by Sam Pierce
Politics is nasty, which is unfortunate because the politicians have so much power to harm so many. I do not know if the environment (no you Enviro-Statists, I am not talking about that environment) has always been this way, but it is clear that the defined duties of various elected positions are not very high on the priority list used to evaluate candidates. It is also clear that the taste of power is intoxicating and in the wrong hands (those of most politicians) can be dangerous.
They cannot get enough! There is nothing they won't do to grow their power, tighten their grips on the lives of the electorate, and feed their massive egos! Private citizens are pawns to be used and if necessary, destroyed for political gain. Political vermin from both parties, but primarily the one represented by the oh so appropriate jackass, view themselves above all and urinate on the little people.
The grip tightens as their benevolent programs, vote purchasing wealth redistribution, and "for the good of (fill in the blank)" regulations shift reliance from the individual to the government. The bastards (male or female) seize control in a fashion that was once creeping but in the age of Obama, is more like a runaway freight train.
There are two stories on McClatchy that illustrate the political depravity of the left. The first tells the tale of how Obama's minions seek to perform an encore of their 'destroy Joe The Plumber for daring to ask a question' campaign in order to ensure Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to The Supreme Court. The headline is surprisingly candid for an Obama media outlet, "Sotomayor backers urge reporters to pursue New Haven firefighter."
WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.
On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.
This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill.
Does this mean that the libs in power believe that even their lapdogs in the media need constant direction? Does this indicate that the libs running the country view their propaganda arm as being as incompetent and dull as the rest of the lowly electorate? Does Frank Ricci have divorce records Team Obama can have unsealed?
This firefighter had the audacity to oppose racial discrimination and now he must be destroyed! Obama's nominee might not be able to be confirmed in a climate of racial equality, so something must be done. The case cannot be made for a color-blind judgment of employees or their ability, for if it were, Sotomayor's views might seem inappropriate for a justice. It is very important that the firefighter's character be assassinated as the little people did not seem to learn the lesson from Joe The Plumber reckless behavior (asking a non-planted question of The One!)
The second story is "Boxer faces 'challenge of a lifetime' on climate change bill." No, she is not trying to convince the public that the word "ma'am" causes global warming... or cooling... or seasons... or whatever current condition is the subject of the Enviro-Statists Chicken Little alarm.
"It's going to be a tough slog, but I'm excited about it. . . . I know that my Republican colleagues are going to try to do everything to stop it and distort it," Boxer said Friday in an interview.
Last year, Boxer's standalone climate-change bill fell to defeat, but there's a new strategy this year that will make it harder for senators to reject it. Six committees — Environment and Public Works, which Boxer heads, Finance, Commerce, Energy, Agriculture and Foreign Relations — will have jurisdiction over the bill. Those committee heads have been meeting for months with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who'll help combine their work into one massive bill this fall.
Boxer said the approach was unlike any she'd experienced since she joined the Senate in 1993, and she predicted that it will simplify passage.
"It's a different dynamic, and it will make it easier," she said in the interview. "There will be so much in this bill. There will be investments in transportation. There will be great opportunities for agriculture. There will be great incentives for energy efficiency. There will be so much in there. There will be help for areas that need flood control. It should have a broader appeal. Having said that, it's all difficult."
Babbs, or "ma'am" has learned her lesson. You cannot be honest and straightforward in your approach to imposing crippling legislation upon a nation. You must take a more slippery or even slimy approach in order to have the desired negative impact on your country. You cannot present a bill on its merits, especially if its merits include obvious pain and hardship for the country's little people, citizens, dare I say... slaves? Package the bill with so much crap it cannot possibly be read and lard it up with just enough bribery to buy the support of those who might be waffling.
Babbs Boxer isn't about to see another Hillary Care episode, in which the facts come to light and derail the planned devastation!
California, you have done wonders for your own state. Thank you for sharing idiots like Boxer with the rest of us! You'll be happy to know we in Illinois seem to like your example. We are determined to send a senator next year who will fall in line with the Enviro-Statist no matter the despair it causes the electorate. Why would we do this, you ask? because we think Rep. Mark Kirk (RINO -IL 10) is the Repubican that can compete with whatever Dem mafioso is put up to replace Burris. Either way, we walk away (because you don't want us to drive) with two lib senators and a partridge in a pear tree... except we need to kill the tree because we must stop the emission of Carbon Dioxide! Has anyone asked why the environmental nutjobs hate plants so much that they seek to deny them the CO2 required for photosynthesis?
I suppose the important thing to remember as we enter the brave new world is that reverence for a limited constitutional government is little more than right-wing hate and to attain enlightenment, oppression must be brought upon the electorate and obstacle citizens must be eliminated.
Cross-posted from "The Immoderate Blog"
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