Posted on 08/04/2007 7:58:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What will Washington be like when the Barbarians leave town next year?
Will this hapless burg feel the relief of an epic enema? Will this home of flagrant hypocrites and BS ejaculators, stuffed from snout to stern with an indigestible lumpen elite of corrupt souls, moral myopics, and wannabe-messiahs — will it actually change?
We know what Washington has become since the Barbarians took over in 2000. Who back then, when Bush was campaigning as a "compassionate conservative," could have foreseen what his Cheney presidency would bring us?
1. The turning of our proud Army and CIA into low-life torturers.
2. The deaths of tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of innocent Arab men, women and children, and nearly four thousand Americans — not counting the thousands of severed limbs dropped on Iraqi soil.
3. The hatred and contempt of the world.
4. The creation of thousands of fresh, motivated, diehard al Qaeda terrorists and hundreds of suicide bombers.
5. The tactic of the Big Lie to con us into a "pre-emptive" war (it worked for Hitler, it worked for Bush).
6. A headlong plunge from a comfortable surplus into a tsunami of debt, making us the #1 debtor nation on earth, which includes the staggering waste of $12 billion a month on the Iraq War, the millions wasted on mercenaries — hired goons — by the truckload, and the stunning charity to the super-rich, to the point that beneficiaries like Warren Buffett and Bill Clinton apologize for it.
7. The rebuilding of al Qaeda in Pakistan.
8. The trashing of our Constitution, Bill of Rights, habeas corpus, separation of church and state, Geneva Convention, warrants for surveillance, laws via "signing statements", the environment, the middle-class, the poor, US attorney credibility, FEMA, stem-cell research, and good American jobs.
9. No-bid contracts for Cheney's cronies at Halliburton.
Truly, we've had six years of government by the Barbarians, our historic worst. It's the sacking of Rome from the inside. The cons are running the prison. Darth Vader rules the galaxy. Child molesters oversee the nursery.
During Watergate, pundits proudly stated that the system worked. Well, in the case of the Barbarians, the system worked all right, but it was not the system we call democracy. It was something new in America — dictatorship lite.
Our so-called democracy — this supposedly robust system established by our founding fathers, of a separation of powers, of checks and balances, of equality before the law — was hijacked by no more than twelve men with a wacky agenda: Dick Cheney, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Philip Zelikow, and Attorney General Gonzales.
The shame of it is that they were ably supported by not only the usual suspects, which include the Weekly Standard, National Review, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the "scholars" of the American Enterprise Institute, the batty "Rapture" Evangelicals and creationists, the rightwing radio windbags, the flag-waving "uberpatriot" imbeciles, the greedy military-industrial complex slurping up our tax dollars — the whole pea-brained troglodyte spastic chorus of hate-speech-spouting Bible-thumping crooked free-market monopoly capitalism liberal-decrying family-values war-on-terror gay-baiting women-suppressing stem-cell-fearing enemies-under-our-beds science-ignorant paranoid fetus-pitying SUV-driving beer-bellied gun-toting bash-the-poor hysterical racist ideologues who've made America the laughing stock of the civilized world, given noble conservatism a bad name, and caused Barry Goldwater to puke on the worms in his grave.
These twelve Barbarians — who in any other country would be marginalized on the far-right loony fringe — were also enthusiastically cheered on by the self-proclaimed stalwarts of our "democracy," such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, CBS, NBC and ABC. These highly intelligent and "liberal" media fell for the most obvious lies, and became the useful idiots of the Barbarians.
Twelve Barbarians hijacked the country, and the country was only too willing to be hijacked. Hey, we may be against gay marriage, but that doesnÕt stop us from bending over when our elite waves a big blunt organ our way.
So much for our so-called democracy. Turns out it can be easily busted by a few determined wingnuts.
Even an election win by the Democratic Party has made little difference. Our kids are still being killed for no good reason in Iraq. The Barbarians, bloodied but unbowed, still rule. Nobody has thought to impeach the most impeachable President and Vice-President in history.
Our system of "democracy" has failed us. The truth is, the system never works. It's people who make the system work, and we've elected the wrong people to make our system work. Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to impeach, and that's that. The electorate never gets a proper alternative to the dictatorial powers-that-be.
It doesn't really matter which party is in power. The credit-card companies will still get to write the bankruptcy laws. Big Pharma will still be writing drug laws. HMOs will be writing healthcare laws. Big Oil will make sure they're subsidized by our taxes. The American people will still find themselves eternally ass-up-in-the-air, steadily buggered by their Barbarian elite.
The Barbarians are in charge because a nation of Barbarians put them there, and it took our nation of ignoramus hicks all of six years to find out how Barbarian their chosen Barbarians can be. At last Bush's approval rate sleeps with the fishes, and most Americans want the end of a war most of them now think was a mistake, but wouldn't you know? Bush is still whining away on TV, refusing to get his butt out of Iraq.
