Making Nice
For the Democrats, the second verse, same as the first

by Alan Bisbort
Hartford Advocate
September 25, 2003

Making nice is back in vogue in the federal government. It started in November 2000 when a collective shrug greeted the news that the ballots of thousands of black voters were stolen -- Hell, some black voters weren't even allowed access to the polling stations in order to get their ballots stolen! -- and, echoing DuBois, "representatives of stolen votes still sit in the nation's capital." To rub salt in the lash-wounds, the architect of the 2000 theft, Katherine Harris, "won" a Congressional seat in 2002.

Making nice within the ranks of the federal government actually began before the election, when Joe Lieberman set the paternal tone in the vice presidential debate. While Gore huffed and puffed with solemn rectitude in his debates with the goofy, almost surreally unqualified Texas governor, Gentleman Joe played patty-cake with Dick Cheney, arguably the single most corrupt and cynical man in American politics. Cheney, in turn, buttered Lieberman up, as if to tell Americans: "Why can't all Democrats be as humble and nice as this little one here?" I would not have been surprised if Cheney had reached over and patted Lieberman's head.

The making nice approached orgy stage once the Supreme Court inserted Bush/Cheney, not unlike a suppository up our democracy's rectum, in January 2001. It was embodied by "moderate" southern Democrats like Sens. John Breaux and Zell Miller who didn't let the ink dry on the coup before they were tonguing Bush's earlobe. They were followed closely by Tom Daschle in the Senate and Dick Gephardt in the House, alleged to be the leaders of their Party, holding open the doors of their respective chambers and, like flight attendants, saying, "If there's anything we can get for you, don't hesitate to ask."

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been abused enough. I will not shake the hand or pat the back of someone bent on looting my treasury, poisoning my environment, killing my children in wars over oil and destroying my Bill of Rights.

Stripped of its verbose subterfuge and in its naked nastiness, this, then, is the new American creed.

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Amen, brother! You can say that again!!