Thursday, November 4, 2004
The Hangover Of A Lifetime
I think we're all feeling that way right now. TomDispatch offers his view:
I hope for his head on a pike. Read the rest of the article.
Now, I look at my son and I imagine a draft. I look at him and I think of the young Americans who should never have been but are desperately in harm's way in Iraq. I think of the Iraqis and try to wrap my brain around the next 100,000 of them who will die in the urban killing fields of that country, while the second Bush administration pursues its mad, murderous policies. I think about those northern glaciers and the polar ice, and try to imagine them gone in a globally warmed world. I think about being in the heart of the heart of a vast (possibly failing) empire and my heart sinks -- and so, unfortunately, does Tomdispatch's.
In the meantime, a little over half of voting Americans -- and there were a lot of voting Americans this time around -- have now signed on to the rashest presidency in our history (short perhaps of that of Jefferson Davis); they have signed on to a disastrous crime of a war in Iraq, and a losing war at that which will only get worse; they have signed on to whatever dangerous schemes these schemers can come up with. They have signed on to their own impoverishment. This is the political version of the volunteer Army. Now, they have to live with it. Unfortunately, so do we.
My small guarantee. Much of this will change over the years to come. This world of ours already spins on a dime, economically, politically, militarily, environmentally. (Just wait, for instance, until the tactic being developed in Iraq, thanks to our President, the blowing up of oil pipelines, spreads beyond that country's boundaries, as it certainly will, and then check out oil prices and the stock market.) But, to sound a small note of hope, as the world spins on a dime, so often do administrations. And you just never know when one of them will indeed implode. Take Richard Nixon, who sailed through a disastrous war in Vietnam and into office as second time in 1972 on a veritable landslide of votes, and then slide slowly into Watergate and disgrace. These will not be quiet years and, I suspect, they will not prove good ones for George Bush.
I hope for his head on a pike. Read the rest of the article.
Chicken-Killin' Dog
Molly Ivins writes about the election in this article via Working For Change:
I hope I don't have to hold my nose for that long, but, damn!, I Love Molly Ivins. She ends her piece with:
There's a lot more in the article, so read it. Read this fine woman regularly. She knows all about Bush, the 'Pubs, and God, Guns, and Gays from many years as a Texas political journalist. She's tried to warn us for years about these bastards.
Some people think you cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin' chickens, but my friend John Henry always claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast. Thing'll smell so bad the dog won't be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.
The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.
I hope I don't have to hold my nose for that long, but, damn!, I Love Molly Ivins. She ends her piece with:
So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country -- join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and offer to volunteer, find a politician you like at the local level and start helping him or her to move up.
Think about how you can lend a hand to the amazing myriad efforts that will promptly break out to help the country recover from what it has done to itself. Now is the time. Don't mourn, organize.
There's a lot more in the article, so read it. Read this fine woman regularly. She knows all about Bush, the 'Pubs, and God, Guns, and Gays from many years as a Texas political journalist. She's tried to warn us for years about these bastards.
Division Is His Co-Pilot
Maureen Dowd in the NYTimes:
Read the rest of it.
What this president knows about morality wouldn't fill a thimble with a finger already in it. He sure can work the crowd with lip service to it, though.
The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues."
Read the rest of it.
What this president knows about morality wouldn't fill a thimble with a finger already in it. He sure can work the crowd with lip service to it, though.
Advance To The Rear
The op-eds are starting to fly thick and fast. Good. Garry Wills in the NYTimes:
I find it peculiar that I grew to sentience in the fifties, the dark ages of racial intolerance, less-than-equal civil rights, back-alley D&C's, and gay-bashing. The Nation came a long way for the better since then and that was a good thing. Now it seems we are to head back to those ignorant times. So my declining years as well will be spent in an ignorant, fearful, and intolerant society. Life as a bell curve of truth. Pitiful.
The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate. It is not what they had experienced from this country in the past. In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies.
Where else do we find fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious intolerance, fear of and hatred for modernity? Not in France or Britain or Germany or Italy or Spain. We find it in the Muslim world, in Al Qaeda, in Saddam Hussein's Sunni loyalists. Americans wonder that the rest of the world thinks us so dangerous, so single-minded, so impervious to international appeals. They fear jihad, no matter whose zeal is being expressed.
