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Prominent progressive bloggers always emphasize that we should be polite when contacting Democrats in Congress. With good intentions, they write their “action” posts, list contact numbers, and send us on our way with instructions to be respectful. In addition to providing this assistance, our well-intentioned Netroots leaders include handy links in their posts which provide pertinent information, so I’m returning the favor with a handy link for them to ponder.
I hope the next time they feel the urge to advocate politeness, they wait until the urge passes and advocate something actually useful.
Good intentions and polite appeals to Democrats are not going to get us off this road to Hell we’ve been on since 2001. It’s not going to end this ordeal, it just paves another mile of that damn road. And then another mile. And then another one. When BushCo Republicans actively betray us every chance they get and Democrats passively betray us by never doing anything about it, limiting ourselves to polite expressions of concern is not a solution, it’s part of the problem. It just empowers these refugees from reality to take us one more humiliating, flag-waving, fascist-enabling mile closer to Hell.
People who have turned their backs on everything America has ever stood for are not going to listen to polite appeals. How many times do we have to see them betray us on Monday and lie about it on Tuesday before we figure that out? How many times are we going to watch them betray us again on Wednesday and lie about it on Thursday before we finally understand what needs to be done? After a long week of lies and betrayal, they take turns lying to us on the Sunday talk shows and then the cycle of betrayal and lies starts all over again on Monday.
We’ve seen that weekly cycle of betrayal and deceit repeat itself 350 times since 2001.
Punch that number into your calculator, John Conyers.
Oh shut up. Millions of people believed in you and got shit on for it.
Despite these obscene betrayals, our Netroots leaders Emily Post impersonators still advise us to be respectful and polite to these warmongers, thieves, and craven cowards. Well I have a suggestion for them. It’s time to stop being polite. It’s long past time. These criminals in Washington have turned America into a gas-guzzling, war-profiteering PNAC 18-wheeler. We’re careening down the George W. Bush Expressway to Hell with the hammer down, hauling leaking containers of toxic war crimes over one sagging bridge after another through a howling blizzard of lies with a psychotic alcoholic behind the wheel and a couple of idiots from Nevada and California riding beside him, handing him another drink every time he bellows for one.
When it looks like TREASON, sounds like TREASON, and reeks to high heaven like TREASON, it’s TREASON. And it’s time to fucking CALL IT THAT.
Uncle Sam has seen enough:
Get in line with the rest of us, Uncle Sam. Bring a barf bag, you’ll need it.
The Commander Guy and Mr. Five Deferments tossed the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law into a dumpster behind the Patriot Act Truck Stop long ago. Since then, our enabling Democrats have just gone along for the ride as this road trip to Hell has gone on and on and on. Many long and bloody miles ago, John Kerry told us taking his No Retreat No Surrender Exit would get us off the Commander Guy’s Expressway to Hell, but there was no exit to be seen on Election Day. Instead, we had to watch Kerry retreating and surrendering to a bunch of Diebold machines.
We’ve seen Impeachment Exits every day, but we’ve roared right on past every one of them. So we politely asked if we could please take the Downing Street Minutes Exit. We were ignored. We politely asked if we could please take the Censure Bush Exit. We were ignored. We politely asked if we could please take the PlameGate Exit. We weren’t ignored that time, Democrats needed our money and support, so we were told to help them win Congress in 2006.
We did that, and politely asked if we could please take the 110th Congress Exit off this excursion to Hell, so the spying and torturing and killing for oil would finally stop. We were condescendingly advised to watch in admiration as Subpeona Power and the Mighty Gavel of Madame Speaker restored the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the rule of law. Nothing has been restored, but as obedient little advocates, it’s our job to keep writing checks to the DSCC and DCCC and to keep drinking toasts to our heroic Democrats from glasses filled to the brim with Clap Louder Kool Aid.
I think it would be more useful to toss every one of their enabling asses out of Congress. Democrats who don’t fully and actively support Chris Dodd’s filibuster of Give Us Hell Harry’s telecom immunity atrocity need to have the riot act read to them by every one of us. Our Netroots leaders futility enablers need to cancel their subscriptions to the Emily Post Etiquette Guide for Important Bloggers, START REALIZING THAT TREASONOUS ASSHOLES ARE TREASONOUS ASSHOLES AND DESERVE NO RESPECT, and get their Important Blogger Asses to work organizing primary challenges.
Chris Dodd knows what this road trip to Hell has cost us:
When the survival of American democracy is hanging by a thread, there’s not much to smile about. It’s a humiliating disgrace that Congress is actually debating immunity for massive violations of the 4th Amendment by telecom criminals. It’s a humiliating disgrace that habeas corpus has yet to be restored. It’s a humiliating disgrace that our government is torturing human beings and locking them up in cages while posturing as a great defender of freedom and democracy in the world.
Two war criminals in the White House have told us all to go fuck ourselves.
They are holding an entire nation hostage.
