Sorry for the light posting this week, but I'm distracted getting caught up from being out of town most of last week and getting ready to leave town again this weekend for most of next week to be spent in Kansas City, Missouri.
That's a tough trip by car--air being cost prohibitive for two adults and one Turbo Pup-- thus we're spending the night in St. Louis on the way out and in Paducah, KY on the way home in order to break things into shorter manageable segments.
It's tough being me...but any way...
For some reason I've got a good head of steam up to do some ranting this morning...so here goes...
For the past couple of months I've tried my best to keep my mouth shut and my hands off my keyboard when it comes to predicting the outcome of this fall's "mid-term" US House and Senate elections, thus you'll just have to excuse me now when I erupt in commentary on yesterday's primary results and do some well deserved gloating in the process.
It seems that I have a hard time not insulting the 25% or so of the population that votes and isn't gullible if not just plain STUPID, but then again with the quantity of candidates of poor quality out there running for office I understand when people make crappy choices in the voting booth when "none of the above" isn't an option.
We have to elect "somebody" every two or four years, even when unfortunately the only options are true "nobodies" most of the time.
Primarily my disdain and sophomoric giggling mirth is directed toward the Pennsylvania electorate's decision to send eighty year old pantie waist, sniveling, booger eating, political turncoat former Republican come Democrat Arlen Spector out to pasture.
Just in case you've been living in a cave or under a rock not paying attention, this asshole survived changing from Democrat to Republican in 1965 in order to win the Pennsylvania District Attorney seat, and after 45 years of sabotage and espionage hiding in various positions with a "R" behind his name while actually "reaching across the isle" hiding in plain sight as a Democrat in Republican suits, then decided to change back to publicly professing his closet Democratic leanings in April of this year when he realized he'd be destroyed in the primary running against the current Republican opponent.
Fortunately he got his butt beat any way, and Senator Spinchtor will hopefully take his saggy jowls home and fade quietly into history sitting in a rocking chair on his front porch looking at naked pictures of Owl Gore and Nasty Pelosi sitting in a hot tub full of their own urine stained water.
(Dang I'm mean this morning...)
And speaking of nice, friendly, God fearing Pennsylvanians making poor electoral decisions...I see where in the special election to fill the seat left by the death of PA Representative Mad Jack Murtha they chose as his replacement his own former aide Mark Critz (as opposed to former Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz.)
What's weird to me is that the Penn voters will be forced back to the polls again in November to decide between the same two candidates...Critz and Republican Tim Burns for the exact same seat.
Isn't this a perfect example of government waste?
Spend the money to conduct political campaigns and print ballots and program voting machines in mid May, knowing that only six months later you're going to have to spend money to conduct political campaigns and print ballots and program voting machines for the EXACT SAME SEAT IN THE US HOUSE in November of the same year...with the EXACT SAME IDIOT VOTERS AND THE EXACT SAME IDIOT CANDIDATES.
What can possibly happen between now and November that will change the election outcome and justify the expense of two elections...unless Critz gets killed in a Zeppelin Explosion or he gets caught by the National Enquirer wearing women's lingerie while having sex with a black transvestite hooker in a drug sting smoking crack laced camel dung or something.
You know?
And another thing...while I'm bitchin' about "poli-ticks" this morning...
I was Googling around on Mad Jack Murtha and found this map showing the shape of Pennsylvania's "12th Congressional District."
Just look at this crap...
What in the world were the "authorities" and "leaders" and other professional morons thinking when they drew those lines on a map...other than some sort of self-serving demagoguery by excluding giant chunks of voters in order to get their "demographics" right and pre-determine an outcome in future elections.
By the way...here's a look at the other "pieces of the puzzle" showing the 9th and 18th congressional Districts that surround and fill in the holes in Mad Jack Murtha's little piece of heaven in Penn:
What...did they hire a snail to crawl around the perimeter? Or possibly they used a drunken band of civil engineering surveyors to wander up and down hill and dale and vale and valley?
Didn't anyone own a ruler or a compass in the past 100 years in Washington DC or the state house in PA?
...where they could manage to draw a straight line or a uniformly curved piece of ink or pencil lead on the page of the map without looking at the voting habits of the people living in the area and try to Gerrymander the masses into voting in a predictable fashion?
(...taking my own pulse and blood pressure here boss...)
I swear to God people, if it weren't against the law, I say our situation would be greatly improved if we were allowed to grab at least half of the population of elected officials by the hair and neck and proceed to summarily stomp the air and feces right out of every convenient orifice.
But then again I'm just a mean old ever greying, ever balding, angry white middle aged Redneck.
What do I know about anything?
No comments:
Post a Comment