Dakota

Raspberries and Kudos

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I must admit all of us here at Dakota adore Nancy Pelosi. The thing we like best about her is that she voted against the invasion of Iraq. She doesn't seem to be in the service of the corporatocracy, but even if she is, she's a vast improvement.

As a clever, but forgotten (apologies), commentator reminded us last week. "She's one heartbeat and a steady electrical pulse away from the Presidency.". Mind you, this would also take care of the Hillary problem, since Nancy would be an incumbent in 2008.

When her microphone failed at a recent press conference, she asked reporters if she should wait for it to be fixed or just use her mother-of-five voice. What makes this hilarious is that she doesn't resemble anyone's mother you ever knew, unless you hung with the younger Vreelands.

We do not need to know what she wears, although we understand that she has to play the game -- just take a peak at Hillary and Laura. If you are monarch, you must drape yourself in ermine tails and tiaras, or your public will be disappointed . I do hope she leaves a few wrinkles and gets a white streak, so her youthfulness doesn't get androidy creepy like Goldie Hawn's .

FYI, we had to plunge deep into a google search to find anything about W.'s fashion labels. though, as far as I'm
concerned, he's the costume king.

But we trivialize, as is our tendency.

The more leftist, Paul Street of Znet woke us from our thrall. Our excitment was unexamined under the spell of the kind and beautiful Nancy, replacing the haggard Hastert. Street had some excelllent suggestions about what Nancy could be doing with her power -- this, excerpted from a larger piece entitled "Victory without Vision": Remember, Howard Dean did not play it safe and it turned out to be just what American people were craving.

THE LUNCH WE NEED

Now, here is how the lunch would go if the kind of American political rebellion this nation (and the world) needs had occurred. The next Speaker would arrive with at least four sharp steel knives – one for Bush, one for Dick Cheney, one for Darth Rove, and one for Rumsfeld (resignation is no reprieve).

She would ask the bubble president’s staff to provide live television footage of millions in American streets, including hundreds of thousands converging on the White House.

She would present Bush with a CD containing a petition containing 650,000 names calling for: his immediate resignation and that of Cheney; the installment of Pelosi as interim executive and the calling of an extraordinary new presidential election within three months; the immediate removal of U.S. military forces from Iraq and the setting up of an international peacekeeping force there; the development of a long-term plan for the payment of large-scale U.S. reparations to Iraq; and the rapid holding of a Constitutional Convention to pass a Democracy Amendment to institute the democratic restructuring of the U.S. electoral process.

It would be helpful if Pelosi could present Bush with a note of concurrence from top military officials and a mass petition from illegally deployed soldiers stationed in Iraq.

Bush, Cheney, Rumbo, and Rove would be told to choose between three options: (1) accept all of these conditions and voluntarily surrender to specially appointed federal authorities for corruption and war-crime trials conducted in cooperation with relevant international agencies; (2) immediate deportation of all of them and (if they wish) their loved ones (except Lynn Cheney, who will be kept for observation in a psychiatric clinic in an undisclosed location near the Mexican border) to Bush’s newly purchased estate in Paraguay (a nation accustomed to hosting war criminals), where they will be placed under internationally monitored house arrest supervised by the Organization of American States; (3) death by suicide, in the respectable Japanese tradition whereby failed tyrants admit and act on their shame through appropriate self-elimination.

Whichever option they choose, each of the deposed criminals will be required to make internationally televised apologies to the survivors of all people (American GIs and Iraqis alike) killed by “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

It's alot ot wish for.

A little jail time could have a positive effect on the distorted thinking of our administration. Jack Abramoff's seems to have found a certain humility, as evidenced by letter to his friends, written on incarceration eve. We have him to thank for behaving so outrageously that more of us had to wake up. Maybe he's coming along for the ride.

Maybe what Pelosi is planning will work too. Bizarre proof of her success reaching across party lines, is thatTom Delay publically supports her for Time Magazine's " Person of the Year". I hope this is positive.

We wish they would stop referring to her as a 66 year old grandmother. Would it be too disrespectful to say she's hot?

Photo note: Beautiful, succulent, fresh raspberries, perhaps a bit yellow.

Addendum: They're just jealous Glenn Greenwald watches them spin.

Posted by Dakota at November 16, 2006 06:16 AM