It is often observed that enemies come to resemble each other. We torture the torturers, we call our God better than theirs - as one American general put it, in words that the president has not repudiated.
I find it peculiar that I grew to sentience in the fifties, the dark ages of racial intolerance, less-than-equal civil rights, back-alley D&C's, and gay-bashing. The Nation came a long way for the better since then and that was a good thing. Now it seems we are to head back to those ignorant times. So my declining years as well will be spent in an ignorant, fearful, and intolerant society. Life as a bell curve of truth. Pitiful.
Stocks
Just look at any Wall Street report over the last couple days and it'll tell you who stands to gain under another 4 years of Hit . . . er, Bush. Let's see, pharmaceuticals, insurance, energy . . .
Dear Europe, I'm sorry
From the eloquent Patrick at Yelladog:
I sent this to my cousin in Germany, who is really pissed at us. If you haven't been to da Dog, you are shirking your duty. Go visit Patrick now.
It would be difficult to fully communicate my disappointment in a simple email. On the other hand, slipping out into the hall and drowning myself in the mop bucket would mean that someone else would have to feed my dogs.
Kerry has not yet conceded defeat, but I have. Even if someone finds that crate full of votes for Kerry bobbing down the Cuyahoga River, the American people have spoken, and they have sent the world a message: "We're barely bright enough to chew our own food."
Incompetence, incoherence, inarticulateness, pettiness and random savagery apparently do not deter the majority of Americans. The thing that really, REALLY matters to Americans? Homos. And foreigners. Both must be stopped at any cost.
Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of bigotry, amending state constitutions around the country to prevent same-sex couples from having any rights beyond the right to live on the margins of society. We clearly have far more to fear from The International Homosexual Conspiracy™ than we do from North Korea and the collapse of the American health care system.
Apparently, we are truly a nation of slackjawed yokels, awed only by grotesque displays of wealth and violence, reverent only of the bossman and beholden not even to our children, since we seem content to mortgage their future in favor of a $300 tax refund that we have traded for decent jobs, healthcare, and a just society.
We make pious noises about worshipping a Just and Merciful God, while doling out destruction and horror upon the innocent, pausing only to pat ourselves on the back for waging a "just" war to rid the world of tyrants that audaciously aspire to exist after they lose their utility to us in endless low-level conflicts to control the world's oil supply.
We seem to have become cheap, venal, vulgar and petty while we apparently don't have the ability to reason our way out of the dilemma of taking care of the sick, watching out for the elderly, and teaching our children not to be credulous, callow dupes.
To my friends from the UK, France and anyone to whom they choose to forward this, I feel that I owe you an apology. It is as if I have brought an orangutan to high tea... While he flings shit at you and tries to snatch pastries from your plate, I am left wondering how I might make it up to you.
The world's richest and most powerful nation seems to have lost its moral compass. We have lost interest in leading by example in favor of taking by force. I would like to say that I believe that one day in the future America might regain its senses. Unfortunately, I am not terribly optimistic. The best I can offer you is to remind you that Nixon also won a second term.
Your friend,
Patrick
I sent this to my cousin in Germany, who is really pissed at us. If you haven't been to da Dog, you are shirking your duty. Go visit Patrick now.
The Uniter
I'm sick and tired already of hearing the talking heads in the news media talk about uniting the country. (p)resident Jerk-off has no intentions to unite any-fucking-thing. You heard Darth Vader when he introduced Chimpy before his acceptance speech. In case you didn't hear it, the word 'mandate' has been bandied about a lot in the last 24 hours. Dicknose is gonna do what he wants and fuck what the other 48% of America thinks. After all, he's a lame duck with a mandate. Do you think the fucking news media will get off their collective ass now? Do you think they'll actually do research and begin to question Bush's motives honestly? Yeah, I didn't think so either.
Mission Planning
The mission has changed, boys and girls. We are no longer trying to get our boy elected and the chimp out. Now we can concentrate on just getting the chimp. Think OPERATION: Lewinsky. Think Chimpeachment. We don't have to wait 4 years to get rid of this asshole. With Iraq fucked to Hell and the corruption at the top, we should be able to bring him down. Think Spiro Agnew. Think Dick Nixon. Think Democratic Congress in '06.
