Jason Rodriguez - The Moose in the Closet: Script. Flipt.

Update: Postcards is being delivered by the end of this month. It's been KILLING me. So much to do. Don't even have time to write good stories. Soon. Soon.

I'm in NYC this weekend, if anyone's around shoot me an email.

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Last night, after my “Golden Age of Cities” class at the Smithsonian, I went to Mr. Days and put down six-pints, ate a good portion of a two-pound prime rib, and watched as the Dems flipped the House and, essentially, flipped the Senate. If this was 1990 and if I was still some young wannabe hood living in Brooklyn, I’d have said, “We flipped the script.”

It’s amazing to me how this election wasn’t about issues, really. I’m not even a “vote-the-party-line” type of Democrat but there was nothing Jim Moran or Jim Webb could have said that would have made me vote against them. Because, to me, and to everyone I know, this election was all about sending a message. To the Bush White House to let them know we’re not happy with the way the country’s going and, in my case at least, to the rest of the world, to let them know we’re not all warmongering, self-righteous politicos and oil-barons.

This isn’t going to change anything, obviously. I’m just looking forward to two years of nothing happening because everyone’s going at each others throats. No laws passed, nothing to veto, no new Supreme Court judges going to the bench. Just two years of exactly where we’re at right now. The Dems getting the House and the Senate was the only way to truly “Stay the Course”. There’ll be no new wars, no new amendments – no nothing. Two years of mediocrity and lowering the deficit. Enough time to regroup and come up with a new strategy for 2008.

USA! USA! USA!

Last night got me to thinking a bit about my own platform I’d run on in I ever ran for office. I’d start my own party called the “Free Will Party” or something except, secretly, I’d call it the “Tough Love Party.” Essentially, I’d run on a platform where we become more Republic than Democratic, drastically lower federal taxes, and only use federal money for our military and their supporting offices (DoD, intelligence agencies, etc), intrastate regulation and transportation, federal employees left over, etc – the real brick and mortar and defense stuff that the country needs.

What I’d stop putting federal money towards is welfare programs, research, etc – all of the social programs. I’ll leave that up to the states, along with all laws governing social practices. So taxes will likely remain the same, federal taxes will go down and state taxes will go up. But each state will have the right to handle issues like abortion, gay marriage, welfare, affirmative action – fuck it, even the separation of Church and State – however they see fit. If Alabama wants to make abortion a punishable offense, let them. If Kansas wants to make it so that homosexuals have to go to Jesus Camp, let them.

Essentially, we’ll give the people the right to choose the state that’s right for them. And, what’ll happen, as these backwards state start to fall apart, unable to muster a stable economy to pay for all of their out-of-work residents, the progressives will move to the New Yorks and Californias of this world, shifting the power base even more to these large, liberal states, getting us more electoral votes, and making America a more progressive country.

Tough love. A lot of folks in these red states don’t know what they’re asking for, exactly, when they’re asking for themselves to be distanced from our politics. So, we distance them from our politics and, at the same time, we cut off the money we’re sending to them. Everyone’s happy, at first, until these red states realize they can no longer put food on their table.

Vote for me.

Script. Flipt.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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