"I AM ANGRY" - Guest Post by John Cory

[John Cory is a frequent contributor to Hoffmania and many other well-read sites. You can read his other work at john-cory.com]

I am angry.

I’m tired of pundits and know-nothing media gasbags. I’m tired of snarky “inside politics” programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of “birthers” and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I’m really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine.

I’m going to vomit if I hear the word “bipartisanship” one more time.

It was “bipartisanship” that gave us this activist conservative Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways.

“Bipartisanship” gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and “free speech zones” and “no fly” lists. God bless bipartisan America.

I get nauseated every time the Senate explains how it takes a super majority to do anything for the American people. Tell you what Senate Bozos, if it takes 60 votes to pass legislation than it should take 60% of the popular vote to get you elected.

When some Tea Party crank says, “I want my country back,” I respond, “No madam, you want your country backward.”

When a deficit-mongering politician says, “How do we pay for this?” Why not ask, “What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?”

When a compassionate conservative says, “Healthcare reform is socialism,” why not answer, “No, sir it is the moral and American way to care for people.”

Yes, I can hear it now: “You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone.”

Bite me.

The only thing you get with “harmony” is a Barbershop Quartet.

Democrats stop being Republican Lite. Stop whining about that mean GOP and their nasty messaging. Grow a pair, get a message, get a bumper sticker and hang it out there. Get some strong vivid talking points.

G-O-P = Greed Over People.

Greed Kills – jobs, people and the economy.

Terrorism is Viagra for Republicans: The more fear – the more excited they get.

When a soldier dies for America, who dares ask if they were gay or straight?

Don’t act so shocked, Democratic Party. Have you looked around lately?

You’re losing the young vote that showed up to elect Obama. You’re losing those old enough to remember real Democrats. Why? Because you don’t talk to them anymore than you talk to me. You talk at me. You talk around me. You talk down to me. You talk about me. You don’t talk with me. And you don’t inspire and you don’t champion and without that you are nothing more than an arbitrator of compromise and abdication.

You are facing a bully. Deal with it!

Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.

Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.

Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.

For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantel of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?

Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers – only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.

DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.

Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.

Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and healthcare because life is a pre-existing condition and the “free market” should not have to take on such a high risk – after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.

Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off healthcare but should put its hands inside a woman’s body.

Republicans believe in small government – small enough to hold the “right” people and small enough to be owned and operated by the “right” people. And who are the “right” people? Them. Not you.

Democratic Party, DNC, DLCC, DSCC or whatever your acronym – I have only one question for you: Really?

You can’t win against these guys? You can’t get your message out against these guys? You can’t give America leadership against these guys?

Really?

Comments

[Ray]

Right on John Cory. If you'd run for office, I do believe you'd have my vote.

John Cory/Jon Stewart 2012

[Sandi]

I second the motion!

[Pat in Sarasota]

Bulls eye!

If you dare to step in the ring with a bully, you better be ready to face him down.

If you're not up to it, then get out of the way. Those with a backbone will gladly replace you.

[Aaaargh]

Nope, they can't. The Democratic party, other than Feingold about half the time, is brainless, gutless, nutless and spineless. Throw worthless into the heap. They're like the geeks with Coke-bottle glasses cowering in fear of the bullies in the school hallway giving them a wedgie if they get out of line and laughing at them when they try to talk to a girl.

Pathetic, useless, pointless pipsqueaks.

Fuck em. I'm going back to bed.

[Tom Joad]

Totally agree...and more so.
You want to get even madder, check this out
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/a-detention-bill-you-ought-to-read-more-carefully/37116

As it is a bill from Nutcase McCain, and fellow loon Lieberman...basically stripping our rights under the constitution, right out in the open. THIS is the first I heard of it...

[Cece]

John,

You are brilliant! Thank you for telling the truth.

How are we going to get it back?

So many of us feel like you do - and want to do something about it.

The revolution has got to start...

[BKLN]

Another articulate, smart, dead-on commentary that strips everyone down to their bare essence. Thanks for writing John, and thanks Hoff for posting.

[Karen]

I especially like the line- Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off healthcare, but should puts its hands inside a women's body. Brother, ain't that the truth!
Personally, I'm sick of the "teabaggers", and I think the term "them wanting our country backward" is right on and should be used whenever possible when dealing with these wackos. Republicans like to give things, people, and events names. We need to throw a few of John's words at them. Let the Dems dish some out for a change. I'm so tired of wimps.

[Itinerarist]

I especially like the line - Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.
I'm sick of Republicans and their way to think and the trouble they make every time they win elections.