Guest Post by Senator Tom Carper
So I didn’t read the FISA bill. Maybe I should have, maybe not. That is for historians to decide. I’m more concerned with the here and now.
For example, some big money guys from BoA are dropping off some checks here and right now I’m practicing up on a little catechism they gave me to memorize about how punitive interest rates and hidden credit card charges are good for the economy.
They gave this thing to me way back in May and I have totally blown it off. Vilsack gave me a mnemonic thingy he came up with to help me remember it but it is some long winded mid-western BS about Sally finding a Hedgehog in a cornfield or some shit and I needed a mnemonic thingy to remember the mnemonic thingy. Anyway, these guys are going to be majorly pissed if they show up and I don’t know this crap, but I digress.
Here is the main thing. Call me a dumbass again and I will have the IRS open an unholy can of whip ass on you and everyone who was ever nice to you right down to your 4th grade teacher Mrs. Dearing.
Yes – I know who your 4th grade teacher was. Let that sink in tough guy.
Reading David Anderson’s take on conservatism in light of your disdain for Carper I am struck by the fact that Republicans will vote for and support any Republican over any Democrat but Democrats seem to hold their guys to a higher standard, a standard beyond simply being in the correct party.
If you leave Iraq off the table, Michael Castle is about as liberal as you can get and the conservative Republicans around here seem to have a problem voting for him. And even George Bush, who is about as stupid as a man can be, won re-election in large part because Republicans will rather die than vote for the clearly better candidate with a “D” next to his name.
The result is that Democrats seem to have a built in structural disadvantage by being far less “partisan” than Republicans.
Carper has been named to the DE-FUCKED CAUCUS.
(Democrats For Undermining the Constitution and Kowtowing Eternally to Drunky)
http://flprogressive.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-senate-caucus-democrats-for.html