Republicans being represented by Democrats

[rem5152]

Texans voted in a majority - republican, but we have more democrats representing us in Washington. This must be changed. If you know the Democrats went to Oklahoma rather than vote on redistricting.

Texans need your help. Our Lt. Governor wants to stop the vote again. Please write him, and tell him Texans should be represented by Republicans. It is the way we voted.

www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/ltgov/Contact.htm

Thank you from all Texans.

[JesterCerberus]

I'm not from Texas, and I've never been south of Maryland, except for Colorado and California, (not sure if that's further south). Anyways I'm not a Republican or a Democrat; I'm for the Green party. I wish someone had led Ralph Nader debate last year, I bet he would have gotten at least 5% of the national vote and thus would have gotten government aid to run again. He runs without corporate contributions so it’s hard to compete with people who get billions of dollars from corporations. Good luck with your movement, and I hope you enjoyed hearing about someone from Massachusetts.

[pukaman]

Apocalypse Bush!
Why care for the planet when the End Times are almost here? Vote Bush and
hop on the salvation train!
ÊÊ


By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, September 8, 2004


Mark Morford's Notes & Errata column appears every Wednesday and Friday on
SF Gate, unless it appears on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which it never does. Subscribe to this column at sfgate.c
Ê


This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't
have to give a damn.

ÊTake the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so
damn deeply about the air and the soil and the water and the stupid little
disposable animals on this silly spinning ball of expendable rock when the
Second Coming is imminent and a blood-soaked fire-breathin' Jesus who looks
remarkably like Mel Gibson will return very soon to smite the heathens and
the gays and the vegetarians and the Francophiles, and who will rescue all
those who worship patriarchy and country music and blue-chip oil portfolios?
You're goddamn right it is.

ÊLook. This much has become clear. Bush is, more than anything else, an
extreme fundamentalist Christian. He is widely regarded as the most openly
pious and sanctimonioous president in modern American history. He actually
preaches the GOP screed in evangelical churches across America. He panders
so slavishly to the anti-choicers and the Bible-thumpers and the homophobes
it makes Jerry Falwell swoon and giggle.

ÊAnd Bush actually says, out loud, that God speaks through him, and that God
is on our side [when] we bomb the living crap out of Afghanistan and Iraq and that
it is the Almighty's wish that we take control of these angry pip-squeak
nations and in so doing kill thousands of civilians and tens of thousands of
young Iraqi soldiers, as over 1,000 American soldiers are now dead over a
makeshift cause that never really existed. God wanted it this way, that's
why.

ÊBush has called Jesus his "favorite philosopher." He has claimed that the
act of being "born-again" saved him from a long, sad life of vaguely
homoerotic frat parties and repetitive binge drinking and going AWOL from
the National Guard, all so he could turn his full attention to righteously
ruining multiple businesses and then making Texas the most murderous and
polluted state in the union.

ÊBut, you know, why stop there?

ÊGod, of course, isn't just about the current Iraqi war. Bush understands
this. Nor is God just about slamming gays or creating nasty, isolationist
foreign policy. God is not merely about setting those gul-dang Muslim
heathens straight about who is the supreme big-daddy all-powerful
mega-righteous SUV-drivin' American-flag-wavin' God and who is just a
dimestore wannabe false idol scruffy Allah.

ÊBecause above all, God is nothing if not all about putting a quick and
fiery stop to all this Earthly nonsense ASAP. He is nothing if not all about
the coming apocalypse. And He is nothing if not all about saving those who
believe, as Bush does, that he is among the chosen to be saved.

ÊThis is the fundamentalist truth. And this is the BushCo maxim. The End
Times provide the ultimate meaning, the final straw, the only thing worth
caring about, because it defines the BushCo worldview like nothing else
except maybe embarrassing grammar and crushing deficits and a secret craving
for gin. You can see it in his sad, vacant eyes: Bush is absolutely
convinced that God is a Republican. Why else would He create all those cool
M-1 tanks and oil refineries and those neat deer-antler chandeliers?
Exactly.

