from Charles Pearce -- Happy Thanksgiving

[Warren Stupidity]

"It is early days, surely, but, at the moment, there is absolutely no
way on god's earth that I would vote to re-elect Barack Obama as
President of the United States. I always had my DOUBTS. But I was
willing to ride the train in order to keep the government out of the
hands of a bunch of undereducated paranoid lunatics, which I didn't
see as very high a bar, truth be told. I do not underestimate the size
of the problems he was handed last January with two badly run wars and
one badly run economy. But, all Lilly Ledbetters aside, it is becoming
increasingly plain that the man is not up to the most important job he
was elected to do--which is to wring the accumulated viciousness,
ignorance, and hackery of the past eight years out of the various
parts of the United States government--and to do it brutally, if
necessary, which it is. One of our two major political parties has
completely lost its mind. This should be a political issue. It is
incumbent upon the other party to eliminate that party's influence
until it purges itself and comes to its senses again. It also scarcely
needs to be said that the sane party has to watch its own ranks for
people who seem to be enabling and abetting the goals of the crazy
party. Otherwise, as Ezra Klein memorably put it this week, every
attempt at bipartisanship winds up as "a hostage negotiation."
President Obama--and does anyone but me notice that he gets the
honorific conspicuously less often on TV than the last guy did?-- not
only seems unequal to this task, he doesn't even seem to recognize the
task at all. He wasn't elected to change the tone, dammit. He was
elected to change everything because everything needed to be changed.
So it's a hard goddamn job. So what? He didn't know this coming in?
Now we're going to feed 34,000 more American kids into the meat
grinder in Afghanistan because we're America and we can do anything we
set our minds to? Hell, we can't even keep our own citizens alive by
breaking the power of the health-insurance industry. We can't right
our economy because it's still in the hands of Wall Street grifters,
and the government has fallen into the thrall of a bunch of
banker-morons I wouldn't trust with a potato gun. Some people needed
to be crushed politically. Some people needed to go to jail. Some
people needed to be exiled forever from the serious business of
self-government. It's Black Friday, and I'm shopping for another
candidate. I'm beating the rush"

What he said. Link TBD.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Who is Charles Pearce, and why should we care what he thinks?

[tabatha]

2. He does not remember what Obama said on the campaign trail.