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Long live the Greenie-Meanie pact!

By Michael J. Smith on Thursday August 3, 2006 09:37 PM

There's a lot of fuss about the Green Party in Pennsylvania taking money from Republicans, for their third-party campaign against the Republican-wannabe and fetus-fan Democrat Casey.

I must be missing some neurological circuit, because I just don't see why anybody should get upset about this, except maybe a Democratic Party careerist, like, say, Rahm Emanuel, or Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Taking money from the Devil seems admirably clever on the part of the Greens.

It's obvious why the Rethugs are contributing to the Greens -- they're feeling so triumphalist that they figure, hey, why not pick up all the marbles? Thirty years of hegemony have bred up a generation of Republican Alphonses who don't understand how deeply they depend on the Gaston the Democrat. They want to mug Gaston and send him to jail and take the few coppers he has in his threadbare pockets. (If they succeed, by the way, I will be right there with them in the courtroom, urging the judge to throw the book at Gaston and ship him off to Devil's Island.)

Once Gaston is gone -- and it can't happen too soon -- then Alphonse will find himself in difficulties. That's the nature of symbiosis. But the more aggressive and adventurist Republicans don't understand this, and so they want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Or at least they're willing to flirt with the possibility -- I don't suppose any of them really think that a third party could ever grow to the point that it would upset the Alphonse-Gaston machine in any structural way. In their own way, they're as deeply mired in crackpot realism as their mirror images in the Democratic Party, and very likely they just see this as a short-term tactic to squeak Santorum back into office.

Either way, the Green Party is poised to take advantage of this short-sighted Republican strategy. What's not to like about this scenario?

Comments (14)

J. Alva Scruggs:

I weep for your lost innocence!

I could see Greens wanting to talk about it for any number of reasons. I can't see how it could be of any concern, at all, other than fatuous talking point fodder for the Democrats. When they're ready to renounce support for saccharine-coated social darwinism and cruel interventionism, they might have room to moralize.

js paine:

yes the re"thugs"
run steamrollers
these days
but they have a nice sense of foul play sometimes

imagine a dem donor funding some wild yahoo
fundy insurgent against
a biz wiz repug
why their gladstonian hearts would sieze up
at the mere suggestion

Once Gaston is gone -- and it can't happen too soon -- then Alphonse will find himself in difficulties. That's the nature of symbiosis.

on one hand:

Clinton partly saved Bush's ass after Katrina when everybody was ready to throw him to the wolves. The Dems are cheerleading the bombing of Lebanon.

on the other hand:

The Republicans backed off on privatizing social security.

So short answer is. I don't know. Beats me. Let's wait and see what happens. Well gee, maybe Gore would have been better than Bush but the Dems still suck. I'm fucking confused.

And the Progressive Dems are a hell of a lot less annoying than most NYC Indymedia anarchists who only want to argue which trash can to eat lunch out of. And don't get me started on the Trotskeyites.

I could see Greens wanting to talk about it for any number of reasons. I can't see how it could be of any concern, at all, other than fatuous talking point fodder for the Democrats.

What exactly are the Dems going to do? They already fight the Greens 100 times harder than the fight the Republicans.

Is Atrios going to give them a "wanker of the day" award? Is Steve Gilliard going to threaten to post more about the World Cup and about women? Are the Kosniks going to go to Green message boards and post recipes?

Are they going to set up loudspeakers outside peoples' houses blaring zzzzzzzzzss or "get a life greenshirt"? Is John Kerry going to threaten to flip flop over everybody till their dead?

I mean, Kosniks and Atriots don't really get that scary.

js paine:

stan baby

imagine gore running for re election
after stealing florida
and putting us into a hideous recession
9/11 is the result
of 9 years of democrat soft soapin

whwere's the head
of bin laden etc etc etc

shit we'd have a repug now for sure
and a blast of trickle down tax relief
to get the economy movin again

maybe even some
emergency SSI
course correcting

a defense budget soaring

four for gore would have us everywhere we are now but iraq ..maybe

and with a repug dynamo ready to roll on till 2012

hey its "symbiosis"

today and tomorrow
are interchangeable parts

Amazing how these democrat party androids stand there, covered head to toe with sewage, and still insist on passing judgement. Truly, politics knows no shame.

J. Alva Scruggs:

Regarding Social Security, the Wall Street Dems want to force it into partial privatization too. It's not from the same kind of mean stupidity that drives the Republicans. It's the last big chunk of capital left that could be used prop up the stock parts of the creaking pension plans. Otherwise, the pension plans are going to have be directly bailed out. That means taxes and career pain for their cronies.

Amazing how these democrat party androids stand there, covered head to toe with

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........

Fuck off greenshirt.

Sorry. Just wanted to see how it felt to type that.

Let's try that again.

PURIST!!!! DO YOU REALLY THINK GORE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME AS BUSH!!!!

Nope. That didn't feel much better.

Ok. Let's try this one.

Oh my God. Billmon is off his meds again. Sooooo pessimistic. So a few thousand Lebanese have to die and even Tucker Carlson's getting pissy about it. That's no reason to be a PURIST.

Nope. Didn't help.

And I don't have any recipes to post. So fuck the Democrats.

Rowan:

I wonder how much money from Republican donors Casey has taken.

J. Alva Scruggs:

Stanley, do they really call people "greenshirt"? I know they do the raspberry thing with the zzzzz, but greenshirt?! What next? Cootie shots for the faithful?

Let's form our own corporation, register as Republicans, and ship dozens of dollars to Zeese, Chretien, Cavlan, and the rest. Then they, too, can finally get some damn coverage from the Dipshit Brigade.

Oh, and you anti-recipe types can just fucking bite me. I am soooo going to publish an online collection called P*llsb*rr*'s Best Of the Dumpster Dive-Off so I can get a tip jar rolling for my Greenshirt heroes. When I get on Oprah, you will rue the day you laughed. Rue !! Jerks.

Jim:

Well, we've got a response at http://gp.org

I wish they'd come up with something other then "we can do it too neener neener" but at least they seem to have come out, um, swinging. Nothing on Romanelli's site though.

Tim D:

This line from the Green Party's official response basically sums up the situation:

"Until Democrats take steps to bring IRV to Pennsylvania, we can only assume they'd rather see a Republican victory than tolerate Greens and other parties on the ballot," said Paul Teese, chair of the Green Party of Pennsylvania.
MJS:

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