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Howard Dean, a member of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, became the new chair of the Democratic National Committee today. After election losses in 2000, 2002 and 2004, further housecleaning of the party needs to be done. DINOs -- Democrats in name only -- need to be shown the fucking door, and I hope that the door hits them in the ass on their way out.
A new hope
It's been a shitty week:
- The civil war in Iraq -- which Middle-East experts warned the Bush regime about before the Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialistic March 2003 invasion of Iraq -- has started.
- North Korea announced that it has nukes. ("International experts believe [North Korea] has one or two atomic bombs. North Korea is not known to have performed any nuclear tests, and it kicked out U.N. inspectors in 2002," notes The Associated Press.) North Korea says the Bush regime is provoking a "sea of fire."
- Iran promised a "burning hell" for any aggressor. ("'The Iranian nation does not seek war, does not seek violence and dispute. But the world must know that this nation will not tolerate any invasion,' President Mohammad Khatami said in a fiery speech to [a] crowd in central Tehran," Reuters reported, adding that the Iranian president stated, "The whole Iranian nation is united against any threat or attack. If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.")
North Korea and Iran aren't using fiery rhetoric like this because they're inherently evil.
They're using fiery rhetoric like this because in his State of the Union address three years ago, "President" Bush belligerently, irresponsibly and stupidly named Iraq, North Korea and Iran as the "axis of evil" -- and then proceeded to attack Iraq against the wishes of the United Nations and against world opinion.
If you were on a very short hit list and saw that one of the others on the list got crossed off, you'd be using fiery rhetoric, too.
What is the typical American doing about the fact that his or her "president" is leading his or her nation -- the entire world -- into Armageddon?
Watching more "reality" television, buying more shit at Wal-Mart, eating more fast food, and buying bigger and bigger gas-guzzling SUVs on which they slap incredibly, nauseatingly hypocritical "Support Our Troops" and "Pray for Our Troops" magnets.
The typical fat, stupid and lazy American has the blind faith that the very same team in the White House that is pushing the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation will somehow keep him or her safe.
And what has the Democratic Party been doing during the past four years to stop the Bush regime?
Well, there are those DINOs like Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who has called the Iraq war "a just war," and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose husband is making a killing in Iraq in war profiteering. (Feinstein has supported the Iraq war all along. That her husband is making big bucks in Iraq while hundreds of our troops and thousands of Iraqi civilians die is purely coincidental, I'm sure. Lieberman, I'm guessing, is looking out for Israel, even though he's supposed to be working for the interests of Americans, not Israelis. But global nuclear annihilation, which Lieberman is helping the Bush regime achieve, isn't exactly good for Israel, is it?)
With just a handful of exceptions, for the past four years the rest of the "Democrats," including Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, have been going along to get along. (While during his presidential campaign he criticized the particulars of the execution of the war, Kerry never condemned the war itself that never should have been waged in the first place, something that I was never thrilled about.)
All of this has been enough to make a left-wing blogger say "Fuck it!" and be too paralyzed to blog for almost a week.
Today, however, offers new hope.
Former Vermont governor and former presidential aspirant Howard Dean, who has opposed the Iraq war from Day One, has taken the reins of the Democratic National Committee.
Dean won't be setting policy, members of the "Democratic" Establishment Machine, including Kerry, have sniped. They're terrified that Dean is ushering in an era in which the people, not a relative handful of "Democratic" elites, call the shots.
Memo to the members of the DEM: Fuck you. We the people are taking over. You're out. We're in. You're right: Dean won't be setting policy. We will. You won't.
"Democrats" who have been too spineless to stand up to the Bush regime need to be removed from power. "Democrats" who personally gain from the Bush regime's policies that harm and even kill others definitely need to be removed from power.
First, we take back our party, return the party to the people.
Then, we take back the nation.
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