Since I showed the new Missouri quarter last night, Ralph Gizzip thought I should put up the Arkansas quarter tonight. Here it is.
My sister admonished me for using 'fucking' too much last night. "Can't you do a rant without using 'fucking?'", she asked. "Not if I'm pissed", I replied. And Sherry, do not go visit Venomous Kate since she cusses almost as much as I do. I do love her comments about blogspot's permalinks "Because the permalinks are permafucked!" Can I hear an Amen?
Tonight I'm not pissed. I'm just amused.
In Tuesday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation there was an op-ed, by Sheryl McCarthy who writes for Newsday titled We're in a mess, but (yawn) who cares?. The basic premise is that now that the war is over, can't we get back to trying to turn the United States into a socialist paradise?
Now that the war's over, Americans can turn their attention back to the problems facing us here at home.
And dontcha just know that there's a whole big shitload of 'em?
Like the more than 8 million people who are out of work
The gummint's got to do sumpin'! Anything! Except, of course a tax cut that might stimulate the economy. I know. Howza 'bout a jobs program? Or more welfare. Anything! What's the gummint for anyway?
and the more than 40 million who have no health insurance,
And the country screams for Hillary Care.
as well as the country's huge and growing national deficit and the countless cities and states that are reeling from serious budget crises of their own and are therefore slashing school budgets, laying off cops, cutting libraries, senior-citizen programs and scores of other services.
And soon there will be people jumping out of windows and starving people in the streets. And Gramma and Grampa will be eating dog food. Oh, the horror of it all!
When things are this bad, you'd think people would be leaning out of their windows, shouting, ''I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!''
Except, instead, they're jumping out of the windows. Look out below!
But there's a certain lethargy in the air.
Yeah. We're looking at the slate of possible Dimocrats running for president. At least we have Al Sharpton and Carol Mosely-Braun for comic relief. Oh shit! My racism is showing again.
Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri spoke to members of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents New York City's lower-tier health care workers, and released the details of the national universal health insurance program he would propose if he's elected president.
Be still my beating heart!
The lack of health insurance for all Americans is one of the great embarrassments of this country,
Right up there with Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Now, those are embarrassments!
and Gephardt, a pleasant, ruddy-faced, Howdy-Doody of a man,
You said it! I didn't. It does fit , though.
said all the right things. If elected, he would immediately repeal President Bush's tax cuts
Which would essentially be a tax increase. Just the thing to kick start the economy out of a recession. It really worked when Herbert Hoover tried it.
and use the money to fund the health insurance plan.
But I thought deficit reduction was the most important problem facing the country.
All the Democrats are pushing health care reform.
That's because they don't have any other issues other than being against the war and raising taxes.
The president has given only lip service to a health care plan for everybody, and his lackluster prescription plan for seniors, which would herd most of them into private HMOs, is more style than substance. But if I figured a speech on universal health care was going to light a fire under an audience of health care workers, I was wrong.
A liberal columnist wrong? I'm shocked!
They applauded politely, but there was no excitement. Even I struggled to stay awake. He just didn't reach me.
To be fair, Gephardt is no William Jennings Bryan.
The event seemed to be an analogy for the Democratic presidential campaign. The candidates are saying all the things you'd think Americans would want to hear. Americans say that health care is their No. 1 concern. But with a mere 19 months to go until the presidential election, it's hard to see any of these candidates rocking anyone's boat.
Like the rest of the Dimocratic Party, the candidates are clueless idiots. Maybe you didn't notice that we've been fighting this war in Iraq? It's been all over the TV news and in all the newspapers. I bet even Newsday had a few articles about it.
Is it lack of charisma, or of simple appeal?
Howza 'bout being out of touch with the American people?
For a while it looked as if Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts was sure to catch fire, what with his war record and those wonderfully slanting eyebrows.
Until people got tired of his patronizing, patrician bullshit. Plus, he started acting like he was French.
But who's paid attention to him lately?
No one.
Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina is getting the most attention and raising the most money, but do you know anyone who cares?
Not really.
I don't.
Good for you.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut comes off as a pleasant oldster, while Edwards and Sen. Bob Graham of Florida seem like ciphers at this point.
At least Lieberman was for the war.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is sure to add spice to the primary race,
Like I said, comic relief.
but it's an embarrassment that former Sen. Carol Mosely Braun of Illinois is even running.
How dare you say that about Mosely-Braun! You must be a racist!
It's a sad day for the country when things are going so poorly at home and not a single Democrat seems able to give Bush a run for his money.
Only for the blue part. We people in the red area are pretty happy about now.
It could be that the war with Iraq, and Bush's success there, are overshadowing everything else.
You have somehow stumbled upon the truth. Congratulations!
Perhaps in the excessive coverage of the war, the media have shut out coverage of the Democratic contenders.
Right again. After all, the first primary is almost a year away.
Or, having gone through Sept. 11, the anthrax scare and a war in a mere year and a half, Americans are just all burnt out and are feeling very conservative right now. Instead of demanding change, even from our current president, they're prepared to dig in and go along with this guy.
Maybe they like our president. Maybe they enjoy having an adult in charge. And they know Dimocrats are not real big on national security.
But apart from our recent victory in Iraq, the country is in a mess right now. And the president's response is more tax cuts and more platitudes. My question is: Hasn't anybody noticed? And doesn't anybody care?
Nothing more to see here. Just more libral bullshit. Move along.