Lou Dobbs is an Idiot

What the fuck is Lou Dobbs' problem? Actually, that could take a while. My bigger question is how do idiots like this get their own column and are allowed to spout off their asinine thoughts on the air? Alterman, please answer me, damnit! Only he knows the truth...

So what about Dobbs is pissing me off right now? It's tough to say because he usually says something annoying (and that Martin fellow on CNN isn't much brighter- studying christian communication? What the fuck shit is that? You're an idiot too). I think what's pissing me off is some column of his posted on CNN the other day where he was bitching about the partisanship of the primary. Is he really surprised that there is partisanship going on in a partisan primary? Seriously? The political primaries BY THEIR FUCKING NATURE are partisan! Dobbs, please, go take a basic intro to American Government course at your local community college.

Primaries and caucuses are run by political parties and typically only involve members of a given party. Democrats talk to Democrats about who will run on the Democrat's ticket. Republicans talk to fellow knuckle-draggers and snake handlers about who will run on the evangelical ticket. And so on and so forth. You don't have to like it but you do have to be pretty stupid to argue that this process should be less partisan when it is designed that way. Until Dobbs understands why it's partisan, I don't give a shit about what his thoughts are on why it ought not be partisan.

Here's the bigger problem- and forgive me for spouting off again about a subject I'm sure I've discussed before. The bigger problem is that there is nothing wrong with partisanship. Crossing the aisle to get shit done, and trying to reach consensus across party lines is all well and good but the idea that we should all get along in politics is a fucked up way of saying we shouldn't have opinions. I'd rather there was more partisanship. I want to see the Democrats go head to head with Republicans on the issues, take over the House and Senate, tell the Republicans and Lieberman to go fuck themselves (which is pretty much with the Republicans were doing when they were in control) and steamroll some serious fucking legislation through that damn place. I want to see Democrats take over the place and start investigating all the illegal shit done by the Republicans (and a few Dems, I admit). I want to see rhetorical gladiator matches on the Senate floor. I want to see Sen. Stevens of Alaska be told he's an old fart, jackass, with shit for brains and that there is no fucking way he is getting what he wants if he keeps stamping his feet like a big fucking baby. I want real debate and I want real insults, damnit!

It's great to listen to opinions- necessary, in fact- but bi-partisan basically means nothing gets done, no real change occurs, and we end up with watered down BS legislation. It takes partisanship to get people to yell their opinions about shit back and forth and it takes people disagreeing and trying to outsmart and outwit the other side to get anywhere on the issues and get substantive debate going. Real debate requires people who don't agree who are smart enough to try and explain their views to those who don't agree with them (minor snag there, I guess, because there aren't a lot of well informed, intelligent politicians. But I can dream, can't I?). And then if you win the debate in an election, fuck the other side, put your ideas into legislation. Do you think the Labour Party in Britain gives a rat's ass what the Tories think when they propose, oh say, legislation on renewable energy? No, they don't give a shit. When the Tories get elected then they can jolly well go fucking do what they please. Until then they can sulk, whine, and tell people what they'd do if they were elected.

So Lou Dobbs, you are now on my shit list for being a moron.

That's politics people.