Here I go again–
i’m full of [rage/resentment/disbelief]…
& i tell everyone, write a bunch of emails…
…& never get it together to blog…
…& now *everyone* is writing about it:
OBAMA IS FUCKING US OVER:
“is Obama Punking us”
…we kept ‘giving him chances’;
-thought all the repubs on his Cabinet/etc was “great Lincoln statesmanship”
-then gave him the benefit-of-doubt for all the Wall Street insiders put in charge
-got a little bitter re. the bank bailouts… but didn’t blame O
…& a bit frustrated w/ “we’re looking forwards”, ie “we won’t prosecute the Bush guys”
…more frustrated b/c leaving Iraq is really slow… but wait– he’s RAMPING UP in Afghanistan!!(?!!)
et et etc
…but i think the Moment i started to Wonder, was the Detainee Photos;
htf can he possibly get-away w/ that? Why not censor the photos of returning caskets too?? And then giving Bush’s own excuse, “this is a National Security Issue”. Is Obama a complete IDIOT? Is he totally Owned by Military?? What happened to “Change”?!!!
…& now:
-mortgage assistance to ppl who were risky/irresponsible, & a big FUCK YOU to those of us who played the game honestly, yet were still burned by the market crash, & now have houses 6-digits under-water…
-an energy bill w/ elements WORSE than Bush’s; all the “alternative fuels” initiatives castrated
-a credit-card bill allowing the C-card companies to make it radically WORSE for us, in the ramp-up to 2/2010… which is infinitely bad timing, b/c during a Recession you need your c-card MORE, not less(!!)
…& thus, Final Straw-1:
-> Obama didn’t even CONSIDER a major Liberal for Supreme-Court?!!
…i’m not asking for an “Anti-Scalia”, but c’mon, couldn’t've one been even CONSIDERED?!!
…so SCOTUS’s now got 4 RABID-CONSERVATIVES, & 5 “Moderates”…
…which is NOT AT ALL the demographics of the ACTUAL USA
…is it so inconceivable to have a SINGLE LIBERAL on there??
…are you telling me, we don’t have a single true-blue LIBERAL “So super-qualified nobody could attack them” [ie, the rationale attributed to how John Roberts skated thru a fucking Democrat-controlled Congress]
-> WE HAVE FUCKING MAJORITIES IN BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS, & WE DIDN’T EVEN TRY TO GET A LIBERAL?!!!
…& Final Straw-2:
-> “Health Care Reform” will just be another massive give-away to the Rich, yet-again… with an impotent “Public Option”, there will be ZERO ‘Market Forces’ driving any sort of change whatsoever from the Medical Providers & their Insurance Companies… & now Obama has just backed-away from allowing the ‘Public’ version to collectively-bargain as well. Basically guaranteeing the ‘Public’ version will cost more than the already-outrageously-expensive current options!!!
…& this is ALL OBAMA’S FAULT!!!
…the Mother-Fucker hasn’t even put HIS OWN BILL on the table!!!
…when numerous Dem Senators keep saying, “we really need the Prez to step-in, & say ‘This is What i Want’”
…but he DOESN’T(?!!)
…this feels like some kind of horrible retrograde from Bill Clinton, who used to run polls before he’d fucking even take a breath… now we have a prez who doesn’t even want to *appear* he has an opinion, else if/when it gets attacked, he won’t come-out looking pretty.
…For fuck’s sake– “The Great Compromiser” is getting GAMED, simply b/c he’s taking the same, intellectually-bankrupt tack that the MSM does: ‘always pick two opposite sides, & draw a line thru the middle to get to the Truth of the matter’. But guess what– MSM NEVER picks a rabid left-winger, to ‘balance’ the rabid right-winger… so thus, EVERY ‘COMPROMISE’[SIC] SKEWS MORE&MORE ‘RIGHTWARD’.
…i’m beyond surprise that the Repugs are incredibly organized, spewing finely-honed rabid framing on *everything*… [from "ObamaCare is Socialism" to "Forced Euthanasia for the Elderly"... to fucking Rush Limbaugh comparing Obama to Hitler... didn't he scream "Treason" when ppl did that w/ Bush?!!]
…& that their True Believers swallow it whole… i mean, the very ppl getting FUCKED by major corporations eagerly vote for them, b/c they “deserve the fruits of their labors”… Brilliant– tapping into (white) middle-class Rage, & channelling that into PERPETUATING the conditions keeping the hoi polloi down!!
…but THIS? when all that “Joy” & “Hope” & “Change” has been exposed as just more BULLSHIT CAMPAIGN PROMISES…
…we went from 8yrs of an opportunistic Marie Antoinette, taking every opportunity to privitize gov’t, eliminate environmental protections, & drill everywhere he could [let-alone invade & start the longest war we've had yet...]
…& now we have a guy who raises all the “Right Questions” & then pulls a Pontius Pilate, washing his hands of any Responsibility, & leaving it to Congress & the Lobbyists to fill-in the blanks…
…& what’s coming-out, looks SIMPLY TERRIBLE.
1) we’re on-track to losing Roe-vs-Wade; John Roberts wrote essentially that in his last ‘late-term abortion’ ruling opinion… & Sotomayer is a “devout Catholic”
2. we’re on-track to spend MORE than ever before… but NOT on something sustainable, eg a “Moon-Effort” aimed at alternate fuels would be WISE, STRATEGIC DEFICIT-SPENDING… but just PISSING-AWAY all that $$$ to Corporate America? O’s made the problem WORSE, & left us FURTHER in debt!!
3. From Outsourcing, to Economic Recession… we’re on-track to another “Jobless Recovery”; just like in ’04, the $$ will come-back, but to the CEO’s, & NOT to the US employees!!… & the CEO’s will just open more overseas “divisions”, while banking their $$$ here, tax-free…
If this all happened under Bush, i would be irate, but resigned. What did i expect??
…but this is all happening under our “Hope”, who has FUCKING MAJORITIES IN BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS.
I can’t believe anymore, it’s as simple as “Democrats Suck at Fighting”. Nor that Obama is ‘inexperienced’, or even ‘dumb’– even the dumb-ass C+ student we previously had severely outperformed our “Law Review” Golden-Boy… as Bill Maher noted, “at least Bush was effective in getting his Initiatives passed”… Fuck– Bush did that with a DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS his last 2 years!! & Congress still rubber-stamped his Iraq war, etcetc.
I’m really starting to believe that Nader was right– “there’s not 2 Parties– they’re both the SAME Party”.
…b/c even if the avg. Dem congressperson would vociferously argue… let’s see the actual outcomes.
Smells real “Conservative” in Congress, to me.
& Smells like fucking BUSH in the White-House… but a pitiful, ineffective Bush at that.
THIS is our GREAT HOPE?