Now that we know how easy it is to turn our "democracy" into a dictatorship (in the current jargon, a "unitary executive"), what can we expect future administrations to get up to?
Don't think you can trust an administration run by Democrats to be more "democratic" than the Barbarians. The template has been set. It's just too easy to hijack our "democracy." Our media are simply too compliant. Our citizens are simply too ignorant (how many of them realize they make no more money than they did in 1970, even though they're way more productive and work much harder?). And our business leaders can buy too many profit opportunities under the Barbarians. Heck, they love the war; they're making a killing in Iraq.
That shrewd old Nazi, Hermann Goering, explained the whole thing at Nuremberg: "Naturally the common people don't want war. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
It sure worked here. The Barbarians took over, planning a war on Iraq long before 9/11 for their Barbarian dream of more military bases in the Middle East. Now they've afforded future administrations a shining example of just what a few determined men can do when they want war, or tax cuts for the rich, or the right for corporations to foul up our air, or however you want to screw average Americans. The spiders spin, and we sit trapped in their web, being sucked dry, while those who should be warning us are basking in access to power instead of speaking truth to it.
Will anything happen to our Barbarians? Let's take just one example: pundit William Kristol, the editor of Rupert Murdoch's conservative vanity publication The Weekly Standard. He told NPR when the Iraq War started: "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America, that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni - There's been almost no evidence of that at all." What happened to this massive fool, whose brain has been squatting in his bowels since birth? Time Magazine made him one of their columnists. The stupider you are, the bigger the forum you're given to be stupid in. The more you screw up, the likelier you are to get a Medal of Freedom pinned on your incompetent backside by our Barbarian-In-Chief.
Even now, our nation of Barbarians have no idea how truly Barbaric their Barbarian rulers are. Three of our GOP presidential candidates don't believe in evolution. All of them are for torture. How can this happen in an educated society of rational grownups? We're talking about idiocy on a massive scale here, a kind of dark age of the human spirit. Our leaders may be jokes, but what they do is not funny at all, since it usually entails thousands being ripped off or killed. (This month's joke from the NY Times: "Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel ... that he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches." America, never forget you voted for this pustule on a warthog's butt who would've felt at home in the Kremlin.)
The American experiment with democracy is over. We need a new De Tocqueville to write not Democracy in America, but Kleptocracy in America. Here's the definition of kleptocracy: a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class at the expense of the population. Rings a bell, doesn't it? Especially when we see our pols, after they lose elections, automatically become lobbyists to cash in big-time. And you thought they were there to work for you.
We can now look forward to Barbarian rule in perpetuity. Sometimes it will be Barbarian Heavy, like today, and sometimes it will be Barbarian Lite, like it will be under Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Hillary or Obama might make a cosmetic difference, but Paris Hilton will become a nun in the Congo before any administration actually tries to SOLVE our problems of education, healthcare, energy, the environment, campaign funding and income inequality, as opposed to Congress paving them over with a thin coat of superficial law-making. Until public schools are funded equally and not by property taxes, until there's a single-payer healthcare system, until big business is forced to clean up after themselves, until corporate welfare for big oil and other businesses stop, until the rich pay their fair share of taxes, until we stop exporting our jobs overseas, until CEOs stop making more in one day than their workers make in a year, things will go on as before.
The Barbarians have won. Under Bush/Cheney, government of the people by the people for the people has perished from America. Sorry, Abe. Our Constitution never stood a chance against our 21st century elite. You thought you birthed a democracy, founding fathers. Tsk, tsk. Long live government of the Barbarians by the Barbarians for the Barbarians.
Did somebody say something about BS ejaculators?
Bovine excrement!
The latest Zogby polls show an approval rating of 3% for Congress' handling of the Iraq war vs. 24% for Bush. If Americans really wanted to get out of Iraq, no questions asked, the approval rating for Congress would be higher than that for Bush.
What this says is that folks are tired of how the Rats in Congress continue attempting to obstruct our victory in Iraq.
More wasted words.
Somebody had to do it. Carry on . . .
It’s a classic. Good find.
should be called BS politics
I doubt if the Barbarians are leaving this town any time soon. Say what you want but Barbarians make great neighbors. Their yards are neat and their children are well behaved.
Wow, what kind of loser works at the same job for 37 years and never gets a raise?
His dates are all wrong. The barbarians LEFT (with the WH silver) in 2000.
If a Republican wins in November 2008, people like this guy will go completely over the edge.
Guess now would not be a good time to point out to Mr Likes-it up his-Ash, that even on Bush’s worst day he accomplishes more good for the future of this country then Mr Ash’s hero Bill Clinton did in all 8 years combined.
