The Little Breath of Fresh Air

Folks,

If you have been following US politics, I have some good news for you. The Connecticut democratic primaries pitted Joe Lieberman, Vice Presidential candidate, political veteran, and all round douchebag against a complete political novice, Ned Lamont for the the democratic senatorial ticket in Connecticut. The voters rejected the incumbent Lieberman in favour of Lamont.

This is good news for two reasons. First of all, Lamont is a self made man who is a complete novice to Washington politics. American politics is desperately in need of some fresh air and the sooner they eject some of those pigs at the trough, the better the country will be. Their pork-laden, Tennessee whiskey-soaked flatulence is starting to not just stink up the country but the whole world.

Secondly, the incumbent, Lieberman was a pro-war, anti-gay, pro-corporate shithose who deserved to have his ass handed to him on a platter. He was what Americans call a DINO (Democrat in Name Only) and was a perpetual suck-up to the little prick in the White House. The voters in Connecticut rightly threw his disgusting ass in the street.

What this means for November? No one knows. It is still not time to celebrate as Lieberman has decided to run as an independent. He might just end up splitting votes that might have gone to Lamont and might even carry the state. Americans are notoriously fickle in elections and a simple, visible act of perceived valour or honour might be enough to convince Joe Sixpack to vote for this lizard in a bad suit.
What's more, Ned Lamont appears to be actually not the raving left wing communist that Liberman paints him out to be but actually a centrist and even slightly right wing candidate. So it appears that in America, the choices are between different flavours of bad.
But at least the results now have shown that maybe, just maybe the average John Q. Fucky is sick and tired of politicians who take their electorate for granted. Maybe this result will cause more and more democrats and republicans to start rethinking the relationship they have with their electorate. They may also want to start backing away from their Idiot King, George "The Deciderer" II.

Now if only New York did the same to to that corporate stooge, Hillary Clinton. Tasini seems to be a good candidate (pro-choice, pro-same sex marriages, anti-war) but can he run against the powerful Clinton war machine? We live in hope.