“Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately,” a Hearst Newspapers statement said. “Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet.”

Helen, say it isn’t so.

If you were like most Americans and you spent the weekend racking up credit card debt that you will never pay to purchase petroleum based products to use at the family cookout where you were forced to listen to unemployed uncle Eddie bitch about the BP crime scene, you may have missed the major hubbub cause by the octogenarian journalist formerly know as the dean of the white house press corps, Ms. Helen Thomas.

What, exactly did she say?

In a video taken in late May that only surfaced on Friday, Helen said the following:
TAPE Tell them to get the get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people [the Palestinians] are occupied and it’s their land. It’s not Germany, it’s not Poland.” She was asked where they should go and she answered, “They should go home, to Poland, Germany and America”

In what appeared to be a coordinated attack, former George W. Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer hit the airwaves and said:

“She should lose her job over this. As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling.”

“She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs.”

While Helen’s argument had some deficiencies, I don’t think that one can make the argument that she was calling for religious cleansing, but Ari’s deftness at spin control is battle tested in that he worked for a village idiot whose reputation to butcher the English language and/ or gleefully admit to violating the constitution or commit war crimes grows even in retirement,

Tensions were already high in the wake of the diplomatic and military tragedy that was the Israeli Defense Forces commando raid of a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla last week, which resulted in nine peace activists dead. So, verbal missteps are understandable.

What she should have said is something like this: World War 2 saw unspeakable acts against a people of Jewish faith. The United States may have been late to the party in stopping this, but it was the last just war waged by our country. The U.S. and her allies in World War two could have opened their borders and provided a refuge, a new home, for Jews displaced by World War Two. But America was Anti-Semitic itself.

In this way the anti-Semitism that gave birth to the holocaust also gave birth to the irrational solution to establish a new country for Jewish people based on using a religious document as a real estate deed.

And it is this anti-Semitic residue that unjustly sticks to anyone critical of the criminal policies of the Israeli government today.

FREE PALESTINE!

by Davis Fleetwood (video, book, website)

Allowing BP to handle the Oil Leak disaster makes about as much sense as awarding the building contract to rebuild the Twin Towers to Al Qaeda.

So, we just over a month now into the largest environmental disaster in history, and the criminally negligent corporate structure that earned BP $7.7 Billion in first quarter profits in part because laws on the books that limit their liability for environmental disasters such as this to a paltry $75 Million is still in charge of their own crime scene.

Why?

Because the White House knows that this is a no win situation, kind of like being Andy Dick’s AA sponsor, and if they roll their sleeves up and take charge the news cycle during the 2010 midterm election will be populated with variations of the headline OBAMA’S KATRINA.

So, we are now over a month into the largest environmental disaster in history and we have no idea how to plug the leak. It will continue to gush through August (plus or minus 12 months) and never was there a meeting; not in Obama’s White House, and all of the agencies staffed with Nobel laureates in the worlds most powerful country; not in a BP corporate culture that knew, from their own interior sources, that a catastrophe like this was not an if, but a when; never did any of the kings horses nor any of the kinds men sit down and have a brainstorm session the end result of which produced anything like a contingency plan for this eventuality. And what do we, the American public do?

Listen: Shrugging your shoulders and rolling over to go to sleep, while an understandable response if you had the exhausting task of serving as Andy Dicks AA sponsor, when you get that phone call- again- that Andy is passed out in a hotel room under a pile of empty Meister Brau cans and a gaggle of barely legal employees of rent boy dot com, is not an acceptable response coming from a nation addicted to the that oil that is quite literally killing us when confronted with such a powerful reminder of the destructiveness of said addiction.
So, we are now just over a month into the largest environmental disaster in history as it unfolds in slow motion before our eyes; the geyser spewing anywhere between 5 and 110 millions gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (depending on what estimates you believe) and we, as only Americans can, care less and less and less as time drips on like a an ancient form of Chinese torture, just another chapter in our Christian Nation’s favorite book: The End of Fucken Days. Because in America if you don’t believe somewhere in your heart of hearts that the Jesus is going to come down on a white horse and whisk you away to a “better place” you can count yourself in a minority, and if you are not a Jesus freak odds are you’ve got a Mayan calendar hanging on your bathroom wall in your trailer home somewhere so who cares about the effects of BP chemical dispersants on sub sea level ecosystems and the long term environmental impacts that might have, or a whole generation of people who make their living in the fishing industry from the area that accounts for 20% of the nations commercial seafood production Cuz the planet earth, like those unsuspecting crash test dummies in those old school Volvo commercials, is on a crash course with the immovable force called the END, so why bother getting in a tizzy about BP when we have our own private Andy Dick-weeds to tend and the metaphysical implications of the series finale of LOST to talk about?

