Like many of you I was giddy and dizzy and buzzing and floating on air last night. But I’d approached the evening with lots of trepidation. Minimizing hope until it started to resemble a form of Delusion-Lite. Who could blame me?
After Bush was elected (we think) in 2004 I spiraled into a horrid three-week depression. I was waylaid so hard it actually surprised me. I hadn’t realized I’d cared that much about politics.
In retrospect I can see I was freaked-out after realizing how I’d been used, like millions of other gay men and women, as a spook show prop to rustle fat-assed scolds and Bible-quoting dimwits into the voting booths to protect the sanctity of marriage.
Voting for Bush while they were at it.
The same Christers had also voted for nutcases like Rick “man-on-dog” Santorum (above with family and the creepiest weeping child on earth, during his concession speech after losing his Senate seat). A politician who also secured his job (and dream of running for President one day) by blathering on about queers and Jesus and the notion that the right to privacy doesn’t exist in the United States Constitution.
Last night’s highpoint came while watching Santorum’s bawling daughter wring the stuffing out of her Cabbage Patch Kid (above) as her daddy gave up the ghost in Pennsylvania. Santorum was considered the third most powerful Republican in the United States Senate and he was generously, sweetly, defeated by Bob Casey Jr., who received 59% of the vote.
Praise Jesus! I could now get back to fucking my Rottweiler.
So, before it all fades to blue under your scullcap tonight, do yourself a favor and read Matt Taibbi’s feature The Worst Congress Ever from Rolling Stone.
Take in deep his notion that: “The U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula — a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.”
It’ll make your blood boil and give your victory glow a bit more wattage — a little more color — leave you feeling springtime fresh and ready for the next two years ahead.
Bravo, David K.
I thought the picture of the Santorum family was a Capital Steps send up, not the real thing.
They sure look like a fake family made up of actor/comedians.
Miko, they look like the out takes from the film Addams Family Values.
Why do I know the little girl has old-lady smell?
Don’t be so cruel to the Santorum child. I want to see her face in every kind of light. In fields of dawn and forests of the night.
Do you all realize that Rick’s little girl is 13 ½ years old and still holds a doll. It was totally stage managed from start to finish.
It would be interesting to discuss whether the display of children as a political prop on prime time TV constitutes a mild form of child abuse. So much for “familiy values” - something the Gospels are completely silent about, by the way, as these supposedly “Christian core values” do not matter from an apocalyptical perspective. The Gospels do not speak about “sodomy”, either, but they do mention the dangers of greed quite often. As far as I remember reading, Satan tempted Jesus by offering him power and treasures, not sex (of course, Mel Gibbson’s anti-semitic splatter movie “The Passion of the Christ” tells a completely different story). Sometimes I wonder whether the Republicans read the Bible as much as they claim to do. Their reading must be very selective indeed.
Let’s keep our comments to Daddy Santorum and not his kids. We all remember how the conservatives dogged out young Chelsea Clinton when she was an awkward girl growing into her own. No need to do the same. Santorum is fair game. His children are not.
peace
james
I agree James!
Remember Whitney’s wisdom PLEASE!!!!!!
“I believe the children are our future…treat them well and let them lead the way.”
Thank you, Granny G. And in that vein, let us also remember Karen Carpenter:
“Bless the beasts and the children…”
Granny G,
I try not to pay attention to the words of a crack head like Whitney!
peace
I had tears the day he lost lets face it tears of JOY are rare when you mention a bible toting republican. please dont rag on christians, I dont know any true christians that act the way these tv freaks do. Rafael (A good Christian Gay man)
Gloat all you want to. After two years the democrats will have made such a mess that America will welcome the republicans back with open arms.
And you haven’t seen negative voter turn-out until you see Hillary’s name on the ballot.
And yes, I’m gay. I come here to get off on the ‘forbidden military’ section, but not everyone who comes on here hates republicans and enjoys your Bush-bashing.
frankblack: We are glad you like our site and you are welcome here. Of course, you are free to avoid our recurring outbreaks of Bush tremens. They bother us much more than they apparently bother you.
We disagree with you on one thing, though. The Dems couldn’t possible come close to the mess the Republicans have made in the last 6 years, which will really rate a special chapter in the history books when posterity tries to understand what the hell we thought we were doing.
The Republican Congress rubberstamped a war in Iraq and stonewalled any investigation into the waves and waves of false reasons and false reports the Bush administration put out about it. They rubberstamped torturing prisoners. They rubberstamped the repeal of habeas corpus. They rubberstamped wiretapping American citizens without seeking legal permission within 72 hours. They became cheerleaders for anti-gay legislation and the dismantling of American democracy, pushing instead for a narrow backwater theocracy.
The Dems won’t be beating that calamitous record anytime soon.
I’ll hold you to that. I am proud to be in the majority as a conservative American. You obviously haven’t looked underneath the surface to see that the reason the Dems won is that so many of them espoused their conservative values. Even the wife of the impeached Mr. Clinton (your hero for some mysterious reason) is moving to the center just to try to get elected in 2 years, which will never happen.
I think you have had your nose stuck up the media’s butt for too long and you don’t yet see the full picture. When all is said and done, history will definitely record the Bush presidency as one of the greatest in history.
Being a gay man and a social conservative at the same time isn’t such a bad thing. After all, there are millions of us out here and many of us enjoy NIGHTCHARM, so thanks for the reply and thanks for the hot stuff, and if it makes you feel any better to disparage Mr. Bush and all he has done for our country, be our guest.
Still dining out on the Clintons, are we?
Yes, frankblack, George Bush will definitely be remembered as the greatest president in history in the same Twilight Zone where Spiro Agnew is the greatest vice-president and Ronald Reagan is an AIDS Awareness pioneer. A happy place where 9/11 and Katrina and the Iraq War are all Hillary’s fault.
I think it’s called Bizarro-world.
It’s the media, isn’t it? The reporters getting shot at and kidnapped in Iraq. Maligned by the White House, having their patriotism questioned when they ask the tough questions. Right, it’s those liberal damn reporters who don’t know how to be good stenographers and just take down the White House talking points.
Why if it wasn’t for the media, we could still have Abu Ghraib in full operation! And no one would ever see a flag-draped coffin arriving by the plane load every day in Dover. Just a lark we’re having over there in the Middle East. A hiking tour for boys.
The media is definitely ruining the glory of this the greatest of all presidents. Shoot the messenger, then, when we don’t like the message. It’s the media, isn’t it, that’s hiding all the good news from Iraq, all the suicide bombings that are NOT happening and all the American kids that are NOT losing their limbs because they are NOT under-armored and under-manned by a penny-wise/pound-foolish war administration.
Damn reporters. Long Live George Bush, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.