{"id":5564,"date":"2010-03-16T08:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2010-03-16T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:45:42","slug":"the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/16\/the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Works&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2010\/03\/16\/1111070\/news-brief-16twahealths.html\">The parting shot lobbed toward Dennis Kucinich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who flew with Obama, then walked into an Ohio senior citizen center with the chief executive in time to hear a voice from the audience yell out, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vote yes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A smiling Obama turned to the liberal lawmaker and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did you hear that, Dennis?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Then, turning back to the audience, he added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go ahead, say that again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vote yes!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came back the reply.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think that was too subtle.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama should have marched out with the &#8220;Dennis Kucinich Arm Twisting Marching Band&#8221; &#8212; consisting of half a dozen drummers &#8212; and devoted copious amounts of speech time to &#8220;Vegan Congressmen&#8221;, &#8220;two time presidential candidates who seem inclined toward a third and fourth run&#8221; and &#8220;shorties&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Also he might have phrased these with the word &#8220;some&#8221; as in &#8220;There are some Vegan Congressmen who would make the perfect the enemy of the good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To turn my attention to other opponents of the Health care push by Obama&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonrebel.typepad.com\/washington_rebel\/2010\/03\/open-letters-to-our-chickenshits-in-congress-the-slaughter-solution-.html\">there are certainly some weird people out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>why, hell, sooner or later you dumb bastards will be expecting to actually have the right to vote for them to put them in congress, instead of just leaving it up to the greater wisdom of bill gates, george soros, bill ayers or bill maher.\u00c2\u00a0 or, that they explain themselves to you.\u00c2\u00a0 hell, who can be bothered with all that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>they do not publish e-mail.\u00c2\u00a0 they have web-sites that accept email from their districts only.\u00c2\u00a0 far be it for the lazy fucks to actually have to read what their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153constituents\u00e2\u20ac\u009d say.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i doubt these will be read by my illustrious representatives, but i have sent the following missives anyway, which i thought i would publish here, in case any of them are washington rebel readers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>friends, buy guns and buy ammo, and lay in a proper store of potables, canned veggies, canned meats, and other fat laden edibles.\u00c2\u00a0 and, i would also suggest all the rice, flour, pastas and canned butter substitutes you can lay your hands on: butter flavored crisco will do.\u00c2\u00a0 buy gallons and gallons of olive &amp; soy oil, and more peanut butter than you could ever conceive of eating, in two lifetimes.\u00c2\u00a0 and, do not forget dehydrated potatoes, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 , mashed, au gratin or scalloped.\u00c2\u00a0 ummers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> it is going to come to that. [&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">dear speaker pelosi:<br \/>\nif the house of representative &#8220;passes&#8221; health care &#8220;reform&#8221; on the &#8220;slaughter solution,&#8221; please be advised that such will be in derogation of your obligations as a member of congress to entered a recorded vote on the merits of such a &#8220;bill.&#8221;<br \/>\ni believe the process patently unconstitutional.<br \/>\ni also believe it to be a usurpation of dictatorial power by the democratic party.<br \/>\nit will not stand.\u00c2\u00a0 and, you incite civil war.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>dear representative inslee:<br \/>\njay, i practiced law w\/ you in yakima county, before you sought more hospitable climes for your politics on the wet side.<br \/>\nyou court civil war with this &#8220;slaughter solution&#8221; maneuver.\u00c2\u00a0 it is unwise in the extreme.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess he&#8217;s the one who will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/02\/different-primary-rules-in-wa\/\">voting that-away<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And&#8230; stock-piling his ammo and seeds for the coming Civil War incited by Jay Inslee and Nancy Pelosi, but not stopped by Doc Hastings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/ message --><!-- sig --><!-- \/ message --><!-- sig --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parting shot lobbed toward Dennis Kucinich. Rep. 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