You'll see changes at this site too. I don't know what yet, maybe a different look, but I have to do some housekeeping around here that I put off in the heady rush toward the election. Little changes at first until I talk it over with Gord. Remember, we are FREEDOM FIGHTERS now. Our hearts, minds, and souls for the cause.
You'll see changes at this site too. I don't know what yet, maybe a different look, but I have to do some housekeeping around here that I put off in the heady rush toward the election. Little changes at first until I talk it over with Gord. Remember, we are FREEDOM FIGHTERS now. Our hearts, minds, and souls for the cause.
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
31 Down, ? To Go.....
Today is me and Mrs. G's 31st wedding anniversary. We have planned to go to Zano's, a new and pretty good Italian restaurant in our town. We had hoped to celebrate a Kerry victory as well as our nuptial milestone, but that ain't gonna happen.
We're gonna go anyway, of course, and we'll have a damn good time. We have a lot to be thankful for: Our union, our dogs, a nice home, a little financial security, our good health. If we let the election results deter us from living our lives in any way, then the terrorists in the White House have won.
Fuck them.
Update: 7:12pm OWT
Two interesting topics came up at dinner.
The first, and least interesting was brought up by me, of course. There was a young couple having dinner with their son, a cute kid of about two years old. I was watching him because he had really cool shoes. Everytime he moved his feet, little red lights would flash. I wondered if his parents knew how much money the kid owed already due to Dumbya.
Mrs. G said something real heavy. She said that the way she felt today was just like the way she felt when Bobby Kennedy was killed: To see your hopes and dreams for a better America irrevocably dashed. Only this time it wasn't a crazed Arab, it was our fellow citizens that did it.
As far as I am concerned, the Red v Blue thing no longer centers on Bush, although I hate him even more. The center has now moved to the larger half of the American public who voted for him. I have gone from just despising him to being disgusted and disappointed with my fellow citizens. Thanks for nothing, you stupid assholes. I want to be there when you realize what you've done. It'll be way too late and you'll probably find someone other than yourselves to blame. After all, that's your fearless leader's example, isn't it?
We're gonna go anyway, of course, and we'll have a damn good time. We have a lot to be thankful for: Our union, our dogs, a nice home, a little financial security, our good health. If we let the election results deter us from living our lives in any way, then the terrorists in the White House have won.
Fuck them.
Update: 7:12pm OWT
Two interesting topics came up at dinner.
The first, and least interesting was brought up by me, of course. There was a young couple having dinner with their son, a cute kid of about two years old. I was watching him because he had really cool shoes. Everytime he moved his feet, little red lights would flash. I wondered if his parents knew how much money the kid owed already due to Dumbya.
Mrs. G said something real heavy. She said that the way she felt today was just like the way she felt when Bobby Kennedy was killed: To see your hopes and dreams for a better America irrevocably dashed. Only this time it wasn't a crazed Arab, it was our fellow citizens that did it.
As far as I am concerned, the Red v Blue thing no longer centers on Bush, although I hate him even more. The center has now moved to the larger half of the American public who voted for him. I have gone from just despising him to being disgusted and disappointed with my fellow citizens. Thanks for nothing, you stupid assholes. I want to be there when you realize what you've done. It'll be way too late and you'll probably find someone other than yourselves to blame. After all, that's your fearless leader's example, isn't it?
Observations
Just a couple, probably many more as the days go by and sanity returns, replacing disgust and wonderment at the deadly folly of my fellow citizens:
If we've learned anything from this election, it is that you cannot, as was previously believed (by me, anyway), motivate people by appealing to their higher natures, such as hope, optimism, and truth. You must appeal to their fear, greed, intolerance for others not of their ilk, greed and base desires, even if you have to invent things and lie about their importance. You have to know your market, and this Bush (Rove) did very successfully.
Apparently, most Americans agree with Osama Bin Laden about who should be our President. I feel that there will be an awful terrorist attack fairly soon so OBL can show his pleasure at their choice.
More later, I am sure.
If we've learned anything from this election, it is that you cannot, as was previously believed (by me, anyway), motivate people by appealing to their higher natures, such as hope, optimism, and truth. You must appeal to their fear, greed, intolerance for others not of their ilk, greed and base desires, even if you have to invent things and lie about their importance. You have to know your market, and this Bush (Rove) did very successfully.
