Well, Just Fuck Them

In an email discussion list to which I belong, I argued that since the House leadership put in a bunch of tax cuts to benefit the constituency of the party of Hoover and since the Hooverites completely voted against them, that when the bill finally gets to the conference committee, the Democrats should just say "ok, fuck you" and take out all of the tax cuts that the Hooverites wanted.

Seems that there are no shortage of Democrats in the Congress who are thinking along the same lines and the party of Hoover may start to realize that they are not making a good choice. (H/T to LG&M)

Stephen Colbert had an even better idea: Since the rejectionists in the House were so against any spending on infrastructure, they should disclaim any stimulus payments to their districts. That's a fine idea, but it should go further and strip Federal funding to those districts.

But it goes deeper than the stimulus. Michael Lind, in the Daily Beast, puts forth that the proposition that what is going on is more than the Democratic party vs. the party of Hoover, the fight over the stimulus package is nothing more than the Confederate states are once more trying to destroy the United States of America as a single entity. (H/T to Jill)

Which leads to this conclusion: The GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln or Eisenhower. They aren't even the party of Herbert Hoover. They are the party of batshit foaming racists such as Jesee Helms. The GOP is about to reach its ultimate destination on the journey that Richard Nixon began in 1968: The party of the Old South, the party of segregation, of racial hatred.

Any look at the distribution of Federal funds shows that, in spite of the fact that Southern politicians routinely rail at government spending, they are no slouches at "bringing home the bacon."

Let's change that. If they are so opposed to Federal spending, let's begin by not spending a nickel in their districts that specifically benefits their constituency of ignoramuses. If the Federal government builds an interstate highway through their districts, the interchanges with state roads should be few and far between and the speed limits should be up as high as possible to encourage travelers not to tardy in those states.

Fuck them all until they are ready to rejoin the Union.