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April 15, 2005

Republican Party Hell Bent on Making Sure I Vote Democrat in 2008

Bill Frist is leading the charge:

As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

The big tent continues to become a rickety lean-to (with a gaudy crucifix inside).

Update: Or maybe I won't vote Democrat, if this is how modern American liberals think.

Better to tax inheritance since the actual concern is that I'll give $10 million to my son and he'll be rich, rich, rich without ever having worked....

For shame! How dare one's children benefit from the fruits of one's labor!

Speaking of which, fuck the small businessman.

Yeah! How dare they endeavor to make something of themselves rather than sitting on the government dole!

And somebody might die and give the store to me. The store may be worth millions and millions of dollars. If so, I ought to pay tax on it. Why? Because I've just inherited millions and millions of dollars, that's why.

Well, Matthew, that settles it then! Because inheritance is, prima facie, a bad thing!

Errr..what?

What about those sad folks forced to sell the family business? Don't cry for them.

Right! Because it's not like ownership means anything in Matthew's world of communist delights. The store was never theirs to begin with! Logic!

Ressentiment, my comrades, will only get you so far.

But redistribution will get you everything. Or at least a lot of stuff that you didn't have to work for (wait, isn't that a bad thing in Matty-land?).

Once again, I'm thinking it's time for people of reason to come together and form a viable third party to keep the nuts on the right and left in check.

Update 2: A side thought, for your mental pleasure. Studies seem to indicate that people who are considered more attractive get better pay for the same work and are treated better by people around them. I find this to be a grossly unfair inheritance of certain genetic traits from their parents.

I call on Matthew Yglesias to join me in a campaign to Tax the Pretty People!

Update 3: Did I say I might vote Republican after all? Well, Tom DeLay is workin' hard to take care of that.

I blame Congress over the last 50 to 100 years for not standing up and taking its responsibility given to it by the Constitution. The reason the judiciary has been able to impose a separation of church and state that's nowhere in the Constitution is that Congress didn't stop them. The reason we had judicial review is because Congress didn't stop them. The reason we had a right to privacy is because Congress didn't stop them.

That's right - DeLay believes the Congress should make sure we have a theocracy, an impotent judiciary, and no personal privacy.

Drunk with power, the Republicans teeter on the edge of political insanity (while DeLay has already taken a flying leap, and is free-falling, warm in the knowledge that Jesus and his Mighty Angels shall catch him).

Update Whatever: The Politburo Diktat has more.