Man! Dude! Session #163

(M)an: Dude! Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has invested all his energy to widening his political control over the most populous Arab country right now.   

(D)ude: Man! What do you think went awry? Are American legislatures responsible for the parallel corruption happening here and in Egypt?

M: Dude! The Arab Spring flourished when the Democrats controlled the House and the Senate and President Obama was newly-elected and brilliantly going about the issues of the day by saving the American automobile industry and an exhaustive list of to-do items. But when the 2010 midterms came around, and people had become accustomed to expecting veracity and forthrightness that the Obama Administration demonstrated in its handling of progressive reforms like healthcare coverage for all Americans regardless of socioeconomic constraints on individuals like us.

D: Man! The 2010 Tea Party influx within the Republican GOP was nothing new?

M: Dude! No! Far from new, the influx was mounting to what it is today since the times of Ronald Reagan and that presidency’s obstructionist rewrites of everything pertaining to equal opportunity, like terming affirmative action as reverse discrimination.

D: Man! That’s the mentality that got us here in the dungeons of the draconian world of conservative cheats! President Obama, popularly reelected by an indefatigable electorate who withstood the obstacles set before them to cast their ballots , and angry protesters standing up for Texas women by taking a stand alongside their official spokesperson and elected official Wendy Davis.  

M: Dude! First, you’ve got President Morsi and the Obstructionist Congressional Republicans wanting no more than to continue fighting for political control with total disregard for the economic issues needing to be addressed. Second, you’ve got jobs crises in both countries due to Morsi and Congressional Republicans not wanting to address such an issue for fear of reducing their chances to line their pockets with an endless cash flow from international unrest and eventual chaos.

D: Man! If Governor Rick Perry and the Texas GOP follow in the sneaky footsteps of other Republican Party-run state legislatures that have resorted to passing legislation at odd hours of the night for fear of social protests and have the nerve to address voters as troublemaking anarchists, I consider that concrete evidence that the Republican Party has moved to yet another level of corruption only seen in places like the ones where Kentuckian Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell manage to visit or disregard entirely.

M: Dude! It’s time to get out our orange tees and head out to Austin for the July 9^th Texas Senate special legislative session. I’m concerned about the committee meeting being held today. Have you heard anything yet about what happened with regards to that quote unquote committee meeting?

D: Man! I think the House Committee passed the abortion bill around midnight.

M: Dude! What? No!

D: Man! That’s what a lot of the news sources are reporting online, of course!

M: Dude! The national and local media did not televise Texas State Senator Wendy Davis’s 11-hour filibuster. Yet, thanks to streaming video on the Internet, hundreds and thousands of people across the United States tuned in nevertheless.

D: Man! Doesn’t CSPAN cover everything as a nonpartisan channel?

M: Dude! Nonpartisan is antiquated! It used to roam the earth with bipedal parrot dinosaurs!  

D: Man! You mean to say that nonpartisanship never existed amongst humanity?

M: Dude! Yes, creationists and ecologists only agree to that extent, rather reprehensibly too.

D: Man! To be on the same side as Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush would be reprehensible. And to add to the fury, Governor Rick Perry’s denouncing and demeaning Wendy Davis’s life’s circumstances is just outright revolting.

M: Dude! Have you ever seen Governor Rick Perry in public?

D: Man! The guy made a pass at my great-grandmother once upon a time. Governor Rick Perry probably could violate any woman with his sleazy eyes! My great-grandmother felt so sick to her stomach that day that she had to return home and confess Rick Perry’s sins to a neighboring Catholic priest! 

M: Dude! You’re great-grandmother was compassionate and ecumenical. I admired her.

D: Man! The Republican GOP wants to end preventative universal healthcare and yet they furiously insist on defending the life of an unborn child?

M: Dude! It is preventative universal healthcare for all Americans under the Health Care Affordability Act! But I think the 40 million plus Americans functioning without healthcare will find strength with structure.

D: Man! These Republican lawmakers ought to study the hard statistics about motherhood and criminality because sexual violence- specifically rape- still goes unreported 75 to 95 percent of the time.

M: Dude! Rape crisis centers will be unable to discuss the possibility of pregnancy when counseling victims of sexual violence. Reminds me of the stories coming out of the protests happening in Egypt about women being sexually assaulted and violated repeatedly due to the mob scenes outside.

D: Man! There is a methodical end to democracy in the United States taking place here that needs to be addressed before our sisters and mothers and wives are subjected to the horrors of black market reproductive services in wake of the closing down of Planned Parenthood Clinics throughout Texas and the United States beginning this year.

M: Dude! We have to vote these GOP bipedal parrot dinosaurs out of office ASAP!