Sredni Vashstar the beautiful

When I was a janitor at Herrin hospital one of the rooms I cleaned was sort of a doctors' meeting room.  It had one of those flip blackboards and I would write SOCIALIZE MEDICINE NOW!!! on the other side, imagining that in one of their cigar smoking, brandy snifting meetings the presenter would run out of room on his side of the board and would flip it over and suddenly cigars would fall from mouths and expensive brandy would be spilt on the floor.  More work for me I suppose the next time I had go clean up the room, but hey, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Socialized medicine is what Beagles is speaking of with everybody paying for it with their taxes, though strangely he does not use that name.  Something like that was maybe what my hero LBJ was pushing towards before he got involved in that unfortunate war.  Nobody did a damn thing since then until the big girl burned her fingers, and then along came Obamacare which was pushed down the throat of the republicans who tried to kill it at every turn because they hate the democrats and government.  But Obama did more than spout at rallies and bluster and it came to be, but it is generally believed that it was a factor in the reps taking all in the last election.

I've long scoffed at Beagles' worship of gridlock, but in this time with the reps having all the power i will gladly embrace it.  In the best of all my possible worlds Dump would be a kidney stone in the urethra of the republican party (I can't remember if I've used that phrase before in these ivied halls, but even if I have I enjoy saying it again) and so he has become, a mighty kidney stone indeed.

Yar, that freedom caucus.  Have you ever seen any of them interviewed?  Flecks of spit fly from their slavering jaws.  Like Sredni Vashtar their thoughts are red thoughts and their death are white.  Their enemies (and everybody is their enemies) call for peace, but they give them death.  Freedom caucus the beautiful.  The dealster threatened that he would fuck with them in their primaries but the mail from home was running like 99 to 1 for no compromise.  Maybe these guys are an even bigger kidney stone than Dump, and they will be around until districting reform happens, which will be never. Freedom caucus (The Beautiful) I salute you.


The "party first" nonsense must cease  Proclaims the Old Dog, sounding like somebody who is dusting off his dungarees as the turnip truck pulls away.  And indeed Dump has been heard muttering about playing nice with the dems.  My beloved pundit panels bring up the subject during a lull in the discussion and then everybody laughs.  The only kind of deal that Dump likes is when he screws the other guy, and dim though the dems may be from time to time they are not going to be stupid enough to fall for that.  Who would?  Oh that's right, the republicans.

So did anybody else catch the Devin Nunes (Devin Nunes? Reince Priebus?  Who writes the names for these guys?) show on CNN last night?  Kindly Uncle Wolf had Nunes over for a chat, and surprisingly for the mild mannered chap showed a little tooth.  Am I missing something I wondered from my arm chair.  Nothing this guy says makes any sense.  When the interview was over attention returned to the panel and they said as one, that didn't make any sense.

At some point they presented a scenario where Dump summoned Nunes to the white house to present him with a cock and bull story that would somehow exonerate Dump from his wire-tapppping shtick, so that he could announce it at the white house, when was that, sometime before repeal died maybe a week ago.  The evidence for CNNs story was circumstantial, but this is a story where Nunes is cruising with his aides in the dead of night, gets a mysterious phone call and leaves his aides behind cruising off in an uber into the night and isn't heard from again until he presents the cock and bull story from the White House and declines to say who let him in there and the White House guys say they never saw him. As they say you can't make up shit like this.


So this leaves the middle class/democracy thing kind of a dead issue, the dawgs never seemed to crazy about it anyway.  But the Cain vs Abel thing is alive like never before with the wild hunters of the freedom caucus despoiling the nicely grown corn rows of, well of the dealster.  The dystopia looks a little better in my eyes with the kidney stone firmly lodged and the white toothed freedom caucus (FC) charging up from the rectum.