Endgame

Well, the presidential race is almost over, and it looks like McBush's last ditch effort in trying to pull some win out of his ass is to say that the country will fall apart if we have too many Democrats in office. Since the House of Representatives and the Senate will be under a Democratic majority, we shouldn't also have a Democrat in the White House. 'You can't give them that much control, they'll fuck it all up!' I guess it's an okay argument, and it might convince some people out there.

BUT

If you don't believe that McCain would be four more years of Bush, you are dead wrong. Even if McCain wouldn't try to pursue the Bush agenda (which he most certainly would, go ahead and compare their energy plans) nothing notable would change in Washington if he were elected. You have a strong majority of Democrats in Congress, and a stubborn old Republican president. That's four 'lame duck' years. Anything significant the Democrats would try to push forward, economically or otherwise, would probably be rejected and vetoed by conservative McCain. Every plan McCain would try to feed to Congress will never pass through. It will be total gridlock, nothing would get done. It would be four years of endless partisan bickering. And we are all stuck with the same Bush policies intact that no one will be able to change. We can't have shit like that in our government right now. We need a government that will work to get shit done. The simple fact that the Senate Democrats do not have a STRONG majority right now means that they will still have to be moderate enough to get things done; they still need to work with Republicans. But it is time our country moved a little center-left of the spectrum, just a little more liberal. Pass strong regulations on Wall Street. Change our spending habits in Washington. Get some social issues passed that have been on the back burner for too long (i.e. healthcare). And finally shed some of this conservative bullshit that Bush has left us with.

Now, one of the arguments against this that I have heard from Republicans is that if you have a runaway party majority in Washington, then you run into problems. They say to look at the first six years of Bush, when Republicans had the White House and majorities in congress before Democrats took over in 2006. Look at how out of control spending and all that shit was, and how fucked up things got. I love hearing that from Republicans. They don't admit how much of a failure George W. Bush was until these elections came around, and they finally listened to the people and saw Bush's 26% approval rating. It's like they just barely figured it out overnight. So, the argument is that since the Republicans totally fucked up everything when they had the majority, this automatically means that Democrats would do the same thing. Sorry, but there is a difference when your party isn't completely controlled by corporations, and there is actually an intelligent person in the White House.

Don't even get me started on what it would be like if you had a President Sarah Palin vs. Democratic Congress. Ugliness ensues.

In the end, we need change, drastic change that can only come from a mandate of the people that says we as a country are ready for a new direction. We cannot be held up by the normal hiccups of a broken government.


OBAMA/BIDEN 2008