Man! Dude! Session #209

(M)an: Dude! What are you reading?

(D)ude: Man! Initially, I was in that anticipatory mode for something substantial like War and Peace, but settled for anything practical that would keep my mind from Dr. Seuss and Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s blatant lies like having been served green eggs and ham by his father while growing up either in Canada as he probably did, or wherever.

M: Dude! Andrea Mitchell interviewed former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and Hutchinson began to rework those straight-faced untruths about the Affordability Care Act leading to the “diminishing of care” and “lack of protection” in the marketplace approach that the healthcare law has embraced to allow for the conservative principles of competition and choice to kick in to make the process of universal coverage in the United States not just survive, but to expand and improve as well.

D: Man! Former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson is just as arrogantly certain of a Republican GOP takeover of both houses of congress in the 2014 midterms as John Boehner who too is just wanting to sit and wait for the aftermath of the Shelby County Supreme Court decision to take effect, clearly confident that additional gerrymandering and voter suppression allowances will result in corporate America’s selfish and undemocratic autocratic system of governance.

M: Dude! The Supreme Court of the United States never handed down the decrees of Citizens United and Shelby County when Reagan and Clinton were in office. Therefore, President Obama needs to enforce Constitutional Amendment 14, specifically section 4 which states, “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

D: Man! When did gerrymandering spin out of control?

M: Dude! It originates in the time of James Madison and Patrick Henry, circa 1788, when the later redrew Virginia’s 5^th district to keep the former from entering into the U.S. House of Representatives. So, to redraw a district in the name of public good and equal representation amongst all groups of American constituents is mere mythology. There was, however an attempt after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to implement “affirmative gerrymandering” in which attempts to reduce racial and ethnic minority groups’ political influence were rendered legitimate corruption.

D: Man! The districts that have resulted from gerrymandering are called gerrymanders, are they not? Then, why are we so insistent upon calling redistricted outcomes districts and not gerrymanders?

M: Dude! In 2010, the Tea Party Republicans infiltrated the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson knowingly supported her successor Ted Cruz for the office she vacated back then. She can, therefore, huff and puff her way out of confrontation for her then hardy support for Ted Cruz for Senate campaign, but without her sharing the blame for the way the GOP brand has dissipated and dilapidated as a result.  

D: Man! What is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie doing with Cory Booker for Senate Campaign?

M: Dude! Governor Chris Christie’s up for reelection this November 2013 and Cory Booker is running as the Democratic candidate for Senator from New Jersey, get it?

D: Man! Yeah! Chris Christie is riding the coattails of the Democratic Party in order to secure the hearts of New Jersey voters who are overwhelmingly Democrat in their political preferences. Otherwise, Chris Christie is certain he will lose in the gubernatorial race.

M: Dude! That’s how the Tea Party operates, and probably a reason for their choosing a rattlesnake coiled in the grass with its tongue out in front of a bright tangy yellow flag. 

D: Man! So you got Kay Bailey Hutchinson promoting Ted Cruz in the underground while, aboveground, you have Chris Christie mockingly befriending Cory Booker because Booker is Democratic and Chris Christie needs to appear all-around compelling, despite the insipid and angry spiel he gave at last year’s RNC in which he reproached Ann Romney’s call for love and whatever else?

M: Dude! That’s pretty much it! These Tea Partiers have a great ability to shed their snakeskins as often as needed and camouflage in the rugged wilderness of American white flight communities or the uptown, gated communities that are similarly exclusive.

D: Man! George Will wrote this week in the Washington Post, quote unquote Republicans should vote, more in sorrow than in anger, to fund the government (at sequester levels, a significant victory… Sounds to me like the Republican GOP and Tea Partiers are having social mixes with likeminded delinquents from all corners of Nephelokokkygia.

M: Dude! Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said it best in an interview with Andrea Mitchell, that the consensus now is a game changer as well and that peace talks are far more demonstrative of American principles than air strikes and any militaristic involvement by U.S. And there is, as Nasser Judeh, emphasized, an equal interest in region security.   

D: Man! Wasn’t Nasser Judeh who related the hard work of Secretary John Kerry as being encouraging?

M: Dude! Yes, Nasser Judeh actually felt close to the finish with the “laser beam” efforts and concentration in the peace talks this week in New York City by Secretary Kerry.

D: Man! This week in New York City, we also had that discussion between Presidents Clinton and Obama!

M: Dude! The high-level meetings of the 68^th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations began this past Monday, the 23^rd of September, and will conclude on Tuesday, the 8^th of October!