the Wrong Ranger

I’m laughing and scratching about the course of human events. Too bad I kept myself out-of-the-loop on the port deal. I had the answer: Port ownership needs to be highly classified for national security purposes. But the end is coming for the Republican Party; and it’s not over the port-thing unless a dirty bomb goes off in Baltimore over the summer.

South Dakota has already banned abortions. I hope Karl is computing this. Mississippi is next, etc. The unlikely Democratic coalition of farmers, laborers and intellectuals lasted from 1932 until 1968. Besides the yadda-yadda about Civil and sexual rights fracturing the Democrats then stuck in Vietnam, thanks to the Kennedy brothers on one side and a befuddled Johnson facing Barry Goldwater on the other (more about Barry later): We ran out of voting Americans who work as farmers and laborers! The Republican coalition of God and Mammon will last a whole-lot shorter.

Think of all those middle-class suburbanites planning another child, only age or genetics has them uncertain about it. They know the federal government won’t help with health care or institutionalization, so they do an amniocentesis. Not any more! Thirteen year old got knocked up; off to the baby factory! And from the real right-wing --hear that call of dismay over another 10,000 unwanted crack-babies rolling off the assembly-line. Nothing, fails like success. Not that abortion will really be banned anymore than illegal drugs are unavailable... but the coalition will crack.

This Republican Party was already a misnomer. This is not the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, but a Republican Party of Jeff Davis, the Standard Oil Trust and Billy Sunday. It will break up into: The Abolitionists (of abortion), the CEO-Lobbyist Party (with the fewest members and the most money), the Anti-Tax Party, the Anti-Evolution Party (the Know-Everythings and the Know-Nothings) and lastly the Medium-Racist Party. This last faction is why Dr. Rice, even with a personality transplant, can not successfully take over my job!

Now back to Barry, who was not deluded about procreation-rights belonging to the State (a position of Hadrian); we see where “Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice,” can take you: To a horde of semi-literate peasants wrapped up at Gitmo with little use to anybody. An example of how rhetoric unhinged from logic becomes banal.

Given the indecisive gutlessness of the Democrats if Lou Dobbs wants to be President, his chance is coming.