The whole CSX controversy involving Trent Lott should serve as a good reminder to conservatives and libertarians why the Republican Party is, at the end of the day, a party of fraud and deception. Anyone else getting sick of Trent's moaning about how the other forty some states that weren't affected by Katrina have some sort of karmic debt to Mississippi and Louisiana? On at least one occassion, the dishonorable senator has actually used the word "entitled" to describe the relationship between his state and the taxpayers in forty some sovereign states' bank accounts.
The very same welfare-entitlement mentality that conservatives scream about with the left is alive and well among the Republicans. I could understand and forgive him for demanding a zero percent interest loan from the Federal Reserve for the state, but no, he wants a redistribution of wealth. Dare we call it what it really is? It's nothing more than an emergency redistribution of wealth because Mississippi should have no problem passing an emergency reappropriation bill to divert funds from other services to this railroad. Are they so poor that they cannot raise taxes, have a referendum on a public bond? How about borrow one billion dollars from private banks like every other institution would have to if it didn't have insurance?
Let me be clear about one thing. I have the utmost pity for the people who lost everything in Katrina. Like many Americans, I donated food and other things to help them recover. What I deeply resent is the righteous indignation of Trent Lott who acts as though my state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, somehow mysteriously channeled the wrath of God on the revelers at Mardi Gras. Knowing what a corrupt cesspool Louisiana is, I can assure the dishonorable senator that we would have done a more effective job of handling such a powerful weapon, as Virginia as a fine military history. That's what I truly can't stand about this. The insinuation that we, the citizens of the other forty some states somehow owe them like we did something to them.
Out of principle the congressional delegations from the other states should slap down any appropriation for Mississippi. If you want our money, please ask and we'll help out. Come to us screaming about how we owe you and you can just dig into your own pockets for the money. Where I come from, we don't call that being a victim. We call it being an asshole.
Others:
just another example that there is absolutely no difference b/w R's and D's...they are all politicians that steal our wealth and freedom for their personal gain...they are the lowest of the low, the scummiest pieces of garbage that society has to offer and they make the rules...we live in a freaking bizzaro world...how do intelligent people continue to put up with this nonsense...oh, yeah, forgot that this entire country has been dumbed down through the publik skool indoctrination programs...
I just thought up a new name for the Republicans: Republicunts. Probably not 100% original, but it made me smile at this time of the morning...
too crude for my tastes...how about Republikooks...
Democraps
Demonrats
Democrass
Democrash (crash or Democ Rash, take your pick)
Republikooks
Repugnicans
Republicunts
I think we've got a good start on some new euphemisms ;)
Demonrats...perfect...
With the 'Liberals' being toward the right and 'Labor' being the lefties here, there's not that much to choose between them. Much the same as you have it there, both parties are very corrupt. Thing is, for the sake of a bit of word fun, there's not much I can think up at this time of the morning for the party names..
Morris,
Sometimes I think Australia and the United States are in a pissing match to see which country can slide toward tyranny faster. It's almost like some demonic brotherly rivalry.