Do the Reagan Democrats get it yet?

Laugh out loud at this great article. Europeans do not often fall for cheap political tricks. And they have been rewarded for this by having a better quality of life.

There is no party (that gets a large number of votes) as far to the right as the American Republican party in any other developed country. The whole world has come to realize that this party is a menace and a plague.

And, as so many are fond of pointing out at this site, many Democrats in recent decades have become Republicans in disguise.

As a result of right wing extremism, America would seem to be on track for more or less total destruction, sort of like Germany some decades ago, unless it could just somehow get rid of the Republicans and the Democrat-Republicans. Too bad Walmart doesn't have a spray for this, lol.

So that's alot easier said than done. Yet on the other hand, there have been revolutions where very few or no shots were fired. So who knows what will happen if the economy does in fact collapse and not recover much at all.

Now is the time in America for a third party, a centrist European style party, because there is literally nothing to lose anymore. The country is about as wrecked as it can get. I'm sure Europeans would help with the development of such a party.

The Blagojevich Hysteria

It's not Blagojevich himself but the hysteria that has developed around him that will cause any political damage regarding the pick to replace Barack Obama. All Blagojevich has done with his pick of Burris is his duty as Governor, which is what he is the last I checked.

Its as if the wiretaps of Blagojevich' wild and reckless but hypothetical conversations were the last straw needed to throw everyone in Illinois into total hysteria after the economic collapse and all the other Bush-caused fiascos. The whole thing is like the plot from a bizarre, loopy science fiction movie where an alien presence has caused everyone to take leave of their senses.

Blagojevich is not even indicted yet; he is simply under investigation. Can't anyone in Illinois take a few deep breaths and realize that whatever Blagojevich did, and we don't even know what he actually did yet, that it would be a relatively normal political activity, although maybe more normal outside the US than in it?. Why did so many people in Illinois have to go berserk over the wiretapped calls, including Lieutenant Governor Patrick Quinn, who himself appeared to be half mad during his news conference after the Burris pick? Why did so many possibilities other than Burris refuse to be appointed by the embattled Governor?

Why is the US Senate setting itself up to be embarrassed, by claiming they will stop Burris when it is unclear the courts will let them do that, and/or when the only way they may be able to do it is to vote out the only African American in the US Senate? Why did everyone in Washington forget that the Senate has never been allowed by the federal courts to simply not seat a fully qualified new Senator? Does Harry Reid always have to be on the silly or losing side of every confrontation the Senate ever has? Why is Barack Obama very possibility setting himself up for a fall on this?

When the Blagojevich hysteria and fiasco finally winds down, the Republicans are going to be the huge winners here, due to that circular firing squad the Democrats so often get into. Remember, as Naomi Klein realized, whenever there is disaster or hysteria afoot, the right wing Republicans will be found lurking in the corner licking their chops. Therefore, is this whole twisted movie in real life a parting gift from Karl Rove or the like, who may be the one who set in motion a chain of events that resulted in Blagojevich' strange and hysteria-causing conversations to be recorded?

Everyone: please calm down, take a few deep breaths, and stop listening to so many wiretaps of crazy phone calls.

[For more information about this topic, see this article.]