November 6, 2004
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The lying fearmongers won again!
Well, the bastards won again. The environment in general ,and the bears in particular, lost; poor people and minorities lost; people who believe in human rights for gay humans lost. People who think lost. Peace lost. Decency lost. The truth lost. I’m not surprised. Time and time again, the candidate who lies the fastest and the mostest and the bestest wins. Still, my heart is lacerated with savage indignation. Not least because I used to be a Republican.
Yep. When Dick Thornburgh was re-elected as governor of Pennsylvania, I was one of 2,000 close friends of his at election headquarters in Philadephia, prancing around in my Calvin Klein suit and Brooks Brothers dress shirt and Countess Mara tie, smirking and waving around a campaign sign. Back then, being a Republican was not synonymous with being a gay-bashing, lying, draft-dodging, tax-evading fucking sleazeball. It is now, at least in Alaska. We have the sleaziest, sorriest, most corrupt motherfuckers who ever held office–at least since back in the nineteeth century, when “the Standard Oil Company did everything to the Pennsylvania State legislature except refine it,” according to one of my history profs in college.
Today, the same thing is happening in Alaska. The oil companies basically own the state AND the politicians. And they get what they pay for. And what the oil companies don’t own, or at least lease, the cruise lines do. They pollute the hell out of our coastal waters, and skate on paying any taxes–again and again. Oh they pay lots of money running feel-good ads about how much employment they bring the state. And they probably get a fat tax deduction on the ads–nothing like getting paid for lying. And I should know, I used to work for the government. (Ask me about the Legionnaire’s Disease cover-up sometime. I was there.)
But my goodness, time and time again I ask myself–have they NO shame? Have they have NO sense of decency? And time and time again, the answer is, hell no. Outsiders don’t hear much about Alaska. When we had over 100 wildfires burning in the Interior in the midst of our worst fire season ever, we got like 20 seconds on the evening news. Way less than Janet Jackson’s nipple got. But ye gods and little fishes, the infamy! Our governor Frank Murkowski,, a former do-nothing senator, got elected by lying and lying and lying some more. Fearful people believed his lies and elected him, He promptly appointed his daughter, a person with ZERO qualifications, to fill his senate seat. She recently got re-elected by–surprise–lying and lying and lying, preying on peoples’ fears. The head of the Republican paetty got caught doing lots of party business while working on a state job–that was mostly a sinecure anyway–and leaking confidential memos to the oil companies. He got some bad press–and the governor–known contemptuously as Frank the bank, or Murk the jerk–supported the bastard.
One of our legislators did consulting work for an energy company that wanted to put gas wells on the lawns of the people who elected him. A vigorous recall movement led to his resignation. Another legislator got caught with her fingers in the cookie jar–used campaign funds to put gas in her truck and pay personal bills–got fined a token $3,000 or so. But mostly they get away with it. And they keep getting re-elected!
Remember Richard “I am not a crook!” Nixon? Yeah, the one who resigned in disgrace in the wake of Watergate. Doonesbury reminds us that following the 1960 election (which Joe Kennedy and the Chicago mob pretty much stole), Eisenhower urged Nixon to call for a recount, and Nixon refused, saying it would tear the country apart. Well, the country is pretty much torn apart now, from where I sit. And now, Nixon is looking pretty good by comparison to the bottom-feeders in office now.
Comments (6)
I gotta admit, Nixon could SOUND good, but look good? Never.
I keep wondering if the masses will ever wake up and realize how much power over them their fear gives to the fearmongers, and transcend that shit.
Have you been around Xanga much since the election. I’ve been reading a lot of hate and agitation against the present administration. Could it be that some of their machinations are going to bob up and bite them in the butts?
Hunter Thompson shares your sentiment:
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a “liberal” candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today — and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected “American people”) don’t rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
Nixon hated running for president during football season, but he did it anyway. Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for — but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
You bet. Richard Nixon would be my Man. He was a crook and a creep and a gin-sot, but on some nights, when he would get hammered and wander around in the streets, he was fun to hang out with. He would wear a silk sweat suit and pull a stocking down over his face so nobody could recognize him. Then we would get in a cab and cruise down to the Watergate Hotel, just for laughs.
Yeh, as it stands today in America, the ostriches vote for the elephants.
Yep, this is America
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/07/ground.zero.suicide.ap/index.html
intresting link
Did all of you hear that the Canadian immigration website was shut down because of to many hits right after king george got elected =p
It’s nice to read a THINKER on Xanga for a change. (Came here by way of SuSu…)