Jim Seif Gets "Immigrant Cow Milkers Award" From Media

Anyone doubting the Republican Old Guard's ability to self-destruct should study the decline of both Jim Seif and the Scranton campaign. Earlier I said that his campaign was going nowhere, and that I preferred Tim Potts to him for Lieutenant Governor on the Stilp ticket. I feel completely vindicated now in that judgment.

Where do these guys come up with these dumb phrases? Perzel's "immigrant cow milker" contributed mightily to the legislature's repeal of the pay raise. Now Seif and Scranton are getting the immigrant cow milker treatment from the media all over again.

Let's get it right fellows. Standing up for the plutocrats is considered very respectable by the media, since we own the media. But showing bigotry towards blacks or immigrants is clearly a no-no, since a few of them are plutocrats themselves.

Jim Panyard has it right (and, of course, far right) . Just don't refer to anyone's race in the course of political debate. Let's get down to the real issue of how to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and leave anything that looks like bigotry out of it. Plutocracy united will never be defeated!

"THE CAD" Favors Stilp/Potts Bipartisan Write-In Campaigns

So far, neither Stilp nor Potts has yet declared his candidacy for office this year. A leader of efforts on their behalf, H. Thurston Cadwalader, VII--known as "THE CAD" to his friends--thinks this "brilliant political strategy." Cadwalader has recently formed Plutocrats Organized On Pay, or P.O.O.R. for short.

He points to the "sinking" campaigns of Ed Rendell, Rick Santorum, and retiring members of the Pennsylvania legislature. "The people are tired of voting for candidates for office who want to serve in office. What they want are reluctant candidates who don't really want to serve in office."

Says THE CAD, "The best strategy for the Stilp/Potts forces is to wait until after the filing date for both political parties and then run a massive write-in campaign for Stilp/Potts for Governor and Lieutenant Governor for both the Democratic and Republican nominations. After they win both party nominations this way, they will be be absolutely unbeatable in November.

"Stilp and Potts should never announce their candidacies or campaign. But there should be a media saturation campaign like the public has never been seen before. There should be a $10 million dollar MINIMUM contribution for contributors. We should be able to raise about $250 million for this and blow all the other candidates out the water. It will be an example of campaign finance reform at its finest.

"Further, this strategy has a built in PLAN B. If Stilp/Potts fails to win either party nomination by some travesty of justice, they they will be able to get on the ballot as an independent team in the fall."

I like the boldness of this approach. THE CAD expresses full confidence that raising $250 million in units of at least $10 million would be "a piece of cake." If this strategy works, it will revolutionize American politics.

My sole hesitation is that it is a rather expensive strategy. The legislative pay raise costs the average citizen about twenty cents a person. Of course, it costs us plutocrats a lot more--especially in the psychic damage of knowing that state legislators value their own work, which we know is totally worthless--but could think of other things I would rather do with $10 million of my annual earnings, even if it is only a small part of them.

In any case, THE CAD's plan deserves the attention of the blogosphere. When I asked THE CAD about his anticipated public reaction, he said, "They'll ignore it and they'll laugh at it. Only after we pull it off will they take it seriously, and then it will be too late to stop it. The great thing about being a plutocrat is that you don't have to get the public's permission."

What about the permission of Stilp and Potts, I asked. "We don't need their permission either," he said. "We're going to make them Governor and Lieutenant Governor whether they want those positions or not."

Amen to that I say. And if others are willing to put up at least $10 million, so will I. Plutocracy united will never be defeated.

RUSS DIAMOND FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

While my heroes Gene Stilp--never forget that he's the greatest--and Tim Potts are giving whatever degreee of consideration they think is warranted to my earnest plea for them to run for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Russ Diamond appears already off and running to be Speaker of the House. In past years, John Perzel and Bill DeWeese have each filed roughly 150 candidates for the 203 House seats, and this year Diamond may come up with a similar number.

This is the first blog to say it outright, but I think it is clear that Diamond already is a candidate for Speaker of the House. Further, I applaud this development. Whatever microscopic liberal remnants of the past of Stilp and Potts remain will be squelched by Speaker Diamond. And, if we are stuck with Fast Eddie again despite our best efforts, Speaker Diamond will be the man who sends him back to Philadelphia earlier than the expiration of his term.

Remember the famous speech of the Rev. Russell Conwell, the founder of Temple University, when he talked of "Acres of Diamonds?" The point was that no matter how far you went around the world, the really valuable things were in your own backyard. That is the theme that Operation Clean Sweep has been assiduously pursuing with great success so far.

No one in modern times has been a candidate for Speaker of the House in first term. But no one in modern times has organized a bipartisan insurgent slate in many districts either. Russ Diamond is off and running to succeed John Perzel in 2007, and it is way past time to give him credit for that fact.

