We used to bitch about politics sometimes

Random thoughts about the politics I haven't been blogging:

1. At the risk of incurring Taddy's wrath, the AIG bonuses are a sideshow distraction. Let's not even indulge this "name names" or "pass stupid-ass laws that require these specific people to pay 90% taxes."

THINK, AMERICA.

Y'all were SO FUCKING OUTRAGED at the idea of raising taxes on people making over $250k/year. But now you wanna tax what, fifteen people? Fifty? Five hundred? at a 90% rate just because you're mad as hell and looking for a scapegoat? Pull your heads out of your goddamn asses (okay, here I'm mostly talking to the house of representatives, and yes, I am including Barney Frank in this one) and let's start acting like we seriously think about things like "policy" and "regulation" that apply "equally" and across the board. This tearing the doors off the barn and then running around trying to figure out how to Teach a Lesson to the cow that wandered into the kitchen is stupid bullshit, unworthy of anyone over the age of three. Put some goddamn fucking doors on the goddamn barn. That one cow isn't any different than any of the others, if you were a cow you wouldn't be either, and even if you shoot it in the head your kitchen is still going to be a mess and a different cow is going to wander in tomorrow.

2. On that note:

Dear President Obama,

Nationalize the banks already and quit fucking around.

Thank you.

3. Come to think of it, if the AIG "scandal" manages to convince Geithner to just nationalize the banks and quit fucking around, I'll retract most of that first bit.

4. Remember how Sarah Palin (yes, I know, I'm sorry) was all "oh i hav such sympathy and understanding of the poor downs syndrome babies because i haz my own and i luv all the little children so vote for me becuz i has long hair and is a girl and we iz the party of feminizm!!!!"? Yeah, right:

alin said she is accepting the federal stimulus money that would go for construction projects. . . . The biggest single chunk of money that Palin is turning down is about $170 million for education, including money that would go for programs to help economically disadvantaged and special needs students.

"It is a matter of discussing with our lawmakers if the expansion there is something we're willing to pick up the tab for when the federal dollars dry up, when they no longer flow into Alaska," Palin said.

Because you sure as shit have no intention of spending money on educating special needs kids, ever. You stupid, stupid egomaniacal cunt. And no, I am not going to apologize for calling her a cunt.

(And the same to all those dickheads like Jindal and Perry and Sanford and any other governors who are refusing state aid. You motherfuckers were elected to serve the people of your states. Not to serve your bullshit ignorant ideology. People's lives are going to be blighted because you need to Make a Stand, and if you're not voted out on your self-serving asses it's only because you're banking on and perpetuating the very ignorance that keeps you in office. You are disgusting human beings.)

5. Speaking of cunts and old election news that I wish to god was consigned to the dustbin of history, if this bullshit supreme court case, brought to you by some stupid ass organization "group" of a few rich ignoramuses that insult us all by calling themselves "Citizens United" (any relation to the oh-so-charming anti-Clinton "C. itizens U. nited N. ot T. imid" people? Hmmm), claiming that their ninety-minute propaganda campaign is a "documentary" and that their freedom of speech is being violated by requiring them to conform to electoral law isn't laughed right the fuck out of the Supreme Court . . . .

I don't even know how to finish that sentence.