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July 15, 2005
Kos She Said So, That's Why
The Daily Kos excerpted an interview yesterday that highlights a few thrilling and insightful comments from Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA). (Does the designation "D-CA" make your eyes want to bleed, or what?)
Do you think the cracks are beginning to show in the Republican Party?
Senator Boxer: The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good. The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.Things are definitely not going well for this Administration because this lust for power has overtaken their common sense. Take the President's Social Security plan. It is so obvious that the people don't want to privatize this program that has worked so well and lifted 50 percent of seniors out of poverty. He has gone so far as to hint that the United States might default on its debts. This is the President of the United States. What a message! For sixty years they've been waiting for the moment when they could frighten people into thinking Social Security is going broke. When, by the way, it isn't at all.
Is it just me, or is anyone else sick of the endless partisan hackery that emanates from "both sides of the aisle"? (Anyone else hate that phrase?) Truly, though, we clearly do need someone to show us the path to moderation. And I think it should be someone who accuses an entire party of being willing to trample on 200 years of history, says that party wants 100%, accuses the administration (which coincidentally belongs to the party competing with hers) of possessing power lust, states that it's obvious that the country (split nearly 50/50 between Dems and Reps) is deeply in love with Social Security, and implies that Republicans, as a solid bloc transcending generations and massive shifts in the body politic, have plotted tirelessly in back rooms to instill panic in all Americans. Left unsaid is the fact that the Republicans were all the while chomping smoldering, blown-out looking cigars, chortling evilly, and gazing with satisfaction on their smokestacks belching black pollutants into a pristine sky once populated only by children's kites.
And she does THAT in the space of the first two paragraphs! Read the whole thing -- it's worth it. It almost makes you wonder if Kos stumbled upon a pre-release copy of a new Onion story parodying Democrat politicos.
Another day, another politician toeing the party line. If you read what these people say each day, I think you'll find it positively astounding just how often all of us Americans "start to realize" that "the bad party" is out to kill us in our sleep. We always seem on the cusp of a revolution, and -- what do you know -- our faithful messenger is on the right side of history. Boxer characteristically provides no support for anything, shows none of her coveted moderation or reason in her comments (Republicans are 100% to blame, they act as a single bloc in all ways, and without them we could all complete our evolution to beings of pure energy, confident in the soundness of our Social Security system).
That's how politicians are, left and right, and quite frankly, it's sickening and irritating to read the same stuff day after day. Irritating that they continue to go through the motions, irritating that they live for the isolated soundbite instead of trying to make coherent sense in the larger picture, let alone actually improve the country. Irritating because they treat us all like addled morons salivating before the TV as we await their latest vitriolic prognosis of life in America.
Sickening because some, such as the denizens of the Daily Kos, eagerly step up to fulfill that role, and feed the cycle once more.
Posted by Prophasi at July 15, 2005 04:58 AM