Awaken now, children, arise from your revery, and leave your land of make-believe behind. There was no loss here. None at all. For there was never a fight to begin with, there was no battle, indeed no fray was here. 'Twas nothing but political posturing of the most superficial kind when we were led on the wild goose chase that this past year of non-reform has been.
What would we be saying now if our current political landscape had been altered, where we still had Obama as our president but only a Democratic minority in Congress?
Things would be far worse, yes. But what would we say? We'd say, "Curses! If only we controlled the House and the Senate. Oh, how different things would be. Oh, how easily these goals would be brought to our most desired fruition!"
So, what is our excuse now then?
I'm waiting...
No, the answer doesn't come. Not from this lot. Because the answer is the one they are unwilling to give: a Democratic majority alone is not the answer. If you haven't realized that by now than these animals have got you shackled down as good as the GOP mutants have gotten their party's gimps strapped up in the basement. If we don't put the proper brand of asses in those seats, then all is for naught, and the legislation those asses produce renders both houses of scant better use than the most oversized of public lavatories.
This party is more rife with corruption than ever before, with betrayers most foul, the scum of lost ages returned and with doppelgangers of the GOP enjoying prime accommodations and veritable hero status amongst their adoring sycophants. They have invaded every level of the power structure, seethed into every orifice of the body, and the decay is directly attributed to them and their major weaknesses.
Their corporate contributors.
Whether it's Madam Speaker Joan Rivers, with her sputtering narcissistic indignance when questioned about losing the Progressive Left, which as it happens she already lost when she abandoned it back in '03. Or Reid, who worships at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Taints, a damned seagull-chaser, well-versed in the art of widespread deception by the racket that his disgrace of a religion is. He may as well be a Scientologist or a Born Again for that matter, and there he is, leading the Senate. Only to bend over for the likes of a death merchant hobgoblin like LIEberman or that inbred pimp Baucus and his Blue Dog brothel.
They failed on Health Care many months ago, but they didn't stop there. They have continued to beat this dead horse further and further into the ground. And the captain at the helm never even took a stand. Who could have known, in the glorious ecstasy of November '08, that we were not being granted our deliverance from the terror reign of Bush, but rather his natural heir?
I knew.
But what choice did we have? What could we have possibly done? McCain certainly wouldn't do, his backpedaling alone, on everything he had ever stood for, was more than enough to assure that. No, Republican would do. We knew the bastards were ugly when backed into a corner, stripped of all their power, but little did we know that McCain's running mate was a direct and harrowing warning of the true horror that the entire hawkish blood lusting God Hates Fags Party was to become?
I knew.
And many others knew as well. But what even more of us know, but refuse, refuse, refuse to admit, is that both parties want to be right of center. Both party's want to represent big business. Both parties are not two, but one. And they both try to act as similar as possible, pursuing the same goals, while providing the illusion that they're not stepping out of their designated imaginary roles.
Throughout the Bush Era the movement further right was done through preemption, deregulation, torture, dictatorship. Anything they wanted they did everything in their power to get.
Then it was the Democrats turn. Our time in the sun? No. The Democrats are managing to make their move further right through Obama's Gandhi/King/Christ routine. The great uniter. The great compromiser. And in truth, the great corporatist.
And when it comes to health care, when it comes to anything, if you haven't caught on yet, and more than a few of you haven't I know, the bottom line is this:
They wanted to fail.
There is only one party in this country. The Business Party. If you make yourself an apologist for the Democratic faction of this Business Party, you are not a progressive liberal. I say it's time for some major house-cleaning, for a purification of the left wing. We need party reform before we can get any reform.
And we need campaign-finance reform.
Please, stop kidding yourselves, there should be no question in anyone's mind why health care hasn't gone through, and why Obama has taken the please everyone route he has. Why would they ever make a legitimate effort to break down a system that makes each of them rich? Do you really think these pigs are going to regulate themselves? We are a charity case to them. We are always the last on the agenda and have been for so goddamned long.
But there are good people in Congress. We know their names. People like Feingold, Kucinich, Woolsey, McGovern, Grayson, Edwards, Lee, Franken, Klobuchar, Hinchey and Sanders.
But there are animals in much larger numbers. The only answer is to stop allowing ourselves to be led astray. All you apologists are the true bane of our cause. The far right and its party are in shambles. They are nothing now. And yet you still cling in fear to your deflated empty excuse for a Democratic Party holding on for dear life, childishly romanticizing the anti-progressive corporatist consigliari this party has become. Well the real fear should not be of leftist opposition to your Progressive For Pretend Party that seeks to make it progressive for real. The fear should be that you are becoming so conditioned that you can't view your representatives votes by whether or not they're on the wrong side of the most essential standard of all: does this vote kill people or not?
You may be willing to settle, but goddamn it I'm sure as hell not. We have gotten exactly what we voted for. And thus far we have voted wrong.