by Davis Fleetwood

Pop quiz: Elana Kagan will be the next Supreme Court Justice because:

A) Clinton & Obama like and trust her, and most liberals like and trust Clinton & Obama.
B) Republicans will not put up a fight during confirmation hearings because they know Kagan will move the court to the right.
C) She has no judicial experience
D) She stands for nothing

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The White House announced today that that President Obama has nominated good friend and White House solicitor general Elana Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens. Her nomination process appears to be without a significant obstacle. Which brings us back to today’s pop quiz.

Why will Kagan be the next Supreme Court Justice? Is it

A) because Clinton & Obama like and trust her, and most liberals like and trust Clinton & Obama?

That could be it. Progressives were asked to sell their souls- if you like religious metaphors- prior to the 2008 election. The mantra was “get Obama elected firsts, and then hold his feet to the fire in pursuit of a progressive agenda.” Remember? Even Progressive champions like Noam Chomsky and Naomi Wolfe converted many progressives through their preaching so that Obama could then preach to the converted. Now that Obama is in the White House, part two of the master plan (pursue a progressive agenda) has taken a back seat to “shut the fuck up you crazy hippie pie in the sky faggot basterd communists this is the real world and there is no room for you here.”

The left has moved center, taking many self described liberals with it and left the progressive agenda dangling by its fingernails at the high end of an unevenly weighted seesaw.

Is it:
B) Republicans will not put up a fight during confirmation hearings because they know Kagan will move the court to the right?

While we know very little about Kagan, we do know one key difference between regressives and progressives: Regressives, sometime referred to as conservatives in polite company, actually have a voice in the Republican Party. And, when given the opportunity to appoint a judge onto the Supreme Court, the regressives have no problem nominating right wing lunatic activists judges like Sam Alito & John Roberts with a long paper trial.

Progressives, conversely, have no voice inside the Democratic Party. And Democrats are so terrified of rocking the boat that hey end up standing for nothing.

So, while Republicans may try to float some lesbian rumors, it is only to get under Obama’s skin. But make no mistake, they are laughing inside, knowing full well that they have won the battle already: forcing a democratic president with a democratic majority in congress to pass over qualified justices with a clearly articulated progressive legal stance in favor of a ghost who stands for nothing.

Or is it
C) Kagan has no legal experience? Counterintuitive, yes, to appoint someone to the highest court in the land who has never been a judge. Hasn’t happened in recent memory. But that is why we voted for Obama. Change. Shake it up! Good grief Charlie Brown, should we allow fighter pilots trained only on video games? Health Care reform to be decided by for profit corporations? White house appointed Wall Street regulators who are Wall Street insiders?

But I digress.

Kagan’s lack of judicial experience means that she has navigated her career and managed to take a legal stance on exactly nothing (D).

Again, intuition would fail you if you deemed this a deficit because in the cowardly stance of the Democrats a primary criteria in selecting a nominee is the ease with which one could navigate the selection process and the conventional wisdom in politics has drifted a long way from any Mr. Smith goes to Washington idealism and has firmly cemented itself in the reality of please everyone by standing for nothing.

So, scholars to correct answer to today’s pop quiz is actually “E”: All of the above. Elana Kagan will be the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States, move the court to the right because she stands for nothing, she has never been a judge, and Democrats like her and Republicans will get their way.

Fret not. Owing to her relative youth and the fact that SCOTUS nominations are lifetime appointments, if we F&CK this one up, it will only be 30 or 40 years before we have to replace her.

Originally posted @ No Cure For That

A Chicago strip club is celebrating Sarah Palin’s visit to Illinois next month by hosting a Palin lookalike contest titled “Less Taxation, More Stimulation”. A portion of the event’s proceeds will be donated to the Tea Party movement.

I’m not kidding:

It was obscene enough when Ronald Regan rose from Hollywood B star to the office of the presidency, but this twenty first century synergistic blend of porn, entertainment and politics is not something that the founding fathers, no matter what the Ayn Randian Regressive tea baggers will tell you, had in mind. Unless of course, you count among the founding fathers one P.T. Barnum.

