Not yet. This is still a land of revolution by election and not donkey carts to the nearest lamp post. This risky system, this Republic isn't yet tragically and desperately wrong in its ways; what's wrong is the band of elected worms who thrive in the eddy of moral sewage in Washington, and the smaller pools in every state and town in this nation.
There is nothing in their eyes but a swarm of bats. We want simple, modest men and we get a Harry Reid, the cretinous rope man in every sepia tintype of Old West lynch mobs. We want the success and distaff perspective of a powerful woman, a woman to confirm the old hopes of feminism, and we get Nancy Pelosi, the stupid, toothgrinding, uber grandma with a switchblade in her apron pocket - or maybe worse, the ideological slurry leaking from the head of Olympia Snowe.
We want simple wisdom and we get the lightless Jack-o'-Lantern head of Dick Durbin, the brute stupidity of John Kerry, or the slobbering hackery of Tom Harkin or Arlen Specter. Add your names: the 10W-30 Chuck Schumer, the bug-eyed, blue-blazered Lindsey Graham, the silver-suited senile Robert Byrd, the post-mortem pallor with personality to match of John McCain, the sleazy, carpet-bagging old-money Rockefeller or the permanent Tiki head vapidity of Mitch McConnell. And when they aren't shameless, grunting swindlers like Rangel, or forehead-slappingly stupid like Maxine Waters, the best you can say is that they have the qualifications of warm doorstops.And these are just the ones we know about. These shards of glass under the national saddle have us galloping to nowhere, or somewhere near the edge of ruin, every day. They don't have the right! This week Gallup told us that overall approval for Congress was at 21%, with Democrat approval just under 50%, Independents at 16% and Republicans at 9%.
Howling into your pillow is faint relief for your nausea and disgust. Every revolution is preceded by the desertion of the middle class - desertion not from the country but from the incompetence, guile and degradation of those who would steal from and rule you, rather than govern. That's where it starts. It doesn't matter if some of them are better than others. Get rid of all of them.
Rhod, I really wish I had your way with words.
ReplyDeleteThe voters are a sleeping giant. It's not going to be fun for the sleaze bags not that we're waking up.
ReplyDeleteYou do, Inno. I got them from someone else. Originality is judicious immitation.
ReplyDeleteDid I hear "warm doorstops"? I think you boast on their behalf. Let's be honest, there is nothing but cold fish in there, if more along the lines of snakes in a pit.
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't causing so many problems, it would be laughable. I cannot remember the Latin for it, but... May we live long enough that these memories are a source of laughter. Perhaps safe laughter, the vipers having been defanged and tossed in to feed and entertain lions.
Here's the problem, Doom. Even the stupid have a right to representation, just not representation BY the stupid.
ReplyDeleteRhod, well said. I'm glad we have you on our side.
ReplyDeleteOpie, no government of goons and buffoons ever succeeded at anything except chaos.
ReplyDeleteRhod, with chaos as their goal, they seem to be succeeding beautifully.
ReplyDeletePerfectly written Nickie, one of your best.....
ReplyDeleteReb... Don't I wish I could write like this!! This is Rhod's.
ReplyDeleteHe's overrated.
ReplyDeleteHalf of Democrats approve of Congress!
ReplyDeleteToday I heard a radio interview of a woman from Detroit praising Obama for some handout she thinks she's actually going to get. When asked where Obama got the money, she didn't know.
I think she's one of those Democrats.
Obama and the rest will know it's too late when we refer to them as King George.
ReplyDeleteDetroit is the cancer. Watch it spread.
ReplyDeleteGallup is full of crap. Congress approval is right around 9% for confidence according to Harris. "Get rid of all of them." Yes it is time for a Do Over! Like taking 7 cards in 5 card stud. Need a little extra just in case.
ReplyDeleteRhod - Overrated my hiny, this is simple eloquence.
ReplyDeleteNickie - Nonsense my friend, I love your writing.
We need to give the US Capitol an enema.
ReplyDeleteTerm limits must go into place and be strictly enforced.
Great Post. You said it prefectly.
ReplyDeleteSorry guys not on topic. I'm sure you'll post something about it but I'm fuming and I have to say something about the wonderful news I've woke up today to: OBAMA WINNING THE NOBEL PRIZE!
ReplyDeleteThere is no bigger joke than this.
Obama, who has done nothing of note in his life besides winning the US Presidential election has also won the Nobel Peace Prize.
If you thought the Nobel Peace Prize proved worthless after Arafat got it, then this is just the nail in the coffin.
It's no joke that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. It's the Nobel Peace Prize that has become a joke.
Rhod:
ReplyDeleteWonderful post and so very true.
Get rid of them all
ReplyDeleteOr they´ll be a tombstone over the grave of America that reads: "Too little, too late."
All we have to do now is look at the slow motion, albeit successful, suicide of Europe.
Good piece Rhod.