Apparently, most Americans agree with Osama Bin Laden about who should be our President. I feel that there will be an awful terrorist attack fairly soon so OBL can show his pleasure at their choice.
More later, I am sure.
Why I aughta . . .
If I hear another New Yorker say "I wanted to vote for Kerry, but I voted for Bush because I wanted him to clean up the mess he made", I'm gonna beat them within inches of their lives. That has gotta be the worst reasoning I ever heard and you should be killed for being stupid beyond redemption.
Must Read
Thank you, Factchecker from SouthKnoxBubba for this one from Ess Eff Gate.com. Excerpt:
Don't miss this one.
The GOP steamroller appears to be just too powerful, just too well oiled and blood soaked and fear inducing to be stopped just yet. After all, the Right has been working on this master plan and building their takeover strategy for about forty years. It's gonna take those of us working for change and progress and raw spiritual juice a little more than one or two years to dissolve it away like the cancer it so obviously is.
Apparently, there are lessons yet to be learned. Apparently, we must hit some sort of new low between now and 2008, attain some sort of seriously vicious status in the world before we will snap out of it. You think?
This much is clear: We are not, with a grim Bush victory, headed for buoyancy and friendship and sincere hope for something new and refreshing. We are not, with another four years of what we just endured, headed toward any sort of easing of bitter tension, a sense of levity, or sexual openness, or true education, or gender respect, or a lightness of spirit and of step.
Don't miss this one.
Organize
"Activism, not one election, changes the world." So says Sean Gonsalves in The Cape Cod Times via Working For Change. I tend to agree with him.
The body of the article describes meaningful societal changes over the years, and how whomever the President was didn't have a hell of a lot to do with it. Well worth reading, especially right now.
Where the hell is Joe Hill? Joan Baez? Someone or some thing is bound to turn up to help lead us out of this mess. I hope we're not kept waiting very long.
If I didn't have such deep family roots in this land that I love, I'd seriously consider moving to the Dominican Republic, where the weather is warm and baseball is played all year round.
Having said that, one of the unfortunate aspects of American politics is this fetish we have with presidential elections as if the office of the presidency were some omnipotent seat of power.
The body of the article describes meaningful societal changes over the years, and how whomever the President was didn't have a hell of a lot to do with it. Well worth reading, especially right now.
One of the many narrowly focused political slogans of this election season among young people is "Vote or Die!" The fascist implications of that slogan aside, I say vote and organize or die. If you just vote, the death of democracy isn't far behind
Where the hell is Joe Hill? Joan Baez? Someone or some thing is bound to turn up to help lead us out of this mess. I hope we're not kept waiting very long.
Acceptance
I'm watching Bush making his acceptance speech and I can't help thinking. 'Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?' (p)resident Dicknose is talking mandate. Any time now, they're gonna start rounding up us Untermenschen.
Maybe This'll Cheer You Up
Lord knows, we need it. Will Durst via Working For Change.
Go read it. Graveyard humor is the only thing we got going for us this soon after the Hindenburg of elections.
I still have no idea why Bush does so well in the middle of the country. I think it's got something to do with why Trojan doesn't make petite sized condoms.
Four more years. Don't ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
The good news is: Air America still has a raison d'etre.
In the 2000 election, only 17 percent of Americans aged 18-25 turned out to vote. But in this election -- with all the attendant hype about mobilization and energizing the youth vote -- it's estimated a whole 17 percent of those aged 18-25 voted. Kids. I hope Bush brings back the draft.
Go read it. Graveyard humor is the only thing we got going for us this soon after the Hindenburg of elections.
Yes, we are
Via TBogg:
Update: 14:35:
As for my comment this morning:
I was angry and this is the only one I'll take back. I ain't running out on my country when she needs me the most. Yes, the Mrs and I still have plans to retire in Europe, but I ain't leaving until this country works the way the Founding Fathers intended. Sgt. Fixer, locked, loaded, and ready for a firefight. You ain't heard nothing yet. This is still America and I can still speak my mind and I will until the pry my keyboard from my cold, dead, hands.
