Charlie Brown to Lucy: AUUUGHHH!

Of course, I wasn't kicking no football today, but coming home to read that the Alito Fillibuster had failed as badly as it did was as disappointing as having my football jerked away at the last second. By the way, here's a big FUCK YOU to the following:

Daniel Akaka, Senator from Hawaii.
Daniel Inouye, Senator from Hawaii.
Max Baucus, Senator from Montana.
Jeff Bingaman, Senator from New Mexico.
Robert Byrd, Senator from West Virginia.
Jay Rockefeller, Senator from West Virginia.
Maria Cantwell, Senator from Washington.
Tom Carper, Senator from Delaware.
Kent Conrad, Senator from North Dakota.
Byron Dorgan, Senator from North Dakota.
Tim Johnson, Senator from South Dakota.
Herb Kohl, Senator from Wisconsin.
Mary Landrieu, Senator from Louisiana.
Joe Lieberman, Senator from Antenora, Cocytus.
Blanche Lincon, Senator from Arkansas.
Mark Pryor, Senator from Arkansas.
Bill Nelson, Senator from Florida.
Ben Nelson, Senator from Nebraska.

I am struck by how many of you are holding one of two Democratic Senate seats in your state and still cannot muster the cojones to stand up for us.

I do not have any Democratic representatives in the circle of Hell I'm currently trapped in. But I can tell you even here, in a Red state where almost everything fell to Bush-Worship last year, it would have been just fine with people for you worthless shits to stand up to something for a change. That's all we're asking. STAND THE FUCK UP. Be counted for what you are.

I'm too disappointed and disgusted to write anything else right now. FUCK what a major letdown. Missing by one vote would have been great. If you stupid shits had just ABSTAINED from voting on cloture you would have had nothing to lose.

Gouty Old Prick

That's Dick Cheney to you. As I contemplated the consonance of those syllables, it occurred to me to wonder what a physical wreck was doing one heartbeat away from the helm of Our Great Country. And after I thought about that, I wondered: what about both of them? What about the untreated alcoholic wit that is the heartbeat at the helm? What is going on here?

I'm not making myself clear: I have this image in my mind of Gouty, Heart-Diseased Cheney who has apparently spent his life in the pursuit of physical self-indulgence. Gout and Heart Disease go together with wealth and indulgence. You hear about them with plump, overfed wastrels who have pissed away their youth indulging in wine and good food, and sampling the physical pleasures that life has to offer. Then there's Bush, who arguably has done less with his life than most people get around to. Handed a company on a silver platter; wrecked same company. Handed a baseball team; wrecked. Handed a governorship; wrecked. Handed a Presidency; wrecked.

I have such a dim view of the doings of the useless. Inherited wealth and the baby-fat sourpusses who have inherited it with zero expectation from their fuckoff parents does not impress me. So it's no surprise that the most useless fuckoff to be President since I don't know when is a 3rd or 4th generation inheritor of unearned wealth. It's also no surprise that his puppeteer is clearly the product of a lazy and self-indulgent life of privledge. What's a surprise is that the American people can't spot this.

Imagine if you will looking up to the head of your exercise class, for example, and seeing a 300-pound tub of lard up there trying to tell you how to get in shape. Do you think you'd take him seriously? I'm not a fat-hater, but I do think if you're going to lead you have to know what you're doing.

Life in America is work. We all know that. We work to make a better life because we have that frontier pioneer spirit. We are meritorious. Meritocrats. So when I look up to the Presidential Podium and I see two soft, pink, flabby fuckwads flanking a stuttering imbecile who never had to actually struggle to achieve anything in his life, I wonder how these people can possibly lead us if they've no idea what things like work and sacrifice are. And when it's clear that the Gouty Old Prick is in this business largely to make himself comfortable and indulged, what are we to make of it when we as Americans are asked to give up more, have less for ourselves, and give up what we've struggled for. Just so these fat fucks can have someone stoop and bow and scrape at the imperious snap of their flabby fingers?

This nation was built on the vehement rejection of the whole idea of royalty. So what are these royal nutsacks doing running the show? I don't understand.

Froth Pist

Well, I have been using Google's blog link to create entries. Google Guys, if you're out there, you need to fix the formatting in that little bitty box. The two entries below this had to be corrected for serious formatting issues.

Anyway I'm having a grand old time back in my persona as Slippy The Toad. I tried, oh so hard, to give it up, but I just canna' do it! Today I got to read some horse-malarkey about the Joel Stein editorial in the LA times, and though I've made my statement on Plastic regarding this, I'm here to do it again:

Stein apparently was moved to state that he "didn't support the troops." Radicalstate.org and a bajillion other right-wing blowhards jumped on that to immediately expand the tiny li'l circle encompassing Joel Stein to include the other 57,999,999 other liberal-minded voters who didn't vote for Bush, wagging their Big Conservative Finger of Shame at us.

I've a different finger to wag back atcha, biatches! It's in the middle position of my hand. I Am Not Joel Stein. Do Not Ascribe His Positions To Me. Go Back To Humping Your Mom.

In addition to which, I was moved to question what support actually meant. Does support mean providing with adequate body armor? Does it mean not cutting healthcare funding? Does it mean having a coherent plan for success? Does it mean lying your ass off about the hopped-up crisis that got us into this mess in the first place? There are so many different shades of meaning to support. Confusing lack of support with indifference or hostility toward the leadership that got us into this catastrophe in the first place is disingenious and it's bullshit. Come back when you've got a concrete set of premises to argue about.

The wisdom of Joel Stein that gets us into this discussion in the first place, if you would like to read it.

USATODAY.com - Rx plan is failing to help the neediest

I want to hear Bush lead the Republican Congress in a rendition of the Pearl Jam classic:

I can see you on the hill. Why do I?
All comatose but walking still. Why do I?
Flowing curves beneath your flowing gown. Why do I?
Oh, only I can bring myself down. Why do I?
Why do I keep fuckin' up?

Do they honestly think their senior-age voters are going to reward them in 2006 for the Medicare catastrophe?

Read more at www.usatoday.com/news/h...

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: What's Hurting the Middle Class

They f**k you in the drive-through! They know we're gonna be miles away before we find out we've been f**ked!

Read more at bostonreview.net/BR30.5...

I'm Baaaack!

Well, this is Slippy The Toad, your obnoxious blowhard liberal, once again here to criticize everything he doesn't like. I couldn't get my own name as a URL, so I'm "SLtheToad." Go figure.

I will be spitting fire in this corner of the Internet very shortly, but for right now if you've found me and remember me from Blog City or indeed any one of a dozen other forum message boards around the Big Bad Internet, bookmark me and prepare for the blast of flame! There's so much good shit to talk about.