Morons of the Month - October 2013

Debt ceiling debates.

Affordable health care wars.

A government forced to close down.

One political fight after another.

You ever wonder what the rest of the world thinks about America?  My guess is that it's sheer laughter.  A new, guaranteed gag every day.  Funnier than the comic strips you see in the daily newspaper.

Here's a nation with a wonderfully thought-up and executed form of government.  Democracy.  And it's completely being torn to shreds by the jackasses in the photo above.

Yes, I said it.  And, yes, I know who's in the photo.  Guess what?  This is going to be a bi-partisan blog post.  An equal opportunity offender.  And I don't really care.   My tax returns are squeaky clean.

We can start with this snapshot.  Four of the biggest jokes in the land.  

Nancy Pelosi.  A reprehensible woman.  Richer than you and I will ever be and still she can't get a better plastic surgeon.  As a legislator, she is a criminal.  There are some countries on this globe who have had her shot and killed long ago.  In America, she is considered a leader.

Harry Reid.  Old and addled and likely wearing soiled underwear.  The state he represents as Senator has been in a depression for about a decade.  Hmmm, how does that happen?

John Boehner.   The epitome of an empty suit.  If he was a character on Mad Man, he would have been written off at the end of season one.  A man solely without any moral conviction or connection to the people that voted him.

And, yes, gang, President Obama.  There, I said it.  A feel-good moment in 2008 that will have this land feeling awfully fucking bad in 2058.  A politician with his flimsy credentials should have never made a national ticket and normally would have been laughed off the public stage.  A White Republican with his limited experience would have never gotten a sniff.  But he's got a great marketing team and, oh, yeah, he's somebody who happens to....have big ears.  Indeed, the election of this man to the Presidency was akin to calling up a rookie pitcher from Class A ball and asking him to pitch the seventh game of the World Series.

There are others, though.   Equally guilty of the problems we have in America today.  The sort of dilemmas that have our country on its final swirls around the toilet bowl.

Governor Chris Christie.  Harpoon, please.

Jeb Bush.  Don't you wish Barbara had said "no" to a frisky George every once in a while?

Governor Gerry Brown.  California has been murdered.  You're part of the Manson family that killed it.

I could go on and on and on.   Primarily because these folks are all allowed to go on and on and on and on.

Meanwhile, I love the handwringing that went on regarding the government shutdown.  If you really think this was a mechanism of just one party, you're crazier than they are.  Let's put it this way.  I have heard from somebody who would know (one of the furloughed) that all the poor government workers who were furloughed will be paid in full.  Essentially, it's nothing but a forced paid vacation for them.   Didn't know that?  You obviously listen to the nightly news.  Or worse....MSNBC.

At the end of the day, every politician in this nation gives lip service to us.  The promise of better days.   Oh, as long as you elect me to a second term.  Or a third term.  Before you know it, two decades have passed and the only things that have changed are his salary and your taxes.   Both have gone up.

I'm obviously not bullish on the long term prospects of America as it was originally intended.  Indeed, illegal immigration is the single biggest problem no one wants to address.  Politicians don't really want to.  For some businesses, they represent cheap labor.  For one political party, these fence hoppers are nothing but new and prized voters in their precinct canvassing.

I'm a devotee of 20th Century Presidential history and I can safely say that the last truly reasonable President this nation had was John F. Kennedy.  Somebody who came pretty close to my own life beliefs.  Fiscally conservative.  Socially progressive...to a degree.  Ever since Dallas, 1963, we've been on a slippery slope that just does not end.

Lyndon Johnson?  Here was one of those old-style Democrats.  And, for those who don't pay attention or simply tune to MSNBC all day long, the Democrats used to be hard-boiled, money-grubbing racists.  And it wasn't that long ago.   And LBJ was one of those suckers but forced to adapt his tenets to fit the shortened JFK administration.   Round peg, square hole.  Just on Vietnam alone, this idiot should have been impeached.

Richard Nixon?  The rascally President that your liberal friends today still like to recall.  Great foreign policy, bad everything else.  And, oh, yeah, he was clinically insane.

Gerry Ford?   A nice man who might have been decent had he not run into Chevy Chase and the early days of SNL.  Plus he needed to master stairways.

Jimmy Carter?  An ugly Election Day in our history.  His resume was as slim as Obama's.  Four years of him and we are still living with some of the nonsense he instituted, most specifically with regard to affordable housing.  

Ronald Reagan?   I could get behind some of his fiscal policies.  But, by the second term, he was an incoherent mess.  The Federal government was being run by his wife Nancy, Merv Griffin, and a Ouija board.

George W. Bush?  Please tell me one thing this man accomplished.  Ever.

Bill Clinton?  He had the right idea.  He tried to find his way to a centric administration.   But, oh, that silly little perversion got in the way.  A filthy man who, I have heard, is still violating the personal space of female Starbucks baristas all over the NY metropolitan area.  Smart guy, disgusting human being.  And his sow of a wife is just as much a fraud.

George H.W. Bush?  Never had a chance after the Gore election debacle.  Probably shouldn't have had one in the first place.

Barack Obama?  See above.

It's not working, folks.  This was once an office we were taught to revere and respect.  Can you seriously do that after the Conga line of clowns that have occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since 1963?

I discover that, as a voter, I am moving very slowly to calling myself a libertarian.  Maximum freedom with a minimum of government.  Everybody just work hard and leave each other alone.   And that includes you Mr. Senator, Ms. House Representative, and Mr. President.  But I doubt that world will ever happen in this country.  We are too far gone.  Indeed, the only knowledge and tradition we hand down in this land from generation to generation is how to effectively use an EBT card.

So, my October morons?  Oh, tt's none of the politicians I have mentioned.  In fact, they are all geniuses.  Hell, they figured how to get elected and re-elected.   They're not stupid at all.

The real morons?  The folks that pulled the levers in the first place.  You, me, and especially that guy over there.

May the whole bunch of them go to Hell.  In Obama's case, the south side of Chicago, which is ten times worse than Satan's front yard.

Dinner last night:  Braised steak.