Fuck Yeah/Fuck It... Volume I
Now that I've been exiled to the ice planet Hoth, I'm fixin' to resurrect this here blogspot to vent my spleen all over the internets for the benefit of my long suffering friends who just can't get enough of my spittle-flecked rantings. Now that Obama is president, writing this thing is a whole new challenge. The institutional criminality of the American government remains, but it's hard to avoid the siren call of Obama's eloquence and seeming commitment to something called "change." As I wrestle with alternating bursts of despair and delirious hope, I'm introducing a periodic feature in which I catalogue the various ways that the Obama administration is filling me with optimism and making me want to punch a baby.
Fuck Yeah!
Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the Justice Department will no longer prosecute medical marijuana growers or raid dispensaries. New Drug Czar is a cop with a drug using stepson, not a military general and he no longer enjoys cabinet level status.
Fuck it...
There still IS a fucking Drug Czar. And Joe Biden is as big a wrongheaded, gung ho drug warrior as Barry McCaffery ever was.
Fuck Yeah!
All U.S. Troops out of Iraq by 2011.
Fuck it...
2011? Seriously? And that date is only certain because the Iraqis insisted on it when they signed the Status of Forces Agreement last year.
Fuck Yeah!
Executive orders closing Gitmo and banning torture.
Fuck it...
Gitmo still holding "enemy combatants" for the foreseeable future. Obama Justice Department continues to use Bush administration interpretations of executive authority in federal court.
Fuck Yeah!
Proposed budget is a radical departure from thirty years of supply side corruption. Cuts in farm subsidies to agribusiness giants, slashes in wasteful defense projects, more money for health care and education, and the end of Bush era upper class tax cuts
Fuck it...
Senate filled with bursting with grandstanding "centrist" cockslaps who won't rest until they've gutted every decent reform in the budget.
Fuck Yeah!
Stimulus package passed with relative ease, points way to worthwhile expansion in public transit and infrastructure
Fuck it...
Had to get rid of a lot of worthwhile projects and lard in bullshit tax to appease above mentioned cockslap centrists. And, it's probably not big enough to really have an impact. Not to mention that the whole idea of an economy based on exponential growth of consumer spending is a recipe for cultural bankruptcy and ecological collapse.
Fuck Yeah!
Reversal of Bush era policies on stem cell research, family planning, federal land use, government transparency, and a bunch of other stuff
Fuck it...
Being a better president than George W. Bush is like being a better parent than Susan Smith. Pretty much the very least you can do.
Fuck Yeah!
Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the Justice Department will no longer prosecute medical marijuana growers or raid dispensaries. New Drug Czar is a cop with a drug using stepson, not a military general and he no longer enjoys cabinet level status.
Fuck it...
There still IS a fucking Drug Czar. And Joe Biden is as big a wrongheaded, gung ho drug warrior as Barry McCaffery ever was.
Fuck Yeah!
All U.S. Troops out of Iraq by 2011.
Fuck it...
2011? Seriously? And that date is only certain because the Iraqis insisted on it when they signed the Status of Forces Agreement last year.
Fuck Yeah!
Executive orders closing Gitmo and banning torture.
Fuck it...
Gitmo still holding "enemy combatants" for the foreseeable future. Obama Justice Department continues to use Bush administration interpretations of executive authority in federal court.
Fuck Yeah!
Proposed budget is a radical departure from thirty years of supply side corruption. Cuts in farm subsidies to agribusiness giants, slashes in wasteful defense projects, more money for health care and education, and the end of Bush era upper class tax cuts
Fuck it...
Senate filled with bursting with grandstanding "centrist" cockslaps who won't rest until they've gutted every decent reform in the budget.
Fuck Yeah!
Stimulus package passed with relative ease, points way to worthwhile expansion in public transit and infrastructure
Fuck it...
Had to get rid of a lot of worthwhile projects and lard in bullshit tax to appease above mentioned cockslap centrists. And, it's probably not big enough to really have an impact. Not to mention that the whole idea of an economy based on exponential growth of consumer spending is a recipe for cultural bankruptcy and ecological collapse.
Fuck Yeah!
Reversal of Bush era policies on stem cell research, family planning, federal land use, government transparency, and a bunch of other stuff
Fuck it...
Being a better president than George W. Bush is like being a better parent than Susan Smith. Pretty much the very least you can do.
posted by matthew christman at 7:05 PM
1 Comments:
The father of Sara Palin's daugther's kid just parted ways with Bristol . . . so much for the quaint small-town family. Now she'll be just another girl with a love child out of wedlock . . . collecting a government check. Maybe Sara will stay true to her social agenda and have her daughter burned at the stake for not remaining celibate until marriage. Someone clearly didn't tell Bristol about the saddlebacking loophole.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29642846/
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