We can never win against the Diabolical Republicans.

[Jackpine Radical]

They are much too quick-witted for us. Consider, for example, the recent election in which they cleverly saddled us with Congress, and thereby the responsibility for all the things that are about to go catastrophically wrong. By the simple but brilliant expedient of holding back on the magnitude of their electoral cheating in 2006, they have saddled us with the responsibility for the unwinnable war in Iraq, the bursting of the housing bubble, the coming depression, and the melting of the polar icecaps, to mention only a few of the calamities rushing upon us. .

As is typical of these evil geniuses, the throwing of the election was only one of two eminently workable strategies open to them. They could as easily have opted to ratchet up their electoral larceny machinery and pulled off another grand theft at the voting booths, thereby rendering us impotent and throwing us into despair for another two years while they readied the world for the accession of Prince Jeb to the throne. I don’t know by what fiendish calculus they decided upon the former course, but I’m sure Karl Rove, that perverted paragon of political perfidy, is hiding in the recesses of the White House cackling in glee as he contemplates the ease with which we have fallen into his trap. “Ah, the fools!” he must be saying.

Oh, Woe, oh, woe, what are we to do? There are no right moves for us, and no wrong ones for them.

[illinoisprogressive]

1. very funny- good sarcasm

[Parisle]

2. Use the GOP playbook on this one, Jackpine.......

--- For years they have been telling us that capital punishment and the death sentence were a DETERRENT to crime and violence. Let's see if that's so.

--- Want to deter corporate CEO's from bribing government officials, manipulating economic events and pulling stunts like lowering the price of gasoline just to try and help the fucking neocons? Want to deter elected legislators from betraying their constituents by taking those bribes? Want to cut down on administration lying, corruption and malfeasance? Want to have fair and honest elections? Want to restore true Constitutional government in the USA?

--- Well sir,... I gotta tell you,.... you can have all that and more by simply testing this "deterrence" theory on 20-30 lying neocons, corrupt officials and devious corporate power brokers. That's just twenty or thirty paltry lives,.. (although the inference to be made here is that more will follow if things don't shape up, and shape up fast, eh?) Is that a bargain, or what? If their theory is correct, things will be better in no time. And if we're wrong, what is the loss? Twenty or thirty lives to a country that kills in the hundreds of thousands???