Reply #15: Which then begs the question...

[warren pease]

... if our useless, bribed-into-slavish submission federal non-representatives are incapable of responding to the overwhelming popular outcry to dump this extortion racket ASAP and join the other 18 post-industrial countries -- all of which have some version of single-payer, universal access health care at less than half the per capita costs we pay for this utter bullshit non-system here -- why expect anything but the same shuck and jive, bowing and scraping from them on all other progressive issues?

Thus far, all I can see is a party so convinced of its own impotence and incompetence -- and so controlled by the built-in quid pro quo attached to massive campaign bribes -- that even with the fabled 60 votes in the senate -- which Reid keeps trying to cut back by refusing to seat Franken and, before him, Roland Burris -- they still spend their time playing battered spouses to the GOP's Stanley Kowalskis -- wife-beater shirts and all.

Learned behavior? The cumulative cynicism fed by zillions in campaign bribes over the years? Self-interest uber alles? Doesn't really matter; the effects on us are the same.

Honestly, does the excerpt cited below seem like a story about a strong senate leader with numbers and overwhelming public support behind him doing the public's bidding? Or does it sound like another milquetoast, bought-and-paid-for useless mainstream faux democrat DLC punk trying to find a way to repay his real employers in the bribocracy while finding any lame excuse to keep on screwing the 300 million or so in the general population out of actual representative government -- as per usual?

By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yielded to Republican threats and agreed on Monday not to immediately seat fellow Democrat Al Franken, whose razor-close victory in Minnesota faces legal challenges.

Senate Republicans had planned to disrupt the opening of the new Congress on Tuesday by blocking Franken's swearing-in.

And in another ugly fight, Senate Democrats vowed to block, at least for now, the seating of fellow party member Roland Burris whose appointment by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich carries a whiff of political scandal.

Note that "Senate Republicans had planned to disrupt the opening of the new Congress on Tuesday by blocking Franken's swearing-in." That's the part that made my blood run cold.

Wowie zowie. Imagine the horrors and miseries such antics would inflict on the delicate sensibilities of our patrician democratic members of congress! Imagine how their good breeding and senses of propriety would be damaged... perhaps permanently. Imagine Ms. Nancy's botox injections no longer doing the trick.

Better yet, imagine how little I could possibly care about offending their delicate upper crust blue blood breeding.

Imagine how cool it would be to watch Pelosi in a jumpsuit and baseball cap, janitorial service logos everywhere, wielding a mop, pushing a bucket of greasy gray water, swabbing the halls of congress instead of pretending to dominate them.

Imagine how satisfying it would be to watch Harry pull latrine duty instead of pissing all over his national constituency and the constitution as well.

Until I can afford to buy a senator or two, along with a few house members, and keep on sending them cash and great prizes to make sure they're going to stay bought and vote for in my interests only, then my needs and points of view are unlikely to be represented in the capitol -- except by accident when somebody like Bernie Sanders or Dennis Kucinich manages to sneak past the wingnut media filters and find a seat in congress.

Until then, it seems to me that the only rational political stance is to marginalize them into irrelevance. Kind of a quiet secession, if you will.

Really, who would even notice after a few months? Except the air quality would noticeably improve as the toxic, malodorous stench of Washington bullshit gradually blew out toward the Atlantic and stayed there.


sf