At least some of the outrage that courses through the American psyche today derives from recognition of our shredded values of justice, and whether we can still claim we are a nation of law when our leaders suffer no consequences for their crimes.
For your bumpers. Australopithecus Republicanus boisei brain-buckets must die off. Frank Rich. The tsunami of populist rage coursing through America is bigger than Daschle’s overdue tax bill, bigger than John Thain’s trash can, bigger than any bailed-out C.E.O.’s bonus. It’s even bigger than the Obama phenomenon itself. It could maim the president’s best-laid plans and what remains of our economy …
A giddy menagerie of Republicans trod down Constitution Avenue following the spirit of the GOP and surrounded by their little blue dogs and assorted vermin, after gutting the Senate stimulus package with a butcher knife, their weapon of choice. Wrong to really wrong: “Big John” Cornyn, “Little John” McCain, “Two-Holer John” Ensign, “Teh Stoopid John” Boehner, “Jimmy John” DeMint, and “Douchebag Dave” Vitter with “Mitch the Bitch” McConnell.
Wake the fuck up, wage slaves. . . that is if you still have a wage.
The Republicans along with some completely head-up-ass Democrats are able to foist this gross swindle of wealth on the middle class by, one, keeping teh stoopid afraid of everything, two, keeping America at War and therefore killing the children of teh stoopid, and three, by boldly lying their asses off, telling Americans that only the wealthy can save America with their wealth, when and as they see fit to create jobs for the rest of us— in other words— keeping you POOR.
There is so much to love about this, I don’t know where to start. . .
The final vote was actually 244-188 as one “mean tested” Democratic switched his vote Despite the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, House Rethuglicans voted unanimously late today against an Obama approved fiscal reconstruction plan. This despite O’s efforts to engage them directly, traveling to their turf to answer their questions and otherwise engage them (including inviting them to …
