Those Fools on the Hill

Let me be frank, what I know about economics could fit easily on a postage stamp – one side only. But there is one thing I know for sure that after eight years of conservative economic policy you would need to be in coma to miss the deleterious effect it has had on this country and the world. Yet as I pound on my keyboard, there are a gaggle of republicans lawmakers now informing President Obama what is wrong with his plan. You would think that these fools would realize that they have no currency to suggest anything in the way of stimulating the economy.

Yes, the package is big, a trillion is a lot of loot. But lets keep in mind that these self righteous keepers of the public funds are the same crowd that allowed Bush to run up record deficits with excessive tax breaks for the wealthy, to squander nearly a trillion on a trump up war, with billions of dollars literally stolen by contractors with no bid contracts, who allowed Paulson to disburse billions to banks to allow them to keep the same incompetent executives in place, and to declare, as Frank Rich eloquently wrote, any who disagreed with their malfeasance and misfeasance to be less than patriotic. What is truly amazing is how these self styled buffoons have suddenly transformed themselves to guardians of the public interest.

They spout the same tedious arguments over and over again. What is clear that the lot of republican lawmakers are more interested in getting their mugs and voices plastered on whatever media that is available. The bombastic Rush the Lush, got any pills?, continues to lead these parade of fools by the nose. They march to his discordant rantings hoping that somehow people will again ignore reason and close their eyes and open their hearts and minds to their bull.

One needs to wonder where it will all end. The talk of bipartisan politics is, unfortunately, just talk. The scoundrels who have run the country into debt, who have slaughtered young servicemen in the name of freedom while hiding the truth under a veil of security, who have systematically destroyed the credibility of this nation stand as a testament to the loathsomeness of partisan politics. Hopefully, change will gain a foothold and their constituents will see them for what they are and vote them out of office. There is nothing wrong with conservatives, they have a point a view, and it can create a dynamic of compromise. But the fools who have assumed the leadership role in the current debate are nothing but hypocrites who are arrogant to think that no one has a memory of how they systematically ran this country into the ground.

We need to be saved from these fools.