For the record

• I don't oppose Obama now because I've turned into a radical Republican, I oppose him because he's too timid to do the right thing by the people who got him elected. And for the record, those people are women, gays, lesbians, progressives, anti war protesters, and working men and women.
• I'm sure Hillary Clinton would have been the same or worse to her base.
  
• Rand Paul is pissed that his opponent used religion to attack him, uh, hey asshole, Republicans have been using religion to attack Democrats for years, get over it.
• I'm through voting for Democrats because I fear that the Republicans will be worse. I know the Republicans will be worse but we'll never get any real change in this country if we keep electing the same two political parties. Republicans will screw us, Democrats less so, but you know what? I'm tired of being screwed by politicians no matter what side of the political spectrum they fall on.
• If you're tired of me plugging my graphic novel, you ain't seen nothin' yet. I'll keep flogging it and promoting it as long as needs be. Most of you people haven't made the donation to become a member of the invite only blog where it's being posted so obviously, I haven't promoted and pushed it enough.
• Despite my hatred of commercial radio in general and classic rock stations in particular, I still love the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.

Party of incumbency

Calm down all you Democrats, liberals, and progressives. Arlen Specter switching to the left side of the Senate is good news but don't expect much out of the whole thing. You see my politically naive naifs once elected to a position of power in Washington DC most people abandon all their campaign promises and principles so that they can keep getting re-elected. Now I know there are some exceptions like Dennis Kucinich (my hero!), Russ Feingold, and master of sleaze Saxby Chambliss, the man who never met a corporate lobbyist he didn't want to blow so he could keep taking their money for ever and ever amen. The point is Specter now thinks that seat in the Senate is his because he's been there since the early 1980's and by god he's not going to let a little thing like party affiliation get in his way of hanging on to it until he can appoint his divinely chosen heir.


Yes, if he votes with Democrats on big issues like health care, ending the wars of terror, and the Employee Free Choice Act, which he can now support since he's not got to worry about a Repube-lican primary fight, then it will be a good thing. But if he continues to vote like he has during the Bush years then we're all screwed, blued, and tattooed.


There is one more thing that may happen as a result of Specter's switch. I'm betting that this douchebag
will now join his BFF John McCain and become a Repube-lican. It's something that I would not put past his traitorous ass, because after all we've seen time and again that these slimeballs we keep sending back to the Senate will do anything they can to cling to power.