suddenly it's the 1960s and we're in England...

Republicans keep saying what we should be fucking, and then they go fuck something else.

You can apply this in a number of ways and I'll let you.

Ted Haggerd neither had sexual relations with that man nor did he inhale, all in one day, it must be horrible to put yourself in a position where you can do nothing but hate yourself. And others.

Because no matter what they say about Christian love, their swift pronouncements of judgment on anybody who professes a different belief or way of life than theirs has been disgusting for years, and while I'm sure they'll say nice things about good old Ted, they didn't about others who had different agendas from theirs. It's one thing to be gay and hate being gay, another thing completely, to enjoy it.

Meanwhile the White House doesn't even have so much class as to actually support the guy. It's one step away from "that guy, you mean the one over there? Is that Tony Haggerd? Oh...Tom? Yeah, I think he was in my econ class like, I don't know, freshman year? I think we sat next to each other a couple times but it was like, 'hey, what's up?' and that's it. I think once we studied together with some other people...maybe for the final?"

Which is laughable of course, because the whole way this administration has attempted to communicate and encode their various messages has been coached in the language and the justifications of the Christian Right. The idea that the Christian Right has seen it's messages distorted, as some are trying to claim now, is laughable. They support the Iraq War in huge numbers, are the ones most against stem cell research and have their own economic theory they claim supports conservative economic policy (which this administration has followed, the central tenet being basically, "make sure the rich get as much as they want, how they want it"). There are other ways the Christian Right has dominated philosophically this administration. Look at the way we interact with Israel or at the tax policies that have been shifted to give church based groups massive funding advantages and pretty much free-range in their doling of it. Not by accident are these people leading the large churches getting massively wealthy and living in nice places with pretty views, whether it be La Jolla or Colorado Springs. If this be Christianity, then it has all to do with Christ as the Golden Calf had to do with God, and I don't care what scripture they quote to justify their beliefs or their actions. They worship mammon.

They would be so much happier if they stopped looking in everybody else's windows.

Because then when they got caught kissing men, kissing women, buying drugs or acting like any other lost soul looking for something or anything, they wouldn't have to insist they were more found than anybody else.

Meanwhile Bill Frist is making his house look like 1600 Pensylvania Avenue, and it's weird, scary and just another example of the plutocracy making sure that they get theirs, and they're not even particularly afraid we'll notice anymore. What are we going to do after all? Who does that? How tacky and in love with yourself and power do you have to be where you can't even wait?

There's some vibes in their air, and what's funny, is that with all the wackiness in this country controlled by wolves and cheats, is that we're going to wake up, I'm afraid, on November 8th, and the same wolves and cheats will be telling us why we decided they were steering us down the right path.

The path right to the shakedown.