I’m going to Cambodia from 11/6-21.
To flee the wingnuttery of teaparty morons, you might ask? Well, no. But it will be a relief to escape from the wingnuts’ endless blathering about how “the American People have spoken” and “what the American People want.” What American People? Those who happen to have voted? The vast majority of them sat this one out!
Well, no. But it will be a relief to escape from the wingnuts’ endless blathering about how “the American People have spoken” and “what the American People want.” What American People? Those who happen to have voted? The vast majority of them sat this one out!
However, if the barking heads are to be believed, the American People have repudiated the Obama agenda! By default, that must mean they have embraced the Republican agenda. What’s that, you ask? I can understand if you missed it. Something so sagaciously proffered by the always spooked-looking Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, in fact, made very few waves. Here it is: the Republicans’ overarching goal is to make Obama a one-term President! Seriously. That’s it. Mitch said it and reconfirmed it.
What a pity Mitch and his minions didn’t make it over to the raucous Rally to Restore Sanity. I bet he didn’t go because he was afraid he would smile, then his face would crack. Or maybe he feared he’d have to ditch his anti-Islam talking points if confronted by the famously peaceful converts, Yusuf (AKA, Cat Stevens) and Kareem Abdul Jabbar who succeeded in enchanting all 250,000 sanity-seekers.
Of course, it simply could be that Mitch is completely comfortable being untethered from reality. How else could he be so confident about what the monolithic American People want? He knows they want the top 1% of income earners to have more tax cuts. He knows they want climate change and its consequences to go on unabated, too. They like driving on unsafe roads and bridges. The American People want everything deregulated so they can be entertained by planes colliding in midair, housing bubbles bursting again and banksters running off with what little money the bottom 99% have left. Above all, the American People like being unemployed.
The Republicans know their duty. Give the American People what they want and let Mitch and his goons take care of what’s most important to the future of this country: making sure that Obama is a one-term President.
