Thursday, March 4 at
1PM (PST) on HLN (Headline News).
“Tiger Woods has been
seen practicing his golf swing. He has been focusing on his putts.”
All that time in rehab
– wasted!
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Along with this came
the report that the Republicans are furious that the Democrats are going “to
jam through” a vote and pass the huge Health Insurance Reform bill, insisting
that the American public will throw out all the Democrats in the next election.
Hmmm. I thought
that was what they wanted.
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And another thing --
It is curious that the
Republicans insist that deciding anything important by a simple majority in the
100 member Senate is un-American, while they do not seem to mind the fact that
the greatest, longest-lasting decisions, including one changing the
constitution, have been decided in court by a 5 to 4 simple majority in their
favor.
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A probe by the ethics
committee in the House of Representatives forced Democratic representative
Charlie Rangel to “take temporary leave” from his post as chairman of the
powerful Ways and Means Committee.
Taking “temporary
leave” sounds like an update of the old newsreel films’ comforting advice on
what to do when a nuclear bomb explodes – Duck and Cover – and is probably just
as effective.
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Given the wide scope
and low level of ethics in Congress, the only fair way the Ethics Committee can
single out its targets is by lottery.
Congress is a place
where everything has either the earmarks of a cover-up, or a cover-up of
earmarks.
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Here’s how to solve
the economic mess. Take a tip from the private sector. Every time
Halliburton screws up, they change their name. That leaves their original
name available. Congress should change its name to Halliburton, dig into
their old books, and recover enough wheelbarrows full of cash to pay most of
the cost of our last couple of wars.Then they can change their name to
Goldman-Sachs, skip through the hedges, and pay off the entire national debt.
Finally, they can ride
off into the sunset over Alaska’s Bridge to Nowhere in their Oldsmobile – or
Pontiac, or in a Toyota.
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Then, of course, there
is Plan B.
Have Halliburton
declare war on some other country, and we have our country provide services for
them, and steal them blind.
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It has not gone
unnoticed that politicians who make a big deal of putting flags on their lapels
to prove their patriotism rarely have any of their children or grandchildren
killed in our wars.
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Here is a crazy reason
we don’t end the stupid wars we are fighting and bring our troops home.
They could create one god-awful noise if we brought a couple of hundred
thousand of them home where there were no jobs for them.
The Republicans are
far ahead of the Democrats on this one. They will probably hire them all
to act as personal militias to protect them from other venal characters trying
to break in to their gated communities.
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