Stop Me Before I Vote Again

wish we could replace her. we're a one party town and that maketh it somewhat tough to get an integritous person elected in a citywide vote. the money machine isn't just behind her, it IS her.

I emend right away to reflect that. Of course there are plenty of people who'd unseat her, if it all possible.

I notice
On the strength of this demotic rug chew here

The "Taddy" creature
Has a show off. Rough neck spirit

The prescribed
Bin L treatment
I submit
like with cheney

-and me after one of Al's salad only dinners-

Just goes to show ya
Only depends on who ya got in the hand cuffs

I think the pwoblem, er, problem with pwogs is that they're trained into chipper servility in their merit camps. It's crippling. Like operant conditioning. When they try to become assertive, they wind angrily and emphatically defecating on the dinner table in a bizarre defense of someone who despises them and despises whatever principles they claim.

Al,

I also think another reason that pwogs are so willing accept compromise and broken promises from the Democratic Party is because a majority of them are well-off and it doesn't really hurt them in any way.

I saw an apt epithet for Nancy Pelosi once: Botox Bolshevik.

willing to, sorry.

I didn't even notice until you pointed it out. The epithet had me enraptured.

That's a good point about the economic cushion. The broken promises gain an immediacy when you're working most of the day simply to be able to get to work the next.

I think, too, that there's a lot to be mined from a study of the employment that provides near term security, or what passes for long term security, while still leaving the well-jobbed pwogs at the mercy of workplace tyrants and the tidal sucking action of the banksters.

The system has uncommonly rewarded these. Folks
pay prestige power pleasure
. It can't be all bad
So why rock its
Foundations just cause it's got seemy margins

I may be tugging on a string with no end, Owen, but I have a gut feeling that work-related alienation might very well be a larger factor. There's a fearfulness behind all that smug satisfaction. The people for whom "pay, prestige, power and pleasure" can be taken for granted are a tiny elite. The rest have to run the gauntlet of tactical sucking-up and opportunistic bullying to get near a trough. I think they kid themselves into an identification with the fortunes of a Pelosicrat in a mirror of the way the wingers idolize their belligerent philistines.

We're making this way too complex. Pelosi is just a corporate VP, who happens to be the first female in that position -- so, we (Or they) made a big deal out of it. My hyper-skeptical wife even displayed a smidgeon of gender-based elation, for a few days. Now she (Pelosi) is displaying clay-feet, or -- the unspeakable -- post-menopausal erratic behavior. And the Repugs are feasting on it, so some politically sensitive Dems are rushing to her defense, even while they hate the bitch.

The point is, no one unseats a VP, except the P.

We (The dems, that is) have to hold our own accountable, male or female. She's 70 years old, too old for menopausal symptoms, not to mention, more of the same bullshit sexist crap I dealt with as a Clinton delegate. Pelosi was part of the cabal responsible for the farce that was the Democratic Convention. As to your last comment Al, the (P) isn't going to rescue Ms. Pelosi, as evidenced by Robert Gibbs comments today during the press conference, where he declined the "Invitation to respond to the circus" surrounding the whole mess. President Obama, for whatever you may say, is not going to immerse himself in a quagmire to save Pelosi. And she has alienated so many of her colleagues many of them could care less if she goes down in flames. I too was moved when she became Speaker, but it was VERY short lived based on her lack of action. She is a political operative of the first order, from a very political family. This whole "affair" has a Ceaser-esque quality in my opinion, with members of her Party circling with knives. Who can blame them after the way she has treated them? Doling out committee assignments to her peeps rather than those most qualified or even those with seniority, as was the norm. She and her methods are disgusting. I have had enough of her and her ilk. What is happening is of her making. To say "I don't recall being told someone was water-boarded 83 times" is tough to believe. Treating Jane Harman in the despicable manner she has is horrendous. I think she is reaping exactly what she sowed. Being a farmer, I will give her a little advice: if you plant corn don't look for tomatoes to spring up.

I thought we were discussing the P=NP problem, with an inquiry that was taking us to P=(v)NP.

Who the hell is Pelosi?

"a fearfulness behind all that smug satisfaction. The people for whom "pay, prestige, power and pleasure" can be taken for granted are a tiny elite."
exactly
as spinoza sez somewhere near the end of his own trail
if it were easy...

"...The rest have to run the gauntlet of tactical sucking-up and opportunistic bullying to get near a trough"

i agree hierarchy gets to ya at both ends

i guess it's
the brimstone in the belly
got them to climb the glass mountain
in the first place
they carry up there with em..inside em
the means of their own immolation

there is no rest on the way to the top
and not a shit load of solice either
secular ambition
makes the pilgrimage
a 100 to 1
kamikaze mission after all

its prolly that moment just before they crash into their ceiling ..their
"i ain't gettin there" moment
where self pity lurks
that for some meritoids (a few??)
instead of making them gate keepers
and mentors
returns them
to their fellow unter-smurfs
us down here
slowly turning our wage circles

in the Mc-preterition
of
semi self aware fast food souls

"Treating Jane Harman in the despicable manner she has is horrendous."

Noone can mistreat Harman enough. She needs to be thrown down 4 flights of stairs, then have Pelosi follow her.

Bonus points for the reminder that Pelosi will never do jail time, much less jail time comparable to that of her victims.

It's kind of sad that a person needs to reiterate that point to the Party faithful over and over again, but there you go. :/

"Treating Jane Harman in the despicable manner she has is horrendous."

I stumbled on that too. Jane Harman?! She's less awful than Pelosi only through lack of opportunity.

Ms. Xeno, I have hopes for them. Some may grow up to genuinely oppose torture one day.