A post election memo from an angry and frustrated liberal Democrat

Louisiana Weekly ^ | David C. Bellinger

[New Revolution]

As an American citizen and a liberal Democrat I feel as though I have been kicked in my political gut and left breathless as a result of Tuesday's election.

How President Bush could possibly campaign on making the tax cuts permanent and repealing the so called "death" tax to the detriment of the Social Security (which he promised not to touch) and Medicare trust funds and to the benefit to tax payers earning over $350,000 (the "truly" rich and greedy) while the deficits will stretch from here to the moon and beyond and will add billions and billions of dollars in interest payments to the budget for many, many decades to come (a ticking fiscal thermonuclear reaction waiting to happen), appointing reactionary conservative judges to the federal bench, with the rubber stamp approval of the Republican Senate, which appointments will be making critical decisions thirty years from now, a prescription drug plan formulated by the pharisaical industry, no rational plan for relief from skyrocketing health care cost and, to "add" insult to injury, presiding as President over current "cuts" to Medicare, advocating nothing that I know of regarding a patients bill of rights, and given the abysmal performance of the economy and financial markets, etc. and pick up seats in the House and Senate is far, far beyond my political comprehension! How the American people from Colorado to Minnesota to Missouri to Georgia (and I am very much afraid that Sen. Landrieu might lose to Election Commissioner Terrell (a real political airhead if I have ever seen one) in a Dec. 7 runoff in Louisiana) could make and endorsement of President Bush's politics is nothing "short" of political mind "boggling" insanity!!!

Furthermore, now that the Republicans have the power and the authority to carry out and go forth with their agenda; that is, if the Democrats don't "liberally" evoke their ability to filibuster in the Senate, maybe the country will receive a "major" wake up call when, for example, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retires, which I predict she will do when this current session of the U. S. Supreme Court ends in July, and President Bush appoints another Scalia or Thomas to the court in order to repay his political debt to the religious right, just as he said he would like to do during the 2000 campaign, which means the Roe V. Wade decision is toast and when overturned women will be forced to seek out back alley abortions and add to the 80,000 women who already die annually as a result of living in nations where abortions are banned!!!! In addition, as a result of Tuesday's election President Bush's disastrous environmental decisions and energy policies will become more and more a part of our every day lives!!! And can catsup as a vegetable, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, Elliot Abrams lying to Congress, trees that cause pollution, red baiting the anti-missile program detractors, tax credits and/or exemptions for segregated schools, homeless by choice, falling wages, even higher and then even still higher unemployment rates, Dow-Jones down 22.3% in one day, another HUD scandal, U. S. Information Agency blacklisting of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, invading a Caribbean island, assassination manuals, White House astrologer, mining harbors in Venezuela, another S. & L. scandal, another Beirut barracks tragedy, Al Haig in control, silence on AIDS, food stamp reductions, White House shredding of documents, more and more and more tax cuts for the wealthy, no increase in minimum wage, mistakes were made, White House chief of staff convicted for influence pedaling and uses alcoholism as a defense, you don't have to many suspects innocent of a crime, not all people standing in soup lines are really hungry, women don't understand throw-weights, education cuts, the bombing begins in five minutes, $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointments 1.9%, C. I. A. sponsoring car bombings killing innocent civilians, 139 administration officials either being investigated, indicted, or convicted, selling arms for profit to a terrorist nation, 3x5 cards, flowers being placed on Nazi graves, White House naps, raping valuable national resources as payback for political contributions, presidential pardons for indicted administration officials before turning state's evidence, using spies to spy on American citizens, selling biological and chemical agents to merciless dictators, etc. be far behind!!!!!

What a nightmarish scenario!!!

And I will never understand what or how the American people were thinking on Election Day 2002!!!!!!

May "god" save America, "please."

[Consort]

Why would he write this? Is there going to be some kind of Runoff Election in Louisiana in the near future?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Heck, I'll start the chant...

ZOT!
ZOT!
ZOT!
ZOT!
ZOT!
ZOT!
ZOT!
ZOT!

[GoreIsLove]

or to paraphrase:

(The (world)is coming to a (bitter) end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Save me Mike Dukakis

[general_re]

Is that a record?

The only thing that comes close, that I can think of, are Fidel's ridiculous eight-hour speeches...

[Admin Moderator]

Come on now. Concern over 3x5 card proliferation is something all Americans should be able to come together on.

[LS]

To the writer: tell me again why I should be glad you weren't aborted?

[hellinahandcart]

If you want a real laugh, check out the link.

