Got another e-mail this morning about how the Supreme Court is "quietly reviewing" those claims that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii. "This may have some discrepancies" but it's "still interesting." says the serial offender who forwarded it to me.
Is it time to leave the country? Because we have no real way of returning America to a body of informed and rational citizens. Still, as a lover of understated humor, I have to enjoy the way a libelous fabrication "may have some discrepancies," including the discrepancy of not having any basis in fact. It does seem to me that the flat Earth some on the right believe in is floating on a huge sea of malicious lies and has an atmosphere of pure hypocrisy.
Take Senator John Ensign, Senator from the Silver State and one of those dedicated public servants who thinks we can change our "reckless spending" by curbing Federal earmarks, which constitute a rather tiny fraction of what the government actually spends or as I see it; whittling at the whiskers and calling it a close shave. But that's just the basic background hypocrisy of the GOP. Ensign has his own to account for, because while railing at "Obamacare" and promising to undo the health care reform bill we elected a president to promote, he's out there actively soliciting - and getting - a million taxpayer dollars from that Affordable Care Act he so despises to spend on health care in his state. Perhaps there's a discrepancy there somewhere too, but it's still interesting.
Is this another "thanks but no thanks" moment for Republicans? I mean one where you take the money and say you didn't and blame the other party while you pose as a cost cutter? Maybe, I can call it the Palin Precedent, maybe it's better to call them liars and greedy little power hungry bastards.
Oh and please spare me an example of where some Democrat did the same thing. That's not the point and it isn't the Democrats trying to assert dogmatic policies that have failed each and every time to bring prosperity and have each and every time produced recessions -- as if we could keep repeating the past until it becomes a better future. The question of whether to leave the country is the point and that question is fast becoming moot because the country is leaving us.
I recommend: Ted, White and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto by Ted Nugent.
ReplyDeleteThat and a few recipes for cooking the critters that you catch and kill should pretty much do you for the 21st Century.
Its time to MAN UP!
RELOAD!
Road kill in every pot!
And in other news ... Scalia jumps on board the anti-17th Amendment bandwagon.
ReplyDeletePretty scary.
This is interesting:
ReplyDelete'Throwing the Bums Out for 140 Years'
by David Kennedy
Everything old is new again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kennedy.html?scp=3&sq=1870&st=cse
Oh, yes, the wonderful gilded age! Everytime you turned around it was another party in control and nothing ever got done.
ReplyDeleteExactly what did government do back during the period of the aftermast of the Civil War to WWI?
Did they collect taxes? Was there social security? Did we have troops stationed all around the world?
Were there nuclear weapons? How long did it take to get from China to the US? From Europe to the US?
Hell, how long did it take to get from Chicago to Washington DC?
What was the population of the United States then? How big was our largest city back then?
Did they bailout Wall Street then too? What did they do to stimulate the economy back then?
I am sooooooooooooo tired of the birther bit. I saw the copy of his birth certificate at snopes.com. It looks good to me. I've never seen the original of my own birth certificate -- it's somewhere in Ohio's vaults. All I've seen/have is a photostatic copy of it. Does this mean I wasn't born in this country? Good. Just have them send me somewhere with white sand and blue water sunshine. I don't know this country anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm not certain what point you're trying to make Tao but Kennedy is clearly pointing out the parallels between our current political climate and that of the Gilded Age which, in his view, was a period of 'stagnation' in politics and a time of feeble, indeed, non-existent leadership.
ReplyDeleteKind of like today.
I get the biggest chuckle about the new angst over "earmarks". It used to be called "bringing home the bacon" in past years. That is what congressional members were SUPPOSED to do, earmark potions of funding for bills to their home districts; building projects, jobs, etc. So now you DON'T want your congressman to bring home any bacon? Oh I see... they just don't want some OTHER district to get it. I smell hypocrisy frying!
ReplyDeleteCapt., your post reminded me of an article that I read earlier this evening about stupid things that Americans believe. Y'all may have already read this article but if not...
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/stupid-things-americans-believe-thank
I've been saying this since 2004.
ReplyDeleteAnyone organizing an expedition yet?
Cause I'm on board with that.
Suzan
Is it time to leave the country? Because we have no real way of returning America to a body of informed and rational citizens.
I find it interesting that Judge Scaly traces the "erosion of states rights" to the 20th century, since the Civil War was the zenith of that struggle to keep the Feds from interfering with our bible based divinely ordained "right" to keep any kind of freedom from some people.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have to agree that direct election of Senators has made them another version of the house rather than an older, wiser and more independent body, but that's hardly why they're so damned corrupt. At this time in our history, having legislatures choose Senators, would only allow the corrupt to select the more corrupt.
Somebody needs to tell conservatives you can't go home again.
I have to repeat one more time that an informed and rational electorate is no longer possible in our age of scientific manipulation. I'm afraid my vision of the future is much like Orwell's nightmare.