Does that mean Bush pefect? Not even close. No President is, or was. Not even Ronaldus Maximus Reagan was. However, Bush has been far better then any of the Democrat alternatives would of ever been
Worst case of BDS I’ve ever seen. I recommend that the author drink heavily.
It’s very good ranting. Because he drops many names, and sometimes makes sense:
“It doesn’t really matter which party is in power. The credit-card companies will still get to write the bankruptcy laws. Big Pharma will still be writing drug laws. HMOs will be writing healthcare laws. Big Oil will make sure they’re subsidized by our taxes.”
That’s pretty much true. Then there’s stuff I’ve never heard anyone complain about before,
“Until public schools are funded equally and not by property taxes”
He’s unique, that’s for sure.
“3. The hatred and contempt of the world. “
I hear the way to fix this is to threaten our allies with attacks on their sovereign territory.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Obama has left the building.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Phew!
the irrational, altruistic, collectivistic mentality of an America hating, terrorist loving, secular humanist commie statist
When Alexander Hamilton was gluing our new republic together with the U.S. Treasury Department he had incredibly articulate detractors, one of whom was my personal favorite founding father, Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Hamilton had the good sense to write the Federalist Papers; a comprehensive rebuttal that stated his purpose to the detail. We live in a society today that does not have the capacity to deal with such genius. In the Information Age, rabble such as this is as prominent as Common Sense is as prominent as the Federalist Papers.
THe question that occurs to me is,
Why’d you bother to post this crap in the first place?
But he did take some correspondence writing courses and has a spell checker, and is marginally above the DU standard...
I must give him credit for finally (buried in the verbal diarrhea) acknowledging that the party he spends the first one thousand words vilifying is really irrelevant...
It doesn't really matter which party is in power. The credit-card companies will still get to write the bankruptcy laws. Big Pharma will still be writing drug laws. HMOs will be writing healthcare laws. Big Oil will make sure they're subsidized by our taxes. The American people will still find themselves eternally ass-up-in-the-air, steadily buggered by their Barbarian elite.
Unfortunately, he is blissfully unaware that the "Barbarian elite" he refers to includes most politicians, regardless of party, and the entire MSM...
Just saying.
It appears as though Mrs. Ash’s little Ash, Adam, is looking for some new mommy figures to look up to.
Helen Thomas, is that you?
I wish the barbarians WOULD leave Washington, and the Gov’s office and City Hall... but the barbarian America hating Demo-commies and RINOs are trying hard to get even more of them in! They will multiply like bacteria in a giant petri dish if we can’t enforce illegal immigration laws!
BTW, has BOR seen this?
Hold on a sec. Check BC out before you condemn it. It’s a non-partisan site. We give a fair airing to viewpoints from the left and the right, including plenty which either side would find abhorrent and some which almost no one agrees with. The one unifying factor is that the articles are edited for quality, so you’ll at least get fairly good leftist drivel and equally good conservative craziness, plus some moderate mumblings.
We’ve got 4 editors in the Politics section. Two are lefties, two are righties. I’m the chief editor and I’m more right than left leaning.
But seriously, try it before you condemn it.
dave
I hadn’t noticed that particular line before. I was earning $2.35 an hour at my first job in the early 70s. I’m pretty sure I’m not earning that now. If I was I think I’d have to kill myself.
dave
was this the keynote address at the kos convention?
“What will Washington be like when the Barbarians leave town next year?”
Uh, the Barbarians won’t (if they do) leave town until 2009!
Well there you go again.
Read the comments after the editorial...hilarious!
Judging from this rant, I think he’s already there.
Psychotics often mumble and rave to themselves as they fester and wallow in their own excrement, this one had a keyboard given to him.
As opposed to the clinton years, when Big Trial Lawyers called the shots, and still do, to a large degree?
Big Oil subsidized by our taxes? Like Big Corn (a subsidiary of Big Agribusiness) getting subsidized by our taxes to turn our food corn into an inefficient biofuel?
I propose not one dime to Big Corn until the liberals can fly their Gulfstream Vs on ethanol.
What a figantice piece of crap.
btt
I thought they were barbaric rednecks. Sorry, I stand corrected. :)
Fair enough- for whatever my word is worth around here, I did, and you have a good site.
The comments are certainly worth reading- I generally gravitate to comment sections, anyway, to get a better feel for an unfamiliar place.
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and there are hundreds of think tanks, law firms, and trade associations that can't wait to hire them.
What this idiot doesn't realize is that when conservatives are out of power, money floods into their think tanks and vice-versa. This is why liberal groups have so much $$ right now. Their coffers have been filling up with money for seven years.
Well .. I’d rather have “Barbarians” then LIARS, CHEATERS, CROOKS AND JUST PLAIN COWARDS.
--Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians
Not that this idiot knows that he took his phrase from Cavafy (1863-1933), whom he probably never heard of.
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