The mission of GOOOH appears to be focused on the House of Representatives alone. It’s unclear why they aren’t addressing the Senate or even state legislatures and governorships. The House is their goal. Okay. So, what do they want? From the website:
GOOOH stands for 'Get Out of Our House' and is pronounced like the word 'go'. It is a NON-PARTISAN plan to evict the 435 career politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and replace them with everyday Americans just like you.
First of all, it’s not pronounced like the word “go” (see image caption above). Second of all, it appears they want to replace the politicians in Washington D.C. with themselves, thereby becoming politicians as well.
It’s the classic conundrum of populist groups like this. They run on the best of intentions, with the best sentiments to stir the nearly universal animosity against politicians of any stripe. Yet, like the Republicans who decry big government so long as it’s not THEIR big government, GOOOH just wants to replace one kind of politician with another.
The GOOOH party (and yes, the jokes and puns surrounding the pronunciation of their name will be even better than the teabaggers) faces two fundamental problems:
- 1. They think governance and leadership is a job anyone can do. It’s a promotion of “Joe Sixpack” mentality, basically.
- 2. They are promoting the same idea of “us” and “them” populism already tried by others, including Ron Paul, the teabaggers, and even the GOP in every election where they are the minority.
First of all, do I think one of my neighbors from down the street is qualified to be a Representative in the Congress? Hell no. Doubly so for those “neighbors” I have never heard of and know nothing about. This isn’t about the evil you know versus the evil you don’t. This is simply about what I view as the quality of the kind of people who fall for shit like this: starry eyed populists who think “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” was a documentary and not a schmaltzy, pandering, feel good crapfest.
Secondly, and this is the most important, their promotion of such tired populist favorites as “us” versus “them” is a basic admission of no accountability or personal responsibility. As I pointed out in a previous post on this subject, they act as if the Congress was elected by some other country or power, wholly outside of the US. They appear to see the Congress as being foisted on them and, by extension, the rest of us.
Hey, assholes: I voted for someone in the 2008 election and hopefully you did too. Some of us saw the people we voted for win, some of us saw them lose. That’s how it works. Sometimes your horse wins, and sometimes you watch the other folks cracking open champagne.
You lost. Get over it.
Trying to start some silly new political party, running on naive ideology and dishonest populist rants isn’t how real change is effected. You should start by telling us WHY you think your guys are better than what we have. While you are at it, go ahead and release their tax records, school transcripts, business dealings and affiliations, and complete personal bios. All that will come out anyway if your candidate actually posed a threat to the incumbent or other contenders.
And guess what? I will wager what information is released will reveal your candidates are likely to be the same self-serving, pandering, career politician wannabes as we currently have. The only difference is what we have works decently well versus some moron teabagger reject pretending it’s an Eddie Murphy movie and they get to play hero and effect some massive coup to the powers that be.
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="278" caption="They can try to bend the rules of grammar all they want, but when you put 3 o’s together, followed by an h, the o’s are long and the h is silent. It’s pronounced “gooo”, assholes."]
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