No More Mr. Nice Guy!

The more things change...

I never thought I'd see a more cynical, hucksterish partisan political slogan than "compassionate conservative" (except perhaps for "fair and balanced"). But, as always when I think the rethugs have hit rock bottom in terms of sleaze, dishonesty and venality, they plunge to new, jaw-dropping depths of brazen chicanery.

After years of rethug corruption, criminality and incompetence have driven the US into the ground and left the vast majority of people crying out for change, the 'thugs are claiming that only they can deliver that change - the change that their unbelievable ineptitude, arrogance and lawlessness has made urgently necessary in the first place. Believe it or not, they are unveiling a platform entitled "the change you deserve."

Now, we of the sanity-based community know very well what change the 'thugs think we deserve. In a nutshell, they exist to enrich the wealthiest 1% by screwing everyone else - and you're lucky if you are left with pocket change. Sadly, there will always be sufficiently many people stupid enough to be taken in by this malarkey that they pose the risk of swinging the election to the ultra-corporatist John McCain. Roll on a third Junior term!

The party agenda is part of an effort to show that Republicans have ideas beyond simply blocking Democratic initiatives and supporting Mr. Bush on his multiple veto threats, some of which are looming over bills that could be before lawmakers this week.

Unfortunately, the reality is the 'thugs do not have any ideas beyond mindless obstruction and sabotage when they're in the minority in Congress - witness yesterday's vote against motherhood. Next targets of the rethug hate machine: baseball and apple pie. Tonight, a Fox Noise special: mothers - why do they hate America? What I really want to know is, why are rethugs constantly pulling these petty, infantile and mean-spirited tantrums, sabotaging the people's business that they have been entrusted with, and getting away with it?

After the incredible damage they've done to the US and the world, the 'thugs ought to be political lepers from now until the end of time, with no more power or influence than the Leninist-Trotskyist party. If only the useful idiots who keep voting rethuglican could realize that they are committing suicide at the polling booth. Only when that happens will we start to see real change!