Update: 14:35:
As for my comment this morning:
My first order of business when I get home from work today is to start checking the real estate listings . . . in Paris.
I was angry and this is the only one I'll take back. I ain't running out on my country when she needs me the most. Yes, the Mrs and I still have plans to retire in Europe, but I ain't leaving until this country works the way the Founding Fathers intended. Sgt. Fixer, locked, loaded, and ready for a firefight. You ain't heard nothing yet. This is still America and I can still speak my mind and I will until the pry my keyboard from my cold, dead, hands.
Thanks For Giving Me The Government YOU Deserve, You Stupid Bastards
I am very discouraged right now. On the bright side, I'm angrier than I have ever been in my life. As soon as I get these emotions under control, I'm sure I will be better able to write something constructive, but not quite yet.
In general, I agree with Fixer, but I'm not making any plans to leave. I was born an American and I'll die an American and besides, I have no place to go.
I have always thought Americans, in general, were pretty intelligent. Not any more. What those idiots thought they were voting for is beyond me, but I know what they've gonna get. See Fixer's post. And much more besides. And they took me down with them. Bastards.
I think perhaps the Democrats (me included) gave people too much credit for having brains, that they could not fail to see what these bastards have done and do the right thing and vote Bush out. Wrongamundo. The lowest common denominator prevailed.
I think , over the next four years, the United States is going to come to resemble Bush's beloved Saudi Arabia a lot more than it will resemble the country I grew up in. A forcibly enforced white male chauvinist theocracy. I don't like it already.
I don't think civil war is out of the question, but I hope not. I don't think it will take the bloody path of the last one. There's only a few Americans I want to kill and they're not where I can do it. Lucky for them and lucky for me.
This country will survive four more years of Bush. Germany, after all, survived Hitler. It wasn't a very pretty place by then, and I hope our country doesn't get to that point. It will survive.
What will not survive is our standing in the world. It's not at its lowest point yet, believe me, and it's on its way down more today than yesterday. The rest of the world was holding its breath, not believing that a country as supposedly good as the United States would actually elect an evil person like Bush. Now they know, and we will suffer for it. People who don't give a shit what the rest of the world thinks are in for a rude fucking awakening.
One of the things we might have going for us, believe it or not, is the Republican party. The old-style Conservatives say there's going to be an internal civil war within their party. They don't like the neo-con cabal and the borrow-and-spend element that has taken over their party any more than we do. I hope they can get their party back. I think it'll be fun to watch, at any rate.
The media, maybe, hope against hope, will finally wake from its slumber and realize they could have done something about Bush and feel bad. They should feel bad. It's way past time for them to get started and get started they must or we're sunk forever. Grand Juries and Impeachment Proceedings will be a good place to start. The goods on Bush and his cabal are out there somewhere and it's up to the press, probably not TV, to find them and get them out in public.
For now, we must get over this giant shock a little and figure out where to go from here. One thing I know for damn sure is this: I will never get behind Bush's presidency. Small 'p' from here on out when referring to him. As far as I am concerned, we have no President, but rather a junta. Screw the people who voted for him: They were stupid, pure and simple. If anybody thinks our national dividedness, Red v Blue, is going to go away, well, they got another think coming. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Fixer, from this point on, we ARE Freedom Fighters. Rifle inspection in thirty minutes.
In general, I agree with Fixer, but I'm not making any plans to leave. I was born an American and I'll die an American and besides, I have no place to go.
I have always thought Americans, in general, were pretty intelligent. Not any more. What those idiots thought they were voting for is beyond me, but I know what they've gonna get. See Fixer's post. And much more besides. And they took me down with them. Bastards.
I think perhaps the Democrats (me included) gave people too much credit for having brains, that they could not fail to see what these bastards have done and do the right thing and vote Bush out. Wrongamundo. The lowest common denominator prevailed.
I think , over the next four years, the United States is going to come to resemble Bush's beloved Saudi Arabia a lot more than it will resemble the country I grew up in. A forcibly enforced white male chauvinist theocracy. I don't like it already.
I don't think civil war is out of the question, but I hope not. I don't think it will take the bloody path of the last one. There's only a few Americans I want to kill and they're not where I can do it. Lucky for them and lucky for me.
