Blah blah blah, politics politics, blah. I deeply resent large segments of the Republican Party for giving their political views the incontrovertible weight of theological dogma and running their party and campaign along irrationalist, anti-Enlightenment lines. (What, exactly, is George Bush's agenda supposed to be? More tax cuts? Or will it be more tax cuts? Or maybe he'll just come right out of left field and go for more tax cuts? So far, admittedly, his cuts haven't worked, but tax cuts are clearly GOOD, so if he just keeps cutting and cutting and cutting, sooner or later everything will have to work out. It's like some kind of political cargo cult trying to summon back the popularity of Ronald Reagan with their sympathetic magic.) I deeply resent George Bush for being so utterly hostile to my political views and personal beliefs that I've fallen in with the Democratic Party and John Kerry instead of promoting my genuine leftist agenda, out of fear of a Bush victory. I deeply resent Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for being so damned ugly. I deeply resent Dick Cheney's total lack of balls: why is he not smacking down the bigots (like Alan Keyes) in his own party who attack his lesbian daughter? I'm generally just really pissed these days. And I don't have much that's constructive to say about the state of the Union at the moment.
But I've found out what the Most Unkindest Nethercutt of All has been up to lately: Patty Murray's Republican challenger here in my adopted state of Washington is spearheading legislation to extort immunity from the International Criminal Court from this nation's allies, on pain of losing American economic assistance. George Nethercutt has apparently decided that, at this critical juncture in history, what America really needs is to annoy its allies again with pointless grandstanding and unilateralism.
Nethercutt, according to a brief report at the end of this article, came in eight percentage points behind Murray in a recent poll run by a Republican outfit, and has only half as much money as Murray. This recent KING-5 poll, on the other hand, puts her 14 points ahead. I don't think there's really much doubt which way this will go.
Ralph Nader's made the Washington ballot, but has failed in Oregon. I have lost all respect I once had for the man, thanks to his being such a giant public tool, and I'm gladder than Hell that the Green Party refused to endorse him. I don't think Nader will matter much in this state, though; Bush-hatred is a much stronger force than wishy-washy progressivism in the Seattle area. Seattle's full of big talk on progressive issues, but very few people actually do anything about it. (I fit right in!) But we watch a lot of movies 'round these parts, and we love to bitch: George Bush is our natural enemy. In the wild, he would feel our hot espresso-laden breath and rending claws, and then we would sell him on eBay. We have the scent of entirely figurative blood in our nostrils.
(Outfoxed is showing at the Meridian 16 downtown.)
Posted by aloysius at September 01, 2004 06:04 PM | TrackBack |