This Week in Johno's Animadversion
“The first step in reforming government is also the first step of making chitlins: first you gotta squeeze out the dookie.”
That adorable little bit of folksy homespun wisdom was handed down to me by my Great-Grand-nuncle Hiram Boggs, a veteran of the Great War, and it was handed down to him by his Great-Grand-nuncle Zachariah Homer Muttonchop Boggs, who fought in the Civil War (on the side of the Blue) and spent his teenaged years fighting Copperheads and slave-hunters in the briar flats of Northeastern Ohio.
That makes seven generations of Boggses, Muttonchops, Mackies, Mackils, Morgans, Melvilles, Patricks, Picklebarrels, and Bagginses who have fought on the side of liberty against the encroaching depredations of the revenuer, the bully pulpit, and the bureaucrat.
And I’m starting to think it’s time for me to do the same. Of course, nobody in my family actually at any point picked up arms against the US Government (well, that’s not entirely true. I had a great-great-aunt killed by a stray bullet by Pinkerton men at Homestead and her husband was killed in a Pullman strike – also by the goddamn Pinkertons), and I don’t intend to either. That way lies madness and death.
But what can an honest man do when the fat cats down in Washington seem intent on Hoovering my wallet with one hand (that’s a pun, get it? Hoover the President and Hoover the vacuum cleaner? Haw!) and beating me about the head and neck with a Jack Chick tract (or a copy of The Noam Chomsky Reader) with the other? And what of an age where, even as our greatest enemies lie as they ever do outside our borders, even raising questions about the direction the country is taking elicits the inevitable “Don’t you know there’s a war on?!? Sinner!?!”
You know what an honest man can do?
Not a goddamn thing.
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I wish I had an answer. At
I wish I had an answer. At this point I have lost all faith in the Republican party - they just passed the porked up energy bill while not even talking about tax reform.
If you run as a Non-Fuckwytte, you will have my vote.
I actually think that's what
I actually think that's what all this is about; a deep yearning for Non-Fuckwytte partisans to make a run at power.
The worst part is, my local reps aren't so bad. Decent mayor. Okay state rep. Good-to-excellent US House of Representatives Rep. Senators? Well, their names are Kennedy and Kerry so let's skip them.
It's everybody else's representatives who seem to be the problem!
Sometimes its not so much
Sometimes its not so much that any individual representative is bad, but that collectively, they are the Congress. That's where the problems start.
A friend of mine was a veritable fount of ideas for new political parties. Among his ideas:
* The Contrarian Party - their sole political promise is to vote against any new law, treaty, or program.
* The Disposable Party - this party would get into power, achieve some random goal (which varied based on his mood), then disolve.
I'm sure he would appreciate the Non-Fuckwytte party.