A president has broad latitude in choosing his advisors, but when it becomes obvious that one or more are completely outside of the mainstream of the American democratic tradition, he shouldn’t be surprised when people, including…well, yours, truly, begin pointing fingers and saying, “Throw the bum out!” And the same goes for elected officials like noted tax amnesiac Charles Rangel, who, among other dubious acts, has been donating money to some of the Democrats on the House Ethics Committee, which is currently investigating him.
In record time, the Democrats have shown that their ethics halo is nothing but a stolen hubcap. I say, time for a purge. If the Democrats are serious about regaining any credibility at all, the following must go (this is not by any means to be considered an all-comprehensive list; however, you have to start somewhere):
Van Jones – Avowed Marxist, wanna-be revolutionary, divisive partisan, and now, conspiracy-mongering fruitcake. I don’t think his “green jobs” position is anything but a cash spigot for special interests, so not only should he be fired, the job itself should be eliminated.
John Holdren – Obama’s “science czar”, the guy sounds more like someone who, had he been born in another time and place, might well be a very old man hiding out in Brazil right now. He authored a textbook in 1977 with Paul and Anne Ehrlich that appears to have advocated, or at least seriously considered,forced abortions and sterilizations as part of a radical population-control plan. He’s now one of the chief Cli-Fi geeks in the Obama administration, and believes that we may have to take extreme measures to keep global warming from incinerating us all (although, based on his well-known fears of over-population, maybe he’s only worried about snails and liverworts) His ideas include “shoot[ing] pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays and cool the earth.” I suggest shooting John Holdren into the upper atmosphere adorned in his tin-foil hat; should accomplish the same thing.
Charles Rangel – On the legislative side, even the Washington Post is recommending that Rangel be stripped of his House Ways and Means Committee chairmanship. Yeah, math is hard, Charlie, but you’re so bad at basic arithmetic when it comes to toting up your tax liabilities, you’ve really got no business deciding how to spend other people’s dough. Back to the Minors for you, buddy.
These are a few heads I’d love to see on (metaphorical) pikes. If the Democrats know what’s good for them, they’ll come up with a few more on their own. The Obama administration is still a young sapling, but it’s already full of bagworms, aphids and powdery mildew, so if it expects to regain health, it’s going to need some serious maintenance – which the voters themselves will ultimately take charge of if the president doesn’t.
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Now that the anti-science, superstition-based initiative presidency is over, we need Manhattan projects to make us great again and boost us out of this Grotesque Depression. First we must provide free advertising-based wireless internet to everyone to end land line monopolies. Better yet, renationalize the telephone companies like in 1917 and now put them and the DTV fiasco and the internet under a renationalized post office. Then we must criscross the land with high speed rail. Because bovine flatulence is the major source of greenhouse gases, we must develop home growable microbes to provide all of our protein. Then we must create microbes which turn our sewage and waste into fuel right at home. This will end energy monopoly by putting fuel in our hands. We must finally join the metric system and take advantage of DTV problems to create a unified global standard for television and cellular telephones instead of this Anglo Saxon competitive waste. We must address that most illness starts from behavior, especially from parents. Since paranoid schizophrenia is the cause of racism, bigotry, homelessness, terrorism, ignorance, exploitation and criminality, we must provide put the appropriate medications, like lithium, in the water supply and require dangerous wingnuts who refuse free mental health care to be implanted with drug release devices. Churches should be licensed to reduce supersition and all clergy dealing with small children should be psychiatrically monitored to prevent molesting. Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh were the ultimate superstition based initiatives. Aborting future terrorists and sterilizing their parents is the most effective homeland security. Preganancy is a shelfish, environmentally desturctive act and must be punished, not rewarded with benefits, preference and leave. Widen navigation straits (Gibraltar, Suez, Malacca, Danube, Panama and Hellspont) with deep nukes to prevent war. In order to fund this we must nationalize the entire financial, electrical and transportation system and extinguish the silly feudal notion that each industry should be regulated by its peers. Technology mandates a transformation of tax subsidies from feudal forecloseable debt to risk sharing equity. Real estate and insurance, the engines of feudalism, must be brought under the Federal Reserve so we may replace all buildings with hazardous materials to provide public works. Insects, flooding and fire spread asbestos, lead and mold which prematurely disables the disadvantaged. Disposable manufactured housing assures children are not prematurely disabled and disadvantaged. Because feudalism is the threat to progress everywhere, we must abolish large land holdings by farmers, foresters or religions and instead make all such large landholding part of the forest service so our trees may diminish greenhouse gases. Darwin led to the worst colonial, militarist, attrocity and stock market abuses in history - Lamarkian inhertiance and mitochondrial DNA show that Darwin was not all he is crackered up to be. We must abolish executive pay and make sure all employees in a company are all paid equally. We must abolish this exploitative idea of trade and monopoly and make every manufactured disposable cottage self sufficient through the microbes we invent. Southern Oligarchs destroyed the Democarts in the sixties and destroyed the Republicans this decade - they would not allow viable candidates like Colin Powell, Mitt Romney or Condi Rice to even be considered!
You said a mouthful, there, Vernon.
Ummmmmm, yeah, Vernon. Sure.
Paco -- the Dhimmicrats are flagrantly corrupt, and need a system purge, the political equivalent of a massive dose of a potent diarrhetic.
But let's not forget the Republicans who are also corrupt. As stated in a thread in another blog:
Me: "I'd argue that the R's are SLIGHTLY less corrupt than the D's. But not very hard. Or very long."
Blogger: "If the Republicans are slightly less corrupt, it is only because they lack sufficient imagination. It certainly isn't for lack of trying."
Republicans basically know enoough not to kill the milk cow. Democrats don't know where the milk comes from.
Ohhhhhhhhhhkay....
Penguin
Um, Vernon? About that lithium...
Lotta grubby little aphids infesting this Administration.
Paco for Aphid Czar!
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http://www.thecampofthesaints.com/2009.08.30_arch.html#1252111398708
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