Politics, not as usual

[pecunium]

Grover Norquist said bipartisanship was a synonymm for date rape. Speaker of the House David Hastert (R Ill) doesn't even put that much fig leaf on the screwing he plans to give the half of the country who didn't vote for Bush (and if one believes the polls, the larger than half which support the Dems policies, when presented absent party affiliations).

Fuck you, we got ours

In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them, regardless of how many Democrats favor them.

Yep, if 70 percent of the House wants to vote for it, and that doesn't include a majority of the House Republicans, scuttle that baby.

The Dems; those divisive bastards, when they were in charge they let NAFTA, which they didn't like, go to the floor, where the minority Republicans passed it, with some help from Dems.

But over in the Senate, we get to feel the love, Daschle leaves the Senate “The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live,” said the South Dakotan, the first Senate leader of either party to lose a race for re-election in more than a half-century.“We will only find it in the firm middle ground based on common sense and shared values,” he said."

The Republicans... They couldn't be bothered to show up to say goodbye to someone they'd worked with for 18 years.

This is the way they treat half the country...? The word that comes to mind is contempt, and they are showing it to me, and to another 55 million people who voted. If we take that vote as indicative of the sentiments of the rest of the country, that's more like 150 million people they are telling to piss up a rope.

And the Right wonders why the Left is cranky, pisssed off, and muttering words like hate. I'm beginning to understand it, and if they keep this shit up, I may begin to share it.

They shall reap what they sow.

Comments

contempt

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

That is exactly the word for it. It's not just contempt for people who voted Democrat or otherwise not-Republican, not just contempt for non-voters, iit's contempt for women, contempt for people who get health insurance through their employers. It's contempt for the American public which I see reflected in the actions of this administration and those who support it.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

"Fuck you, we got ours" is where individualism and the belief that success is a sign of virtue ultimately lead, IMHO. If one believes that everyone should and can make it on their own ("on their own," of course, includes having rich parents with connections) and that those who don't/can't are morally inferior, then societal and moral rightness are embodied in "fuck you, we got ours" (usually in less obvious words).

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

Yet more insulation from the people and their elected representatives....