Why, goddamn it, must fate have chosen this goddamn moment to hand an unprecedented amount of clout to one goddamn president? If your eyes have been shut for the past two years, George W. Goddamn Bush will likely have the power to appoint at least one and possibly as many as three goddamn Supreme Court Justices. The country hasn’t been more polarized during my goddamn lifetime. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention when Reagan was president and this goddamn conservative revolution developed legs. Or maybe, goddamn it, these wheels have been in motion for a half goddamn century and nobody noticed.
I hate to get all gloom and doom on you in my drunken goddamn stupor, but there’s a lot of goddamn culture-changing shit likely to be presented to the highest goddamn court in the land over the next decade. Just check this goddamn article. We’re inching toward a goddamn theocracy, if you haven’t noticed. Goddamn it. And Rehnquist is a flaming granola-eating commie liberal compared to the goddamn maniacs waiting in line to be the next justice.
The word goddamn popped up a lot this post because I’ve decided this week will be 20-goddamn-per-post week. So, expect there to be excessive use of the word goddamn.
There’s nothing mature or intellectual or valuable or strategically sound about this, it’s just a week-long Fuck You to the goddamn theocrats.
I counted only 19. Maybe I miscounted, though. It’s late and I’m tired.
And I totally forgot to let you borrow The Catcher in the Rye. Goddammit!
There’s 21 if you count the subject. Function-F is your friend (err, in Firefox anyway).
I’m sure you couldn’t care less, but you just lost this reader (after about six or seven months). I consider myself a thinking, reasonable conservative and I’ve (at times) found your entries interesting. I’ve even occasionally tried to contribute some thoughtful balance to your site, but I give up now. If I wanted to hear a profane and offensive dullard rant and rave, I’d pick up a George Carlin tape.
As for me, I’m no longer interested in anything you have to say.
Thems is the goddamn breaks. In no way do I remotely compare to Carlin, but I’m flattered you’d mention me in the same breath.
Hahahaha!
I know you’re so sad to have lost that reader.
Some people take things way too seriously.
If he was a “thinking and reasonable” conservative he would be able to accept other points of view even if they’re presented to him in an unfalttering manner instead of just deciding it’s easier not to hear dissenting opinions.
Well, if you win elections you get to pick the Judges. I suspect the Dems will declare Jihad on any nominee Bush puts forward. Advice and Consent? HA! This is war baby.
Buzz
What’s a “thinking, reasonable conservative”?
That would be a bullshitter, and I totally mean that in the Harry Frankfurt sense of the term. The truth is irrelevant — just make up facts along the way.
A contradiction in terms?
why, goddamn it, must fate have chosen this goddamn moment to hand an unprecedented amount of clout to one goddamn president?
It’s not fate, it’s thirty years of dirty scaife money, crass manipulation, theocratic dithering, think tank “studies,” privatisation, consolidation of the medaia and the general decline and fall of the American Empire.
George Bush, born on third base, thinks he hit a triple.
Shorter mike:
Waaaaaaah! You’re mean and nasty and make sense even while being funny!
Oh, and George Carlin is a genius. Bet that guy’s never even heard of Bill Hicks…
Ok, rambling here, but one thing I think is so amazing in today’s political discourse is that someone like you, Rusty, is probably considered a raving leftist when compared to their envisioning of a moderate (someone probably to the right of Joe Lieberman).
I think they probably get apopleptic thinking about me…
Wow. That could be the quote of the day.
Buzz,
I’m curious how a group of mostly secular-minded politicians can declare a jihad, especially when the ones who are religious are, for the most part, Christians. Did you mean a crusade? That would have been marginally closer to accurate.
One thing you are right about is that we are on the verge of a real war. The first government official who knocks on my door asking for a tithe to the Christian State will be met with the business end of my gun. I’m not far off from refusing to pay the portion of my taxes delegated to Bush’s proselytization scam, a.k.a. the faith-based charities initiative.
For the one or two of you who might not know this, I make a distinction between conservatives, Christians, Republicans, and theocrats. Theocrats have NO claim to the word conservative, as they want an oppressive government based on the tenets of their religion. That’s just a different and uglier version of the liberalism they claim to abhor. It’s up to Republicans to decide whether those maniacs should have a claim to the word Republican or not.
Bush will unravel. Its happening now. There’s nothing he can do about it.
Unfortunately, the country is going to suffer until we are rid of him, and he is out of office.
If there were really justice in the world, he would be on trial for violating the Patriot Act- providing false intelligence to the US Government.
Iraq will be his undoing. Mark my words….
Gall Dang it!
