ready for the october surprise?

This weekend I registered two more bets for the beginning of the Iran War: William Krystol was opining that GOP politics would force the bombing to begin after the election, and on Sunday Salon, while talking about the black-box voting debacle, Mark Crispin Miller predicted the October Surprise to solidify the "fear vote" would be an attack on Iran.

Recently, everyone from Pat Buchanan to Frontline have painted the current Bush War, on both the Afganistani and Iraqi fronts as a complete quagmire... a Viet-raq, due to completely ideological wrong-headedness on the part of your own American political class.

I'm glad they're all agreeing with me after all of these years. Too bad the Richie Rich guys in Washington D.C. never listen to sensible midwestern populist progressive American housewives.

Too bad we spent all that blood and treasury.
And too bad they can't stanch the flow.
Too bad my fellow American voters are so stupid.



How about a few appropriate poems from Vachel Lindsay...

The Leaden-eyed

Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.

Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.
I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute _ he pets his fancies _
Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.
So he will be, tho' law be clear as crystal,
Tho' all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,
Crying to God in all the polling places
To heal our everlasting sinfulness
And make us sages with transfigured faces.