Washington, where voting along party lines trumps your conscience!

American politcs has gone completely down the drain ever since the entire country (check that, the media) got obsessed with Cliton getting a bj and fibbing about it. Yeah it was a stinkhole before, but it somehow manages to reach new lows. Let's look at the recent news:

• Morons in the senate and white house look at some video and decide Terry Schiavo is alive because she twitched, and get mad when the rule of law prevents them from deciding her fate for nothing more than political pandering. Tom Delay himself allowed a family member to die by removing a feeding tube, yet I don't remember anyone calling him a murderer.
• Bush decides to nominate three rediculously right-wing judges (well, two judges and an administrative assistant) for the supreme court, simply because he can. Everyone knows that no republican would dare vote their conscience against him, no matter how much of an anti-abortion nut they are.
• Carl Rove manages to convince a bunch of idiots that John Kerry, a certified war *hero*, somehow wasn't because some guys who once saw a boat said so. And let's not forget how the media played up the story without the slightest background checking. Did you see any special reports about how GW was a cowardly fuck? Yeah me neither. Good thing he's in charge of a war, to him it's a video game.
  

Oh wait, I was ranting about voting your conscience. One of the coolest things I remember as a kid was hearing some adult friend of the family talk about how elected officals are elected to vote their conscience, and not follow public opinion or anything else. Even if the entire country is roiled in a fury over flag burning, we can count on our senators to vote against a ban because it's wrong. Well, that guy was either really old or naive.

It's all part of a brilliant plan - turn politics into a disgusting bs-fest and sicken most of the country. Lie and pretend to love the baby jesus, decry science, evolution and abortion and wrap yourself in the flag to pander to the most manipulable sector of the population, white middle class christian families. Those without a rabid religious ferver forcing them to vote abstain out of disgust, and the sheep turn out in droves to vote in the liar of the week.

And now, thanks to idiots who care more about whether gays can marry (someone for the love of god explain that to me) and occupying a country that has never once attacked America than little things like health care and the economy, we're stuck with someone so full of shit, so completely sold on his own lie, that a billionare president actually goes to Texas to clear brush off his ranch just to prove how much of his own bullshit he's swallowed.

George Orwell is laughing his ass off

What the fuck, America? Are you all such a bunch of simpering pussies that you would trade all the liberties bought in blood for the appearance of security from terrorists, child pornogrophers, communists or whatever politically created fear of the week the asswipes in our government & media want you to run screaming from this week? I'm fucking sick to death of seeing rights trampled in the 'save the children' cause of the week.

You know what the problem is? There hasn't been a war on American soil in way too long. Everyone has turned into a giant wuss, scared of their own shadow. Why is it that America leads the world in homicides? Plenty of other countries allow guns, hell every Canadian and his dog has a gun but they aren't shooting each other. Britain gets their subways bombed and what do they do? They thumb their noses at the fuckwads whose only goal is to create fear, and go right about their business. No closed subways for days on end. No constant drumbeat of fear and pathos over the dead. There's a big ass difference between mouring the dead and hyping the fuck out of it for 24 hour news ratings. Other countries, countries that can point out Bulgaria on a map and have seen a war or two, aren't chock-full of fear-driven morons.

Listen to this bullshit:

In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
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The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google.

MSN, Yahoo, Ask - you are all pussies. Thank god someone has some fucking balls left to stand up to this retarded shit or we'd never even *hear* about it. Just another illusion of privacy, eroded for the appearance of security.

I wouldn't let Dubya near my liquor cabinet, why would I trust him with his self-appointed ability to decide when to obey the constitution?