The GOPer Apocalypse?

In an article published in New York magazine (2012 or never) Jonathan Chait writes how Repubs are warning that this year is the last chance to prevent America becoming a socialist, multicutlural state. The Repubs have so thoroughly identified themselves with white racism that they don't what to do with a country that is increasingly less "white" but also less Conservative. In the process, the Repubs and the whole Conservative "movement" have degenerated into a howling mob that must not be allowed to gain power.

The Clinton Paradox

PBS is running a 4 hour documentary on Bill Cliton. The biggest problem I have is that it's giving to much attention to the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio as if that were the significant even of his presidency. I never saw the big deal about it. So he fooled around on the side big woop. Consider too that the campaign to impeach Clinton was headed by philandering fakers like Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde, the whole thing was nothing more than a Repub power play.

The real problem with the Clintons is that they were caught in the central misconception of the 90's; that we had reached "The End of History" one of whose corollaries was that politics had entered a "Post Ideological" age where politics would revolve around personalities. Given that mood it was perhaps inevitable that the political discourse would slide into mere tabloid scandal mongering.

We can now see that all this talk about "The End of History" and the "End of Ideology" was utterly wrong. Yet at the same time the 1990's may well be remembered as the last happy time in American History. Is it ironic or merely sad?

Mr. One Percent

Mitt Romney has taken to wearing flannel shirts in an unconvincing attempt to look like a "common man." It's hard for Romney to do the "regular guy" look. Unlike the Bushes he never learned to hide his arrogance and complacency behind a mask of faux folksiness.

Romney has lately taken to attacking the Obama administration's bail out of GM and Chrysler. Most of his argument is just warmed over Friedmanite dogma. It's reavealing however, that he complains how Chrysler's secured creditors were given as he puts it "short shrift" at the expense of the UAW trust fund. That shows what Romney's priorities are; Wall Street speculators, like himself, should always come first. Romney represents the One Percent of corporate fatcats and swindlers who have enriched themselves at our expense.

Let's Tell It Like It Is

The Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, until a public outcry forced them to change course. The instigator of all this was Karen Handel, the VP for Public Affairs and a long standing right-wing anti-abortion nut. Handel has since resigned from the Komen foundation but that leaves us wondering why they would have hired a speciment like her in the first place.

Anyway Handel is now making herself out to be the victim and the right-wing media has taken up her "cause." In fact Handel herself pressured the Komen Foundation to break with Planned Parenthood by scaring them with a right wing backlash. This just shows what specimens these anti-abortion fanatics are; liars, manipulators, terrorists, and murderers. They have no right to call themselves "pro-life." That is a grotesque misuse of language since the Nazis began to put "Arbeit Macht Frei" over then entrances to the death camps.