Now we’re talking. Let’s get the 2012 campaigning started! Don’t anybody worry that we haven’t really taken care of anything of consequence in 2008-11. Health Care Reform, you say…how’s that working out for everybody who’s not a health insurance company? Financial Reform? Raise your hand if that’s making your day any better, (you may notice, if you look around, that the richest 1% of Americans whose days are getting better and better, are not raising their hands, but simply because it seems like volunteering for something). Continued military action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya as well as troops still in Germany, Korea, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, (I think), accomplishing nothing, (well, OK, we popped that decrepit porn hound, bin Laden), and costing so much that anything that might make you smile, (the arts, safe roads and bridges, a cleaner, cooler environment, and a literate population), is being systematically eliminated. (I might have to fact check that last part against the correlation of smiling vis a vis stupidity).
The hot to trot, young, firebrand, newbie Congressmen/women, suddenly faced with the reality of pissing off their electorate, have ground to a standstill while trying to determine if there’s anything salvageable on the list of bullshit that they ran on in the midterm election. Coming to grips with the fact that unlike the Fox News position that if you say it, it’s true, substance will jump up and bite you in the butt eventually.
This is all bad news for the USA. The Republicans have no leadership, good, bad or otherwise. They are devoid of ideas, (at least the kind that require more than crayons and construction paper), immersed in a mishmash of fundamentalist religious nonsense and more beholding to the most evil elements of corporate greed than their Democratic counterparts. The Democrats, while they snicker demeaningly from across the aisle, have neither the gumption nor the cajones to stand up, unflinchingly for the right thing, (I have been supplying them all with the right thing for years, and I can promise you, no one’s standing up for it). America is dying. If you think that we can’t become Greece in the very near future….well, either did Greece. We all need to start yelling. We are the people and our ideas for our future need to be addressed…NOW! Constantly waiting for the next election cycle is merely assurance to continue constantly waiting.
Use this link: http://www.house.gov
Click on ‘Representatives’ find yours and demand responsible action…which, by the way, would have nothing to do with renewing off-shore oil leases under the pretense that oil prices are too high because we don’t produce enough at home.