| Greetings from snow central. The DC portion of the Federal government is closed today. Spunky was the keynote speaker at the Tea Bag Convention on Saturday night. She put crib notes on her palm. My question is who did the actual writing? And thinking. But I digress. It appears that she wants to run as a Republican AND a Teabagger. I understand easily that running as a Republican gives her ballot access, while running on a non-party would be difficult in many states. But it begs the question if Teabaggers are anti-government, how will they feel about voting Republican? OR if Spunky is able to BE the voice, face, and soul of the Republican Party, where do the remaining 12 Republican moderates and 37 AA Republicans go? And what about Todd? The new email release shows that he passed proprietary data from his employer to the Alaskan government, "helped" make and break nominations and other hiring and firing decisions, and truly was a "shadow governor". And that's just what we've seen so far, much has been redacted, and more is coming. While married couples certainly share information, do the teabaggers want Todd to have the launch codes? Maybe they don't care. But the thing I'm really thinking about relates to the teabag supporters. I understand that people don't like paying taxes. I'm not one of those people because I believe in paying taxes. I want to pay taxes, because I believe in government services. I like roads, schools, libraries, a court system, and all the rest. I want some of the money I earn to go to services for people who need them. While I have a strict no-kill policy and therefore detest that a single dime of my money has ever gone for war, I am glad that some of my hard earned dollars have fed the hungry and provided medical care for the poor and helped to keep seniors solvent. But still, I understand the teabag rage against taxes. I understand that there is waste in government: I think we all realize it's part of the system that could use some improvement. But the teabaggers have no implementable ideas. They seem unable to say where they would cut if they did decrease income from taxes. Do they want to do away with compulsory education? Do they feel libraries are superfluous because if you have a bible you don't need any other books? How will they pay for the wars they love so much? What will they do when children start starving to death? Have they forgotten what the world was like in the age of Upton Sinclair? I don't think that Sarah Palin is electable for national office. Certainly not president. If she were able to capture the Republican nomination, it would be lightening rod for all of the progressives, moderates, non-voters, and anyone else who can read to rally to re-elect President Obama in 2012. But the fact that she has so much pull is indicative that we really are becoming, as my brother calls it, the United States of Entertainment. That being cute and dumb as a board plays well with far too many people. |
