Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Rageohol

So.

On Saturday I caucused for Baraucus. As you may have noticed he kicked much ass. Still, I would have liked to have gotten at least one of the two Hillary delegates from my precinct won over to Obamarama. In any case, Caucusing is a wonderfully vivid form of real democracy. I've heard some criticize it as giving too much power to the politically active. I don't generally support most forms of oligarchy, but I've got to say, if the form is rule by the people who care and know, maybe that is a good thing. Everyone should have the right to vote, but if they don't care enough to get involved they're just waiving that righte in any case.

But I digress. I gave him my support and he's giving it back already, being now the only one of the Senators running for President to have voted to strike retroactive immunity for telecoms from a security bill. McCain - like every single other Republican in the Senate who was present - of course voted in favor of immunity, while Clinton was not herself present. A disturbing number of Democrats also voted for plutocratic pseudo-justice. Biggest disappointments: Not even fairly dependably sensible GOPS like Specter and Snowe were on the right side of this, nor was Jim Webb, who came into the chamber as a potential Democratic superstar, giving the Blue respones to the '07 State of the Union within days of having been sworn in.

The Senate have completely fucked us today. They have openly declared that if the government tells you to break the law, you just go ahead and break it, fuck everyone else. Especially if you are a major corporation.

If I keep writing this, it's just going to get angrier and angrier. It's impossible to keep a level head talking about this bullshit. Fuck shit balls on all filthy politicians.

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