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)
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.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs | August 4, 2006 9:17 AM
Posted on August 4, 2006 09:17
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
Posted by js paine | August 4, 2006 9:36 AM
Posted on August 4, 2006 09:36
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.
Posted by Stanley Rogouski | August 4, 2006 10:46 AM
Posted on August 4, 2006 10:46
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.
Posted by Stanley Rogouski | August 4, 2006 12:40 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 12:40
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
Posted by js paine | August 4, 2006 1:24 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 13:24
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.
Posted by AlanSmithee | August 4, 2006 1:32 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 13:32
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.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs | August 4, 2006 1:58 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 13:58
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.
Posted by Stanley Rogouski | August 4, 2006 6:22 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 18:22
I wonder how much money from Republican donors Casey has taken.
Posted by Rowan | August 4, 2006 9:42 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 21:42
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?
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs | August 4, 2006 10:21 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 22:21
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.
Posted by ms_xeno | August 4, 2006 11:48 PM
Posted on August 4, 2006 23:48
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.
Posted by Jim | August 6, 2006 2:48 PM
Posted on August 6, 2006 14:48
This line from the Green Party's official response basically sums up the situation:
Posted by Tim D | August 7, 2006 2:19 AM
Posted on August 7, 2006 02:19
Software upgrade -- testing comments
Posted by MJS | August 7, 2006 7:45 PM
Posted on August 7, 2006 19:45