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JANUARY 21, 2004 – It
didn't matter, and we knew it wouldn't. No matter how big a
lie the President told, everyone who bears the label Republican -
and so sits on one side of the auditorium - rose in unison.
Not a single soul was able to muster a conscience. Not a single
soul was able to stand up (or, in this case, sit down) for what is
best for America. The President ran through his
deficit-ballooning, misleading-the-nation-avoiding, nonsensical
continuation of his streak of never taking responsibility for
anything, and half of the elected representatives of the American
people applauded and shouted with joy.
The other half were no better.
They let him lie without interruption. They sat there and gave
an audience to his endless lies. The filled the room for his
avoidances and justifications - from pretending, yet again, we found
some sort of WMDs in Iraq, to listing five or six excuses why he
should not be held accountable for the economy, even as he then went
on to lie and say the economy is great. It didn't matter.
He could have said, as he in effect did, "All of you Democrats are
pansies, I'm going to sit here and lie to your face for an hour, and
you're going to let me get away with it - even stand to applaud,"
and they would have.
Because what we had last night was the
annual ceremony of the eunuchs and the chumps begging for attention
from daddy.
This is why we are independents.
There should have been poke-a-dots. A person standing a
applauding here, one sitting there. Not whole cow-like,
mindless herds jumping and drooling because they had better go along
with the group.
There should have been interruptions
when he told flat out lies, and when he refused to stop, people
should have left the room. If you care about America, why will
you give its leader a forum to mislead the people into letting him
trash the nation? Why would provide the audience? If
everyone with principle drew the line after the third blatant lie
and left, the half-empty room (or more barren if people really acted
on their consciences) would have spoke volumes. Let him smirk
and shout out to no one. Show the American people you really
represent them.
If there were a Moderate Independent
section in the Congress for the State of the Union address last
night, it would have been a much different event.
When the chumps, who are dumb and
pathetic enough to embrace every lie they are told to embrace by the
President and their party, shot up to their feet to applaud his BS,
we would have heckled them as ballless pansies, laughing at the
gullibility or taunting their lack of morals and caring for America.
When the eunuchs on the other side of
the aisle got up to applaud even though they were seething inside,
we would have offered our seats to them, informing them they never
took an oath to stand and kiss the President's ass publicly.
"Really, it's not required by the law," we would inform them, "not
even suggested."
Of course if we came at all we would
have known what we were getting into - a BS campaign-promoting
lie-fest - and so we would have come prepared.
We would have brought lots of Busch beer
and made a game where we each had to chug a whole beer every time
the President lied. Talk about drinking games.
We would have brought square cards like
the ones they have at baseball games with "K" on them to keep track
of the number of strikeouts a pitcher gets, except ours would have a
big 'ol "L" on them and we would raise another one for each lie the
President told.
We would have held a pool - invite the
rest of our Congressional colleagues - and even the press corps - to
join in. How many lies each fifteen minutes, total lies, how
many times the chumps will stand to applaud flat out lies, how many
times the eunuchs will stand and applaud when it is clear they don't
want to, and we would develop an over/under of some sort just for
fun - maybe for the total number of eunuch and chump ovations and
Presidential lies combined.
At least one of us would have had a real
bad cough the whole night, one a bad case of gas.
Of course we would break out one of
those inflatable beach balls at some sort. We would have a "Go
USA" shouting contest going back and forth between the eunuch and
chump sides of the room. "Ok, now the chumps. Is that
the best you got? Come on eunuchs, I think you can top them."
Then we would get the wave going around
the upper deck where all the special props - I mean guests - are
planted.
We would have predicted which lies the
President was going to tell and come prepared with chants.
When he went into pretending he never said all the dishonest things
about WMDs that he said last year, we would have had the appointed
leader in our group start us up with, "A one, a two, a three," and
we all would have shouted in unison, "What about the fucking WMDs?"
Ah, that would have gotten some good laughs.
Yes, not only is being a member of
either the eunuch or chump parties an affront to anyone who cares
about honesty, independence, and taking a stand for what is best for
America, but it is just plain not much fun. I mean, when you
watch the highlights, look at their faces.
The chumps aren't really enjoying
themselves - you can tell that inside they know they are just being
pathetic chumps. And the eunuchs, I mean, did you see their
faces? Of course the right-wing puppet non-M/I media attacked
them personally and on a juvenile level for scowling - "How dare
they disrespect the lying, America-destroying President like that?"
But honestly, why would they put up with it? Why? Why
stay? On top of being dishonest, on top of being weak, it does
a disservice to America.
But even more, it just plain 'ol isn't
very much fun. They should come join our party, The Moderate
Independents. True, we don't have any animal as our mascot
yet, but at least we know how to take advantage of a good weenie
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