“I would never want to be a women in Iran. Or anywhere for that matter…”

Sending a tip of my perfectly parallel top hat while strumming individual notes to the Rocky Mountain West.

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Fuck unity. Wasn’t George W. Bush sup­posed to be a uniter, not a divider? Look where that got us. I can’t think of a bet­ter way to pun­ish the Repub­li­cans who gave us eight fuck­ing years of G.W.B. than elect­ing some­one as uni­ver­sally reviled on the right as Hillary Clin­ton is. We don’t need fuck­ing unity, we need uni­ver­sal health care. Get over your sen­si­bil­i­ties and fight dirty for once, Democrats!

I voted for Obama in the general election but never drank the Change-We-Can-Believe-In Kool-Aid.

I can’t think of a better way to punish Rebuplicans… That, it now appears, is the kind of mindset one needs to fight the Republicans, on their own terms. Ryan Lizza, in a devastating analysis of the Obama presidency in the latest edition of The New Yorker, relates,

Predictions that Obama would usher in a new era of post-partisan consensus politics now seem not just naive but delusional. At this political juncture, there appears to be only one real model of effective governance in Washington: partisan dominance, in which a President with large majorities in Congress can push through an ambitious agenda.

Obama squandered his legislative majority of 2008–2010. He gave concession after concession in an effort to appeal to conservatives, but it never mattered. They rejected him outright, because he is a Democrat and they are Republicans, because today’s political climate has never been more partisan. I’m sure that Washington D.C. would be a better place if Obama’s centrist vision came to pass. But that’s not the reality we’re all living in.

Of course, we expect much of Presidents, who have eminently less power than we imagine. Michelle Obama has described Barack as not really a politician but, rather, “a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change.” I no longer believe it’s viable.  We poor people have such shitty lobbyists (TM Jon Stewart) I wonder if the political system can even represent us.

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