The Avenging Angel Smites Burns, Bolton and Steele
The Avenging Angel, punisher of the rascals of the right, had yet another busy week delivering payback.
Out in Big Sky country, GOP Montana Senator Conrad Burns found himself in hot water this week for insulting firefighters who had been battling blazes in his state. In the midst of a tough reelection bid against Democrat and rancher John Tester, Burns heaped scorn on the visiting Augusta Hotshots from Virginia, telling them they had "done a poor job" and "should have listened to the ranchers." Perhaps, the Angel hopes, Abramoff ally Burns will see his campaign go up in flames.
Meanwhile in Washington, President Bush's wildly unpopular choice at the UN showed once again why he's the man people love to hate. During confirmation hearings, John Bolton explained that he skipped a UN summit on Darfur due to a "personal commitment in the United Kingdom." Speaking to a right-wing think tank in London apparently was more important than genocide in Sudan. Whether or not Bolton keeps his seat in the UN, the Angel muses, he is guaranteed a warm seat in hell.
And in neighboring Maryland, arch-conservative Senate candidate Michael Steele tried to have it all ways this week with the state's moderate and African-American voters. In anonymous comments to the press, Steele trashed his own Republican Party and dissed President Bush's handling of Katrina. After blaming the press for taking comments out of context, Steele came clean and called Dubya his "homeboy." Just another case, the Angel notes, of the GOP keepin' it real with black voters.
The black vote is fragmented and without leadership due in part to our own homophobic, pathetic opportunist preachers seeking faith based buy me off and shut my mouth pork. Every time I see sheep raising their hands or pointing toward the sky, I want to smack them up side the head and remind them that as Morrison once said, "You cannot petition the Lord with prayer", because my dear exclusionary religious nutcake, every other exclusionary religious snakish cultmember is doing the same thing. As soon as someone starts talking about Jesus, or Mohammed, or Joseph the Mormon or the vicious God of Abraham, I cover my wallet and search for a big stick. The sooner we stop allowing these forked tongues pimps from tricking us the sooner there will be peace and justice.