All Hail Smirky
I have been remiss. I haven’t ranted about the idiocracy in charge for many a moon. Perhaps it is because I seem to go into a stupor anytime Smirky (or one of his minions) opens his mouth. The stupor can last anywhere from a few hours to days. After his last news conference, I didn’t snap out of it for a week.
I have been remiss. I haven’t ranted about the idiocracy in charge for many a moon. Perhaps it is because I seem to go into a stupor anytime Smirky (or one of his minions) opens his mouth. The stupor can last anywhere from a few hours to days. After his last news conference, I didn’t snap out of it for a week.
Lately, with the mess in Iraq growing and the number of dead rising, Smirky was asked what he thought about it all. His answer, what I could make out of it at least, was that it was a good thing the insurgency fighting was growing. It meant that we were winning the battle. Now, this isn’t unusual for him or the Republicans for that matter. He is just so blatant about these non sequiturs as truth, its scary.
Take Social Security. Now, you do realize, there really is no Social Security crisis. This is something Smirky and company have made up to get rid of it. The Republicans have hated, and I mean hated Social Security ever since it was enacted. I mean, how dare the government take “our” money and use it to help keep our old people out of poverty. Never forget the Republican motto: “I’ve got mine, now I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure you don’t get yours.”
Well, for the first time in a long time, the Republicans are the government. I mean the whole kit and caboodle; Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary. Thus, they have decided to take advantage and do away with the middle class. The tax cuts were just a start. Now back to Social Security. It is not insolvent. If the government paid back its IOUs it has stuffed in a cabinet (the same cabinet Mr. Bush was seen recently touting as the reason to destroy Social Security) for the last 25 years, it will stay solvent for many centuries to come. Don’t want to do that? Then raise the ceiling on the tax by about 105 and let the rich pay a little more. Problem solved.
But of course, one cannot do that. That would mean rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, closing the corporate tax loopholes, and removing the corporate handouts included in every bill introduced in the legislature since the Republicans took the house. No, no, that would ruin the economic engine that has been steamrolling along for the last 5 years. (National Debt – Currently 7.7 trillion, 1.4 billion a day since September 2004. Inflation outpacing average pay by nearly 3%. GM, now in junk bond status, lays off 30,000 in one day, etc. etc.)
Smirky – “Yes, but if you look at the basics, the economy is very good. The numbers all look great. Look how homeownership has raised.” (his grammar, not mine.)
It is Alice Through The Looking Glass. Black is white, up is down, and God is in his White House and all is right with the world.
Speaking of God
George Bush has ripped out the red phone that connected him to Russia and instead installed a direct line to God. And the Lord saw the Bush and the Bush saw the Lord and the Bush said Lord, am I good, and the Lord said, yea, thou art good. Well, that was all the encouragement Ol’ Smirky needed. He has spent the last 5 years anointing the faithful, forgiving their past sins and saying “Go, and sin no more…if you ever have in the first place…which I don’t really think you have…at least your checks never bounced. Wanna be on the Supreme Court?” God designs his policies and strategies, tells him when to go to war, and helps him fight the evildoers. Of course, I’m not sure when Karl Rove got his promotion, but if George wants to worship him as God, so be it. Religious Freedom is guaranteed in the Constitution.
God (or Karl Rove, I’m not sure) has been making a bit of news himself lately. Seems he has come down and smote the ground, and up sprang the new Tom Delay in all his glory, Jesus reborn if I had ever seen him. George stands by Tom, so God must have had a hand in it. Seems Tom has been dipping his hand in the till a little too much lately. Yet, when cornered, he did what any good Republican would do. He called his detractors God-Haters.
In the meantime, the Army of God (that’s the good Christian God…wait, that’s the Good Evangelist Christian God… no, still not right…the good Conservative Evangelist Christian God) are marching all over the place calling for the burning of gay men, abortionists, and those damn liberal activists judges (to be replaced by conservative activist judges). They are also, with the encouragement of the current administration) going after science in a big way.
The latest is the attack on Darwinism with a new pseudo-science they call “intelligent design.” This has a few, very few, biologist who say that cellular design cannot be explained by natural selection alone. The zealots have glommed onto this. There answer to anyone who challenges them is “See, see! Darwinism is just a theory and there is a lot more going on. There has to be an intelligent (meaning their GOD) design!”
Of course, real scientists are saying “Hogwash! Everything they put out there as unexplainable is, in fact, easily explainable using science we have known for decades and, in fact, the newer advances in cellular science has only strengthened these.”
The zealots come back and say, “It’s only a THEORY!!!!”
I say so is gravity and I haven’t seen anyone or anything heavier than air floating around lately. Have you?
Fini
Tracy
Copyright 2005 Tracy Cameron Baker
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