What can possibly be next?

Not to be outdone, the log cabin republicans have announced several lookalike strip contests at Chicago hot spots: The Glenn Beck lookalike strip contest “Chalk my board” at the Lucky Horseshoe on May 9, The Mitch McConnell lookalike strip contest “Filla my buster” at the Cattle Call on May 10, and the highly anticipated “Pound me in my Pickup” Scott Brown lookalike strip contest at the Jackhammer on May 11.

The Palin strip contest will be held at the Admiral Theatre Gentlemen’s Club in Chicago on May 12^th.

Sure it would be easy to rattle off a few misogynistic jokes:
Drill Baby Drill! ; These Lipstick Pit bulls can free my market; or I’ll bring the GOP Whip.

However, to dismiss Palin as a whore who gets by on her looks is damaging to the advancement of women in general and ignores the fact that most politicians and media personalities are, in fact, whores who get by on their good looks. With the notable acceptation of the aforementioned Mitch McConnell, who owes his seat as a Senator from Kentucky to a pact he made with a band of Satanic Goblins- politicians have been getting elected based on how photogenic they are since Kennedy beat a hairy, hunched, and wildly perspiring Nixon in 1960 Presidential debate. And now that Glenn Beck Glenn Beck- whose died orange whips of hair on top of his pudgy head appeal to a an aging baby boomer population made fat, soft and angry by a lifetime ingesting processed foods, has paved the way for pundits who wield more power than politicians, we have truly entered a new era of pornographic mindfuck in America where intelligent debate and meaningful progress no longer seem possible. Ronald Regan started the trend when he parlayed his Hollywood career into politics. And the love child of Glenn Beck and Ronald Regan is the former Ms. Wassilla 1984. Could the Orwellian writing on the wall be any clearer?

It is all enough to make you want to kill your TV & your laptop & your iphone and ipad and return to a time when the freaks still traveled from town to town and remained harmless in the safe confines of P.T. Barnum’s circus.

Will Rogers, America’s Cowboy Comedian and the top movie star of his time famously said of taxes: “The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”

You know what Will Rogers? Bleep you and the horse you rode in on! I have to say, I actually like Taxes.

Really.

Sure, the way taxes are assessed and the way the government spends the money (so I guess I mean the whole system as it is currently operating) has more problems than a crack addicted pregnant teen whose baby daddy just got deployed to Afghanistan. However, that does not mean that we should do away with or lower taxes.

We should bring her baby daddy back from Afghanistan and increase taxes!

Now, to be sure, the rich should pay more taxes than they currently so. Moshe Adler, in an eye opening April 14^th article on Truth Dig writes:

“Between 1913, the first year that the income tax became constitutional, and 1981, the first year of the Reagan presidency, the highest federal marginal income tax rate was, on average, 68 percent. It should come as no surprise that the years of the country’s greatest prosperity for the middle class coincided with the highest tax rates. Since Ronald Reagan held the presidency, inequality has increased markedly, and today the highest marginal tax rate is only 35 percent.”

So Regan gave us trickle down economics. But what are really trickling down are bad ideas. Ideas that drive angry, white middle class people to Tea Party protests to wave their guns, demand lower taxes and ogle at the former runner up to Ms. Wassilla 1984 who wants to tell you that it is perfectly okay for a man like Warren Buffet to pay fewer taxes, as a percentage of income, than his secretary.

Regan’s trickle down theory is a shell game. Wealth does not obey the Newtonian laws of gravity, wealth always redistributes itself upwards. Now that the wealthy have much less of their income base as taxable, where does that money go? While an unspecified percentage goes to the Rachel Utchitels of the world, much of it goes into hedge funds, where it generates more income that will only get taxed as at a business rate of 15%. Again, lower than the income tax rate of Warren Buffet’s secretary.

Hedge Funds make so much money for the richest in the U.S. that the top twenty-five Hedge fund managers in 2009 made an average of one billion dollars each. Yes, that is billion with a “b”.

As Les Leopold at AlterNet points out, the salaries for those twenty-five people could pay for over 650,000 entry-level teachers who would, in turn, serve 13 million students.

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary needs to expand its definition of pornography to accommodate this level of unregulated Ayn Randian Regressive economics.

The rich should pay more of their income in taxes. Period. Our tax dollars should stop funding war illegal invasions and occupations. Our Tax dollars should start improving public education from pre-K through post -graduate work. Our tax dollars should subsidize the arts. And our tax dollars should put health insurance companies out of business and pay for a single payer healthcare for all system.

