I'm much crabbier than I was the last time he called -- this is the third scam telemarketing call I've gotten today, and my back hurts, and I keep thinking it might be my mom, who is sick, so each time I get up to answer the phone.
So again the same recorded spiel about Obamacare and how the GOP is valiently trying to muster enough support in the Senate to defeat it comes through the phone line. Again my plan was just to try to get Huckabee's book to find out exactly what he thinks is wrong with Obamacare.
So I press 1, and again a nice-sounding, young-sounding, not-very-intelligent-sounding woman is on the phone. Could it be the same one as last time? Maybe.
Again, I think "How long can the GOP keep this up? They used to actually have something to sell to the electorate. Back when they were the more fiscally responsible party, before jumping the 'deficits don't matter' shark, there were parts of the Republican platform that appealed to me. But now, all they offer is to the plutocracy, to the globalized corporatocracy. To get the vote of the actual regular guy, they have to lie. They have to sell that lie."