a post-blog
Some of my non-American readers may not fully grasp the enormity of yesterday's Democractic sweep of both Congressional chambers, so I have put together a list of pop culture metaphors that will no doubt help you put it all in perspective:
* The House and Senate are like Kid 'n Play, and they are both Democrats and are pajama-jamming at a House Party and a Senate Party as well.
* The House and Senate are now like Larry's brothers Darryl and Darryl from Newhart: both Democratic.
* The House and Senate are like the two arms of Turbo Teen's Brett Matthews, and when the electorate hoses him down with the hot water of democracy, they became two wheels greased with the power of the Democratic Party.
* The House is Michael J. Fox from Poison Ivy (1985), and the Senate is Nancy McKeon from Poison Ivy (1985). Summer camp commences and the whole place goes Democratic.
* The House and Senate are like the two candidates in the 1960 televised presidental debates, but they are both Kennedy.
* Number of Congressial chambers Democrats control: 2x the number of Martika number-ones.
* Congress is a Bactrian Camel, but both humps are filled with Democrats instead of resevoirs of fatty tissue (Republicans).
Respect and peace to the people of the US & A but my question to Marxy is:
Did you vote yesterday or did you just sit on the wall as usual?
Posted by: dzima at November 9, 2006 12:37 PMHuh?? I have voted in Florida by absentee from 2000 until now. Twice against Bush, although the first one didn't count. I would actually try to establish me as a non-voter before you throw around the hypocricy claims too freely.
Also, if you want to know why I tend to show you personally so much hostility, let me rephrase your last statement without all the finger pointing:
"Did you vote yesterday?"
Posted by: marxy at November 9, 2006 1:10 PMI've been called much worse things by your readers but I take your point. Though I have said before that you take my "attacks" a lot more seriously than I mean them.
Anyway, I basically don't understand any of metaphors you posed on this entry. Sorry but that wasn't very helpful for non-Americans (no offense intended)!
Posted by: dzima at November 9, 2006 2:14 PMI'm just curious though, Dzima -- why did you tack the snarky "as usual" on at the end or your question? If you are just joshing around, it ain't coming across at all.
You say Marxy takes your comments a lot more seriously than he should, but maybe it would help better convey your (playful?) tone if you added a little emoticon at the end of your comments, fuckface. :)
Posted by: Duffy at November 9, 2006 3:02 PMI think it's time for me to become Vigo the Carpathian again...
Posted by: dzima at November 9, 2006 4:07 PMAhh...now i get it. It's kind of like if Dee and Dieter Bohlen (republicans) got banned from German tv and were substituted by Ill-Yong Kim and Florian Illies (democrats?)...pretty bad metaphor, i guess.
It might comparable to the 1998 election in Germany, when Helmut Kohl had to step down for Gerhard Schröder and the SocialDemocracts formed a coalition with the Green Party. What excitement then (first time election for me) and what a let down later (when Schröder lost it after losing to Merkel in 2005..both losses were disappointing...).
I had some hopes for Kinky Friedman burping the national anthem if he had won. Who needs all that PC-crap anyway.
Posted by: clh at November 9, 2006 5:39 PMsame trough, different pigs.
I shoulda changed my registered domicile back to Texas so I coulda voted for Kinky Friedman. Voting NYC just plain sucked.
Posted by: Your Humble Janitor at November 10, 2006 12:20 AMgot a problem with nyc? bring it..
and
dz. seriously, you have 0% internet social skills.
maybe you should check out this link?
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/netiquet.htm
My problems with voting in NYC was I hated every candidate for every position. The only good thing is the laughs I get from the fact that the various socialist parties still put candidates up for various things. Socialists are one of my favorite sources of humor.
Posted by: Your Humble Janitor at November 10, 2006 9:20 PMSocialism is tremendously important, even in America, because without its basic moral and conceptual underpinning the left has no real raison d'etre; it just becomes a hodge podge of "alternative" ideas. Although the Dems are in a good place right now because they received a lot of anti-GOP protest votes, they're not in a good place in general in America, because without socialism (and it still makes most Americans, like you, chuckle) they're condemned to drift without any real ideological agenda, a mere GOP-Lite.
Posted by: Momus at November 11, 2006 1:45 AMSo, Momus, the GOP is the normative party, and a Democrat like Al "An Inconvenient Truth" Gore is just a "lite" version of the current administration and their oil ties? Sorry, no. In 1999, I might have thought the "GOP-Lite" charge had some merit, but not after the last few years. You will counter that the Dems have not done enough to obstruct the administration, but I say that is because they are ineffective, not because they are "GOP-Lite."
Posted by: saru at November 11, 2006 11:03 AMMomus: socialism may have been the underpinning of the Left in the past, but its way past time that the Left (worldwide) came up with sone other thread to unify their narrative. Education is a good one, but "everyone knows" the Dems are in the pocket of the teachers unions and thus they cant accomplish any real reform. Their old songs of minimum wage and protectionism just dont make the hit charts like they used to either. What they need is a new producer, something to get them back in the charts again with a hook to get the kids dancing. Socialism sells about as well as a Pat Boone record.
Posted by: Your Humble Janitor at November 13, 2006 12:29 AM