54%. Really? Really?! The fuck happened? Was it the weather. It had to be the weather. No other explanation can reasonably make sense of this madness. I mean, sweet zombie-Jesus, Scott Brown? Just cause this ass-clown grew up in Wakefield and drives a pick-up truck does not mean that he is like you or looking out for your best interest. Like any, and (I do mean any) other politician- democrat, republican, or otherwise- he is a swine and crooked hustler who will do whatever he can to get ahead. When he talks of tax breaks, he means for the rich. The “rich” does not constitute that dwindling and mythical entity known as the middle-class, most of whom must have voted for this snake. Nor does his ideas of healthcare reform leave much hope for the poor and working-class that comprise an ever-growing number of the states population.
Now, to be fair to the man, he does know sense on some issues, even if that sense isn’t very far-reaching. While he is anti-gay marriage he is pro-civil union, which, in all logical political aspects, makes perfect sense. This keeps separation of church and state while at the same time allowing for the church to keep its bigoted and antiquated stance on the subject, with the opportunity for everyone else to tell them to suck a fat one. Not to say that he is at all “ok” with the issue, as was the case with Cheryl Jacques, his 2001 lesbian democratic opponent whom he said was “not normal” in raising children. And, his pro-abortion stance is a little comforting, even if the restrictions he wants to put around it are discerning at best. Also, although he supports the ridiculous notion of sending more troops into Afghanistan, I can’t heap too much cowshit on him when Obama allows for that very act to be carried out before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for shit he hasn’t even done yet.
Notice how all the concessions I give him all come with a hefty heap of fine print.
Coakley, on the other hand, has her head a little (but only a little) bit more on her shoulders. I mean, come on, that weird shit about tax-payers paying for defense lawyers for terrorists? Was she batshit out of her mind? Who the fuck did she expect to win over with that? Even if we allow for the due process of law, you don’t suggest people giving up their tax-dollars to help defend people who blow shit up. The majority of people are still frothing at the mouth from being swindled into having their money being wasted to save these fat banking cocksuckers from blowing off their heads with magnums and sparing us all a lot of misery. Then there’s also that small matter over the whole Menino e-mail incident and her numerous instances of ignoring questionable legal matters regarding the DA’s office.
Even still, Coakley was the lesser of two evils. She is a politician like all the rest, but her methods work with what has become the role of government in this country after years of chaos. It seems that the game-plan of the United States right now is not to win but to merely not lose. We are all well and truly fucked, and it seems that all that anyone can hope for is not to make things better for our country, but to not make it that much worse.We’re not trying to get the Titanic to cross the ocean, but that fucker better at least stay afloat, torn and battered though it may be.
And to be honest I’m skeptical as to how bad it will really get. The major issue was the healthcare bill passing, and it has become such a husk of what it once was or should have been that I’m not too sure that it’s rejection will have that great of an effect. (Plus, there are still loop-holes through which it can be passed without Brown’s vote.) No argument that one does need to be passed, but both the Democrat and Republican parties are so ballless and grossly ineffective that I can’t see anything passing that will fix this clusterfuck that passes as our national healthcare system. The Democratic party lacks anything even remotely resembling a spine, and the Republican party is too concerned with all the wrong people in order to give a shit about those suffering under the current system of health.
This is going to be an interesting few years to say the least. We’re stuck with this putz until 2012, when we’ll have another opportunity to make ill-informed decisions on a senate seat regarding issues that we haven’t fully thought through ourselves. Massachusetts hasn’t had a Republican occupy the senate seat since 1972, and we all know how well politics fared in that dreadful year. All I can be sure of for certain is that I am going to require a lot more alcohol than the lone bottle occupying my side by the time this is through. Let’s just hope my liver doesn’t give out in the meantime.
