Agents Provocateur w/Sweet Faces

Is it possible the congressional Democrats are mum on so much of BushCo crime because said Dems know the voting system is now assuredly and completely controlled by the Powers behind the Presidential Seal? That only politicians who behave will hold office?

I come to this after months of wondering about the rightwing political strife and slimes of Cynthia McKinney, her ousting which lasted barely 2 years (slightly longer than a fart in a whirlwind) and her subsequent re-election. Snap snap girlfriend!

In 2002 in Georgia the republicans figured that "In such an overwhelmingly Democratic district … they knew they could not defeat her in November with one of their own. As a result, they had to find a Democratic surrogate to defeat her in the primary." After 10 years in congress McKinney was defeated by Denise Majette-D. Then Majette, also Black and female, left the House to run for Senate in 2004. She lost, and McKinney won her seat back. (Ms. Majette was also a Black female Democrat, a nobody with no history and not mouthy.)

McKinney is considered a big critic of BushCo's war, and credited with "a couple of remarks that even progressives believed went too far, such as her claim that the Bush Administration may have known about the September 11 terrorist attacks beforehand. The media added to the fury by blowing these comments way out of proportion." That mainstream media, always blowing something or someone.

During McKinney's two year fall from grace (2002-2004) she lectured. Praised as "a woman who understands better than anyone the price to be paid when elected officials speak out against the vastly entrenched, politically enfranchised military industrial complex."

Whew. Enough to make a left leaning non-entrenched person sing she's a jolly good fellow and buy posterboard and paint pro-McKinney anti-vast rightwing conspiracy signs.

McKinney's dad generated more controversy : "Her father, Georgia state legislator Billy McKinney, shared his version with an Atlanta television reporter on August 19, 2002, the night before she lost. The reporter had asked Billy McKinney about his daughter's use of a years-old, moth-balled endorsement from former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young. Such endorsements were worthless, the elder McKinney replied, because "Jews have bought everybody. Jews." - In case the reporter didn't understand, he spelled the word: "J-E-W-S." (A few weeks later, in a runoff against another political neophyte, Billy McKinney became a former Georgia state legislator.)

Rightwing fallacy fellatio-er Daniel Pipes stated McKinney took contributions from all sorts of Islamic groups. I guess that makes her terroristically associated. Rightwing bloggers called her : a conspiracy nut, the Cutest Commie in Congress, the Saudi Whore of Georgia. As if Boy Bush doesn't hold hands and stroll like a pimp with his Saudi princes.

After being reseated, this past spring McKinney stated: "In 2004 I had to decide if I was going to run again. The temptation was to be ensconced in the private world amongst people that would agree with me, but I understand that systematic repression of black leaders by the establishment. For me to stay down and not get back up again is not in my nature, and despite my mother's advice I decided to get back into it. Now I can tell you what it is like to have the most powerful forces arrayed against you and still prevail even with electronic voting machines breaking down."

So I asked myself, how did such a radical woman, temporarily shunned by both sides of the aisle, prevail "even with electronic voting", and return to her congressional seat two years later? Two years. One would think her career was forever done, with an enormous conspiracy nut fork stuck in it. Thank goodness for those fickle voters. Apparently, that "overwhelmingly" district of Democrats flip-flopped. Tossing McKinney out when she spoke of BushCo foreknowledge, and voted her back even with e-voting machines.

Or did they? Or as Daddy McKinney stated did the "J-E-W-S" buy her seat back, after giving her a good scare in the realm of real employment where one is out of political favors? Was McKinney shown how easily a congressional seat can be giveth and taketh away? Is she just another congress critter paid to play Government, Inc.'s good cop, armed with the 9/11 "issues of substance" to satisfy the conspiracy folks? A lone voice in the Capitol Hill wilderness giving hope and sustenance to those who question? A career pot stirrer, a lonely political job but somebody has gotta do it.