Fortunate Sons

Max Blumenthal does it again with his video Generation Chickenhawk, visiting the bathshit crazy College Republican convention and asking them why they aren't serving in this war they so passionately and fervently support. "I'm more career oriented than actually serving," is my favorite excuse. Because we all know that going to Iraq and putting a target on your back isn't a career move, so there's no point in doing it, right?

This video also features the now-iconic statement by Tom DeLay that if it weren't for the 40 million children killed by abortion over the past 30 years, we wouldn't need illegal immigrants. Right, tell that to your corporate buds who don't want to pay a fair wage for labor, ask them if they'd willingly stop importing people with no rights and no recourse to do the jobs they don't want Americans to do.

And who's the guy who goes on about how "everybody has had an inclination toward members of the same sex?" Is he just dying to come out or what?

These are the future leaders of the Republican Party, by the way. Unbelievable.

Flipper The Anti-Romney Dolphin

This is a great video from CPAC, featuring Max Blumenthal from The Nation. This is also the opposite of what I expect out of The Nation, and it's great to see them breaking with their staid past. My favorite part is the "incredibly pale black Republican."



The CPAC conference seems to me to be a group of people flailing about and desperately trying to stay relevant. They've got all their anti-Rudy McRomney stickers but in their heart they seem to know that one of these guys will be the nominee: Romney and Giuliani finished 1-2 in their straw poll. Their movement is dying on the vine thanks to a failed President showing what conservatism really means: an imperial foreign policy, a disrespect and disregard for the functions of government, cronyism and multiple giveaways to big business. They know that the public is against them and their policies, so they're resigned to saying no to everything for two years in Congress, despite the American people's desire to see things get done. The conservative movement succeeded in pulling the wool over everyone's eyes for a while, but it's been exposed now, and these convention-goers don't seem to know what to do about that.