This is the week for Republican Triumphalism in the media. Let's call it "Top Gun" on Steroids!
We are going to be told over and over about THE BUSH MIRACLE AND THE BUSH MANDATE.
Nevermind that Dubya only got 51% of the vote; and even that required some hanky-panky and confusion in Ohio. It makes no difference now......
LET BUSH BE BUSH! BUT:
1. Let's fight against more economic looting by the Wall Street Cult of the CEO.
2. Let's save Social Security; and demand a SINGLE PAYER NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN. Just like everyone else in the world has had for decades!
3. Let's expose the "Ownership Society" for what it really is!
Namely---THE YOUR-ON-YOUR-OWN SOCIETY.
Which is really a Republican scheme intended to FORCE even more working class people into supporting a STOCK MARKET that is owned and operated almost solely for the benefit of the US and Global ultra-rich!
Call that the 401k on steroids!
4. Let's stop the INSANE CRUSADE to conquor the Holy Lands of Islam!
Because, It's not working in Iraq and everyone knows it! Even Sharon sees this now, and he's back-peddling on the Likud West Bank Annexation Plans.
And remember, Sharon is possibly the only world leader who is actually stupider than Dubya!
And these Hosannas about "Afghan Democracy?" Oh Please! The US military, it's contractors and puppets now control 90% of the world's HEROIN SUPPLY! Afhganistan is the Haiti of the middle east.
I'd be losing sleep over Moochie Musharaff in Pakistan; not hyping the US Puppets trapped in the Kabul "Green Zone!"
5. Let's see the Repubican JOBS MIRACLE that was supposedly "just kicking in" during the elections.
I still have doubts. It seems that the game plan of the Cult of the CEO is more OFF-SHORING AND MORE OUT SOURCING!
Indeed, at my family Christmas gathering an accountant from from a western US state noted that his company is "sending all our income tax work to India now"
IF IT CAN BE DIGITIZED, IT WILL BE DIGITIZED, AND IT WILL GO TO INDIA!
MY HUNCH IS THE REPUBLICAN "JOBS MIRACLE" WILL JOIN THE TRADE DEFICIT AND THE BUDGET DEFICT IN THE CATAGORY OF "THINGS WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IN 2005!"
WALMART STOCKHOLDERS BEWARE THE CONSUMER PULLBACK IS GOING TO HIT LIKE A TIDAL WAVE IN 2005.
6. The Dollar? Doomed. See point 5. "Things we don't talk about anymore."
7. Can the Democrats be "saved?"
That usually means, can the Democrats become as anti-black, anti-gay, anti-feminist and anti-worker as Republicans. I say the Democrats can not be THUS saved, and they shouldn't even try. The Democrats have lost many elections because they try pitifully to be Republican-Lite.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MUST GO TO THE LEFT. AND BE PROUD OF IT.
JUST AS THE FAR RIGHT WAS WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR HISTORIC TAKE-OVER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE EARLY 1980's.
THE DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY SHOULD BE TO MAKE BEING A DEMOCRAT "FUN" AGAIN.
ONLY WHEN DEMOCRATS CAN AGAIN FEEL PROUD AND FREE TO BE 'IN YOUR FACE" IN PUBLIC WILL THE DEMOCRATS BE SAVED.
DURING THE LAST ELECTION, MANY DEMOCRATS WERE AFRAID OR EMBARASSED TO PUT UP LAWN SIGNS BECAUSE THEY FEARED THEIR BORN AGAIN BUBBA NEIGHBORS!
DEMOCRATS HAVE GREAT POLICY POSITIONS ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES.
BUT ALAS, THESE ISSUES GO AGAINST THE CURRENT ECONOMIC DOGMATISM OF ADAM SMITH, WHICH IS NOW ACCEPTED IN THE WEST LIKE ARISTOTLE WAS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES!
WITHOUT ANY QUESTIONS ASKED
MAYBE IT'S TIME TO START ASKING SOME QUESTIONS?!
LET'S GIVE DUBYA THE ECONOMIC "Q & A" TREATMENT THAT THE TROOPS GAVE RUMMY LAST WEEK ON HIS WAR IN IRAQ!
THAT'S THE TICKET TO "RESPECTABLITY" FOR DEMOCRATIC POLICY......!
IN 2005,
DEMOCRATS SHOULD "PUT A FACE ON" THEIR POLICIES LIKE THAT AMERICAN SOLDIER DID WITH RUMMY!
FORGET ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT STATISTICS. AND WHITE PAPERS.....
45 MILLIONS UNINSURED? WHASAT MEAN? IT'S JUST A NUMBER?
Do we really feel any worse because the recent Asian Tidal Waves killed 12,000, instead of "merely" 8000? It's all just numbers.
And numbers don't have faces!
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE PUT THE "ME" BACK IN MEANNESS.
NOW LET THEM LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
REPUBLICANS HAVE THE WHIP HAND IN KONGRESS.
NOW LET THE RED STATE BUBBAS FEEL THE LASH OF REPUBLICAN COMPASSION!
REMEMBER, THE RED STATE BUBBAS REALLY VOTED AGAINST JESSE, AL, THE HOMOS, AND THE FLIP-FLOPPER WHO WAS REALLY A COWARD IN VIETNAM.
AND TO "SUPPORT THE TROOPS" IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
NOW LET BUBBA LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING "GOD'S MESSENGER" IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
THIS WEEK THE REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE ANOTHER GREAT "TOP GUN MOMENT," AS WE LISTEN TO THEIR BIZARRO TWISTED VERSION "THE YEAR IN REVIEW."
LET THEM HAVE IT!
A YEAR IS A LONG, LONG TIME IN OUR NEWS CYCLE.
AND 2005 WILL BE A VERY, VERY, VERY LONG YEAR FOR THE BUSH REPUBLICANS.
