"But the Pynchon list world isn't like that"

[Otto]

Thanks Terrance,

I'm glad having you back under your proper name (but feel free to post under
different names as long it's your earthlink.net-address).

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: "But the Pynchon list world isn't like that"


>
>
> Otto wrote:
> >
> > If a third party won't work in the US you're all obliged to join the
> > Democrats to get rid of people like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Daschle and the
others
> > who have voted for president Bush out of the fear being called
> > "unpatriotic".
>
>
> I think, despite Doug's attempt to label us all bush supporting
> republicans and warmongers so that he may argue with his shadows, all 12
> participating subscribers to this list are either already democrats (the
> party of Daschle, Gephardt, Clinton, Byrd), vote democratic as the
> lesser of two evils, are so-called third party (greens, communists)
> supporters, anarchists, Bartlebys, etc.
>
> What's disturbing is not the republican warmongering support on this
> list, cause there is  none,  or even the democratic support, which is
> mostly very bad regurgitated propaganda (from the press, alternative or
> otherwise), like the propaganda that we keep reading here about how the
> democrats were forced to vote for the war resolution, or the bickering,
> but the fact that this is supposed to be a Pynchon List and it seems
> that we, the 12 angry men, have decided that we can sit like a jury and
> deliberate on the guilt of the world and neglect Pynchon entirely.
>
> Bush needed Bi-partisan support and he needed to get his resolution
> passed quickly. The Democrats delivered on both counts.
> the Senate approved the House-passed measure without changing a single
> word.  Daschle delivered 29 Democrats in the Senate and House Minority
> Leader Richard Gephardt, Democrat of Mo gave him  Democratic support in
> the House (81
> House Democrats voted to expand the President's war powers).
>
> Was I expecting anything different? Hell no. Just want to make sure we
> don't give all the credit to the President.
>
> BTW, Otto, when I have a big party here in NYC, real or imagined, you
> are invited.
> We need all the union men we can get round here.
>
> T

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