Political Crap

Okay, perhaps I just have my panties in a wad over Texas (1/12 of the nation) not getting a primary until after everything is finished. But why do they do this primary thing week after week.

Here’s my idea: 1 primary day. Everybody votes. Get it over with.

Hell, we all vote on one Election day. Imagine if the elections were as piecemeal as the primary crap we have to endure. Get it over with, the next day everyone knows who’s gonna be on the ballot, and the other half-dozen wannabes can quit wasting money on TV attack ads that just won’t matter.

(Imagine if only a fraction of the money spent on Presidential campaigns went for something like, education. Or feeding hungry people. Oh, but that would be such a waste! Because thirty seconds of half-truths that everyone ignores on prime time tv isn’t wasted. At all)

Okay, I’ll stop now. If you’re in one of the 24 states voting today, you damn sure better go vote. By the time my turn comes around, it won’t matter anymore.

I could only handle Cheney’s “I got my money, fuck you,” smirk for so long, but long enough to learn this:

$500 billion for overseas war, funded by tax cuts for the rich? Good. Earmarks, Bad.

‘We need to trust Americans to own their own homes.’ If they can’t pay for them anymore, we need to bail their sorry asses out.

Was there anything else? Anybody new in the Axis of Evil? How soon can we have our handouts (not welfare, no, it’s incentive) I need to buy gas soon.

Best headline I’ve read all day:

Warning signs missed on economy

Only to people who WANTED to miss them (ahem; everyone in Washington DC).

I’ve been reading and repeating for years that the housing market was in a huge freakin’ bubble, and that once gasoline passed $2 a gallon it would start to drag on the rest of the economy. (Yes, $2.00; once we hit three or four dollars a gallon it just adds to the pain)

Grrrr.

Dear Government:

Thank you for making Medicare drug plans so fucking confusing.

sincerely,
Me

Kids don’t need health insurance, but asshats need first class travel.