I think we vote for people who are pissed off.

I think we admire that passion and don’t give a shit what it’s being passionate about.

I mean, us Americans, not you few elite that read this.

Democrats routed the Republicans in 1974 because they were pissed off.  Reagan routed the Democrats because fiscal conservatives finally got pissed off and Newt Gingrich was the most pissed off of all. 

I think that’s what Republicans don’t get this time.

We’re pissed about $3/gal gas and we’re pissed because we expect a Congressperson to know that chasing a teenager sexually is just indecent and outrageous, no matter what laws are involved.  We’re pissed that the poor don’t pay tax and now the rich don’t pay tax and i pay a shot in the jaw and then the state grabs theirs and then the school district and the banks get all the rest in interest because I have to borrow against my equity in my house to get braces for the youngest and put the oldest in college.  And where the hell are my health and retirement benefits?  The Dow is up to 12,000 and I’m up to my chin.  Something’s wrong and I’m pissed.  And if my situation is bad and they are so damn smart, why isn’t the budget balanced?  We know it can be done.  Clinton did it with a GOP Congress and Bush can’t?  Bullshit.  I’m pissed. 

We’re pissed about Iraq.  We were thinking something more along the lines of a class act that made us look good and what we got was excrement thrown in our faces while we slog through an endless quagmire.  Not what we had in mind at all.

I’m personally pissed about Katrina and my son’s eviction as a refugee from this government’s incompetence.

We’re pissed that you, Mr. President, keep asking for more power to fight terrorists and you don’t seem to know what to do with the power you already have.  Neither does your Secretary of Defense.  We’re spending billions in no bid contracts in Iraq and nobody asks but one question:  what’s my end?  Duke Cunningham goes to jail, but he’s not even a very big crook at a mere $2.4 million in bribes (a record, so they say). 

I think we’re pissed because they’re so fucking smug.

What would Jesus Do?  He’d throw the bums out of the Temple, and he’d use a thong of leather to whip their ass out the door.