothers run these election theft corps--first CEO was Wally O'Dell, a Bush/Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised, in writing, to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush/Cheney in 2004."

Sequoia, which hired Puke CA Secretary of State Bill Jones, and his chief aide, Alfie Charles, to peddle their machines, after Jones brought the curse of electronic voting to California--an egregious instance of "revolving door employment."

Until we change this, and demand TRANSPARENT vote counting, these rightwing entities can easily--EASILY!--flip the next elections right back to the Bushwhacks, after the corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies blame Obama and "the liberals" for all the shit and thievery and destruction of the country that Bush/Cheney did.

That is the reality. Do not be complacent. Also, do NOT count on Congress to fix this major, democracy-killing problem of 'TRADE SECRET' vote 'counting' by rightwing corporations. In my opinion, they will not fix it, though they might make it worse. This is something that we, as people, need to do at the local/state level, where the power over voting systems still resides, and where ordinary people still have some potential influence. And we don't have much time.

They foisted Bush/Cheney off on us again, after they tortured prisoners, spied on all of us, polticized the Justice Dept., stole billions of dollars with no accountability, and slaughtered 100,000 innocent people to get control of their oil. They can do it again, and it could be worse. Read the history of Germany in the early 1930s. There are enough parallels to be very concerned, indeed, about Pukes owning and controlling our privatized voting system.