At least three of the Defeatists are in California. Two are in Orange County, hiding from the local John Birchers and people asking the way to Disneyland, and where they can find a hooker to dismember. I am in the Crossroads of Opportunity, kind of just detached from it all, helping to organize the annual Barstow Running of the Crack Whores. The other two are natives; I'm originally from somewhere other than here. However, despite the impending, much lamented/dreamed of end of the Schwarzenegger regime that is lumbering toward us, there is hope now for a continuation of the devolution of the golden state into something else...I'm leaning toward the epoxy state, indicating how our infrastructure is held together, but the acid-test state is also a possibility.
HOW YOU GONNA VOTE ON ELECTION SAY
SHE SAID SHE'S GONNA GO FOR THE MAN WITH THE NICEST TIE
WELL THAT SOUNDS LIKE SHE'S THINKING STRAIGHT
HE SOUNDS LIKE THE CANDIDATE
THAT IDEA IS SURELY GONNA FLY
--Graham Parker
Barbara Boxer is a reasonably good Senator, and is not at all embarassing. I'm not sure why she's bothering with the Senate. However, the first step to running for Senate is beating the Republican annointed, some dude named Campbell. I can think no good explanation for this gem from one of the people who is trying to be Boxer's opponent, Carly Fiorina. Remember her -- she got fired by Hewlitt Packard and then went on to lead John McCain to victory. I can think of nothing so greatly qualifying for Senator as a second-rate mind in a power suit with a background in investment banking. If I didn't own real estate here, I'd be all in favor because of the hilarity that will ensue. But, this is a masterpiece...
When it comes to politics, unless it involves wearing a funny hat and acting like an asshole in public, most Americans have limited attention spans. In California, this is exacerbated by ego, narcissism, and a diet of organic Yo-Hos and In and Out Burgers. The state is ungovernable. It's huge so the Feds pay a lot of attention but the state is a disaster.The legislature has to have a supermajority to do anything because a budget or a tax to pay for the budget calls for supermajorities. We the People can establish just about any requirement by simple referendum and without too much more effort get the damn thing into the state constitution, but the concept of pay as you go is unheard of. In theory, we could require that all fat people in southern California go naked except for strategically placed hoops of Kashi granola clusters that the state would pay for, and it could become law. Except, we couldn't get the supermajority in the lege between the slobophiles, the fiscal and the religious conservatives (If God wanted morbidly obese Californians to go naked with granola clusters, he'd have put them there...and, these people have no will-power, they will eat the granola clusters, and will the state pay for additional boxes of Kashi and...and...and...)so they'd have to go naked.
OF THE WHIP-POOR-WILL WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
AND THE GARBAGE MAN HAS BEEN AROUND AND GONE
AND THE TURKEY IN THE OVEN IS GOOD AND DUMB
THE RIVER IS FILLED WITH LINOLEUM
AND THE MEEK INHERIT THE EARTH FROM THEIR FRIENDS THE SCUM
--Graham Parker
To save us from this fate, Ms Fiorina's staff found an add agency that created the following paean to sheep sodomy, fiscal conservatism and Leatherface. The only explanation is that everybody on her staff is on ecstasy, having run out of LSD several months ago. Or, and this is equally scary, they're all channeling Hunter Thompson and doing ether...nothing says Republican probity to Crusader AXE than a glowing-red-eyed sheep with a slasher mask and cutaway shots to a suit...
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