On my voter registration card is an acronym, it says ‘NPA.’ No Party Affiliation. There’s a reason I don’t support any political party, and that’s because it makes the most sense to me not to put my faith in the hands of complete idiots. Seriously, spend half a day watching house and senate meetings on CSPAN and you’ll see what I’m talking about. These are supposedly the best of the party, the winners, the people in charge of making laws to improve our collective lives. So why is it that the speaker from Tennessee or Alabama or one of those bible belt states is wasting the House’s time requesting that everyone stand up and sing ‘God Bless America’ and those that are opposed should be put on record as ‘hating America?’ Because he’s an idiot that’s why, and so is every single person that voted for him. Then some democrat from up north, I think New York gets up and starts singing it before whoever is in charge of this ship of fools stops this lame political stunt in it’s tracks.
These are the people responsible for passing bills and reforms folks, a room full of feeble old people who spend most of their time obfuscating every issue and delaying any progress to make some half-assed protests or to try and score some political points for their re-election campaign. That’s all it is really, these are career politicians. They have awesome health care (at taxpayer expense), their pockets are lined with so many backers and lobbyists, that to think that people in circumstances like that actually give a damn what happens to anyone else is almost laughable. That’s just rhetoric though.
It’s just humorous to me to see what these people do exactly. For example, just now I was watching this guy from Texas, one, John Carter, go on a speech in the House. This man, who looks like my grandfather, went on about the forefathers, and how they founded a ‘republic’ for blah blah blah morals blah blah blah. This went on for about three minutes. First, I don’t think the House needs a damn history lesson that serves as little more than an attempt to assert your party is right by simple virtue of the fact the forefathers founded a republic so republic-ans must be the chosen ones. Right, okay, whatever. Second, I’m not sure what this has to do with the purpose of the hearing, which apparently was to talk about the federal bailout money and where it went. I know why he said it, to fluff his point. To give whatever argument he’s about to present the presumption of correctness rather than actually making a point that’s significant enough to stick.
Well, that assessment appeared to be correct because this man went on to go on about ‘crazy’ spending in this bill and how the Democrats are to blame. Sigh. There it is, the crux of why nothing gets solved in the house and why congress never gets anything done. It only takes about fifteen minutes into almost any hearing you’ll watch before someone blames the other side even if they were the ones that screwed everything up in the first place. I find it somewhat ironic that a Republican would be talking about ‘crazy spending.’ Especially when one factors in the two grotesquely expensive wars that they unilaterally approved of and are costing us way more than the bailout ever did. The bailouts in and of themselves that Bush was up everyone’s ass about how important they were to pass in the first place. Here’s where I knew that we were effectively screwed, when both the major candidates voted to approve it. It showed me two things.
One, that not a single person had the balls to stand up to the status quo, when it could affect their chances in an election.
Two, that neither party had the balls to stand up to pressure from the absolute worst president ever.
Talk about the blind leading the blind across a minefield that is raining chainsaws that are on fire. I mean, you have two parties, one that’s watched everything they supposedly value (beyond saving their own asses) be systematically annihilated, and another that has been so embarrassed and dragged down by simply being associated with the guy that they can barely win an election. Neither one of them could even find a way to say no to the retard, once. The Republicans have acted like arrogant fools who just beat the ‘morality’ drum and lead everyone right off a damn cliff, and The Democrats are such complete pussies who are so afraid, it seems, of a serious confrontation that they can’t even seem to pull themselves together to oppose anything. The hearing is still going on, by the way, and I’ve heard the republicans say the word ‘morals’ and ‘morality’ at least two dozen times by now, Christ.
It’s about as exciting as watching civil war erupt in an old folk’s home. Clashing phalanxes of walkers and electric scooters, ineptly nudging into one another and occasionally falling down and subsequently being unable to get up again. A littered wasteland of a lobby, filled with overturned prescription drug organizers, Metamucil, and depends… some of which have been soiled. Each war cry some sort of reference to ‘the good ol’ days’ and how FDR was the best president ever.
The reason, as I see it, that nothing is getting resolved in this country, is the dirrect result of pandering, party politics, and misinformation, that seems to permeate from Washington like moist prune-smelling flatulence. Not only do most citizens fail to have the facts on their side, from what I’ve watched today neither do these elected buffoons. It’s just a bunch of meaningless fluff, yelling, and delay tactics. Nothing gets resolved through endless and pointless exposition. Anything that does get through is filled with so much extra garbage meant to appease everyone in the room in order to get a vote as to render whatever the bills original intentions and goals meaningless. And these people are supposed to reform health care? I mean, when the Republicans controlled the House and Senate, they used their power. The Democrats, hell they even vote down their own bills. We’ve effectively transferred from one party doing whatever they want all the time, to one being capable of doing so and choosing not to… at the expense of any form of progress.
Yeah, but that’s because none of this stuff matters to these guys. They are set for life, all they have to worry about is how to keep their campaign fund going. Because, you see, it’s not a matter of public service, it’s about keeping power isolated to a certain sector of the populace. Which is what makes the political landscape so depressing, and yet so very comical. It’s not like we have many options for alternate parties. The most viable ones are the Libertarians, who basically are just republicans who think that capitalism is flawless and think it’d be super cool if we could just never pay taxes again. Also they support that insane Far Tax that morons who don’t read between the lines are always going on about. Yeah, a tax plan where the government ‘becomes the biggest taxable entity’ is brilliant, because the people who are taking the money can then use it to, uh, pay themselves again? What a joke.
There was a radio show down here, during the election last year, that was hosted by this moronic conservative guy who is not longer on the air. He lost his job primarily because he tried to execute his wife’s dog while drunk and the bullet only grazed the pooch but ricocheted and hit his wife across the side of the head. Yeah, but anyway, he was interviewing all the third party candidates all 13 of them. He did Bob Barr, you know, the libertarian guy, who talked about some sort of stupid ass tax plan that basically made 30% of everything you buy be tax, that way you wouldn’t have to ever deal with the IRS again. Great idea, except for, you know, the people that can’t afford it. The typical Libertarian line to that is ‘they should have planned better.’ That’s just because it’s the party for spoiled rich people who hate anyone who can’t afford extra fees. You know, basically 99% of the population. Who wants to support a party that’s driving force is a bunch of rich people who want to be able to dictate policy to benifit themselves? That’s not offering us anything we haven’t been dealing with already.
There was also the prohibition party guy, who tried to assert that the whole reason the country was going bankrupt was supporting the prison system which causes a huge tax burden. Which, is sort of true, except I don’t think the solution is to illegalize alcohol. That would just make us have to put more people in jail. Making more things illegal has this amazing tendency to actually place more people in the prison system. I know, I know, that’s a shocking revelation, but I assure you that I am not bullshitting you.
Don’t even get me started on the guy from the socialist party, hell I agree with them on a lot of things but why even bother putting yourself on a ballot if you are running your campaign’s publicity out of a hot mail account. Fail.
So not only do those guys that are in power not care, but the ones that trying to get there are too busy clinging to insane pretenses and idealistic notions of what the world should be line that they can’t relate to the average voter, which is pitiful because in my experience the average voter tends to be a barely-informed mish-mash of fear and ignorance. The lack of knowledge the average US citizen has is almost inexcusable, and just proves the old adage more correct. You get the government you deserve. Good job guys.
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