When I learn of the appalling and pervasive corruption that has overtaken our state and U.S. government, not to mention our society, I have to admit that I feel as if I've been punched in the gut and kicked really hard in the butt.
Just when we think we've heard the absolute worst of the very worst, inevitably something even more awful will emerge.
The recent exposure of the Bush Administration's pervasive corruption, the Bush Administration's lies, the ginned up war in Iraq, Halliburton's criminal overcharges, Blackwater that prides itself on offing innocent Iraqis, and its bribes to the Iraqi government to buy silence, the deregulated banks, sub prime loans, Wall. St. and its U.S. government enabled reckless gambling casinos, at taxpayer peril, thank you, the discovery of FOX News as the undeniable propaganda arm for the GOP, the self-serving teabagging front groups that pretend to be grassroots movements that use and abuse well-meaning and misled teabaggers, and on and on...It is enough to suck all of the breath out of my lungs.
What would St. Ronnie say if he knew? Gee whiz, what happened!? Or, I know it all sounds terrible and really scary, but in the end, all of the above will be really good for the American people. Trust me folks, there will be 25 chickens in every pot next year and a pony in every back yard. Be patient. Work harder. You don't have a job? You are not working hard enough, you lazy, shiftless bum! Go to the mall. Buy a house full of garbage you don't need. Just be happy and all of of our troubles will disappear.
But the grand old actor wizard and the master of deep deception has long since departed. And there is no St. Ronnie today who can sugar coat the awful and the scary.
What truly sends chills down my spine this time is the discovery that a group of Christian Republicans and Democratic U.S. lawmakers, thank you, seem to be on a crusade to turn our U.S. government into one that is "led by God."
Why does this imperative remind me somehow of the Taliban and the so-called God run governments Iran and Saudi Arabia?
It all starts with pro-slavery driven and unfettered corporate imperatives.
As if this revelation is not troubling enough, the connection among the C St. House in Washington, a private boarding house of sorts called a "church" that houses Christian Republican and conservative Democratic lawmakers, the secretive Christian organization known as The Family and their efforts to kill health care reform is seriously scary.
Bart Stupak, co-author of the outrageous health care reform killing Stupak-Pitts Amendment, lives at the C. St. House. His colleague, Republican Joe Pitts is a core member of the family. These boys inserted an amendment into the HCR bill that would have made it illegal for private, yes that is private companies who want to participate on the national insurance exchange to cover abortions. This is not about the government paying for abortions. This is about women not being able to obtain abortion coverage from the private insurance companies that they pay for, out of their own pockets. Such is utterly sexist, discriminatory and deeply cynical. Poor women would be forced into back alley abortions.
But I disgress. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which will be hopefully killed in the Senate, deserves a substantial diary of its own.
Those good old white boys at the C St. House not only want to dehumanize women and children, they also want to have a "God led" government. I guess under their male dominated world American women will also be required to wear burkas.
In your dreams, boys. It ain't going to happen any time soon. Trust me.
Doug Coe, a prominent member of the Family, i.e. the Christian Mafia, behaves as a minister who frequently invokes Hitler. But Coe is not an ordained minister.
What a strange and creepy place. What strange and creepy people.
At least now we know why W.'s poppy, G.H.W. Bush attacked Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann for being sick puppies. As we should know by now, when an evil doer attacks a truth teller, the evil doer is projecting his own pathological evil.
We have our work cut out for us in 2010 and 2012. We absolutely must get rid of those C St. screwballs. They have no business serving in our U.S. Congress.
Punch 'em in the gut with brass knuckled truth and kick their butts with facts made of steel. Eventually the sexist pig cowards and health care reform haters will run screeching and yelping to their mamas.