This is awesome.
If there were really justice in the world,
Not to contradict you, but if there were really justice in the world, we could chain together Dick, Chimpy, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, the Faux News team, michelle malkin, michael savage, plus all the other architects, supporters, and people that really sold Chimpy’s Iraq Adventure to the American public and have them go aroudn rebuilding Iraq. Rebuilding Iraq, that is, one mud brick and one roof at a time. When they finished with that, we’ll put them in Abu Ghraib or Gitmo…whichever they’d prefer.
I stand corrected, Epy.
What is the fear of a republican picking judges? That we might more strictly interpret the constituition. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Else, I want to build a walmart where your house stands. The current SC just gave me that opportunity.
PS What are you supposedly a moderate of? Certainly not hatred or political view.
Hate comments! Hate comments!
Bring it, motherfuckers!
e,
I don’t fear Republicans picking judges. Nixon and Bush I picked reasonable people, even if they’re people I don’t always agree with. I fear theocrats picking judges. The “strict interpretation of the constitution” line is horseshit coming from people who want to rape and pillage the Establishment Clause.
I’m with you on the recent eminent domain decision, and found all the justices’ positions to be somewhat baffling.
Where am I a moderate? A few examples:
* I don’t believe a government program is always the best solution to a problem, unlike the Democrats.
* I don’t believe private industry can always provide the best solution, unlike Republicans.
* I’m not a pacifist. I believe war and application of force is sometimes the only way to solve a problem. I also believe we should be attacking the people who attacked us rather than attacking metaphors and “noble lies.”
* I believe people should be able to own as many guns as they’d like.
* I abhor political correctness, including the speech codes prevalent in many modern universities, which was a liberal phenomenon.
But do I have hatred in my heart? Hell yes I do. I hate religious fundamentalists of all stripes, including radical Muslims and radical Christians. Our government should be guided by the world that exists around us rather than by the cryptic writings of people who answer their unanswerable questions by making up fictional characters.
By extension, I hate people who make it their job to push the agenda of religious extremists. That applies to Bush.
I’m tired of the references to “our founding fathers” citing their intent for the U.S. to be a Christian nation. Thomas Jefferson & Ben Franklin were non-practicing deists. John Adams was a practicing deist via the Unitarian church. It was the Age of Enlightenment, gods dammit.
George Washington: “The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.”
Reid, that’s a quote often attributed to various Founding Fathers, but which I actually think is a paraphrasing of this passage from the Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli and Barbary:
I had a long post about the Christian Nation myth back in February.
“I’m curious how a group of mostly secular-minded politicians can declare a jihad, especially when the ones who are religious are, for the most part, Christians. Did you mean a crusade? That would have been marginally closer to accurate.”
I meant Jihad in the sense that many Democrats will oppose a Bush nominee simply because he/she is a Bush nominee and they will seek to not just defeat that person, but utterly destroy them.
“One thing you are right about is that we are on the verge of a real war. The first government official who knocks on my door asking for a tithe to the Christian State will be met with the business end of my gun. I’m not far off from refusing to pay the portion of my taxes delegated to Bush’s proselytization scam, a.k.a. the faith-based charities initiative.”
What “Christian State?” Bush’s faith-based initiative merely seeks to allow faith-based groups that do not proselytize equal access to government funding. How does that create a “Christian State?”
“For the one or two of you who might not know this, I make a distinction between conservatives, Christians, Republicans, and theocrats. Theocrats have NO claim to the word conservative, as they want an oppressive government based on the tenets of their religion. That’s just a different and uglier version of the liberalism they claim to abhor. It’s up to Republicans to decide whether those maniacs should have a claim to the word Republican or not.”
I can’t disagree with your statement, but there are very few “theocrats” in the GOP. Most of the “theocrats” consider Bush and the GOP to be one-world-government-un-loving-sellouts. They left and joined the Constitution party.
Boo-hoo. That’s the nature of politics these days. And it’s still not a jihad, unless you’re going by the secondary meaning which says a jihad is a “a struggle” (Dictionary.com is your friend). In that case, the word could be applied to nearly anything. I’d argue under that pretext, for example, that Bush is waging a jihad on pronounciation of the word “nuclear.” Sounds a little silly and hyperbolic, doesn’t it?
The one outlined by Leo Strauss and currently in formation by way of his disciples Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bill Kristol, and their puppets in the Bush Administration.
In a word, bullshit. See Rolling the Dice from the Aug. 4, 2001 issue of World Magazine for some insight on how the bill’s authors wrote it so religious organizations could weasel their way out of that pesky Establishment Clause:
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