Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out!

[Tyler Durden]

The more I see, the more I believe that NOTHING will change the course of the nation, except a complete breakdown of the system. We continue to chug along like a 1976 Chevy Vega, belching burnt oil and shredding camshaft belts, and nobody seems to see that radical change is the only way.

"Withdrawal timetable dropped from war spending bill"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2855065&mesg_id=2855065

"Former Rove aide pleads the Fifth on White House contacts with convicted lobbyist Abramoff"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2855226&mesg_id=2855226

"Nine more US soldiers killed in Iraq (updated)"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2855877

"Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2855400&mesg_id=2855400

This could go on all day if I wanted.

Maybe this is the only way...Maybe the old wreck has to break down, catch fire and burn to scrap metal before it can change. It's always happened that way everywhere else, so maybe it has to become such a stench in the nostrils that the very common man him/herself rises in anger.

It seems that the only way to really change anything always comes down to storming the Bastille. It doesn't have to be this way, but no one in DC is listening.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Got my pitfork and flaming torch...ready to join the Bastille crowd,....

[Tyler Durden]

2. I forget how you used to word it, but here goes:

Come, let us toast our marshmallows and roast our hot dogs on the bonfire of the vanities.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Come, we go eat, sing, laugh.....

[Tyler Durden]

3. Guess I'm just too "cynical and depressing" for a Wednesday. N/T

[catmandu57]

4. The trouble is Tyler

That if I said what I'm feeling a couple of things would happen, well three, first my post would be deleted, then I'd be tombstoned, then the secret service would be kicking down my door and I'd never be heard from again.
That maybe what it takes though, just like old John Brown, a sacrafice to the gods of change.

[Tyler Durden]

8. You may rest assured that others feel the way you do as well.

I cannot be obscure enough to avoid prosecution, I fear.

[raccoon]

5. Just like in "I Claudius." Was it Claudius who said that?

I agree, no one in DC is listening.

[Tyler Durden]

7. Yep. Ol' Cla-Cla-Cla-Caudius.

Point of the novel is that Claudius wished to end the monarchy and restore the republic, and finally saw that it had to become the worst it could be before it would change.

[NotGivingUp]

9. system is broken. throw all the assholes out. nt

[Tyler Durden]

10. Throw anyone even remotely resembling an asshole out.

"We Can't do this or that." DO WHAT WE SAY, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS.