Thursday, February 4, 2010

Kalifornia Über Alles

Chuck DeVore, one of the Republican candidates for the Senate nomination on the very fucking edge of the continent. And Dan Riehl, the reactionary web log typist who's scared of darkies on the D.C. subway.As usual, the undiscussed but huge animal in the studio is "Just where were the TPers when George 'White guy' Bush was running up a deficit on behalf of defense contractors while killing hundreds of thousands of innocents yada yada, using tax cuts to transfer the contents of the Treasury to the already wealthy & their banks, allowing the world financial system to dance on the brink through deregulation & non-enforcement, & clearly disregarding the Constitution as far as civil rights & liberties?" Perhaps that Bill of "Rights" part of the Constitution doesn't matter, while health care reform is unconstitutional because penicillin hadn't yet been discovered in the 1780s & therefore is not in the Constitution, & we won't be having any of it?

Besides the choice of the low-info voter, Mr. DeVore, the other principal R candidates are Tom Campbell (He just left the race for Governator to try his luck in the Senate race. What the hell kind of move is that?) & the so-tone-deaf-as-to-be-brain-dead Carly Fiorina.In the governor's event that Campbell just left, we have Meg Whitman & we don't know (Certainly we don't care.) who the hell else.
Why can't the computer/Internet geniuses hire competent/literate flunkies? Whitman's first telebision advert:Good luck w/ that. Undiscussed here: Running a business has nothing to do w/ governing a state. We're sure that "creating jobs" & "fixing education" while cutting spending is going to work just fine. Especially when we find it easy to imagine that "creating jobs" can best be understood as "MORE TAX CUTS!!!"

Not mentioned? Fixing the budget process (Why does she think "The professional politicians have been fighting in Sacramento for years"?) & maybe even the initiative mess. That might be a confidence booster, knowing that the "Cavemen" of the perpetually minority Republican caucus couldn't screw things up as much as they have been for so many years.

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