on the beautiful shores of the police state

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We won't stop feeling the Rove Administration for a very long time, and triply so since Obama is hard at work cementing the most egregious of the Constitution wounds extant. The patient is in a coma and not expected to recover.

Moreover, Matt Taibbi, seems convinced the Republicans will nominate Piglips in 2012. Here are just the closing paragraphs of his latest blog post:

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THE MOST DELICIOUS moment in the recent Palin brouhaha, after all, was her classic fuckup in the days after her resignation, when she slipped up while arguing that as president she wouldn’t have to deal with the persecution she faced as Alaska governor. “I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out,” she said, apparently unaware that there is no federal “Department of Law.”

This amazing gaffe reminded everyone of what we might have to look forward to in 2012, when the Republican Party may well nominate a woman who would lose at Trivial Pursuit to a Chilean sea bass, who makes George W. Bush look like Sir Isaac Newton. What’s incredible about Palin isn’t that she has a few gaps in her knowledge base, but that she doesn’t know anything about anything at all; she moreover doesn’t seem to feel the need to make sure one idea follows the next when she talks, instead just blurting out random unconnected bits and pieces of deep-seated resentment and persecution complex. Even ideological consistency is an alien concept to her (she wears her religious fundamentalism on her sleeve, but lets her unmarried daughter shack up with a human hard-on in the next room over) and she appears to resent the notion that it shouldn’t be.

All of which makes Sarah Palin the perfect leader for the inevitable pushback against the Obama era, when America in a vague and superficial sort of way decided to celebrate the values of culture, tolerance and knowledge. The other America doesn’t read and doesn’t remember anything it didn’t learn in the last five minutes; it’s angry and unhappy but doesn’t want to think about why, and knows only that it wants someone to pay the price for what it feels.

These people don’t want a president who reads Urdu poetry, they want a president who thinks Urdu is a Swedish dog food and doesn’t care if you know it. Just like them, Sarah Palin is now an unemployed loser who lost her job and her status thanks to forces beyond her comprehension and thinks she knows exactly whom to blame – laugh at her now if you like, but see if her humiliating exit doesn’t turn out to be the hole card that wins her the Republican nomination.

This should be enough to make you wish to quit engaging in the plutocrats' game of keeping you embroiled in endless polemics. We should not be gleefully dissing the snot out of the uprising of the-not-really-that-far-right. We should be howling in outrage that their movement -- based on real existential hardships, that ARE the fault of government -- has been coöpted by the moneyed interests, the fascists, to both help prevent any moves that tend toward the general welfare and to give the Democratic fascists cover for not delivering those.

Don't be as stupid as the people you love to look down on.

We should be going to those damn tea parties and helping them articulate the REAL problems, rooting for them to succeed at the right things instead of being herded like lemmings into glorifying only their handicaps and insuring none of us ever gets a break.

I'm sick of hearing that they're the Village Idiots and you making yourself look so smart by pointing out where they are wrong, or stupid, or racist, or homophobic, or any of the other put-downs you enjoy slinging and watching being slung. WHAT THE HELL GOOD CAN THAT POSSIBLY DO? We could go out and demonstrate with them against this fascist-friendly non-healthcare-reform, and heaping every bit of our treasure on bank fraudsters and war mongers. If we got out among them, we could help them aim their outrage where it doesn't just shoot their feet off, but, noooooooo, we gotta fight with them, make fun of them, put them down, so that those fat fuckers who run the world can keep us enslaved.

Nice goin'....