I am even okay with my tax dollars being spent on Tea Party rallies. This is America; after all, free speech can’t be for me and not for thee. But then again, even the second lady of Tea Party hierarchy agrees with me on this point. As reported by Sahil Kapur on RAW STORY recently-

“As Michele Bachmann riled a group of feisty Tea Partiers to rail against taxes and government spending, taxpayers were quietly forced to pick up a $13,600 tab for their festivities. For the sound, staging and equipment, Bachmann (R-MN) was financially assisted by taxpayer-funded allowances from Reps. Todd Akin (R-MO), Tom Price (R-GA), and Steve King (R-IA).”

But the glassy eyed Bachmann continues to play her role as a servant of the rich, whipping the fast disappearing middle class into froth by inventing facts such as Obama has recently nationalized 51% of the economy.

The Tea Party’s “taxes are bad” argument is an Ayn Randian Regressive one. It does not empower the middle class; rather it aspires to a 21^st century form of feudalism.

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It is commonplace to refer to veterans of the Vietnam War, the Afghan War, the Iraq War, the “war on terror, as heroes.

Are Veterans heroes?

Consider the recently released classified US military video showing the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff and several children.

To those of you who can watch the video and still support the illegal invasion and occupation of the U.S. military in Iraq; to the Kool-Aid drinking Christian Republican conservatives out there, to the don’t tread on me, Hummer driving, steroid popping pigs amongst us, to the self congratulatory Democrats with Obama goggles so thick that you refuse to protest the Bush doctrine because it is now perpetuated by Obama- I just want to remind you that we all sprung form apes. Unfortunately you didn’t spring far enough so we’re going to have to put you back in the zoo. It’s the only safe place to observe you until you evolve.

Watching defenders of the War on Terror spin your rhetorical web is a bit like watching Planet of the Apes movies dubbed into Farsi without any English subtitles. I just can’t- given the benefits of modern life- how you people are, well, human.

It is commonplace to refer to veterans of the Vietnam War, the Afghan War, the Iraq War, the war on terror, as heroes.

Are Veterans heroes?

Vietnam was immoral, you Ass-hats. The domino theory of spreading communism was falsified. And our government entered the war secretly and then lied to the American people and congress to escalate the war. Gulf of Tonkin… sound familiar?

So, let’s agree that war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq are of no service to our country whatsoever.

None.

Are Veterans of those wars heroes, then?

Pilots dropping bombs over Baghdad were following orders. They were not protecting America. They are not heroes. They are victims. They signed up to serve a country they believed in, to defend democracy, or at least get some money for college and get out of their shit hole towns- and if necessary to be used as a last resort in conflict resolution. Instead, they are being used as pawns in an Armageddon chess game.

Look at the amount of unemployed in the U.S. The amount of foreclosures. The sorry state of our public education system, and other items on an ever growing list of domestic priorities and ask yourself what reasonable person can defend the expenditure of 400 million fucking dollars a day on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

To supporters and defenders of the war on terror, to those who blindly elevate veterans to the status of heroes, please, try evolution. It’s not just for apes anymore.

When the Tiger Woods Scandal first broke; Britt Hume said that the extent that Tiger can recover from this scandal depends upon his faith. In the type of culturally sensitive commentary that Fox News has become know for, the senior analyst (Hume) for the network said:

“The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith,” Hume said. “He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. My message to Tiger would, ‘Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”

Never mind that the Christian Faith counts amongst its leaders some of the worlds most destructive sex addicts, with the Vatican quickly becoming a playboy mansion for pederasts and pedophiles, Brit Hume’s little bit of “My God is better than your God” had a very important sliver of truth embedded in it.

America, this one Nation under God, in the service of Wall Street with the help of Madison Avenue sells everything (clothes, mortgages, sex, wars, Davis Fleetwood DVD’s and books, available May 1^st from No Cure For That) through the manipulation and careful application of recycled narratives.

As a Christian Nation, one familiar narrative that sells well is that of redemption.

So- even though Woods mentioned that he is still a practicing Buddhist, his press conference was a Christo-American affair.

I’m sorry. He said. For what? He never said, “Sex addict”. Nor did he say the word sex. Or Rachel Uchitel is now in the Guinness Book of World records the highest paid sex machine ever to dig for gold.

