Dear Democrats, Screw You Too!

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The Clintons for all of their duplicity, their trickery, their bullying, their triangulation and their chicanery will have destroyed the Democratic party or more appropriately the shell of what remains of it, for the sake of their own insatiable arrogance, rank sense of entitlement and relentless drive to regain control of the money spigots on the spoils trough.

Minus the antiwar base that propelled the feckless Pelosi-Hoyer-Reid triad to victory in 2006 with an end the fucking war now mandate and an energized Republican base including Raptureheads lining up behind their new best chance to trigger Armageddon and send them flying dirty, nasty naked up to fondle themselves at the foot of God's throne while we sinners, heathens and libruls rip each other's fucking throats out and are eaten by plagues of insects and wage total jihad against the hated she devil the Dems are toast. The Clintons will go down faster than a Republican in a pay toilet stall and America's ticket to a vile and sorrowful destiny along with historical infamy will be punched.

Time to put a fucking end this ridiculous farce of a marriage, the Democrats in my opinion are actually worse than the Republicans because at least the GOP is honest about what they are which is the earthly personification of Satan himself. The Democrats on the other hand are more like Judas Iscariot and we have been sold out for chump change. I will always remember what a diehard Marxist who was once an acquaintance of mine told me, "there is really no difference between the two capitalist parties in this country, both are killers only one is better at pretending not to be". So to those who are antiwar and for the restoration of the Constitution dare I say that maybe our time is better served (other than those who still have a childlike faith in the two-party system) by slowly beginning to extricate ourselves from this abortion of a marriage in which we are taken for granted as nothing more than the easy piece of ass of a philandering drunken cad of a spouse who prefers dipping his wick elsewhere unless he finds himself suddenly and unexpectedly desperate on any particular night.

I say that it is well past the time to start looking into alliances with the libertarians who are antiwar since the Democratic party in it's current incarnation has pretty much shit on us all and takes our support for granted. Matt Taibbi coincidentally is out with a new piece in Rolling Stone on exactly how the Democrats have betrayed those against the war and it is well worth reading and appropriately entitled The Chicken Doves which shows just how far that the current Democrats have gone to manipulate the antiwar base for cynical political reasons. The never ending re-importation of what used to be our finest young soldiers as so much hamburger meat wrapped in body bags as the finished product of the warfare state be damned just so long as they can have their precious fucking gigs as the preening servants of the oligarchy, the looters and the blood barters. Taibbi in his typical caustic and irreverent style berates the footstool bearing Democrats for their part in "one of the most awesome political collapses since Neville Chamberlain" and rightfully singles out Senate Majority Leader Casper Milquetoast Harry Reid as "one of the biggest pussies in U.S. political history" - this was before today's latest feat of imperial bootlicking by the chief palooka in Hillary's Temple of Eunuchs. This particular bit is classic:

There was much public shedding of tears among the Democratic leadership, as Reid, Pelosi and other congressional heavyweights expressed deep sadness that their valiant charge up the hill of change had been thwarted by circumstances beyond their control - that, as much as they would love to continue trying to end the catastrophic Iraq deal, they would now have to wait until, oh, 2009 to try again. "We'll have a new president," said Pelosi. "And I do think at that time we'll take a fresh look at it."

Pelosi seemed especially broken up about having to surrender on Iraq, sounding like an NFL coach in a postgame presser, trying with a straight face to explain why he punted on first-and-goal. "We just didn't have any plays we liked down there," said the coach of the 0-15 Dems. "Sometimes you just have to play the field-position game...."

In reality, though, Pelosi and the Democrats were actually engaged in some serious point-shaving. Working behind the scenes, the Democrats have systematically taken over the anti-war movement, packing the nation's leading group with party consultants more interested in attacking the GOP than ending the war. "Our focus is on the Republicans," one Democratic apparatchik in charge of the anti-war coalition declared. "How can we juice up attacks on them?"

