The Grand Old Party. The party with a Boehner and no Balls. If you want to know how that can be… Dole gave them some of his Viagra.
Dole, the first of the current lot of unelectable nice guys. You gotta wonder where these people keep their brains. Here’s Clinton, a sex-satyr-rated wonder-child. Hey! Let’s run Viagra’s next spokesman against him… give some contrast.
We need a new party. Of course, we have a new party – take a deep breath now; don’t get mad… The Tea Party is the party out to save your ass from the man. But you don’t recognize it because you’ve been sold a bill of goods. Please, please, don’t leave me now… I just want to tell you a few simple truths. The Tea Party is not a bunch of racist madmen who want to take away your rights. They’re a bunch of very ordinary people who want to restore your rights. The problem is, you don’t know you’re losing your rights. You’ve heard of the Boston Tea Party? What’s the phrase that comes to mind? Right! Taxation without Representation.
That’s what the Tea Party is about. We’ve lost our representation. Sure, we have elections, but what are we electing? We’re electing people to a club dedicated to making the most of their opportunity. Their loyalty is to the club, and to their futures as bigger and bigger deals in their peer group, and that ain’t you, babe. Once they get there, a spell comes over them. They like the power they’re promised if they play along. They may even tell themselves they’re doing it for your good, but as they increase their power, it’s at your expense. They need two things – to use your money, and to regulate you so you don’t spoil everything.
We need people who will represent us. Most of us are not represented. Most of us do not want to apologize for America’s past service of winning wars against tyrants. Most of us don’t want Israel to be wiped out. Most of us don’t want to give up riding in cars, visiting our relatives, being able to afford good food, being warm, being cool… most of us don’t want to give up fossil fuels while other countries burn even ours. Most of us don’t want to lower our standard of living to the rest of the world’s, in the name of fairness.
Yet, we have no say. They’re wheeling and dealing up there not for all Americans, but to make the most of the crisis for themselves. The party in power, obviously, has the most to wield. It’s understandable that they use it. (Though these days they’re wielding power which was not delegated.) What is not understandable are the Republicans, who claim not to want any of the above, but who refuse, in spite of a mandate from their own party, to stop all of the above. They own the House. They can stop anything. They stop nothing.
We need a new party that is not already maligned. (The Tea Party, if you never heard this before, clean up after themselves at demonstrations. Instead of leaving a wrecked mess, they leave it better than when they came. Though accused of racist imagery and violence, the only evidence that was ever provided was a picture of man with a gun strapped around his waist. Oddly, the printed picture was cut off, and did not show his head. When the original surfaced, the lone gunman turned out to be BLACK. Ho,ho,ho. Just a couple of little facts I’ll bet you never heard.)
But please, come back. It doesn’t matter. Let’s forget about the past. Stop eating yourself up about George Bush. Let’s look at now. I’m not going to defend Republicans. They, too, want to take away liberty. They don’t want to end the drug war which is killing tens of thousands; some of their best and brightest think that it’s all right to force one human being to carry another around inside her for nine months, whether she wants to accommodate the kid or not… stuff like that.
Republicans are not, however, hard-hearted racists who want black children to die, as I have been told by one of my favorite anti-Republicans. Republicans want to take care of the truly needy and want everyone else to take care of themselves and be left alone by the government. Liberty, opportunity, and a safety net – not a government-managed herd of humans – fed and looked after, but with no individual rights. Anybody taking care of him or her self is one more person they won’t be asked to take care of. If this is what they want, they must leave the Republican party, because the Republican party bigwigs would rather share the Democrats’ power and build themselves up personally, than represent the people who elected them.
The third party has to offer space to those disenchanted with the current government. It cannot offend those looking for refuge by hanging out flags that say “Life” or “God”. They must leave those things to religion, and stop trying to force their religion on others. If God is so great, he doesn’t need their help.
And if we’re talking about Life, let’s talk whose, and of what quality. It is none of the federal government’s business. That’s what is meant by the term Limited Government. If you don’t like something, try persuasion instead off calling out the troops.
The third party has to be acceptable to the classic liberal. That is, to people who recognize the sanctity of the individual. That’s what liberalism used to be about. Recognizing another human being there beneath the different colors and customs. And the Golden Rule.
Think about that guys: would you like to be unemployed and on food stamps for the rest of your life because you’re easier to manage that way?
Let’s put both the Donkeys and the Elephants out to pasture and let’s us run the US.
