I have no patience or time to coddle anymore

[veronica_rich]

Oh, Missouri.

Why did I know before I clicked on this that it was going to be a Republican? Seriously, if you aren't a millionaire and are still voting GOP, I have to conclude you have brain trauma. Get medical help. Soon.

I came home after a long, hard day of slogging through yet more moving stuff to the new place - which included pushing Big Furniture up stairs - and stepped on a hallway carpet absolutely soaked through. The rugs in the bathroom were soaked; even the carpet in the living room on the other side of the wall was soaked. Yet, the toilet was not overflowing. There wasn't any standing water in the floor (oh no, because the carpets AND THE NINE DRY ROLLS OF TOILET PAPER IN THE BATHROOM HAD SOAKED IT ALL UP). I don't know if this is my bathroom or the guy upstairs overflowed something; more importantly,

I.

DO.

NOT.

CARE.

I am scheduled to move the big stuff and rest of my stuff out of here in two weeks. I CANNOT leave this pit soon enough. Seriously. I am so over paying the amount of rent I pay to live in the middle of fucking nowhere in this size apartment, and the maintenance to be as bad as it is. (This is the same place that a few months ago, told me my stovetop was in perfect working order after I'd reported twice that one burner wasn't heating at all anymore. You know, because I can't tell when something ISN'T FUCKING HOT.) *sigh*

OK, maybe I shouldn't insult all Republicans. But the loud ones representing you these days make it SO easy. John Edwards looks like the first choir of angels compared to some of the horseshit I've seen coming out of GOP legislators and governors across the country for the past three months.

Comments

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

I totally hear you on the not caring about the apartment anymore. I felt the same way the entire last month we lived in ours, or rather I lived in ours. Still looking majorly forward to the new one. Three more months, I can hold on for three more months.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

The other places I've lived in, I never regarded this way. This is the first place I've left partly for dissatisfaction and not a new job. I HATE moving.

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

I don't care for packing things up myself, but I like unpacking and putting stuff away in a new place, go figure...

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

That part isn't bad. I like when it's all put away the best. ;-)

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

I used to like the unpacking, but this time when we moved, there were issues and we still haven't unpacked about 1/2 our stuff more than 3 years later.

[metalkatt.livejournal.com]

Gag. I'm sorry I wasn't more responsive when you texted--I was quite literally passing out.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I needed the sleep, apparently. I'm just glad I thought to pack and take my shoes yesterday from the closet that abuts the bathroom.

AND all my quilts and blankets from the carpeted floor of the abutting linen closet too!

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

Is this some sort of vast right wing conspiracy to get Obama reelected? Or am I just being punked?

Sheesh. And Newt Gingrich is back. I don't want ANYBODY to tell me that he would be a better president than Obama because of his family values. Blech!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

While it's classless to sneak around on your wife who has cancer, I don't really know the word for presenting her with divorce papers in the hospital. See, a move like that would have FINISHED a Democrat; why is anyone even humoring this human stain anymore?

There really is no limit to Republican depravity/hubris, is there?

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

The icon was once a joke, based on a line in an internal Canadian Party memo that got leaked. Now, I'm not so sure it isn't indicative of just how low Republican state Govs & Senators have sunk.

Bad enough Walker's cronies probably-illegally rammed through their "nonfiscal" union-busting bill after the Capital was declared closed here in Wisconsin.

But now Missouri's Senator Cunningham wants to eliminate child labor laws?!?

I'm beginning to think pir8fancier is right, and the Repubs are handing Obama the election in 2012. If the Public's memory lasts that long in states that aren't engaged in open political warfare for the next 20 months.

Re: There really is no limit to Republican depravity/hubris, is there?

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Maybe Barry has them all under some grand form of mind control, and it's really not a Republican war on the middle and lower classes? Although if it works THAT well, I'd think it'd just be easier to directly brainwash the voters that he's wonderful and awesome. Maybe the device only works on a limited number of people, though. ;-)

You know what this reminds me of, is old-time fundraising efforts through Yahoo Groups mailing lists; everybody reads the same e-mail giving them directions for something (in our case it was usually "this year we're donating to XXX charity on behalf of our group") and it looks like a unified effort. Perhaps there's some secret Yahoo Group for Republicans/Teabaggers in high positions, and they get weekly notifications from the Koch brothers on what to do in various states ("Georgia contingent: Try to push through something making miscarriages the fault of the woman, and punishable" - oh, how I wish I was making that one up)?

If the local city council had done what Walker and the Repubs did at my first paper, my editor wold've not only had an apoplectic fit, he would've made sure everybody else in town did, too. (Actually, this did happen a couple of times - and the council was forced to recall the vote each time.)

[bonnie-halfelvn.livejournal.com]

Another valiant effort to balance the budget and all that other important stuff the Republicans have pledged to do. o_O

I love the circus.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

"Another valiant effort to balance the budget deliver cheap labor to their corporate overlords, through more unskilled peasants and an uneducated populace, and all that other important stuff the Republicans have pledged to the Koch brothers those Communist moneymakers to do."

There. Fixed that for you. ;-)

(Fail for bad HTMLing. See, the uneducation begins already! LOL)

[solitaryraven.livejournal.com]

Don't forget, though, at the heart of all of this Republican legislation is a focus on the economy and job creation. (yeah right)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Let's not forget that. I mean, this IS the same party that says the federal government should leave the states and businesses and individuals alone to do their own thing, yet advocates not only for a strongly financed central military (to protect what, I wonder? They want a collection of city-states or less, not a nation, heaven forbid), but laws to limit individuals' rights to address their own bodies' medical needs or marry any adult they please. So naturally, their views on economy make about as much sense.

[solitaryraven.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I might be able to take them seriously if they didn't preach small government, personal responsibility, and personal freedoms in one breath, and then turn around and say that people shouldn't be allowed to love who they wish and share that love, that women aren't smart or moral enough to make the right choices about their bodies, and that the government should be so small that it fits inside our bedrooms and uteruses (uteri?) but not inside these huge corporations that exploit the rest of the country.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

As I told someone else somewhere else, to be fair, the ones at the top with the money would probably like to find a way to keep most men down and out of competition's way (and free or cheap labor) too. It's just that by controlling reproductive choices, they've got an easy way to keep women impoverished and the worker replacement rate high - if they could figure out something to do to men that wouldn't also legally apply to them, I'm sure it'd be enacted (or tried).