Just for Shitz'n'Grinz

As you all are aware, I'm deeply emotionally disturbed. So this next post shouldn't faze any of you...

Tonight I sat glassy-eyed in a bar in Espanola, New Mexico, listening to freshly shorn jar-heads talk angry shit about the price of gasoline. Rumor has it it'll be five bucks a gallon by the end of next week, and these guys have heard all about it. And they're pissed. And you know what? I don't blame them. But I'm fascinated as to how it's taken people THIS LONG to realize that the last election really wasn't about whether or not married lesbians get to have abortions or not - and nothing more.

No, the last election was about how this country will be governed. Whether it will be governed in a way that's beneficial to everyone who lives in America - or whether it will be beneficial to just a few. And guess what? By popular vote, "beneficial to a few" won. And now New Orleans gets to suffer.

So just for shitz'n'grins, I did something that I'm sure is going to prove terribly unpopular. I researched the numbers, and I bet it's no surprise to you that the state of Louisiana went red in the 2004 election.

So what does this prove? That Louisiana, as a supporter of GWB's plan to maximize government intervention for the rich (invading Iraq to avenge Saddam's plot against his father and enrich Halliburton's coffers) and minimize government intervention for the rest of us (like cutting $70 million in FEMA funding for New Orleans levees just last year) actually deserves what has happened to them?

Far be it for me to connect cause and effect - it's such an unpopular stance in the United States, where no one is ever really responsibile for their actions. But just think of where the situation might be right now if Louisiana had thought for ONE STUPID MINUTE about what a tax'n'spend Democrat might have meant to their collective sense of safety RIGHT FUCKING NOW. New Orelans might still be the most interesting city in America - instead, the Repbulican Speaker of the US House of Representatives wants to just walk away from it.

And the President? Too busy mountain biking with Lance Armstrong and hiding from Cindy Sheehan. Yes, you Republican-voting shit-heads - you really did your part to bring on the Apocalypse. I'm sure the people of New Orelans thank you. And when gas is $5 a gallon, the bill will arrive at your doorstep - in the form of a brick through your windows.

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