The Language of the Neo-Conservatives Unmasked..

Monday morning’s Op-Ed piece by William Kristol is the most direct command a neo-conservative can use. His title: Be Afraid. Please. Kristol’s premise is that electing Obama with a Democratic-controlled Congress will give Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid free reign. The direct quote is: “But if the voters elect Obama as president, they’ll be putting Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in untrammeled control of our future.”

Frankly, after the last eight years of Bush, Cheney, and yes, Bill Kristol, I would be thrilled to let Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have untrammeled control of our future. The Neo-Cons have had untrammeled control and have destroyed the US economy, led us into an unnecessary and elective war, trashed the environmnet, ignored the crumbling infrastructure in the USA, and generally made the USA the laughing-stock of the world. Do I think Obama walks on water? Absolutely not. He’s flawed, deeply so. Pelosi has been quite disappointing. But I would much rather have their flaws in charge than another four years of the Bush/Cheney administration.

Kristol writes about the November election: “Maybe they’ll decide it’s more important to have John McCain as commander in chief than Barack Obama as orator in chief.” His focus, of course, is war. War. Be afraid. He wants voters to be afraid, because fear keeps people paralyzed. How can you make change, when paralyzed by fear? McCain is a known quantity - Bush Lite - while Obama is an unknown, a (deep disdain in the tone, per neo-con style) “lib.”

Obama is not a liberal. He’s a centrist, always has been, much like Bill Clinton was, much like Hillary Clinton is. We’ve become unable to elect a true liberal in this nation. If we were, we’d have Dennis Kucinich as the presumptive Democratic nominee. But Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee, and he gets my vote for these three words: The Supreme Court. More, really. He gets my vote because I will not support a man who has said that we need to stay in Iraq for 100 years.

And I will not allow the Neo-Cons to continue to bully me into a place of fearful submission. Bill Kristol wants you to be afraid. It’s time to tell him that HE should be afraid, because we are angry, fed up, done. Pack it up, Bill.

Crossposted at Journeys with Jood.

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Some thoughts inspired from the internets…

A certain conservative CNN contributor who shall not be named lest a bitch feed his already out of control ego is asking the question What’s Right with America? on the CNN.com website today.

Now, a bitch knows where he’s going with this shit. He’s going to dismiss criticism of America by calling it unpatriotic and then he’s going to point out all the really cool and truly amazing shit going on in our country followed by some poorly written conclusion proclaiming that we’d all be better off if mouthy liberals would dive into that bag of Soylent Green then chase it with gov’ment Kool-Aid.

And there will be some who find inspiration in the notion that what is good is more important than what is bad.

A bitch isn’t inspired by intellectually lazy shit, so I won’t be getting anything out of it but a dull headache developed whilst pondering how Aaron Brown got booted from CNN but some asshole implanted with an RNC microchip got a steady gig.

Pause…swallow aspirin…continue.

Anyhoo, what the asshole with the steady gig is missing is that most of what is right in America was made that way by people who had the courage to point out what was wrong.

And I’m not talking about people who gently suggested after multitudes of flattering comments that we may want to form a more perfect union/end slavery/give women the vote/give all Americans the protected vote/give veterans benefits/protect older people from starvation/educate our chil’ren or any of the other positive happenings….you know, if we find the time and are so inclined.

You have to be delusional or well programmed….along the lines of Michael Slavery Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You People Medved…to embrace that flawed theory of how shit gets done.

In the real world, Americans who notice something is wrong have to point it out to those who could fix it…and then file a lawsuit or march or do both…and then make it a campaign issue followed by more marches and maybe some media…followed by lobbying then marching then Congressional hearings and/or a legal test case followed by appeals and more appeals until the high court takes the case…and if the high court fucks up, they go back to the beginning and start again.

Getting to right from wrong takes time, dedication and the courage to point out that shit is fucked up before it achieves fubar.

The issue before us isn’t whether there is more good than bad going on in America…the issue before us is whether we are doing our duty as Americans when we ignore what is wrong to fix a glassy ass gaze on what is right.

Yeah.

Ask not what is right with your country–ask what you can do to help right what is wrong…

Crossposted from The Angry Black Bitch

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Sweet Jesus in a speedo…where does Hillary find these people?

“the Democrats are throwing the election away, for what, an inadequate black male? Who would not have been running if it had not been a white woman that was running for president.”-Harriet Christian

What. A. Fucking. Wingnut. And she purports to be on our side my dear reader.

H/T to SteveO at Bring it On! for finding this…I was wondering if anyone captured this wingnut on film as I heard her incessant screaming yesterday as I watched the Rules Committee’s ‘meeting’.

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O’REILLY PROPOSES CHRISTMAS PROTECTION ACT

From the Coalition Press
By Praetorone and BibleBelted

WASHINGTON DC–In yet another attempt to both anger and polarize the American people along theo-political lines, former Right Wing Propagandist, Bill O’Reilly, in yet another attempt to “protect the Baby Jesus,” unveiled what the GOP calls the American Christmas Protection Act.

According to O’Reilly. the measure “has become necessary to keep uppity Jews, Muslims, and nonbelievers in their proper place. Grumbling on his increasingly irrelvent talk show, the self professed legend in his own mind openly condemned as un-American those who refuse to celebrate the Christmas Holiday in a religiously correct fashion.

“There’s a Reich way and a wrong way to celebrate this thing,” O’Reilly stammered. “And its time that we made a living hell for those who won’t share the love, joy, and peace of the season.”

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The Christmas Wars: How the Radical Christian Right will again bastardize the Spirit of Christmas.

The Christmas Wars:
How the Radical Christian Right Will Again Bastardize the Spirit of Christmas

By BibleBelted, PraetorOne and Matthew5

“I am not going to let aggressive totalitarian and anti-Christian forces in this country diminish, denigrate, the holiday and the celebration. I’m gonna use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people who are trying to do that..”

Bill O’Reilly trying to sound like a Christian, circa 2006

It seems as if the Radical Christian Right has stepped up its attack on America and mainstream Christianity by extending the Cultural War to include the words Happy Holidays; and while they may not realize it, they haven’t exactly done a lot to equate their battle cry of “Merry Christmas” with anything especially Merry or Christian either.

On the surface, the whole thing seems rather bizarre. Christ, after all, never politicized his religious teachings; and the last we knew, bringing horror into the world of concerned Americans who oppose a Christian Republic or a Fundamentalist theocracy isn’t exactly a Christian standard. So you just have to wonder: Why would the same professional misanthropes who so fervently complain about political correctness, want to demote the words “Merry Christmas” to the mere equivalent of right wing political war chant? Why would they want use Christmas, of all things, as an excuse to infuriate the American people at what they claim is the holiest time of the year?

First and foremost, we need to remember that this isn’t the first time that the Pseudo Christian Right has used Christmas as a weapon against its opponents.

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