The American economic empire is gasping for it's last desperate breaths. The U.S. auto industry, a major manufacturing industry which has been a defining hallmark of American industrial might for nearly a century, is on the brink of collapse. Millions of Americans are wondering if they'll still have a home to live in next month. The country's economy is hemorrhaging half a million jobs per month. And what does the tattered remnants of the Republican party want to do to address these multiple issues -- any one which would be considered a major crisis in it's own?
They want to re-litigate the 10 year old Elian Gonzalez case.
That's right - I didn't stutter - you heard it right. Because, as you know, nothing will help Joe and Jane Six-pack more than for the United States Senate to be tied up re-living the GOP glory days when trivial and asinine politics like the Elian Gonzalez affair ruled the day.
Contrary to punditocracy belief, Barack Obama's historic candidacy was not the sole deciding factor which contributed to the Grand Old Party getting their collective asses curb stomped in this past election. Obama's 8 million vote margin of victory can just as easily be attributed to the fact that Americans are fucking sick and tired --SICK AND TIRED!! -- of trivial and asinine politics -- the kind of politics which the GOP has refined to an art form these past couple of decades. We are sick and tired of a small, loud-mouthed faction of Americans -- the religious right -- determining the fate of the majority and the country as a whole. We are sick and tired of stupid fucking military-industrial complex hatchet men running around the planet poking a stick into every hornet's nest they can find and then letting others deal with the devastating aftermath. We are sick and tired of the moneyed elites using this country's hard earned wealth as if it were their own goddamn personal piggy bank and using the nation's treasured natural resources as if it were their own gilded outhouse. And we are sick and fucking tired of the pampered and well-paid Washington cocktail circuit media whores, who have the gall to call themselves journalists, serving their conniving corporate paymasters instead of doing the real job of a real journalist which is to inform their fellow citizens as to the truth about what's going on in this country.
That is what that amazing 8 million vote margin of victory for Obama was truly about. The trouncing that the conservatives and their decrepit movement took in this year's election should have profound, long term benefit for America. But as always, when a rejected political movement is dying, it lashes out with viciousness, immature pettiness and vindictiveness. And so the conservative Republicans have decided to give a big, middle finger FUCK YOU gesture to America out of pure spite by raising the dusty, cob-webbed ghost of Elian Gonzalez, tying up the Senate to keep them from addressing infinitely more critical national issues, and basically making a fucking mockery of themselves and further cementing their place in the dustbin of political ideological movement history.
I sure am looking forward to January 20th when the thinking adults will be back in charge of things and hopefully they'll give the snide Republican brats a good old fashioned ass-whooping and send them all to bed without any dinner.
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