Any prominent blogger still so fucking stupid as to be advocating politeness to traitors in the midst of a crisis like this doesn’t deserve any attention at all from anyone, much less a blog of their own.
They need to toss their Emily Post guidelines away, condemn this treasonous regime and its hacks in both parties, and help lead America to The Rising:
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well said… as always (^.^)
collegial behavior… activists emulating senatorial civility and congressional chivalry (hahaha) aren’t effective against crooks, liars, and war criminals?
holy moly rusty!
not at all politely! Way to write, Rusty. I’m a new fan!
I needed some Bruce this morning.
Thank you for this essay, Rusty. My heart was broken after the “No Retreat, No Surrender” missed exit, and I quite politely supported the Class of 2006. I didn’t support impeachment, then. I still believed.
Do you remember those bumperstickers that were around in 06? the ones that read:
HAD ENOUGH? VOTE DEMOCRAT
I was thinking we could use another one that says:
HAD ENOUGH? YEAH, SO HAVE I.
other on here or any other blog, we should be realitively polite and have normal intellectual discourse and disagreement. I see attacks so often on that other big blog….Why do we attack each other but insist on being polite to the fucking asshole dems we elected in 2006 who are stabbing our nation in the back by being spinless motherfucking sell outs. Let’s start emailing them what we really feel and what is the real truth. Let’s start writing and signing petitions that say “you are a gutless, spinless, weakling who has sold our your country, your party and us”. I would sign in a second one of those form letters or petitions that had wording like this. Tom.
and need to be told that. Call and tell them, email them, fax them, but don’t tell them on their blog or you will get banned. 😉
if it wasn’t ten o’clock in the morning, because YOU ROCK!
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result, then continuing to be nice and polite — after getting screwed six ways from Sunday — is just batshit crazy. Time to call Waxman’s office. This’ll be fun!!
A President that “flips the bird” at will and who refers to the nation’s “bible” as a “god-damned piece of paper” and a Vice-President that tells a colleague “Go fuck yourself!” are not exactly commanding respect or politeness, but those are just gestures of their overall attitude and we have seen what that has wrought upon us from the beginning, i.e., stealing the elections twice and everything from then on up to the present — although you mentioned war-profiteering, bilking Americans out of billions of dollars (with BushCo investment coffers growing by the minute, and which they will still have when we are left with nothing and already into 3rd generation spending) should be sinking in the Americans’ minds by now — at least we should hope.
Then, you have Reid, Pelosi and Conyers on the “be nice — can’t we just all get along?” trip using politeness and respect, the results of which have sped us further down the Commander Guy’s Expressway to Hell!
NO, THERE IS NO REASON (NEVER WAS) TO BE POLITE OR RESPECTFUL TO ANY OF THEM!
Thanks for making this CLEAR to everyone, Rusty! This was rock solid!
…though it would be as always wise to remember that one is not speaking with people, who can be swayed by passion, but functionaries who have spent their lives becoming models of conformity, “and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well”. These fuckers don’t give a damn if thee or me live or die, and I do not want to be ground up in their machine. I think if one has a perfect middle class life, and no possible crap can come your way from yelling, by all means, yell! It’s a good way to set that priviledge on fire and shed some light. But if one is vulnerable…eh…be careful. If for no other reason than the world needs people who think like this who have not been ground up and spit out.
call it political ‘reality’ LOL! Their is nothing real about these pols, nothing real that they have to offer those they purport to represent anyway. As I write I am watching a craven fearful Dem on cspan Senator Mikulski from Maryland, a real piece of work, speak. She is talking about how scared she was during the anthrax scare and the 9/11 attack how she was told to get a gas mask, how helpless she felt. How willing she is to turn our rights over to the intelligence? agencies for protection.
Followed by the dishonorable Orin Hatch calling for protection for the citizens by giving the telecoms amnesty. Lordy! All morning they have talked and none of it is real , it’s all about making terrorists of anyone who interferes with their grasp on power. They represent not us but the forces of destruction.
They are not only corrupt they are cowards and don’t seem to have a good grasp on cause and effect, or as Buhdy says Karma. Not even good gangsters. Why be polite! Instead of fearing these boogiemen they created they should fear the citizens! The dismantling of our Bill of rights our checks and balances our democracy will not bring them safety, it only serves to keep the dhrama going the one that started it in the first place.
What a joke to be nice, the worst thing we can do for the world our country and even the universe is to be nice. What they call inevitable I call Karma, and theirs is coming home to roost, they will gladly take us all down to continue this unreality. Sorry for the rant it’s from watching the rat Bastards in action all morning and it’s bipartisan!
Yes, gone are the days of playing nice.
as the Subject Line in a comment on CB today, but while still mulling over the rest of my comment, I came here to DD & saw that you’ve put it all so much better than I could have.
Majority Leader Harry Reid just pulled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor of the Senate, only moments ago.
It will come in January, though, and Dodd promises to continue his fight!