EIGHT YEARS WE'LL NEVER GET BACK
I can't convince myself to feel excited about today's inauguration. The triple combination of concerns about Obama's economic policies, his dubious squad of cabinet officers, and the real emotional high I felt last November when he actually won the damn thing is leaving me a bit . . . meh about the whole thing.
Nevertheless, I'm half giddy that in a few hours Bush & Cheney & the rest of their disgraceful crew will slink away to their date with history as the worst executive team the U.S. has seen. Good riddance, you bastards.
(Don't forget to wave dramatically as they fire up the 'copter.)
Nevertheless, I'm half giddy that in a few hours Bush & Cheney & the rest of their disgraceful crew will slink away to their date with history as the worst executive team the U.S. has seen. Good riddance, you bastards.
(Don't forget to wave dramatically as they fire up the 'copter.)
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posted by Mike at 6:50 AM
16 Comments:
I can't help but feel celebratory.
my thoughts exactly.
Yeah, for a day at least, let's party.
Or find Richard Windmark to give Cheney's wheelchair a push.
The inaugural address was superb as I expected it would be. And Reverend Lowry’s benediction so completely upstaged Rick Warren that I think God would have been amused if he’d been watching. And the completely unsubtle nod to Aaron Copeland, gay- commie-all-American-Jewish composer, certainly contributed to my joi de vivre.
Unfortunately reading the papers since the election leads me to believe that Pelosi, Reid, McConnell and Boehner plus a few of the R-pols from my home state of Alabama seem completely tone deaf to what the electorate sang in November. It may be up to the letter writing citizenry to light a fire under somebody’s ass.
But as you say, Bush and Cheney finally gone—may they die with (if not of) hemorrhoids.
Good riddance you bastards indeed.
I waved vigorously. I did. I really did.
I can't help but feel celebratory.
You're entitled.
my thoughts exactly.
Knowing the author of this comment, I assume you mean with the post, and not the previous comment.
The inaugural address was superb
It was.
Congress should work without pay or pension. They have aided and abetted the looting of America. Let them live off the graft they crave. Pass it on.
I set aside my cynicism for a day to enjoy it.
Congress should work without pay or pension.
Honest question:
What will cutting their pay solve?
What will cutting their pay solve?
I can't speak for Edgar (not sure who could!), but I think he's saying that con artists and crooks shouldn't get paid for anything. They're "paid" through their various grifts and they shouldn't be rewarded anyhow.
"They're "paid" through their various grifts and they shouldn't be rewarded anyhow."
I think everyone thinks all these guys are rich fat cats who travel by limo.
I see my U.S. Senator in the grocery store pretty regularly. She's middles class, pretty normal and a very approachable person. She’s definitely not getting rich off the system. There are better jobs for that.
They're "paid" through their various grifts and they shouldn't be rewarded anyhow
They don't get a free house, nor do they get a free mortgage. Lobbyists are not allowed to give them free meals. They do not receive free clothing, except from family at Christmas. They get per-diems and mileage and such, because a significant part of their job is travel. We, for some reason, want to see them here as much as in DC.
Really, all this "punish the legislators" stuff, like reducing or cutting their pay, I have found is nothing more than misdirected retribution. It won't really solve anything other than making you feel good.
I think there's a misperception that they're all like the Dukester or Traficant. Or that they're getting set up for lucrative post Congressional jobs, or otherwise "looked after", once they reward certain companies with gov't contracts while in office.
Yeah, you guys are right. Our Congresspeople and Senators are just a bunch of public servants, thinking only of the next way to help their constituents.
Frankly, I don't care if they earn $100,000 or $150,000 a year. But I'm not gonna defend them, or see them as anything else but the parasites they are.
they sit by and watch the 401Ks of america get looted while soaking up that rich gubbermint pension? Who works for whom? J6P gets laid off while they vote themselves raises? I am hoping for maximum pain, only then will those buzzards get theirs.
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