Smoked crack and got his job back
I'm disappointed in my country.
If tonight's results hold up — and it appears they will — it will not be a fluke. The Republicans have also picked up seats in both houses of Congress. Bush handily won the popular vote. This is, as close as the vote was, a Republican country. And that disappoints me more than I can say — more than I expected.
There are so many things about the current Republican party that disgust me. It is hard for me to understand exactly what these people were voting for. The wonderful situation in Iraq? Tax cuts without fiscal responsibility? The removal of basic human rights for homosexuals? What? What is it? I don't get it. I just don't get it. How can you fuck so much up and still get to keep your job?
Accountability my ass.
POST-SCRIPT: Some dude on CBS is pointing to the fact that white women, who favored Bush more now than in 2000, listed "moral values" as their main concern in this election, above terrorism, above Iraq, above the economy, above everything else. Wow. White women are stupid.
UPDATE: I was thinking about Iraq, because it seems to me it should be the main issue in this election. I was talking to the young Republican reporter from my office, for whom tonight was his last night at the Telegram. He's off to enlist in the army. He told me that Kerry had a problem because he didn't distinguish himself on what to do in Iraq. Kerry's "plan" was too similar to Bush's, he said. But, when I asked, he said there really wasn't anything else Kerry could do in Iraq. It was a Catch-22, he said. Yeah, it really does feel like a cruel joke.
UPDATE II: Hengst and I apparently posted about the same thing at very near the same time:
If tonight's results hold up — and it appears they will — it will not be a fluke. The Republicans have also picked up seats in both houses of Congress. Bush handily won the popular vote. This is, as close as the vote was, a Republican country. And that disappoints me more than I can say — more than I expected.
There are so many things about the current Republican party that disgust me. It is hard for me to understand exactly what these people were voting for. The wonderful situation in Iraq? Tax cuts without fiscal responsibility? The removal of basic human rights for homosexuals? What? What is it? I don't get it. I just don't get it. How can you fuck so much up and still get to keep your job?
Accountability my ass.
POST-SCRIPT: Some dude on CBS is pointing to the fact that white women, who favored Bush more now than in 2000, listed "moral values" as their main concern in this election, above terrorism, above Iraq, above the economy, above everything else. Wow. White women are stupid.
UPDATE: I was thinking about Iraq, because it seems to me it should be the main issue in this election. I was talking to the young Republican reporter from my office, for whom tonight was his last night at the Telegram. He's off to enlist in the army. He told me that Kerry had a problem because he didn't distinguish himself on what to do in Iraq. Kerry's "plan" was too similar to Bush's, he said. But, when I asked, he said there really wasn't anything else Kerry could do in Iraq. It was a Catch-22, he said. Yeah, it really does feel like a cruel joke.
UPDATE II: Hengst and I apparently posted about the same thing at very near the same time:
now... i honestly don't like to make such assertions, because lately i've been trying to see why sensible people would differ from me, but all the networks keep emphasizing how bush's appeal to evangelicals sealed the deal for him. this translates for me to: fear of gay marriages. and fear of terrorism, while i completely empathize, seems too singular to seal the deal. ultimtely, bush wins by appealing to people's fear, and isn't that depressing. am i wrong about this? am i reading the wrong news? was kerry that big of windbag? how can bush continue to be so lucky and imcompetent?
posted by Matt at 1:03 AM
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