Message to the Dems in Congress

This is NOT a family blog, so I just wanna say FUCK THE BLUE DOGS! Corporate-owned swine.

Y'all had the chance to stand up for the middle class and folded. Again. Disgusting.

If there are any Blue Dogs with chairmanships, they should be stripped of them yesterday. Where the hell is party discipline?

--the BB

Hallowe'en would not be complete without the boogeyman

Rove ponders (a fantasy scene from the Rude Pundit):

It's just so easy to make Democrats show their haunches, ready to be fucked. He reads his most recent Wall Street Journal column ... where he uses the grimmest possible polls to try to demonstrate that Democrats will lose power if they pass health care reform. "You see? You let 'em get that knot in their stomach, that feeling they're gonna shit themselves if they take a risk, even if the absolute reverse is the truth. That's called fear. And fear makes you freeze. And nothing gets done."

Yep, the Dems get played like violins. If they could jettison fear, what might they accomplish? Go, Alan Grayson! Kick ass, Barbara Lee!

Wearing my crankypants tonight

I must have felt repentant when I stopped using my chainsaw and vinegar graphic because I cannot find it in my archives. Evidently I deleted it. I really wanted to bring it out of retirement tonight. (For newbies, it is related to my comments about people who should be sodomized with a chainsaw and dipped in a vat of their own bile and vinegar.)

I am nominating for the aforementioned treatment all who are obstructing the passage of health care reform WITH a strong viable public option and/or are carrying water for the insurance companies (said corporations having long since proven themselves minions of Satan). I don't give a damn whether such obstructionists have a D or an R behind their name.

I am also inclined to suggest that members of Congress, both houses, have their feet nailed to the floor of their respective chamber until they pass legislation that helps the American people with our current health care disaster. No fucking recess, kids, class isn't over!

Told y'all in an earlier post today that I'm feeling cranky.

As for "bipartisanship" I have this to say. Dems, you were elected or re-elected to bring major change to America. Universal health care is part of your party platform. We voted for you because we want it. It will be a disaster for this nation if you don't make it happen. The overwhelming majority of the American public wants a public option. So, Dems, you have a majority. Enough to pass legislation. It's time to grab your opponents by the balls and squeeze, hard, real hard, until they fall to their knees and cry, then kick them in the teeth and toss them to the side of the road and PASS THE LEGISLATION. They are not bringing anything to the party so stop kowtowing to them you lily-livered pussies! Remember when Rush Limpbone was telling the Dems that until they won they were supposed to shut up? Ahem. Sauce for the gander time.

I know, you want to be friends with them when this is all over. Well, let me tell you something. You may possibly be cocktail party friends with some of them afterward, though they will still despise you. But if you fail, the people who elected you, contributed to your campaigns, volunteered for you, and cheered you on are going to despise you too. Think about that. Real hard. Because you are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory right now and it ain't pretty, and it ain't serving the American people, and it ain't gonna get you reelected. We haven't gotten a year into the Obama term and you are well on your way to relegating our party to the ash heap.

Now that you have a majority in both houses and a Democratic (though centrist) President, are you going to sit idly by while people die, the economy goes down the toilet, and our future is tossed away, doomed to providing health only to the wealthy while the mass is malnourished and sickened, and some folks for various ignoble reasons are stalling?

What the fuck are you thinking? Have you no shame? No integrity? No morals? No courage?

Fergodsake, do the job we elected you to do.

--the BB