Ben Affleck's not that bad

Ben Affleck’s not that bad

Hear me out. I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher, and if you saw the last show before his hiatus, you saw Affleck get pissed at the Democrats for caving to Bush’s demands. I’m a Liberal first and a Democrat second and the Iraq spending bill is one of the reasons. Why the F@#k didn’t the Democrats just send back the same damn bill and play chicken with the President until he blinked. He only has a 33% approval rating! Who did the Democrats think they were going to piss off! Over 63% of the country actually say they DISAPPROVE of him. (if the numbers don’t add up to 100 it’s because I’m using average polling and around 2-5% of people actually have no opinion. NO OPINION! We’re living during an administration that makes Grant’s look like Camelot and you have NO OPINION! Ugh. Humans!)

The Democrats were elected because of the mishandling of the Iraq war (amongst many other things). They were elected so we’d finally have a check on his power. Rubber stamp days over! My ass! Ben’s point was that the Democrats are so scared of being called Pussies that they will do anything to avoid that. I agree! It takes courage to stand up to the bully and say, “No, you get out of the way.” The rule during the Clinton (Bill) campaign was “if you hit me, I’ll hit you back.” Apparently the rule for most Democrats is, “If you try to hit me, I’ll get out of your way.”

I remember watching the Democrats signing the bill and thinking how weak they looked. I know that’s not nice, but they did. They just looked frail. Then they proved me right when they backed down. It’s not like they didn’t know he was going to veto it. He was saying he was going to do that before they ever sent it to him. DID THEY THINK HE WAS KIDDING!? They had no back up plan? There was no huddle where they planned on what they were going to do when he sends the bill back, LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD!? Fuck! Eric Cartman said it best: “I hate you guys.”

So I agree with Ben Affleck… and Bill Maher, of course, in saying that the Democrats need to grow a pair.

The good is oft interred with their bones, so let it be

In all the articles about the death of Jerry Falwell most gloss over the fact he said: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"

Not to mention glossing over the numerous times he made anti-semitic comments (like God doesn't listen to the prayers of Jews or that the Anti-Christ is here and is "of course a Jew"). Granted he apologized the next day for the 9-11 comments (which, I guess makes it o.k., something like, "you see on that day I thought the ACLU & Lesbians were the reason God allowed terrorists to attack America. But since you don't agree with me, I'm sorry.") and all his other hateful comments. But that doesn't make it o.k. He was hateful and a bigot, and I'm sorry for his friends and family for their loss, but he was not a good person. He subverted the word of God for his own ideology (granted I'm an atheist but still) and he made it harder for true people of faith to be taken seriously. I guess I should be more angry at the religious people who aren't crazy for not standing up to people like Falwell and Robertson and taking back their religion. A religion whose basic tenet is love for all and judgement for no one, except by God.

As they said over at the Huffington post
Forgive me if I do not cry.