Jan 31 2007
Ted Rall: Republicans, Just Shut Up!
I seem to have a terminal case of the blogging lazies this week, but it’s cool. Over at Smirking Chimp today, a great piece by Ted Rall, ‘Memo to Republicans: Shut Up, Shut Up, Shut Up’:
Attention right-wing neoconservative Republicans: We Americans have done things your way since 1981, when an actor named Reagan convinced us that we weren’t entitled to anything from the government other than a canceled check for our taxes. We supported dictators against democratic movements. We started wars against tiny weak countries like Grenada and Panama and
Afghanistan just because we could. Even when we had a Democratic president, he bought into Reagan Republicanism; Clinton cut rich people’s taxes, signed NAFTA and got rid of social welfare programs.Twenty-six years into the NeoCon nightmare, everybody hates the United States. We’re broke. Here’s how screwed up we are: we can’t even get out of a war that 91 percent of Americans are against. Republicans got us into this mess.
Rall then says what many people with functioning brain stems must be thinking:
Since these pundits and politicians were and are so spectacularly wrong about such a straightforward and momentous issue as this idiotic war, no one should take them seriously again. Right-wingers deserve to be marginalized and ignored. The American left–the real, non-accommodationist, non-Hillary, left–ought to define the mainstream from now on. Only the left, from Noam Chomsky on the left left to
Howard Dean on the right left, have been consistently correct.
It’s funny, whenever Bush comments on ANYTHING nowadays, before I can even process what he’s saying, I’m screaming out loud, ‘Shut up. No one worth shit gives a flying fuck about what you think. You are an idiot. You do not tell the truth about anything, zero credibility. Please shut the fuck up.” Somehow, I suspect I’m not alone in that sentiment…
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