It is not about reforming government. It's about abolishing government wherever possible. It's about freeing people from taxation, whether it's a mother on welfare or a corporate CEO. It's about getting government out of the way of people making as much money as possible, whether it's a janitor or an owner of many corporations. We just have to get government out of the way of those of us with private power. Plutocracy united will never be defeated!

POTTS FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

The movement to draft Gene Stilp for Governor is still not completed. Perhaps it is required that we fill out the slate with a nominee for Lieutenant Governor. This is one tough conundrum.

Bill Scranton deserves consideration. He is certainly a plutocrat himself, and his campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor is going nowhere fast. His brother in Kansas is a Democrat, and he himself aided the Natural Law Party candidate for President. So he is well-positioned either to switch to the Democratic Party or run as a third party candidate or run for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor depending on how Stilp chooses to run for Governor.

The question is whether or not we need a plutocrat in the Lieutenant Governor's mansion near the National Guard headquarters. It is a better house than the Governor gets to live in, but it is far out of Harrisburg. On both counts--being far out and living well--Scranton certainly qualifies to be Stilp's runningmate if only Stilp would choose him.

On the key issue of the pay raise, Scranton deserves credit for predicting in late September, 2005 that the pay raise would be repealed based on what he was hearing around the state. But he was otherwise not too visible on this issue.

My sense is that it is not necessary to have a plutocrat as lieutenant governor for plutocrats to control the office. Stilp is not (yet) a plutocrat, although I have high hopes for him and the pink pig business. I can visualize pink pigs all over the world, with millions a day flowing into the Stilp coffers. Stilp is coyly playing for time, incorporating his group to perhaps lay the foundation for a business empire, but not yet committing to having one.

While Scranton would certainly be acceptable as Stilp's choice to me, my first choice--somewhat reluctantly--would be Tim Potts. I am a little leary of Potts because of his half-baked educational schemes as a lobbyist to put more money in poor school districts, but I feel his days in this area are pretty much over, even though he is now on the Carlisle school board. He has seen the narrowness of his views, and is working closely with Russ Diamond and the Commonwealth foundation. Despite major differences with his abysmal education policies, he seems to be a man we plutocrats can trust.

Potts is a man of great tactical brilliance. Did you see how he got the most liberal Supreme Court justice kicked off the court? And did it on the cheap, saving us plutocrats a lot of money which can be used for life's greater pleasures. For his leading role in dumping Russ Nigro--the number one scalp of 2005--I think Potts deserves to be Stilp's running mate.

Some would say that won't work because Potts outranked Stilp when both worked for the House of Representatives. But I say that's nonsense. Stilp was attacking pay raises when Potts, alas, was defending them. Stilp is clearly number one in the anti-pay raise arena, and I think Potts is man enough to admit that. A Stilp-Potts ticket would combine both strategical brilliance (Stilp) and tactical brilliance (Potts). With all the money we plutocrats could put in, we could easily buy the election for our dear friends, comrades in arms, and puppets.

As anyone who reads the PaCleanSweep message board regularly knows, the anti-pay raise hysteria that our guys brilliantly orchestrated was only the opening wedge in our ruthless assault on the existence of government and middle class living standards. We are against any pay for legislators and government officials at all--unless we feel we own them. What we want is a weak, ineffective public sector whose employees can be disposed of like toilet paper. And middle class standards of living are just too expensive for us to maintain--whether for state legislators or anyone else.

What we need is a race to the bottom: to ever lower wages and benefits for all. If there is one person who doesn't have a pension, then no one should have a pension. If there is one person who doesn't have health care, then no one should have health care. If there is one person who is poor, the every wage earner should be poor. We plutocrats believe in fairness for all.

Plutocracy united will never be defeated! Stilp-Potts in 2006 is the fix we need to stamp out the cost of government. It's not about reducing the cost of government. It is about eliminating government and governmental meddling in our lives. We plutocrats have a lot of power now; what we want is ALL POWER. Having the wealthy rule is the TRUE public interest, as just about every editorial board in Pennsylvania knows.

DRAFT STILP

So far, Gene Stilp is not running for anything. We plutocrats--proud of his outstanding leadership in driving middle class people out of the legislature with over a dozen retirements so far and more coming--cannot allow this sad state of affairs to continue.

We believe that Pennsylvania strongly needs Gene Stilp and should pay him at least $1 million per year to be our governor. If you agree with us, please let him know. It's way past time for him to decide to run for Governor. Pennsylvania cannot afford to be middled by the middle class any longer.

There already is a Draft Diamond movement. It's way past time to set up a similar effort for Stilp. Plutocracy united will never be defeated!