The Daily Sausage – Thursday Edition

The guardians of truth, Tagg Romney is a gigantic douche, it’s funny because we’re white, Romney to Bosses: tell your employees how to vote, George Washington and the Koch Brothers, and solving solar’s big problem.

Welcome to the Daily Sausage.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had the privilege of seeing a bunch of different sides of the GOP. Seriously, I’ve played games of Dungeons and Dragons with dice that have less sides than the GOP has right now. Never before has there been a political party so craven and shameless about being completely and utterly devoid of core principles, save to enrich their ultra-wealthy masters at all costs.

So, what we’ve been left with is the most dishonest Presidential campaign in American history, where one side has lied so fast and so much that even the guardians of truth have thrown up their hands and said “We give up.”

We have a Presidential candidate’s grown son saying he wanted to take a swing at the President of the United States because he (rightfully) called his dad a liar during a Presidential debate.

To that I say: go for it, you big fucking pussy.

As The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates notes, however, it’s only funny because he (and we) are white.

Flip the situation: if Sasha or Malia Obama said that they wanted to bitch slap Mitt Romney, how much would the Right freak out? Of course, the rest of us would think that’s awesome, but still.

For four years, I had to listen to my conservative friends talk about how liberals were “disrespecting the President” every time we derided George W. Bush as being woefully unprepared for the Presidency. Then, of course, as soon as there’s a liberal in the White House, those same friends turn the disrespect up to eleventy billion and unleash the most vile and foul wave of bullshit ever seen in the history of American politics.

Now we have Mitt Romney telling a group of conservative business owners to tell their employees how to vote. It’s bad enough that the GOP is engaging in widespread voter disenfranchisement; now they have their standard bearer telling their supports to basically threaten their workers with unemployment unless they vote Republican. That’s some bullshit right there.

America’s first President, George Washington, was revered as a legend because he was given the reigns of power, and could have become King George I of America, but he willingly handed power back to Congress and then People. When his country called on him to serve, he did so without hesitation and in the service of a grateful nation. George Washington was a wealthy man, and at any point during his public service he could have retired to his home at Mount Vernon and certainly made much, much more money than he did.

George Washington had so much influence over early America not just because he was rich, but also because when he was asked to serve he did.

Charles and David Koch have influence because they bought it.

They’re trying to re-found America along their own misguided Libertarian principles, and we can’t let them.

For solar energy, the main problem has always been the prohibitive upfront cost. Imagine if you had to pay for every tank of gas up front when you bought a car? No one could afford it. One company, SunRun, is leasing solar systems where the costs of the system are amortized over ten or twenty years, which reduces the cost per month to the point where it’s comparable to the electric grid.

That’s the kind of thinking that will make clean energy affordable and prevalent.

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