Nov 06: We're gonna need a bigger boat...

Crossposted on Truth 2 Power.


As you get up occasionally and walk away from the computer screen and interact with the non-online world (the supposedly "real" one), do you ever get an odd feeling of disconnection? Like you're living a parrellel existence that the "real person" on the street simply isn't quite getting, almost as if were living in a horror movie - but some of us just don't know it yet?

Like you're Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) from the Original Nightmare on Elm Street, fighting desperately to stay awake and explain to your dad (John Saxon) that this monster named "Freddie" is killing all your friends, including your boyfriend (Johnny Depp) by invading their dreams...


Well, that Nightmare is real, you are trapped in a terrifying dream - only "Freddie" is the Bush Administration and their Corporate Overlords - and you aren't going to be waking up anytime soon...


Or worse yet, you're Chief Brody on Amity Island in the middle of summer vacation season and you know in you're gut that there's a big f-ing shark out there in the water, but nobody else - especially not the city council who only care about making a profit on tourist season - will believe it until they start seeing bodies floating in with the tide. Maybe not even then.


Well, the bodies are starting to show up as I look at the results of tuesday's election results and I think we're gonna need a bigget boat.

We here on this site and elsewhere understand the gravity of the situation that America finds itself in, like being trapped in a pit of quicksand infested with rapid neo-conservative leaches - the values and ideals that this nation were founded upon have been ever-so-slowy, inch by inch, sinking into oblivion as our life (our blood, treasure and freedom) are sucked out of us.

It's a surprisingly peaceful process, as enzymes from the big business parasites who fuel the Bush Administration and now that cover nearly every portion of our extremeties extrete a steady stream of anesthesia (Gay Marriage, Immigration, Zarqawi) to numb the pain.

We have to keep focused on The Important Stuff (Froomkin).

President Bush is running around the country this week talking about immigration, and on Monday he gave a much-hyped speech on gay marriage. In neither case has he said anything remotely new, and yet the press coverage is intense.

But what about the stuff the White House doesn't want us talking about.

You know, the important stuff.

High on that very long list: The war in Iraq -- and particularly the atrocities allegedly committed by U.S. troops; also, the continued expansion of executive power -- including the administration's warrantless domestic spying.

People - not us of course, all those other people out there - don't yet take the important stuff seriously. They don't yet know how these things affect them in thier lives, in the real world. They don't yet feel the pain (except at the pump).

This is why we couldn't even win the vacant Republican seat left by criminal scum like Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Not only that but the three upstart challengers who called themselves the Impeach Team (Marcy Winograd CA-36, Charles Coleman, Jr. CA-28 and Bob McCloskey CA-29) all lost to their entrenched Democratic incumbents.

We're like Nancy and Chief Brody screaming - "Don't go back to sleep" and "Get out of the water" - and we know that to some of those we're trying to save, we sound like fucking lunatics, but we're still here - and we're gonna keep on screaming about the things that are gradually killing America.

• 750+ Signing Statements
  
• Warrentless Spying on Americans
  
• Haditha
  
• White Phosphorous and Napalm at Fallujah
  
• Torture at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and Bagram.
  
• Secret Prisons
  
• Insufficient Armor, Helmets and Healthcare for our troops.
  
• The Niger Forgeries that put at War with the Wrong Country (and may have been created as "black propaganda" by U.S. intelligence)
  
• Callous Incompetence that has left post-Katrina NOLA largely a wasteland.
  
• Still No FEMA Director as Hurricane Season '06 Starts.
  
• Rampant Election Fraud
  
• Faked News Reports
  
• The Exploding Budget and Trade Defecits

And the Flaccid Do-Nothing Congress that continues to let all this go on - unabbatted and unregulated.<[br />
Freddie and Bruce (The Shark's real name) - under the guise of the neo-Conservative Cabal that has seeped it's way into both our government (Bushco) and top positions at many of our major corporations (Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing) - are still out there, circling, waiting for their next oppurtunity to strike.

Even though we suffered a series of defeats tuesday, we still have Jon Tester and Ned Lamont in the running. We still have an oppurtunity to show long term Faux-mocrats like Jane Harmon that it's not too late to grow a spine. Not yet.

We have to remember what's at stake.

The monster of neo-conservatism has been gathering steam for thirty years, it won't go down easily.

All we need is bigger boat...and a scuba tank, and one lucky shot...

(Although, having Ann Coulter display once again just how batshit crazy she is on National TV doesn't hurt.)

Vyan

…and the media has sucked all the air out of our scuba tank.

We have lost seats EVERY ELECTION since 2000.

Our chances of retaking either house of Congress are between slim and none.

We should count it as a victory if we gain any seats this Fall.

cry over our spilt beer -- I'm saying we need to realize this is tough stuff. We need to rise to the challenge and realize no one is going to hand us anything! We have to fight for it, every inch of it.

I have no problem with that - it's worth fighting for.

Vyan

Between Rethug media and Diebold Rethug Electing machinez,
they've got us on the ropes.

We can't do anything about the media.

Can we stop them from stealing elections?
I hope so. A lot of us have been trying to.

http://www.verififedvoting.org
http://www.voteraction.org

we can become the Media. Air America is having an impact, as is Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show and Colbert Report. Also when a few important stories get printed, like say the Robert Kennedy Article in Rolling Stone, we can use blogs, websites and message boards to keep hammering home the message -- then get on the phone and call congress, write LTE's. Never stop screaming the Truth.

Vyan