"Nuke The Unborn Baby Whales While There's Still Time"! modified bumper sticker

[babylonsister]

I guess I need someone to explain to me what this title has to do with this article. :shrug:


http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8138

"Nuke The Unborn Baby Whales While There's Still Time"! modified bumper sticker
by Jon Faulkner | Jun 15 2007 - 10:07pm |

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Bush has inspired some of the meaner, dumber Republican members of Congress. The hic from South Carolina, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, introduced legislation that eventually was signed into law as the Military Commissions Act. Lindsey led the parade to wipe out eight centuries of legal precedent, doing away with the writ of Habeas Corpus that has, since 1305, been the basis for due process. Republican troglodytes, with the usual contingent of democratic cowards, lined up in support of the MCA. Joe Lieberman, a republican posing as whatever it takes to win an election is loyal to another country. Joe wants to do to Iran what Junior did to Iraq, and there’s a good chance Americans will sit on their collective asses and let it happen.

Enron and Duke energy sacking California’s treasury. Different day, s.o.s. Now the scam is gasoline. Democrats introduced legislation to stop price gouging, but the republicans said no. Democrats quickly acquiesced. The Communications Decency Act, the first serious attempt by Congress to censure the internet failed, but it will be back. Congress allowing banks to make billions of dollars a year from overdrafts. Predatory lenders, targeting the poor and gullible with interest rates a bookie can’t compete with. Right wing “news” like Fox, claiming a place in American fiction, and not a word from elected leaders proposing legislation forcing some conformity to the truth. The studied and publicly advertised interest of Junior’s administration to control the Middle East. The American public’s vast silence as the Chinese dress them at Wal Mart, and multinational corporations convince them through their media conglomerates to believe in whatever advances their bottom lines.

The Patriot Act slips through Congress and becomes law with its “sneak and peek” provisions. Congress blithely informs the public there wasn’t time to read it before voting it into law. Congress sends the Military Commissions Act to Junior who signs it, negating due process. Too many Americans say they’re ready to give up some freedom for safety, in effect spitting on the graves of millions of American soldiers who gave their lives to preserve American’s freedom. The reversal of America’s role as a leader in moral and legal standards. The unprecedented migration of wealth into the tax shelters of the rich. The constant failure of the U.S. to keep up with leading environmental technologies, as other nations develop more fuel efficient cars, invest in mass transit, and reduce their CO2 emissions. The silence is deafening as Congress opts out of their responsibility to oppose the forces that constantly tighten their headlock on the well-being of the nation. Above all, Congress sees the people’s interest’s as a distant priority to the corporate.

Change is not possible with the status quo. Republicans, with their penchant for dictatorial tyranny have already made significant inroads to that end. They are in partnership with the corporate, and make it obvious they’re not interested in serving the people. Given time, Americans will be goose-stepping by enormous posters of Junior, or his counterpart. Democrats, as they’re known today, are never going to assert any of the characteristics that once made them indispensable to American politics. The democratic party, as currently exists, swallows up vast quantities of money and votes and gives little back. Progressive thinking people must stop giving their loyalty to a party that expects it as a matter of course.

The DNC stopped representing the people in the mid-seventies when corporate formed PAC’s began bribing them. Government regulations, the tools that kept capitalism from destroying itself, were reversed. Capital gains taxes were lowered while Social Security taxes were raised. Unemployment benefits were taxed. Democrats let themselves be branded “tax and spend liberals” while republicans, and corporate sponsored PAC’s, lobbied Congress to cut taxes on the rich while raising taxes for everyone else. And this was before Reagan. The diminishing freedoms that Americans still enjoy are being reduced, incrementally, attritionally, insidiously.

At some point debate, the give and take of a healthy political ambience, becomes futile. Like fighting a rising tide, or arguing with an avalanche. Americans were long ago afforded the tools required to reclaim their republic if it foundered. It’s an incredibly daunting task, but the alternative is Orwell’s, described nightmare.

[whistle]

1. The title means that republicans can still legislate and do whatever

...they want to do and get away with it!

All it takes is Democrats getting some backbone and resisting these maniacs :wtf:

[Demeter]

2. We Should All Live So Long, And Work Our Asses Off To Make It Happen!

[silverweb]

3. An example of gratuitous nastiness.

It really does fit with the article by describing the sort of thing "some of the meaner, dumber Republican members" of the American population would stick on their SUVs.

On edit: Fix typo.