“Go die in a fire.” It’s become such a trite little phrase. We even have an initialism for it: GDIAF. It’s cute and hyperbolic. But when I say it to you, right now, I mean it from the very depths of my being. I am filled with such anger, such loathing, such disgust, such shame, that I want nothing so much as I want you to die, writhing in agony, as your flesh melts from your bones and you comprehend how truly you have failed as anything but a sack of excrement masquerading as a human being.
You have voted for lies, and fear, and hatred, and ignorance. They knocked the truth around, and tarted her up, and sent her to walk the streets as their whore. And you thought she looked a little bit like that girl you had a crush on in high school, so you handed the man $20 and didn’t ask questions and took her up to a dark, filthy room, where you fucked her on a bare mattress and tried not to notice she was crying.
You will reap what you have sown–but so will everyone else.
Mind you, I’m still plenty pissed off. I wanted my HOOCH, dammit. More importantly, I wanted LESS, not MORE, hand-tying of the people we employ to take care of the people’s business (Prop. 26).
But we kept at least ONE person endorsed by Sarah Palin out of the Senate. And we didn’t get Whitman, either.
The one upside to this is that the GOP can’t put all of the blame on Democrats now. They hold a chamber of the House, and have to actually participate in governance instead of just shouting “No!” Let’s see what they do. I give it 50/50 odds they’ll try to shut down the government.
Eh, get used it. Even when the lesser bad people get elected, it’s for dumb reasons. You can only hope that the lesser evil people inspire the idiots with meaningless bullshit more than the greater evil people.
Every Ballot measure in the State of Washington went the opposite of the way I wanted it.
The measure to privatize liquor sales failed. The measure to implement income taxes on incomes above $200,000 failed. A measure to require a 2/3rds vote to raise taxes passed (great, now Washington will be just as fucked as California is).
The House candidate I voted for won – and her losing was never even in the wildest of fantasies of the opposing party.
The the candidate for Governor I voted for got stomped like a discipline case at boot camp. And the the Republican and Independant left in the race are still up in the air.
I screwed up a bond referendum – I mistakenly started to scratch in the “No” when I meant “Yes” but I didn’t feel like going to get a new ballot, so I let the No fly. The referendum passed anyway.
And then the semi-bi-annual-whatever hot-button for me: Casino at the Ski Resort referendum. I always vote “No” just because that seems so incredibly un-Maine to me – and it has never passed – although I always said if it ever does I’ll still go play poker there …
… looks like I’ll be playing some poker at Sunday River in the near future.
I think I would be on the same side as you for all of those, but claiming that you not getting the results you want is democracy utterly failing is ridiculous. Democracy failing is tanks on the streets. It isn’t people elected for two years with a different outlook on things.
You want these things? Next time convince more people of the efficacy of them.
Or you could keep taxes low and just try spending less of other people’s money.
They sure did. In 2008. They voted for lies like “hope and change”. They voted out of ignorance for a guy that actually said he’d fix the budget- “I’ll go line by line through the fedal budget and keep the things that work and fix the ones that don’t”. How do you not notice all the slime dripping off those words?! How could any reasonable American actually believe a politician that says that?!
Now they have partially corrected that by voting in the GOP. Good for America. Next up: the White House. And try not to chow down on all the bullshit this time, will you?
I’m disappointed to be sure. Disappointed that the failed politics of the last decade will rear its ugly head yet again. Disappointed that the party who considers itself “Conservative” in spending did its damnedest to bring the nation’s entire government and economic system to the brink of bankruptcy and that the OTHER party gets the blame for not fixing it fast enough. I’m disappointed that the Republicans governed for the past two years on a platform of “no participation and no compromise” and then got elected to do that again in the majority. And I’m disappointed in the Democrats for being so weak and so ineffectual in conveying a simple message in simple terms about what they’ve done and what they will do. I’m disappointed in all that.
But I’m hopeful.
I’m hopeful that Congress will actually do something bi-partisan in the next year. Oh sure, Joe Barton’s already saying that he’s got a list of 15 bills all ready to go in January (with bill #1 being repeal “Obamacare”). But I think once the Republicans get past their masturbatory fantasies and come up against a branch and a half that won’t pass such silly legislation, they’ll actually have to work on what will pass. And they’ll have to work together.
Or the entire system will grind to a halt. But I don’t think they’ll let that happen because it will be quite clear that it’s the Republicans doing that if it happens. They can’t play the victim card when they control the House.
I think we’re going to need to give it until March or April for everyone to get it all out of their system, but I believe this may be a unique opportunity to pull the right wing back towards the center and enact meaningful bipartisan bills.
