…BEFORE THEY EAT YOU.
With Obama only in power for 48 hours, the sorry resistance of the right was rallied by radio clown Rush Limbaugh who bluntly announced he devoutly desired the Obama administration to utterly fail. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Republican Senators and Congresspersons scurried to media-cams, weeping, moaning, bleating, snarling, complaining, and generally behaving as though they weren’t a political party whose best ideas were the wit and wisdom of Joe the Plumber and Palin for president. As the country spirals down to random multiple doom, they seem bent on allowing disaster to happen if the remedy for disaster is anything but their remedy. And the Republican remedy is still wholly based on the corporate-friendly, free-market, greed-is-good, pander-to-the-rich ideology that tipped us into the whole mess in the first place. Having pissed away the farm, the moderate right condemn deficit spending as a moral atrocity, while the really crazy are right back to calling Obama a godless socialist, and predicting that we’ll be overrun by crazy-homicidal Islamo-fascist terrorists by next Tuesday. (These people have the most horrible Hobbesian nightmares.) I hate to be so retro as to suggest Bob Dylan lines exist for every philosophic occasion, but, in this case it’s too apt and easy and just impossible to ignore...
“Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls”
Do I need to be so back-in-the-day as to go on? (But click)
And while all this is simmering, revisionist academics like Andrew Roberts, writing in the London Daily Telegraph (and brought to our attention by our pal Valis) are already attempting to rehabilitate the image of George Bush.
“In the avalanche of abuse and ridicule that we are witnessing in the media assessments of President Bush's legacy, there are factors that need to be borne in mind if we are to come to a judgment that is not warped by the kind of partisan hysteria that has characterised this issue on both sides of the Atlantic. The first is that history, by looking at the key facts rather than being distracted by the loud ambient noise of the 24-hour news cycle, will probably hand down a far more positive judgment on Mr Bush's presidency than the immediate, knee-jerk loathing of the American and European elites.” (Click here if you want to read the rest of the dementia.)
The secret word is Infantile
That song will continue to be relevant until the times actually do change.
ReplyDeleteNicely put, Mick. The free market gravy train had to derail at some point, and, man, what a wreck. The financial model the 'free' world has genuflected in front of for the past couple of decades is as economically unsound as it is morally reprehensible.
ReplyDeleteI find it amusing that property prices have dropped through the floor; solely because I don't own one, of course. The only part that leaves a bad taste in my mouth is witnessing ordinary people losing their homes and jobs. That, and those fat bastards scurrying from the scuppered financial regattas with their bonuses intact.
A few weeks ago I noticed a lot of interviews with Republican politicians who claimed to be eager to work with Obama on economic recovery. They all seemed to agree that the first and most important step toward recovery would be the elimination of Social Security and Medicare.
ReplyDeleteThat's the beauty of the Eat The Rich plan. If you vote them out, they can always come back, but if you eat them, they stay eaten.
Oh hell, now I sound like some anarcho-bullshit version of Ann Coulter.
You're making sense to me.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the story on the Dylan video clip?
ReplyDeleteDunno. But it is quite powerful.
ReplyDeleteThe votes of majority plebeians against the power & money & greediness of minority patricians. And the winner is...
ReplyDeleteVW is baletiff.