The "Bipartisan-shit"

[shance]

Any time you hear the term bipartisan, check "your six" and check your wallet.

It means the ruling class is united and on the move.

Given the history of this term, I can't imagine why it doesn't send shudders down our collective spine.

They call it bipartisanship; but it's more like The Bipartisan Ship -- the primary war vessel of the ultra-elite.

The Bipartisan Ship is why we don't have universal health care.

The Bipartisan Ship is why there is no meaningful right for workers to organize in most states.

The Bipartisan Ship is why the two state-institutions that can openly engage in heterosexist discrimination are marriage and the military.

The Bipartisan Ship is what gave us the "free trade" agreements that have gutted local enterprises, destroyed the trade union movement, savaged the economies of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and reinforced overpriced war materiel contracts as a surrogate export market during an apparently permanent trade deficit.

The Bipartisan Ship gave us the largest prison population on earth (raw numbers... China with 1.3 billion people has 1.5 million in lockup... we have 2.1 million locked up in a population of a mere 300 million). The Bipartisan Ship is the Death Star dressed up like the Love Boat.

In this election, the average cost of a House seat (in campaign cash) was alm ost a million dollars ($960,000 to be more exact). The average cost of a Senate seat was $7.8 million.

This pretty well consoidates the loyalty of anyone wanting to serve (and that is the right word) in Congress.

The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign money, updates the figures frequently; and what is remarkable is not which top contributors give to which party, but how many of the top contributors (representing Wall Street and Big Business) give generously to both parties. You see, they are all on the same cruise, headed for the same destination.

That destination includes perserving American supremacy in the world, which allows us to live our profligate and completely unsustanable lifestyles here long enough to get through another business and election cycle... all at the direct expense of the poorer people in the world.

Right now, that means the mission of The Bipartisan Ship is to ensure the continued flow of the fuel (literally) for this massive parasitism.

The Bipartisan Ship is committed to maintaining control, by hook or by crook, of the region whose residents live inconveniently atop more than half the world's easily recoverable oil, and adjacent to most of the world's natural gas. Let's not forget that

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Commissions... the last refuge of bipartisan scoundrels.

The Baker-Hamilton Commission that Democrats are now using as cover and concealment is led by two professional commission-leaders, James Baker and Lee Hamilton, both veterans of ruling class, pasty-faced, male mandarinism -- one a Republican operative and the other a Democrat... respectively.

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Bipartisans love bombs. They love the contracts to build them.

They love the macho cache of talking about them and raining them on the heads of anonymous families abroad as a display of "resolve."

The Baker-Hamilton Commission, if you'll pardon my language, isn't designed to do jack shit about the war, except figure out how to dampen down our opposition to it a little bit longer, and to give the Democratic Partya littel breathing space, now trapped in its victory and the twin-realities of an unwinnable war and the beginnings of a permanent decline in American imperial power.

Exposing this sham is the first step in retaining the power that we-the-people exercised two days ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/the-bipartisan-ship_b_33710.html

[dogday]

1. Funny, they could not even say the word... Bipartisan

when they had the power, but now that we have it, they repeat it 1,000 times a day....

[napi21]

2. It all sounds good now, doesn't it Pubs?

Well, I'm sorry, but I think 12 years of shit treatment just won't let that happen...at least not for a very long time!

Ever hear the words "PAY BACK IS A B**CH!" Get used to it, and GET OVER IT!

[shance]

3. To me, this shows how the ultra rich and those who abuse their power

and privilege to exploit, exhaust and maintain a citizenry and system which works solely for them and pulls up the ladder from those who are not in such cushy positions.

[VelmaD]

4. I will re-iterate...I'm in Texas...

where the "blue wave" passed us by on Tuesday. And I guaran-damn-tee you the rethugs aren't calling for any bipartisanship here.

[shance]

5. Im from Texas as well, and you KNOW that's true!

Thanks for posting.

[Vogon_Glory]

6. We Texas Democrats Remember Grover Norqist's Words Too Well

We Texas Democrats remember Grover Norqist's famous quip about bipartisanship being an invitation to date rape all too well.

Compared to most of the rest of the country, we Texas Democrats faired poorly on Tuesday. Our statewide candidates lost again. While we did hold our congressional seats and even picked up seats in the sate legislature, the 'pugs still remain in control of the state legislature and in control of the governor's mansion and hold the lieutenant governorship, too. Almost all of the Rethuglican players who were involved in Tom DeLay's mid-cycle redistricting scheme are still in office.

The incumbent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue went to Washington boasting of his bipartisanship and pretending to be a moderate. His actions are typical of Texas Republicans.

We also remember what Texas Rethuglicans did to Charles Stenholm (Who was a genuine conservative Texas Democrat, and how they humiliated Ralph Hall before Hall chose to become one of them.

We will co-operate with those people when we have to for state government. Trust them? Certainly not, especially after what they've pulled.

[shance]

7. Absolutely. We also remember George's governorship.

Been there and don't want to return.

[shance]

8. kick

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