Taibbi then goes on to show just how morally depraved that the Democrats truly are in resorting to a tactic right out of Karl Rove's playbook of recruiting public relations hacks to set up a bogus antiwar front group called Americans Against Escalation in Iraq to infiltrate and channel the energies of the antiwar movement towards electoral politics - all while Americans are still being fed into the Mesopotamian meat grinder as a live action practice run for the soon to be widening war of civilizations. Here is some more of Taibbi's piece:

Rather than use the vast power they had to end the war, Democrats devoted their energy to making sure that "anti-war activism" became synonymous with "electing Democrats." Capitalizing on America's desire to end the war, they hijacked the anti-war movement itself, filling the ranks of peace groups with loyal party hacks. Anti-war organizations essentially became a political tool for the Democrats - one operated from inside the Beltway and devoted primarily to targeting Republicans.

This supposedly grass-roots "anti-war coalition" met regularly on K Street, the very capital of top-down Beltway politics. At the forefront of the groups are Thomas Matzzie and Brad Woodhouse of Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq, the leader of the anti-war lobby. Along with other K Street crusaders, the two have received iconic treatment from The Washington Post and The New York Times, both of which depicted the anti-war warriors as young idealist-progressives in shirtsleeves, riding a mirthful spirit into political combat - changing the world is fun!

But what exactly are these young idealists campaigning for? At its most recent meeting, the group eerily echoed the Reid-Pelosi "squeezed for time" mantra: Retreat from any attempt to end the war and focus on electing Democrats. "There was a lot of agreement that we can draw distinctions between anti-war Democrats and pro-war Republicans," a spokeswoman for Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq announced.

What the Post and the Times failed to note is that much of the anti-war group's leadership hails from a consulting firm called Hildebrand Tewes - whose partners, Steve Hildebrand and Paul Tewes, served as staffers for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). In addition, these anti-war leaders continue to consult for many of the same U.S. senators whom they need to pressure in order to end the war. This is the kind of conflict of interest that would normally be an embarrassment in the activist community.

Worst of all is the case of Woodhouse, who came to Hildebrand Tewes after years of working as the chief mouthpiece for the DSCC, where he campaigned actively to re-elect Democratic senators who supported the Iraq War in the first place. Anyone bothering to look - and clearly the Post and the Times did not before penning their ardent bios of Woodhouse - would have found the youthful idealist bragging to newspapers before the Iraq invasion about the pro-war credentials of North Carolina candidate Erskine Bowles. "No one has been stronger in this race in supporting President Bush in the War on Terror and his efforts to effect a regime change in Iraq," boasted the future "anti-war" activist Woodhouse.

Most notably the Taibbi piece quotes Justin Raimondo of the libertarian website Antiwar.com that shows that I am not the only one thinking of the potential of crossover appeal to jump start the antiwar movement. I have written at length here and in other places on the next step now that it has become obvious that the Republican party is not our sole enemy but rather the entire rotting system itself. There really needs to be a realization that swallowing our pride because as Bob Dylan once sang "it ain't poison" and starting to do some work to build a bridge to others that we may not agree with on a full time basis is in the best interests of not only America but in a building a political force that can't be taken for granted. We do have a common interest in purging fascism from this country and truthfully until that is done nothing else really matters.

Now I have also noted that I have been impressed by the now headless Ron Paul movement for a sheer example of how quickly that one can rally support by going against the blood soaked oligarchy despite a flawed messenger. The Ron Paul phenomenon always impressed me solely as a sum of its parts rather than a whole and as I listen to these people in most cases they are practically begging for an alliance with progressives and liberals so why the fuck not? It is time to renounce the abusers but the first step of recovery is the acknowledgement of the problem, the way that I see it is that the Democrats are the ones that need the antiwar movement now more than ever so what is wrong with holding their feet over the fire? Either stop the fucking wars or we will stay home come November, it is probably already too late to change the trajectory but why not start looking to the future. We need to begin talking with antiwar libertarians and principled conservatives, start the process of cross pollination and as the Marge Piercy poem Each Day One More so eloquently puts it:

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know who you mean, and each
day you mean one more.

It is imperative to start expanding our horizons because we are the only hope that the existing system will one day crumble under the weight of it's own bullshit. I end with this from the great Hunter S. Thompson on the ultimate outsiders, The Hell's Angels:

Let's just hope that there are still some outlaws left out there amongst the sheeple, they are all that we have when it comes down to whatever hope there may be left in an increasingly hopeless and hostile world.