Political Rant (Warning)

First though, a thing I found funny. Lately, the blog spammers have been busy! Woo-Wee! I must delete about 100 comments a week that they send. Normally, I don’t even look at what text they write because it is just BS. But I spied this one and just cracked up.

Logging into this website should be a requirement for anyone knowledgeable on earth these days…

But of course it is! Goodness.

And so should reading the following important post I found on KOS penned by Kid Oakland. I won’t put it up here on the main page since it’s rather long, but if you feel as I do about what the FUCK is going on with our country under the Bush Junta, I urge you to read it.

Goddaughter, I love you like my own child and it is precisely because I love you so that I fight against what is being done to our country under the man you voted into office. I won’t stop loving you because of that lapse in judgement (grin) but I will help get him and all those he associates with OUT of power because as sure as I sit my butt in this chair just a’blogging away, he and his cronies are undermining every single thing that our ancestors fought to provide. You may not see that now, but in time I hope you understand what is being done to your rights and why I feel so very strongly about it. For you, for me, for all of us.

A selected piece of the longer article:

Bottom Line: Now is the moment we must demonstrate that BushCo. has been the biggest lying machine to ever set up shop at the White House. They’re not patriots….they are traitors…and we must not only say that, we need to prove it.

They did what they did to our nation with open eyes and clear intent. You know it and I know it. Our nation needs to know it. And we all need to say it.

Read on, McDuff (if you dare!)

This is it.

There won’t be a second chance…

unless you consider a “second chance” standing holding a protest sign as Karl Rove drives by in a limo with the next Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Friends, this is the moment, finally..

when the shit must stick to the wall.

BushCo. has dodged every single arrow…they’ve lied, finagled, maneuvered and, yes, won the critical political battles whether by hook or by crook.

However, right now, July, the summer of 2005, is the moment for that string of successes to end. Now is our best chance. This is it.

And for that to happen, we need to raise some hell…we need to raise a big stink. We need everybody in this country to be forced to ask themselves…what are the Democrats so goddam mad about with this Rove thing? Is there something to it?

And, yes, to get that level of attention, to get that level of coverage…for us Democrats, finally, to win our fellow citizens’ outrage and sympathy in our opposition to Bush…we need to do a HELL of a lot more that what we’ve been doing.

* We need to be clear.
* We need to make our case forcefully.
* We need to give reasonable people all the information they could ever ask for in as clear a manner as possible.

But also, mainstream Democrats need to let go of the ‘reticence’ and ‘holding back’ that have characterized the Democratic Party for so long. (The fear that if we really stick our neck out…that we’ll be branded as screaming liberals…that they’ll tar us as a bunch of Al Gores and Howard Deans. Fuck that. I want to see Al Gore and Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer and John Conyers and Michael Moore and Barbara Lee and Bruce Springsteen and Janeane Garafolo and, above all, we, the netroots leading this charge, and , yes, plenty of moderate and conservative Democrats and Independents standing strong right beside us.)

Friends, if there was ever a moment to be a proud, screaming, and yes, unreasonable liberal in this country…that time is now. (And please, we need to talk about all our issues, all our identities, all of our agendas and visions…that is what this is about….we all have a stake in this fight.)

Of course the war in Iraq was wrong, of course the torture was wrong, of course GWB is a lying, incompentent, malevolent disaster and his entire Adminstration is a disgrace…

but the fact is that, up to this point, the GOP have won…despite everything we’ve done. And, the brutal reality is that we have almost nothing to lose, because, uh, we’ve pretty much lost almost everything there is to lose in Washington D.C.

* the House
* the Senate
* the Presidency
* and now much hope of a reasonable Supreme Court

The “Rove Scandal” isn’t some small thing about comeuppance against one man.

Nope.

It’s the story of how, in one moment, we must show this country how we’ve been systematically and deliberately lied to by a bunch of hypocrites who run our governent and a party called the GOP.

Now is the moment we must demonstrate that BushCo. has been the biggest lying machine to ever set up shop at the White House. They’re not patriots….they are traitors…and we must not only say that, we need to prove it.

They did what they did to our nation with open eyes and clear intent. You know it and I know it. Our nation needs to know it. And we all need to say it.

And to be frank, the ones who hate us won’t care if we scream a bit…they’ll do what they’ve always done…and call us all sorts of names and lies…and spin all sorts of webs and nets…but we have one weapon this time, the same one we’ve always had…no matter how “unreasonable” they’ve tried to paint us…and that weapon is the Truth.

I am convinced that if we hold close to our values, and hold close to the Truth we will prevail.

Karl Rove is an evil man.

I know this in my bones. You know it too. And yet, for all his evil, he is merely the most clear frontspiece for a much deeper evil at the root of BushCo. He’s but the poster boy for their lies and manipulations. We all know he’s just the front boy for Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.

And now is the moment the shit must stick to the wall.

Everything up to this point has just been the pre-game show.

Bring on the Blogosphere….

friends, now is the time to bring on the Fighting Democrats, our sights are much higher than Karl Rove…..if free speech democracy isn’t about kicking hypocrites and liars out of power, then it’s not about anything.