It all Depends

OK it’s official; I’ve put on my Depends, and I’m scared stiff. These morons in the **** administration and the Republican Party have officially driven all of us into a ditch and the whole world is frightened. Listen up; it’s my blog and I make all of the official declarations of scared.

John McCain, one of the chief enablers of this economic fiasco, who is running on the new and exclusive idea of directly bailing out those who bought houses they couldn’t afford while his running mate whose only job is to damn Barack Obama for guilt by association, associations she was unable to comprehend only a week ago, has now abandoned reason and is begging for your vote based on fear, mostly fear of Barack Husein Obama, whose very name they've turned into a smear.

Fear is me, and I’m for sending every Republican office holder in the country into the Gobi Desert for forty years – or longer if they don’t put the old time conservatives back in power or until I get over it, whichever is longer. The neocon wing with its imperial aspirations and the evangelicals with their intent to get into your bedrooms have got to have their butts kicked - hard.

I used to be a Republican, a cloth coat Eisenhower, Ford Republican. I have no desire to run the world or to look over the transom as you breathe heavily doing whatever you do – don’t even tell me what it is; I don’t care. I just want America to be a place where all children are above normal and where people mind their own damned business.

To me the bad guy is Ronald Reagan. He’s the guy who through his political genius forged the coalition of neocons, evangelicals and real old fashioned republicans. I bought into it until it became obvious that the **** Doctrine of preventive war and the ^^^^^^ Doctrine that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter debased what was probably a far more benign view of the country and the world in the hands of a simpler and definitely kinder man.

Whatever psychological failings drove **** to prove that he was tougher and smarter than his daddy are no longer important. We attacked a country that did not have weapons of mass destruction to topple a very bad man and party who were doing very little harm to us. We quickly substituted our idea of what an Iraqi government should look like and it hasn’t been pretty. The prime minister of Iraq is making kissy face with a truly dangerous foe of the U.S., Iran, and we’re having to adjust to getting pushed out of the country.

Reagan and his girlfriend, Dame Peggy, bought into an economic system that has proven – at least in the hands of the less talented zealots who followed him – to not work to the benefit of our citizens and the country, indeed the world. These lesser pols were simply not flexible enough to simply invoke the great one’s name and not be slavish to the foolishness of carrying on in the face of obvious crises.

McCain is a warrior who proclaims day after day that he knows how to win wars and to solve our economic problems. One of his former favorite themes was to hold folks accountable for their failures. George Will compared McCain quite unfavorably with the Queen of hearts whose only response to bad news was to cry, “Off with his head.”

So McCain demanded the head of the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission without a clue as to whether the official had acted responsibly. Fire this one and that one – some obviously quite correctly in the case of Don Rumsfeld but others not. Yet McCain does not want to held accountable himself. That he was wrong on leading us into Iraq while Afghanistan was not finished and thus permitting Osama bin Laden get away with most of his leadership cadre should not be held against him. That’s looking backward.

That he chose an unqualified and very nasty vice presidential candidate who cannot string two sentences together that do not call for an affirmation of `darn right’ and whose only role is to feed red meat to the evangelical base is to be ignored as looking backward. McCain’s judgment on selecting a running mate who is the laughingstock of the country and who with a wink and a nod attempts character assassination and spreads hate and fear wherever she stops is beyond poor.

McCain has no philosophy. “I know how to win wars.” “I know how to solve the economic crisis.” He wants to be president to outdo his father and grandfather. We can’t stand four more years of presidents who simply want to outdo others.

It’s not good for the country and I’m scared silly. McCain has aided and abetted **** in virtually every decision that got us in these fixes, and it’s time for a change. Speaking of change, my Depends are calling.

Aside from a few thousand hedge fund managers and CEOs, how many of you – the very big you out there – are better off today than four years ago? OK, you two vote for McCain and the rest of you start working your butts off for Barack Obama.

I ain’t b.s.n’ ya.