Politics

Look, I am sorry to venture into the political, but I have felt a rant coming on and I can’t hold it back any more.

President Obama (still fun to type) ran on a ticket of being inclusive and bipartisan and all that, and it’s important to keep your campaign promises. Many people (my father included) think the partisan divide is a danger and really value Obama’s conciliatory instincts. I admire the sentiment, and normally I would share it. I don’t consider myself a partisan or even particularly liberal person any more.

But. The current times call for quick decision making and a firm direction. The Republican party had eight years in power, during which time they did everything possible to benefit themselves and their funders, to the express exclusion of the opposition party, and at the expense of the public good, a concept for which they appear to have an active contempt. They have wrecked virtually every major effort of government, foreign and domestic, in so spectacular and urgent a way that to modify policy to any degree simply to appease them (to any extent more than is necessary to pass the Senate) is itself an irresponsible and odious act.

Which is to say: Take the helm and go. You need one Republican vote in the Senate. Get it and don’t look back. Be partisan. Screw them.

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Comments for “Politics”

  1. # February 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 am

    HIHO Shanghai Said:

    Dude, certain language in your comment is not very “political”.

  2. # February 11th, 2009 at 12:12 am

    Melissa Said:

    Yeah!

    You say you don’t consider yourself a particularly liberal person anymore, but I suspect you’ve been away from Middle American too long to know what liberal and conservative signify these days. People shift but so do labels. Sometimes I think I’ve left the club as well, but then I hear some conservative rant (neo-con, not old school conservative) and think, “Nope, still have nothing in common with that!” I was horrified and confused last fall to learn that the apparently-sensible guy being interviewed on NPR (and whose analysis of the initial Wall Street meltdown/bailout I found totally credible) was Newt Gingrich! WTF! DF, listening to the same interview while driving home, had the same reaction and was similarly taken aback by it. I’m pretty sure we had a drink that night.

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