As I said last week, the drive to be the best, to squelch all competition, that quality that is at the heart of both Capitalism and America- that is what needs to be under the microscope in the wake of Tiger-Gate. As both a master and the product of Hypercapitalism, a carefully crafted product for our consumption the life and times of Tiger Woods pre sex addict scandal were more fiction than fact.

Did Tiger Humanize himself enough to reclaim his place as the billion dollar pitchman? He said:

“Golf… winning tournaments.. . all of that does not matter now. What matters now is living life the right way.”

By bowing to the Christo-Corporate Gods while maintaining his Buddhist faith while maintain a vice like grip on his own evolving personal narrative, Tiger Woods is at the forefront of the evolving marriage between religiously based morals and a consumer based, post reality TV culture where we know the reality being presented to us is, in many ways, a lie, but we just want a good story.

This week, as the second coming of Nike’s messiah begins, we probably will not get to know the real Tiger any better. Weathered, and brandishing a few scars, Tiger will become a much more likeable – and bankable figure.

Even I’m gonna watch golf this weekend. So should you.

Go on, just do it.®

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Sarah Palin’s first TV special aired on Fox last night.

If you missed it, it will re-air Easter Sunday at 9PM. Christ has died, Christ has risen, but after seeing Sarah Palin’s Real American Stories, if Christ does “come again” to save these libertarian murderers- I’ll choose the 9^th circle of hell rather than spend eternity with these ass-hats, thank you very much.

Heroism, Courage, generosity and the warrior spirit those are things that unite all Americans. With this, the ½ term Alaska Governor, former VP nominee, runner up for Miss Wasilla 1984, and current headlining act for the tea party terrorist tour, began her much anticipated one hour Fox Special.

And then, to music recorded on a special new machine made from recycled heartstrings, Palin trotted out her stories.

Among them a canned interview, with a Sarah Palin voice over superimposed over 1-year-old Fox News Coverage of Toby Keith discussing the inspiration for his best selling hit “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.” There is no doubt that the country song has made a huge impact on the warrior spirit culture of American Life. I wonder how many men and women, who, at last call at some bar popped Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” on the jukebox and then vowed, after one last shot of Jack Daniels, to enlist in the Army. I wonder how many of them died or are currently dealing with life altering injuries sustained in a war based on lies that had nothing to do with protecting – as Miss Wasilla- I’m sorry- I mean the runner up to Miss Wasilla 1984- our “American Way of Life.”

Certainly this did not seem to apply to another profile on last night’s show: Jason Dunham, a heroic Marine who gave his life to save his comrades in Iraq. When a grenade was dropped amongst his men by an Iraqi insurgent (an by insurgent we mean someone with the balls to protest the illegal invasion and occupation of their country by an imperialist Empire) Jason Dunham did not run, he placed his helmet atop the grenade. His friends were saved. Dunham died. And while this example certainly satisfies the opening thesis of Palin’s program, Heroism, Courage, generosity and the warrior spirit, can we not agree and acknowledge that the tears we shed for Jason Dunham are not tears of pried, but of shame that he died in vain?

The most effective story Palin pandered last night was that of George Weiss, and his SAY YES program. Weiss, is a wealthy businessman who helps prepare underprivileged students for college and pays for their education. He famously walked into a 6^th grade classroom in a rough section of Philadelphia some years ago and told all of the kids there that if they graduated high school, he would personally pay for their college education.

And then he backed it up.

George Weiss is a hero in my book. But are we to rely, as Palin remarked, on the power of the “voluntary private sector contribution to recognize where a need is, and how the can jump in and help.”

Yes, friends, Real American Stories is a feel good libertarian manifesto that aspires, not so much to Glenn Beck saber rattling, but to a kinder, gentler approach of propaganda.

But are we, as Sarah Palin told her exclusively white Fox studio audience, to bank on a future that relies on the voluntary private sector contribution to remedy the evils of inequity brought on by that very same unregulated private sector?

The rate of poverty in the United States is more than three times as great as Switzerland, a government that functions much like Federal Republic with a spoon full of socialism thrown in for good measure. The Swiss are, by all accounts, much happier than Americans, living as they do in a much more equitable society. Then again, they don’t have to spend so much money on their military, the bloated wasteful budget of which accounts for more than 50% the expenditures of the U.S. government to fund what the Cover Girl for Tea Party Terrorism calls the warrior spirit of America.

