Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

At a “townhall meeting” in Montgomery, Alabama, as part of Bush’s Social Security Bamboozle-palooza, one of the nice folks who was actually let into the meeting uttered these words:

On behalf of all Montgomery Alabamians, we would like to extend our heartfelt welcome. And thank you for allowing us to be part of this town hall meeting. [emphasis mine]

Now, I think Mr. Webster doesn’t quite understand what a town hall meeting is. So let me try to explain. A town hall meeting is open to all citizens of a community. This site has a pretty good definition that applies:

Town Hall meetings are an opportunity for citizens to voice their concerns and opinions on a given topic so as to raise awareness and press for action. A Town Hall meeting provides an organized opportunity for [citizens] in a given community or state to be heard by their local leaders and others in decision making
positions.

So you see, if these were real Town Hall meetings, you don’t need to thank Bush. He should be thanking you for letting him speak at your meeting. But Republicans can’t allow opposing views to be heard, so they make sure these meetings are simple, scripted events of Bush talking to people who support him anyway.

And can someone please bloody explain to me how Bush is “brave” for talking about removing the social safety net?!

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If you don’t support gay rights and/or you think gays are some sort of weird biological mutation who deserve to be ridiculed, harrassed, and attacked, you are a fucking bigot who deserves to burn in the worse Christian hell imaginable.

If you voted for any Republican OR Democrat OR any-other-damn-person who has advocated placing and/or keeping bigotry in federal, state, local, or private laws and regulations, you are a bigot deserving the contempt of decent people everywhere.

That is all.

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