Not only have the wheels started to come off democracy everywhere Republicanism reaches, but they have sold the damn wheels.…
Forcing Austerity Down Their Throats in Kansas
Kansas
Governor Sam Brownback, Kansas Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan, Arthur
Laffer, and the ghost of Ronald Reagan hog tie Kansas and force
austerity down their throats.
I was
reading about
how Kansas Republicans have made themselves slaves to a monster – Gov.
Sam Brownback – of their own making, a guy a lot scarier than the Wizard
of Oz and the flying monkeys. And my first thought was, of course, that
this is true of the entire conservative movement in the United States.
Worse, thanks to the House of Representatives, we are all of us, in a
sense, in Kansas. And it sucks.
Let’s set rampant and debilitating Boehnerism aside
for now. You have only to look at Red States in general to see where
Republicanism is leading the nation. If you require more proof than
Kansas, look at Michigan and especially Detroit. Look at Wisconsin, where Scott Walker is mortgaging our futures. Look at Texas and Oklahoma. The much-maligned Roman Empire granted more autonomy to cities
than does Oklahoma. The list goes on.
Rick Perry, like Kansas’ Brownback, ran his state
into the ground. Fresh from that experience, he wants to do the same to
the country as a whole. He
claims to have more executive experience than Obama. He claims to be the answer to ISIL.
I think that’s the
reason ISIS has gone forward, I think that’s the reason Putin is
standing there basically laughing at us as we have one lack of impact
after another in the global world that we’re living in.
Putin doesn’t know what laughter is yet, buddy.
Perhaps Perry is the answer, if ISIL laughs
themselves to death. Drunkards shooting pistols in the air will no
doubt be cheered by a certain segment of our population, but neither
Perry nor the overweight, middle-aged white beer guzzlers doing the
cheering will have to fight in any war Perry starts.
Rick Perry at least is actually funny, he is so
completely clueless, and he is more likely to end up in a prison cell
than in the Oval Office anyway. But Perry, like so many other elected
Republican officials today, is a symptom, not a cause.
Once upon a time, he would no more have been taken
seriously than bumbling George W. Bush. Another Texan, six-foot-four
Lyndon B. Johnson, could have whupped them both – and you can throw Ted
Cruz and Louie Gohmert in there for good measure – with one arm tied
behind his back. But not because of his size; because he was not an
imbecile.
The GOP long ago sold its soul to the Religious
Right and became corrupted by that contact. Which is exactly what the
Founding Fathers warned was the result of such intermixing of government
and religion. They said, “Don’t go there.” The Republicans went there,
with predicted results.
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer
isn’t worried about America losing jobs because of the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP). He just
doesn’t want to see
“sexual deviancy” exported to the rest of the world, as though we’ve
invented sins here the rest of the world has never heard of.
Should we be offended more by his stupidity or his arrogance?
At the same time, if he is talking about the
Duggars, I’m with him. Especially if the means of export is a sealed
cargo container.
Republicans have also sold their souls – and this
goes way past the more recent Religious Right – to corporations and
especially to the fossil fuel industry. The more recent deals with ALEC,
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Kochs, are almost anti-climactic
in a sense, just formalizing a slavery out of the old times.
And after all, what do Republicans have left to sell?
Other than America itself, of course. And they are already doing that as well. They want to sell our National Parks. Or let Red State governors run amok on federal lands that belong to all of us:
John Boehner – and we can say this as we eye the
rising sea levels – will soon have some swampland in Florida to send
your way. Snorkeling to his new retirement home will become tiring, you
can be certain.
Speaking of global warming, how does California Republican Assemblywoman Shannon Grove figure
liberals are to blame for California’s drought? This isn’t 10,000 BCE. We know where droughts come from and it isn’t God.
The Biblical practice of scapegoating won’t work. But if it means driving Shannon Grove into the desert, I’m willing to try it.
Speaking of Biblical, it’s hard to know what to say to a labor plan that involves workers putting off retirement until, like Noah, they are 600 years old.
I do, however, want to meet Billionaire Greg Gianforte’s friends so I can learn their anti-aging secrets.
And then I’m going to go dig up my dad and ask him why we buried him when he could be working. He was nowhere near 600.
I mean, seriously. Our graveyards are full of slackers.
I just wish I could be as stupid as Greg Gianforte. Then none of this BS would upset me.
As corruption goes, Republicans are taking America the way of Russia, but who needs the Russian mafia when you have the GOP?
A couple of things have become very clear: America
needs to lose the Republican Party – at least as it exists now – while
there is still time. Not only to save our real estate – including our
National Parks and Native American sacred sites, but everything we have
worked so hard to build since 1789.
This is what America has come to under the influence
of Republicanism. It is time for an intervention, America. It is time
to “Just say no” to Republicanism. We cannot let this nonsense go on any
longer.
They are selling everything that isn’t nailed down,
America, and it doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us. Yet not only
have the wheels started to come off democracy everywhere Republicanism
reaches, but they have sold the damn wheels.
Ann Coulter says Americans may flee to Canada, which
will apparently remain safely white while America becomes “Latinized”
by immigration. It’s a win-win: Ted Cruz gets to go home to Canada and
we get to go back to being the smart country.
I say we take her up on it. We keep the wheels, however.
The Fresno Bee Reported on Tuesday that U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston has ruled that Walmart broke California’s minimum wage law when the company failed to pay its drivers for all the tasks they do. The May 28th ruling argued that “under California law, the drivers must be paid for all the time that they were subject to Walmart’s control”.
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