Those who know me know that I am a proud, card-carrying member of LPUSA, the Libertarian Party. Or, at least, I would be, if they printed cards. I used to be a Republican, until they got us tangled up in foreign wars, increased our deficit, tortured prisoners of war and basically made total asses of themselves. I didn’t become a Democrat, since they promised nothing but different kinds of the same nonsense, with a healthy admixture of hypocrisy. Today, I read a news article that proved my point.
Now is it me, or are we just over a year on from the time when the Bush administration said almost the exact same thing? But everybody hated THEM for it. After all, Bush was an idiot, and a warmonger, and just wanted another country to invade, to suck it dry of its sweet, delicious oil! Bush told us Iran was building nukes, but he was just a liar, and bad, and wrong, and NO.
As the Japanese say, tanin no fukou wa mitsu no aji! The hypocrisy of our glorious two-party system brought out in the open. I wonder if people will swallow it?
Yes, they’ll swallow it.
I posted this link elsewhere, and within mere minutes, was bombarded with panegyrics on the Obama administration and red herrings about Iraq. Granted my post may have led people to believe I was talking about that insane quagmire we call Baghdad, but when I said “exact same thing,” I really meant it literally. This exact same thing happened one year ago and everyone was ready to take to the streets.
The funny thing is, I actually support Obama on this one. The Iranian dictatorship is a dangerous foe that needs to be tackled head-on, and the right place to start is with the most powerful weapon we have, i.e. Capitalism. Hooray for the Prime Minister of the United States! But the fact remains, the naked hypocrisy that’s been laid bare here, not by Obama and his administration but by their supporters, is a source of amazement to me. It’s exemplary of the automatic gainsaying that passes for political debate in this country right now. Take health care – rather than open a rational argument, we’re forced to choose between ignorant, riotous disruption from the Republicans and patronizing non-answers from the Democrats. Apparently, if the argument comes from your side, it’s ipso facto unassailable, and if it comes from the other side, likewise, it’s racism, naziism, fascism, communism, or whatever -ism you take to be most undesirable at the moment. And meanwhile, what passes for debate is then declared “over,” and we all get rich, creamy Government crammed right down our throats.
Take, as another example, the hijinks in Massachusetts. When there was a Republican governor, they wrote a special law to keep him from appointing a senator in the event of a death or incapacitation. God forbid, he might appoint someone who isn’t a Democrat. Now that the state has just one party, though, that law has suddenly become inconvenient and its usefulness is therefore over - that usefulness being, evidently, ensuring a single party the right to Massachusetts’ senate seats. And nobody seems to have a problem with this. One-party rule. Nobody has a problem with this.
I mean, this is the best we can do? Sweet feathery Jesus, this doesn’t look good. This is exactly the crap that got the Republicans kicked out of office, but now suddenly it’s all okay to do. Funny little committees, acronyms, czars for everything – and nobody has a problem with it.
Holy living crap.
Tags: Barack Obama, Iran, libertarianism
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