MB Civic

Billary
Two for the price of a Thousand
By Brad Parker
9.30.07

GQ killed a 7,000-word article about infighting in Hillaryland after Bill Clinton’s aide told the magazine that running the piece might imperil access to Bill. The incident, as Howie Kurtz wrote in The Washington Post, reflected pressure tactics that “may be practiced with unprecedented aggressiveness by the tightly controlled Clinton media operation.”

So says Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. She says a lot more and it’s a good read. (The Nepotism Tango By MAUREEN DOWD – Published: September 30, 2007) Here’s my two cents on the dynasty effect we are being bludgeoned by the DLC Clinton machine and its sycophants in the macro-media to accept.

How much of the hope of this nation are we going to squander on the royal aspirations of this family? Wasn’t the dynasty debacle of the Bush tree enough to prove the lucidity of the original “W” when he put aside all offers of the crown? If not then let’s just tear up that fading document in the Library of Congress and invite Liz and Chuck to embark from the merry ole’ motherland and reinstall the Windsor’s in the White House. I mean why settle for some Mississippi River Valley vagabonds when you can have a family with centuries of unearned heraldry to back it up?

Billary is not a word I coin lightly. Hey – they have always claimed it to be so. Why beat around the bush – pun intended – let’s just state the obvious – Billary is running again – as Hillary. They are squashing the press and cozying up to Crony the corporate huckster with that same old alacrity. Will Billary deliver anything different this time around if they get the nod and the Repubs cry in the corner thus laying the limp laurels on their guileful heads? Let’s revue.

Billary bequeathed more than the stained blue dress to us the last go round: NAFTA, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, MFNTS for Communist China, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, the Defense of Marriage Act, the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and so much more. Now let’s look at the cumulative effect of these “center” pieces of conservative legislation.

We have: massive American layoffs and heightened undocumented immigration fleeing collapsing foreign subsistence economies, more oligopolies swallowing the media and less information, Chinese products made by slave labor flooding the marketplace with killer effect, increased millions left behind in poverty without assistance, denial of civil rights for millions of same sex couples, oodles and gobs more money for the ultra-wealthy, punitive adventures provided to children operating modern media without guidance and well – you get the picture.

There is a simple reason for Billary’s behavior: the DLC led hysteria for coveted corporate campaign cash provided by Crony – the lobbyist-consultant’s pimp from K Street in DC. In other words: the DLC dictum is that money is the chief value of politics and all effort should be expended by current and potential electeds to accede to any demand of the monied class to increase their bottom line. All other social, justice and equality considerations must be danced around so as not to upset the major donors. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) called the “kabuki dance we do with the Progressives”. Hence the Billary machine’s capitulation to the Republican Anarchy Collective – the RNC – and the devastation their pro-corporate polices are wreaking on the globe.

Billary – second verse, same as the first. They are the epitome of what is wrong with the American political landscape. Their howling ambition has become a match for Lady and Lord Macbeth. Their fierce need for fame and fortune is obscene. Their obsessive insistence on the secrecy surrounding their dubious financial dealings is bordering on paranoid and tyrannical. Then there is their personal behavior.

Public humiliation and the lying, cheating smarminess that goes with it are part and parcel of the Billary lifelong marriage charade. Bill lied and people did die. Democrats rode the disgrace train down to the bottom leaving the nation with the current disasters, the cowering Congress and death in Iraq every hour on the hour. Ask Al Gore about the lie. Hillary puts up with Bill’s appetites but we no longer have to. I’m not speaking of the just mentioned peccadilloes. I refer to the governing issues I elucidated earlier. It’s that personal behavior exhibited by both of them – Billary – that sucks up to the Republicans, Wall Street and the cavalcade of Cronies and sickens the body politic to the core that is at issue here.

So, dear reader, cut through the Arkansas-Illinois-New York smokescreen and ask yourself these simple questions: Are the Clinton and Bush families the only families in America qualified to run the country? Should we expend hundreds of millions of dollars as the Democratic Party to continue the reign of Billary over our Party and the nation? Would it not be better to send a thousand informed Progressive Liberal Democrats into office across America with that precious energy and those resources? Have you had enough of this royal family shenanigans and sophistry? If so – you know what to do. If not – well, we should talk…