ÊDo you see? Do you get it? If not, you haven't been reading nearly enough
of those silly pulpy sociopathic gazillion-selling "Left Behind" doomsday
books so frighteningly adored by the Christian Right. It's simple, really:
The world is gonna end real soon. The End Times are comin'. All the signs
are in place -- famine, war, disease, sodomy, fires, hurricanes, Avril
Lavigne -- and Bush, by instigating holy wars and inciting more terrorism
and burning through the planet's natural resources as fast as humanly
possible, is merely hastening the blessedly inevitable. As his fellow
fundamentalists say, God bless him.

ÊHey, it explains a lot, this view. It explain how Bush can just smirk and
mumble and, with one big, heartless shrug, dismiss the complete lack of WMD
and the loss of 1.6 million U.S. jobs and the nation's staggering $422
billion budget deficit. Pay down the national debt? Bah. Planet's going to
hell anyway, people. Stock up on nuclear missiles and get yourself an escape
pod. Can't afford one? Whatta shame.

ÊIt surely explains the general GOP hatred of gay marriage, of open-hearted
sex, of those wicked, sin-inducing vaginas (that harlot Eve is gonna pay,
dammit), of environmentalism, of caring about air quality and water quality
and the EPA and organic foods and homeopathic medicine and resource
management and the Alaska Wildlife Refuge and the U.N. and any country that
doesn't have a McDonald's and a Starbucks and a decent strip club for lonely
gin-soaked Republican expats.

ÊAnd it explains not only the outright contempt for any view other than
Bush's own, but the willingness to legislate that hatred, codify it, to make
it outright illegal to think or feel or love otherwise.

ÊLook at it this way: When you have an angry, patriotic God and the red-hot
promise of the juicy apocalypse on your side, there is no such thing as a
counter-argument. There is no such thing as competition. There is no such
thing as giving a damn what anyone else thinks.

ÊHow else do you explain it? How else can you understand the most
aggressive, war-hungry, abusive, nature-loathing, isolationist
administration in American history? How else can you explain BushCo's
overall "F" grade from every environmental organization in the world? How
can you explain his mauling of long-term Social Security planning? The
decimation of the idea of universal health care? A pre-emptive,
attack-first-ask-questions-never, warmongering policy that creates more
anti-U.S. hatred by the minute?

ÊHow can you explain the fact that every human rights organization on the
planet is appalled by Bush's actions? Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib to John
Ashcroft to the Patriot Act to gutting funding for international women's
health care. Hey, if God had wanted us to care about other viewpoints, He
would've made everyone speak English. Can I get a "hell yeah?"

ÊThis lust for apocalyptica, then, is perhaps the best way we have to at
least partially understand the shamelessness of this administration's
policies and its blatant disregard for international law, its open hatred of
any nation that disagrees with us and the deep, profound concern only for
nations that either cower in our God-flexin' presence and/or have resources
that Bush's corporate pals are salivating to exploit.

ÊAnd it is the perhaps ultimate explanation for the Right's final cattle
call, its bitter war cry of a message, its exact parallel to every
pseudo-religious evangelical scam artist on late-night cable TV.

ÊListen, good people of America. If you just send your money to the party
and give up all that careful, nuanced thinking, if you just quit
questioning our decisions and load up on blind faith, it will all be OK and
you can have all the guns and fast food you want and those terrifying gays
will leave you alone because BushCo will take care of you and God will
reserve your seat on the glory train to salvation. Deal? Praise Jesus!
Praise Bush/Cheney! Hallelujah you are saved! Even as we are, you know,
doomed.

ÊIsn't bogus salvation fun?

[americanfirst]

If you have ever read the state Republican platform from Texas you would realize that you would never want those bunch of loony toons leading anybody. Of course the Democrat platform might be even worse. Maybe it could just be the people from Texas.

[scummybear]

I'm from Texas. Mind elaborating on your comment?

[BOLO]

If you have ever read the state Republican platform from Texas you would realize that you would never want those bunch of loony toons leading anybody. Of course the Democrat platform might be even worse. Maybe it could just be the people from Texas.

You got a real problem. If someone doesn't see it your way they are looney.
You are so perfect.
How do you stand having others around you?
They can not be anywhere near as perfect as you.