This country will survive four more years of Bush. Germany, after all, survived Hitler. It wasn't a very pretty place by then, and I hope our country doesn't get to that point. It will survive.
What will not survive is our standing in the world. It's not at its lowest point yet, believe me, and it's on its way down more today than yesterday. The rest of the world was holding its breath, not believing that a country as supposedly good as the United States would actually elect an evil person like Bush. Now they know, and we will suffer for it. People who don't give a shit what the rest of the world thinks are in for a rude fucking awakening.
One of the things we might have going for us, believe it or not, is the Republican party. The old-style Conservatives say there's going to be an internal civil war within their party. They don't like the neo-con cabal and the borrow-and-spend element that has taken over their party any more than we do. I hope they can get their party back. I think it'll be fun to watch, at any rate.
The media, maybe, hope against hope, will finally wake from its slumber and realize they could have done something about Bush and feel bad. They should feel bad. It's way past time for them to get started and get started they must or we're sunk forever. Grand Juries and Impeachment Proceedings will be a good place to start. The goods on Bush and his cabal are out there somewhere and it's up to the press, probably not TV, to find them and get them out in public.
For now, we must get over this giant shock a little and figure out where to go from here. One thing I know for damn sure is this: I will never get behind Bush's presidency. Small 'p' from here on out when referring to him. As far as I am concerned, we have no President, but rather a junta. Screw the people who voted for him: They were stupid, pure and simple. If anybody thinks our national dividedness, Red v Blue, is going to go away, well, they got another think coming. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Fixer, from this point on, we ARE Freedom Fighters. Rifle inspection in thirty minutes.
I hope you're satisfied
I hope everyone who voted for Bush gets what they wished for. Has this country lost its collective mind? This is not the nation I put my ass on the line for. Depressing. My first order of business when I get home from work today is to start checking the real estate listings . . . in Paris.
Anybody interested in a 3200 square foot, 4br, 2 bath home on a 1/2 acre plot on Long Island? Time to leave.
Update: 05:44:
Andy Card just came on and declared victory for Bush. Well that settles it. I just re-looked at the Ohio count and it looks like it's gonna be Bush there. Here's what you can look forward to:
Repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Supreme Court removes the barrier beween Church and State.
Homosexuality will be illegal.
A Draft.
Oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
Even less standing in the international commuity.
Evangelical Christianity becoming the official religion of the nation.
The end of Social Security.
The loss of even more of our civil rights
A Republican majority in the House and Senate that will rubber stamp every one of GWB's hare-brained schemes.
Faith-based everything
Yup, time to learn French.
Oh, and you know how they always say that the nation has to come together to support the President? Fuck 'em. I ain't supporting anything Republican. I've gone from sad to really pissed off in the past couple hours. I'm even thinking a Blue State cessession from the Union. Fuck 'em. Leave em everything between the Rockies and the Appalachians and we'll take the rest. At this point, I'm so pissed, I think I'd support a Civil War redux.
Update: 06:15:
Oh, and a word of warning to YOU, Mr. Bush. If my wife gets hurt or killed in another terrorist attack in Manhattan, you're gonna answer to me personally. You don't want to put me in a position where I have nothing to live for. Yeah, I know what I'm saying, Secret Service be damned.
Anybody interested in a 3200 square foot, 4br, 2 bath home on a 1/2 acre plot on Long Island? Time to leave.
Update: 05:44:
Andy Card just came on and declared victory for Bush. Well that settles it. I just re-looked at the Ohio count and it looks like it's gonna be Bush there. Here's what you can look forward to:
Yup, time to learn French.
Oh, and you know how they always say that the nation has to come together to support the President? Fuck 'em. I ain't supporting anything Republican. I've gone from sad to really pissed off in the past couple hours. I'm even thinking a Blue State cessession from the Union. Fuck 'em. Leave em everything between the Rockies and the Appalachians and we'll take the rest. At this point, I'm so pissed, I think I'd support a Civil War redux.
Update: 06:15:
Oh, and a word of warning to YOU, Mr. Bush. If my wife gets hurt or killed in another terrorist attack in Manhattan, you're gonna answer to me personally. You don't want to put me in a position where I have nothing to live for. Yeah, I know what I'm saying, Secret Service be damned.
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