Sorry, Mom…

I don’t mean for this to be a partisan rant, but everybody repeat after me, “The Republican Party shamelessly represents only the richest 1% of Americans. Any Tea Partier, (aka reality-be-damned), Amoral Majoritier, Drill-Baby-Driller, (that would be oil, coal and natural gas), who thinks otherwise needs to either check in with those volcanic aliens that rule Scientology, throw the I Ching, or, at the very least, rerun an episode or two of The West Wing.”

In the midst of a government shut down, (itself a ridiculous display of poorly performed and wasteful drama), Paul Ryan has unveiled the long-awaited, fair and responsible Republican version of fiscal salvation. Billionaires…can I get an AMEN? It is a work of poorly written fiction. If Jack Reacher somehow found himself hitchhiking through its pages, he would find a way to destroy the authors, because that would simply be the right thing to do. Aside from being preposterous in its trickle-down assumptions and dismissing of the definition of the word, ‘budget’, (you know, I make this much, I spend this much, I subtract the make from the spend and hope to get zero or more), it is a litany of socially irresponsible dogma which has become the mantra of the unbridled greed of the corporate elite and the over-zealous religious right. This week’s power play to un-fund Planned Parenthood and dismantle the EPA should be evidence enough that the Republican budgetary agenda has little or nothing to do with budget. I get that they just don’t give a fuck about anyone who might benefit from the services of Planned Parenthood, (except, of course, during elections), but I just don’t get that they act as if they don’t actually live on the planet they seem so hell bent on destroying. They must procreate…there’s so many of them…so, really, no worries for their kids or grandkids or pet brown-spotted owls?

Any budget that does not start on the revenue side by collecting a fair share from everyone, cannot succeed. The only thing more reprehensible than GE paying no tax at all for last year was the impassioned explanation of their 900 highly paid tax attorneys. If the well-thought-out Republican doctrine which proposes fifty years of austerity, (pretty much the rest of the lives of everyone alive), for anyone who is not already in the top 1%, can’t I get a near-99% majority for my motion to shove it up Paul Ryan’s ass? Not that a single Democrat has made a responsible proposal for any alternative worthy of a more pleasant destination, but…

Damn! You know, I really, really want to focus on a hopeful thing or two. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?