[BretLudwig]

((He gets one thing very right:Nationalism-not necessarily racial
nationalism, but not necessarily not either-is very certainly nthe new
elitism. Bret.))

Everybody's Appalled


America's rulers are crooks and thieves. Some just get caught

by Andrew Redmond

"Poor Rod Blagojevich.

Only a few weeks after the dawning of a new politically correct Golden
Age, with Republicans run out of office everywhere and the fresh brown
President set to rule with a pet media following and his cowed opponents
afraid to question him, Governor Rod gets caught telling the truth: a
Senate seat is "a f**king valuable thing." And not only was he prepared to
sell it, there were apparently a lot of buyers, at least according to the
Federal indictment. Five in fact, among them "Senate Candidate Number
Five," that scion of black aristocracy, Jesse Jackson, Jr., son of the
noted race hustler, holy relic collector, and would be castrationist Jesse
Jackson, Sr. According to reports, which he denies, Jr. was prepared to
throw a cool million at Governor Blagojevich in exchange for Blagojevich
naming him as replacement for Barack Obama as the new junior US senator
from Illinois.

On federal wiretaps, Blagojevich sounds explicit: "I'm going to keep this
Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can
drive a hard bargain. You hear what I'm saying. And if I don't get what I
want and I'm not satisfied with it, then I'll just take the Senate seat
myself."

Now everybody, and in modern America "everybody" means the government,
media, politicians, people with serious money, and those they choose to
allow to speak, is totally surprised. Appalled, in fact. Especially Obama,
that paragon of holiness who walked between serious raindrops like William
Ayers, Tony Rezko and Jeremiah Wright. Obama's "as appalled and
disappointed as anybody by the revelations earlier this week" of
Blagojevich's alleged corruption. "What I want to see is a quick
resolution of this issue. I want to make sure that the next senator from
the State of Illinois is carrying on a tradition of service," he said.

Yes, that old (cough) "tradition of service" we are all trained to
politely agree animates America's political leaders even if, like
Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana, they kept a cool $90,000 in
alleged bribe cash in their freezer, or, like Senator Larry Craig, pleaded
guilty to a charge related to sex in a men's room, or, as in the case of
Congressman Mark Foley, sent homosexual emails to underage boys. And even
if, like Ted Kennedy, you kill a girl, what counts is the fact that you
just want to "help people." Personal reward has nothing to do with any of
it.

Acceptance of this kind of polite fiction is absolutely necessary in how
late stage imperial America functions, because America is not governed by
ideology, or even policy, but by a loose coalition of corrupt people who
have agreed to divide the spoils among themselves. Those observers who
approach politics ideologically or idealistically are often left stumped
by the behaviors of America's politicians. In the runup to the 2006
Congressional midterm elections, vast portions of the antiwar movement
thought that if only they could throw those Republican bums out the
Democrats would have everybody home from Iraq by the following Christmas.
Yet, sure enough, nothing was done, despite all the promises. And one of
the first things Obama did, after getting the votes of many of these same
people, was to appoint hardline Zionist Rahm Emmanuel, whose politics got
the US into Iraq in the first place, as his right hand man. Did Obama make
the Emmanuel appointment because he's a Zionist ideologue himself, or
because he knows who butters his bread?

Conservatives have put up with the same kind of baloney for generations.
Literally since Roe v. Wade, Republicans have promised to end abortion,
and, like clockwork, prolife conservatives eat it up. Yet not one single
abortion has ever been stopped by the actions of this political crowd.
Some of them even procure abortions for their girlfriends.

This kind of ideological drift as a result of the venality of leadership
is not unique to America. Europe is in just as bad a place, with cross
party "purple coalitions" of managerial elites ruling for the sake of
power and devoid of any real ideological focus. It's a sign that the
status quo in the Western world is on its last legs, which is why
nationalists face such violence, hate and oppression: the current elites
fear their replacement.

Consider this. If getting elected to high office is all about upholding
America's vaunted "tradition of service," why do hopefuls pour such vast
wealth into getting elected to jobs that, they claim, barely make ends
meet? Why would all the various special interest donors give so much if
they believed, REALLY believed, that their donations were being taken by
Simon Pures who wouldn't even dream of favoring a political donor or a
special interest group with bucks?

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, for the elections of
2008, $967,681,352 was raised for all races to the House of
Representatives, and another $389,724,577 for the Senate. How much did the
Presidency cost? Obama raised $1,039,703,322, while John McCain got
$651,013,768. Now THAT's a "service" charge!

So all of the whining and moaning about Rod Blagojevich is just a lot of
hot air. He is going down because he put too many people in the loop, and
one of the losers of his Senatorial price war was sure to talk about it at
some point. That would put Blagojevich's Senate appointment in question,
and look bad for Obama, so Blagojevich had to be shut down now.

In fact, Blagojevich's crime may have been that he was too honest. He
spoke the truth, albeit unwittingly to hidden microphones, about politics
in this day and age in the United States: "I want to make money."

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[Clyde Slick]

On 11 Dec, 15:50, "BretLudwig" wrote:


In fact, Blagojevich's crime may have been that he was too honest.

LOL!!!
an 'honest' crook!