This Easter Sunday, the group that brought you the inquisition and the crusades (imagine how those little pageants would have played out in a nuclear era) gives you a man who presided over- and gave his blessing to- decades of institutionally approved rape and pedophilia: Pope Benedict. Benny will cap off eight days of religious services and deliver his annual Easter Message in St. Peter’s Square. The address will be translated into 60 languages and heard around the world.

That the Pope, head honcho of the group responsible for the rape of more children, the murder of more women, and the torture of more innocent people than any other institution ever created by man- I’m speaking of the institution known as the Catholic Church- holds a position granting him higher respect than, say, Charles Manson, is, as they say, one of the great mysteries of faith.

Will Benny respond to criticism from notable Catholics, like the opinion piece penned in the Washington Post earlier this month by the self described yet excommunicated Catholic Sinead O’Conner, who said that the Pope’s recent apology for the sexual abuse of children by Priests rang hollow.

The Pope claimed that he wishes to bring healing to all of the victims by suggesting that those victims find their way back to closeness with the church- that very same church that demanded oaths of silence from the victims of sexual abuse.

In the words of another prominent world leader who claimed frequent communication with God:

“Fool me once, shame on, shame on you….. you fool me, you can’t get fooled again.”- former President George W. Bush

The Pope, like George Bush, understands well that powerful organizations seeking world domination rely on an uninformed and obedient populace.  Fear mongering and terror are two strategies in pursuit of this objective. The Church has burned scientists at the stake as part of a strategy to keep the masses from learning the Bible’s historical accuracy can not withstand the academic rigor of a typical 9 year old.

So, this Easter Sunday, while the Pope may not traffic in the same rhetorical minefield that lead the church to publish a how to guide to find, torture, and kill witches like they did the 1500’s with the publication of The Witches Hammer, the bestseller that served as a field guide for the Church sanctioned reign of terror and the torture and death of millions, but the overall objective will be the same, Protect and promote the institution.

The Pope has signaled clearly that he will not be intimidated by critics of the most recently acknowledged sexual abuse cases when he said that faith in God helps lead one “toward the courage of not allowing oneself to be intimidated by the petty gossip of dominant opinion.”

Let that phrase linger, as you consider the several millennia of terror techniques implemented by the Catholic Church, the most recent chapter of which includes the institutionalized rape of children and the protection, by the church, that benefits the monsters in priests clothing.

The Petty Gossip of Dominant Opinion.

The RNC has fired Allison Meyers, director of the group’s “Young Eagles” program, for approving the expenses at Voyeur, A West Hollywood hot spot where potential RNC donors enjoyed drinking 20 glasses Chenin Blanc while watching simulated lesbian sex acts with women who look as if the just sauntered off the set of Eyes Wide Shut.

At least we know there are some same sex unions these regressives are willing to support.

Thanks to the audacity of reimbursing this two thousand dollars tab at bondage to themed sex club and the stupidity of including said expenses on a FEC filling report, RNC chairman Michael Steel is on the ropes, no longer able to hide behind the hypocrisy of the old boys club version of don’t ask don’t tell.

Yes, it might be fun to gloat that the party of family values is once again revealed as a group if rich, elite, deviant, circle jerking, patriarch espousing regressives. Fun as that might be, it misses the point.

Let’s say that the two thousand dollar reimbursement was for taking out a potential big donor to The Master’s Golf Tournament. This two thousand dollar expense would be a non-story. Ah, golf. At least the good old boy network still has golf and the culture of exclusivity and opulence it provides for the rich beneficiaries of Hypercapitalism.

But ask yourself, what is more offensive: a group of consenting adults watching a group of paid performers pretended to have sex, or a round of golf at The Masters? Remember, it is still recent history that RNC, like the Masters, was not open to people of color. Just as the old boys network accepted that the atlas holding up their sport was a black man, he suffers a tragic fall from grace when it is revealed that he has been doing exactly what generations of rich, powerful, country club men have been doing: having multiple sex partners outside of marriage.

It’s not just Republicans. I’ll give you three fucken words: John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic President of the United States, simply had to go to confession, talk to a man in a dress behind a curtain who would absolve his sins on the one hand while giving an alter boy a spankerchief with the other and all was well with the world.

The RNC, the Catholic Church, and Golf: institutions the regressives hold dear continue to reveal themselves as shams. Like the Roman Catholic Church, an institution whose current self-destruction will be a blessing for all of mankind, (pun intentional) the destruction of the Republican Party will only be judged by history as progress.