Washblog

If GWB was the ignorant recruit of the James Baker clique of late 90's Republican and corporate power brokers, Republicans in general have been the ignorant recruits of the same exploiters.

Prior to the 1990's the exploiter's agenda was not so much hidden as mired in the republican minorities of the previous 30 years.

With the electoral success of Dubya, Republicans dominated by political newcomers from the Christian political right became primarily marionettes of corporate capitalism. Finally, with the opportunity at hand, the economic sociopaths again began to remove the fetters and take back the highly profit-based  rights and power lost after their unfetteredness was the primary cause of economic collapse and the Depression.

Like kids in a candy store after decades of bitter restriction, these capitalists pushed their ignorant rookie-dominated party toward giving it  all back as quickly as possible

... as if someone would see the illegitimacy and theft and make them stop before they got it all back

...  before they could get started getting even more power and control over the economy and working families.

For the party politicians - demonstrated by the attitudes of Gingrich and Delay who represented the new consciousless conservatism written of by John Dean, what was revealed were their exxagerated notions and assumptions of how political influence is exercised and exploited in the United States.

These new conservative republican hacks of the 1990's on up to here and now, whether they admit it or not, brought to Washington D.C. the assumption that they by God were going to do what Demos had always been doing: wield power, get rich and suppress opponents by fair means or foul.

Whether or not Demos historically have been as extreme, openly agressive, flaunting and brazen in transparency of corruption is an argument for another day.

But what we have now with the republican party is an image and reputation of greed, corruption and partisanship that far exceeds what existed prior to the 1990's - except perhaps in the paranoid victim-based thinking of the republican party itself.

But we are those who must suffer and pay for the adolescent immaturity of the current dominant party,

for the national and global economic consequences of buying into purely sociopathic corporate policies that in effect cripple rather than enhance global economic growth,

for a despised America no longer held in awe and admiration globally. And this primarily because of republican adolescent immaturity that blindly followed the Greatest American Christian hypocrite into war, destruction and repudiation of everything real Christians have known and understood for decades.

Tis the very thing that Democrats have attempted to manage as a displaced majority trying to educate an apathetic citizenry. Difficult because the citizenry is  captive to its own "patriotic" duty to consume, consume, consume and shut the hell up about politics.

Republican immaturity is currently reflected and unwittingly flaunted by junior high school campaign tactics, themes and talking points - all of which should make this mid-term election an unfair competition in which Democratic victories ought to launch us toward righting the ship of state and plugging the leaking holes in the hull.

Yeah? Well ... maybe. But the preponderance of national apathy amply demonstrates how much republicans believe the we gullible but patriotic consumers are still buying their snake oil.

Are they right?