GUEST POST: Elmer Gantry Goes to Washington
Submitted to CLB in the hope that the more facts you, the reader has to consider the better informed you are, the better decisions you can make.
Actually fokes, I look at Tom De Lay and see the face of a hick huckster, an Elmer Gantry. I believe it was a fall 2004 issue of Vanity Fair that outlined what a good-government crusader this prosecuter is in Austin, TX. It would have to be Austin in that fetid cesspool of a state, where they wanted their own republic, based on guns and pushing Mex’skins and other people around and of course Texas is God and football Uberalles and so much so that the bohemians have to call themselves Slackers–meaning that God, as every idiot or schoolchild knows, is the god of infinite slack.
So anyways, this prosecutor goes for politicians of every party, not just De Lay, as I’m sure most of the press forgot to mention. Ack–Tom DeLay. I grew up listening to preachers just like Gantry, now I see how De Lay and other Repub's of the Bushitter stripe hook the rubes. Gantry--he'd get you listening, point out how beautiful the stained glass (property) was, point out how the beauties and comforts of Heaven were only for people who believed (voted for) him, point his finger outside the church and rail against the sinners (those who get shafted more every day by being women, gay, poor, uneducated, or long-haired) get his muscular ushers (bagmen) circulating so they could turn the parishioners (voters-lobbyists) upside down and try to get ev’ry wallet and coin to fall into the aisles. That’s the meanness of TX politics, fokes. That is becoming the model for the Fourth Reich, ah, bless their lil’ raisins of hearts. To me, him and the whole gang of Texas Bushitters are wolves in sheep’s clothing, angelic faces, short hair, trophy wives, and yet--could there be justice? We can only pray. --WOE said Jeremiah; WOE to those blinded by "the letter" of "born-again law" instead of the fact of God's infinite grace; and to those poodles of the rich who fill their campaign coffers for breaks on taxes and more jails cells for enterprising pot farmers. I say woe to those who would fleece the sheep while smiling. They may be religious but they don’t understand one angel’s hair about spirituality. I look forward to the day when they exit this life and face St. Peter who then sends them back to be a 21st Century Chinese cooley for 70 years and look through latrine pots for bits of undigested food.
&&&&&&& 'Xcuse if a little rabid today but it is Sunday and it gets me thinking of Hunter S. Thompson, Spaulding Gray and other sensitive souls too good to live in these crazy times. But cheers up chirren, it’s always darkest before the dawn. I think even the national press is starting to catch on that –is anybody else watching "Rome" on HBO? –that these Bible-shielded folks who give the theory of hands-off-conservatism a bad name-- are taking this country away from it’s constitutional, republic-an roots and toward a government partnership with the patricians, the military and the mulitnationals. Around this time 100 years ago Teddy Roosevelt started busting trusts because monopolies do restrain trade, and can set their own prices. I want to remind you that one reason General Wesley Clark ran for President in 2004 is that a GOP friend called him after 9/11, confiding, "after all this has happened, I don’t think you’ll see another Democratic president in our lifetime." That fact is also documented in a national magazine, and I’ll cite the reference for that and the facts on the De Lay indictments later this week.
We have yet to reach the point where this potential 4th Reich can restrain "trade" in ideas; but I’m here in this bully pulpit to tell you, the price of liberty IS great and a lot of good people are just standing by today while the Bushitters are getting off scot-free with dirty, corrupt, smear-your-opponent and silence dissent-type Texas politics.
Regards,
Unofficial archivist of underground histories "Cisco"
Actually fokes, I look at Tom De Lay and see the face of a hick huckster, an Elmer Gantry. I believe it was a fall 2004 issue of Vanity Fair that outlined what a good-government crusader this prosecuter is in Austin, TX. It would have to be Austin in that fetid cesspool of a state, where they wanted their own republic, based on guns and pushing Mex’skins and other people around and of course Texas is God and football Uberalles and so much so that the bohemians have to call themselves Slackers–meaning that God, as every idiot or schoolchild knows, is the god of infinite slack.
So anyways, this prosecutor goes for politicians of every party, not just De Lay, as I’m sure most of the press forgot to mention. Ack–Tom DeLay. I grew up listening to preachers just like Gantry, now I see how De Lay and other Repub's of the Bushitter stripe hook the rubes. Gantry--he'd get you listening, point out how beautiful the stained glass (property) was, point out how the beauties and comforts of Heaven were only for people who believed (voted for) him, point his finger outside the church and rail against the sinners (those who get shafted more every day by being women, gay, poor, uneducated, or long-haired) get his muscular ushers (bagmen) circulating so they could turn the parishioners (voters-lobbyists) upside down and try to get ev’ry wallet and coin to fall into the aisles. That’s the meanness of TX politics, fokes. That is becoming the model for the Fourth Reich, ah, bless their lil’ raisins of hearts. To me, him and the whole gang of Texas Bushitters are wolves in sheep’s clothing, angelic faces, short hair, trophy wives, and yet--could there be justice? We can only pray. --WOE said Jeremiah; WOE to those blinded by "the letter" of "born-again law" instead of the fact of God's infinite grace; and to those poodles of the rich who fill their campaign coffers for breaks on taxes and more jails cells for enterprising pot farmers. I say woe to those who would fleece the sheep while smiling. They may be religious but they don’t understand one angel’s hair about spirituality. I look forward to the day when they exit this life and face St. Peter who then sends them back to be a 21st Century Chinese cooley for 70 years and look through latrine pots for bits of undigested food.
&&&&&&& 'Xcuse if a little rabid today but it is Sunday and it gets me thinking of Hunter S. Thompson, Spaulding Gray and other sensitive souls too good to live in these crazy times. But cheers up chirren, it’s always darkest before the dawn. I think even the national press is starting to catch on that –is anybody else watching "Rome" on HBO? –that these Bible-shielded folks who give the theory of hands-off-conservatism a bad name-- are taking this country away from it’s constitutional, republic-an roots and toward a government partnership with the patricians, the military and the mulitnationals. Around this time 100 years ago Teddy Roosevelt started busting trusts because monopolies do restrain trade, and can set their own prices. I want to remind you that one reason General Wesley Clark ran for President in 2004 is that a GOP friend called him after 9/11, confiding, "after all this has happened, I don’t think you’ll see another Democratic president in our lifetime." That fact is also documented in a national magazine, and I’ll cite the reference for that and the facts on the De Lay indictments later this week.
We have yet to reach the point where this potential 4th Reich can restrain "trade" in ideas; but I’m here in this bully pulpit to tell you, the price of liberty IS great and a lot of good people are just standing by today while the Bushitters are getting off scot-free with dirty, corrupt, smear-your-opponent and silence dissent-type Texas politics.
Regards,
Unofficial archivist of underground histories "Cisco"
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