Partisan Messages of Confusion
Friday, September 1st, 2006I saw a sticker plastered to a telephone pole, or some such object, the other day. (As I am want to do.) The message depressed me.
“I Love My Life.
I Love Myself.”
And then in a cloud — with dots coming out of it (a representation of rain):
“Fuck Bush”
And across from the rain: “raining on my parade.”
I am not a fan of George W Bush, but the reality is that he really does not affect my well being or sense of self-worth, that I need to give a daily affirmation about. Whoever stuck this sticker up is giving a politician too much power and too much credit.
The same goes for Sean Hannity, who said, “This is the moment to say that there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of ’em is making sure Nancy Pelosi doesn’t become the speaker.”
Maybe Sean Hannity feels it is worth dying to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming Speaker of the House. I do not believe it is a sign of “the other side” being more determined than me, but personally I do not believe it is worth dying to keep Dennis Hastert from remaining spekar of the house. Maybe it’s worth a bunch of things for a bunch of people out there — time, money, exhaustion from phone banking and canvassing, whatever the hell else people do beyond ranting — but that would seem to be the extent of “what it is worth”.
I think the poster of the Bush sticker is the person who also stuck up a piece of paper (same handwriting, I think) within the vicintity that read “Bush’s deficit will impoverish our children, but it has enriched his corporate buddies. Vote Democratic. IMPEACH!” I already noted the deficiencies of messages such as this one in the fine city of Portland. But leave that aside, and I need to note that the reasons for any “impeachment” are getting confused here. Deficit spending, as fiscally reckless as it may be, does not appear to be grounds for impeachment.
