I’m putting this in the Pit rather than GD because I just want to vent, complain, bitch and moan.
There’s always something to complain about with any government. Complaining sometimes leads to positive change, sometimes not, but in any case it’s a basic right. I don’t expect perfect government, and I’m not prone to hysterical ranting. However…
In the past two years I’ve become emotionally fatigued by getting pissed off at the current Federal government, every single day. All three branches, although mostly Executive. For the first time in my life, I’ve been seriously referring to members of my own government with terms that would have been jokes or exaggeration for effect in previous years: “Warmonger”; “fascist”; “imperialism”; “half-wit cokehead chickenhawk”.
I’ve even used the phrase: “He’s a worse Attorney General than Ed Meese was.” Jesus Christ, I never thought that would happen.
I might as well break it down by branch:
Executive Branch:
Damn Bush for fucking up my country in general, and damaging my respect for the office of the President. Damn him for dishonoring his Oath of Office. And fuck him for being a whiney, small-minded bitch.
Damn Cheney for his dirty dealings with Halliburton. Where the hell is Kenneth Starr when there’s really something to investigate?
Damn Ashcroft for being a paranoid, religious-fanatic fascist, and for his unrelenting attack on the Bill of Rights (except for Amendment Two). (Check out the proposed “Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003”, which would allow the government to revoke your citizenship if you do anything they define as “supporting terrorism”.) Oh, and fuck him for being afraid of breasts.
Legislative Branch:
Damn Congress for, again, handing over to the Executive Branch its Constitutional duty and right to declare war. Damn the Republicans for… well, just in general. Damn the Democrats for apparently forgetting that they’re not Republicans. It’s not the job of Congress to support everything the President wants to do; that would be the job of a sham Congress in a dictatorship. Say, the Iraqi Parliament. What a collection of cowards, mountebanks, frauds and nitwits.
Judicial Branch:
Damn them for upholding California’s “Three Strikes” law, in a case in which a heroin addict was sentenced to 50 years to life. His second and third strikes were both shoplifting videotapes. I have to wonder what it would take to qualify as “cruel and unusual” for Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and O’Connor.
Maybe I should start watching the Cartoon Network in stead of CNN. Jesus, I’m tired of this. Flame me, agree with me, today I don’t give a shit. Just fed up.