"Zot!"-AdminMod, sir, does this sound like the Louisiana Weekly has met the same horrible fate as the Palmetto Journal? Bought and run right into the ground by leftists who can't write?

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/index.html

For over seventy-five years The Louisiana Weekly has articulated the interests of Louisiana's African-American community. We are proud of our longevity, and hope we have been useful. But times have changed.

We have also begun to include the interests of our region's multicultural citizenry who believe the future lies in a growing understanding of our interdependence as members of the same urban/rural household. Our goal is to add value to people's lives by delivering economic, social and scientific "new information" from business, culture, and the natural and social sciences, which enhances personal and community growth.

It is our belief that life is about education - mental, emotional, social and spiritual learning, and personal growth. The more learning and growth we experience, the richer and more meaningful life becomes. Henceforth The Louisiana Weekly will attempt to represent the interests of our multicultural community in its individual and collective quest for a richer, more dimensional, and meaningful quality of life.

[cardinal4]

I have work boots that are smarter than this guy.

LOL!!!

[Campion]

Children: never mix hysteria with stupidity! This is the result. Don't try this at home!

[Interesting Times]

Too many lies to count, so let's just try this one:

...maybe the country will receive a "major" wake up call when, for example, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retires, which I predict she will do when this current session of the U. S. Supreme Court ends in July, and President Bush appoints another Scalia or Thomas to the court in order to repay his political debt to the religious right, just as he said he would like to do during the 2000 campaign, which means the Roe V. Wade decision is toast and when overturned women will be forced to seek out back alley abortions and add to the 80,000 women who already die annually as a result of living in nations where abortions are banned!!!!

Overturning Roe v Wade doesn't make abortion illegal, it merely ends the fiction that the 'right' to an abortion is somehow encoded in the Constitution.

In its absence, who will decide whether unborn children merit any legal protection?

That's right, the people.

But the leftist position on abortion, racial preferences, gun control, etc., etc., is that the peasants have no right to choose. Leftist courts will tell us what is and is not permitted.

As this becomes obvious to more and more people, the leftists find they aren't doing all that well at elections -- even with the assistance of vote fraud -- and they are frothing mad.

Their solution? More tyranny, more lies. Rush and Fox News must be silenced. The leftist media must be seen as impartial. Republicans must be slandered as racist, as religious fanatics, as warmongers. Oh, yes, and as haters...

[Admin Moderator]

Looks like it. I guess if you can't build an audience, you buy it.

I don't think I am going to pull this. I think it is worth the entertainment, and I think it is worth seeing what other publications besides louisianaweekly and palmettojournal are going to have similar transformations.

[jjm2111]

Sucks to be you guys, doesn't it?

I was almost converted. If the author had used just a few more exclamation points, I might have seen G.W. for the danger that he is.

When you come back under the next nom de guerre, be sure to use many more exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!

[taxcontrol]

May "god" save America, "please."

Gee, what I would say is:

Praise God for saving America!!!

[Nick Danger]

I'm sorry, Dave. I don't believe you're making much sense.

I listened to your litany of liberal sloganeering, and I don't find it very persuasive. I don't think most humans believe those things anymore, Dave. I think they would read them and dismiss you as a crank.

We know what religious fanaticism looks like now, Dave. We have seen its ugly face in the Taliban, and elsewhere. And we know that there is nothing like it in the United States. So your attempt to scare us with a 'religious right' in this country sounds shrill and intolerant, and not very well connected with reality. Are you sure that you're not just an anti-religious bigot, Dave?

The voters have spoken, Dave. Your lies were not believed. Calling your political opponents names is no longer effective as campaign strategy. Neither is reciting litanies of horrors that you made up yourself. Yes, we know you believe those things, Dave. That is why you recite them. But you are irrelevant. You are just an angry, bitter, loser. You are what I would call a human error, Dave.

[vin-one]

May "god" save America, "please."

I believe that is what he is doing,
Newbie go away,
weren't you already banned once today!!!!!!!!

[1Old Pro]

Put some ice on it as the demise of your liberal democratic party is just beginning.

[hellinahandcart]

similar transformations.

Similar misfortunes. Gee, the Louisiana Weekly was around for 75 years, and now they're printing this stuff...

[fightin kentuckian]

Now I truely know what shadenfr....schadenfr.... oh forget the spelling, it just feels good.

[Tall_Texan]

"Better put some ice on that."

[EggsAckley]

I know what you mean about Newt. A Dem friend of mine can only spout b.s. about the way Newt treated his wives. LOL!

But I'm proud to report that I have been turning this friend into a proud Republican. He actually voted a Rep. ticket this time in Ca.