By Mickey Walker – March 1, 2009
Just listen to the Republicans bitch about Obama’s stimulus
package! Senator Lindsey Graham (R
South Carolina), the very picture of a school boy playing dress-up in a suit
and tie, says on camera, that there is too much pork in Obama’s stimulus
package. Sleepy-eyed and fatter
than a town dog, Lindsey joins John McCain (R Arizona), a dead ringer for King
of Oompa Loompa Land, in blasting Obama for a spending package they both say will
bankrupt our nation and future generations. They warn that it will hurl Americans into an abyss of debt
from which we will never recover. McCain’s cadaverous face and eyes tell the
camera that America cannot afford such a spending spree. How will we pay for it? McCain mumbles with his pasted-on, Zipperlock
smile. Geez, it’s hard to watch
without upchucking. Graham and McCain,
with all the acumen of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, project a picture of self-righteousness
for the camera, for they know it’s ShowTime. Hoping no one will notice their irresponsible voting records
to fund Bush’s Wars, they provide us with a classic study in the
pot-calling-the-kettle-black. Having
to endure such eat-up-with-hypocritical dumbass slipping off such thin lips makes
you go all slack-jawed. I mean,
really! How dare they trash
Obama! His stimulus package is but
a rescue response to Bush’s destructive Neocon borrow-and-spend agenda (of
which Graham and McCain have been ringleaders). In short, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and the Flying Monkey caused
all this mess in the first place, see? Obama’s efforts are but a last ditch rescue attempt to save what’s left
of America’s financial system, family homes, and jobs. He is the Calvary to the
rescue. Obama’s plan of massive
spending seeks to get America’s ass out of the economic sling put there by the
likes of Bush and congressional spendthrift enablers like Graham and McCain who
supported Bush’s borrow-and-spend madness for the past 8 years! And for what? Starting wars based upon Weapons of Mass Destruction and other
lies? I wish the American people
would have got something for their tax dollars instead of the endless
occupation of Iraq, a country weary of our arrogant attempts to save them while
blowing them away.
Hey, Graham, McCain, listen up! Didn’t those extra 4 Trillion dollars you helped Bush add to
our National Debt cause all the mess Obama’s trying to get us out of
today? Remember all the OFF-BUDGET
borrowing and spending Bush did, supported by you, Senators Graham and McCain
and other members of the Neocon mobsters posing as Congressmen during most of
Bush’s tedious 8 years of infamy? Remember how the Bush gang gave out no-bid contracts to their corporate
cronies for campaign contribution favors? You remember them, the war corporation bubbas that all ate supper before
they said Grace? Halliburton not
only charged us scalping prices for gasoline in Iraq, but they never delivered
those $40 million dollars of mystery meals to the troops, you remember, the
ones we paid Halliburton for? And
take Blackwater. Puhlese (Iraqis might
give you a high-five on that account). What country has this US of A become when we allow a president to pay a
PRIVATE armed militia ONE BILLION DOLLARS for services rendered? And dude, that’s only counting 2007! And by now in 2009, wonder how many
more BILLIONS Blackwater mercenaries have collected from the American taxpayer
for services rendered, including taking target practice at unarmed Iraqi citizens? Maybe THREE BILLION? Graham and McCain, you are nothing but
binary villains who are greasy cogs in the gears of that crony war corporation,
pork-spending Mafia, so don’t act so innocent when you point the finger at
Obama. You’re both greasier ‘n fried lard! I know when the light gets shined on you about how you
helped Bush blow an eternal hole in our National Treasury, it must hurt your
eyes. I know it must be hard for
you to admit that you are the core cause of the 8-year-Bush romp on America that
Obama is trying to correct. When
without shame, you both turn right around and condemn Obama’s attempts to
correct Bush’s unconscionable borrowing and spending you both supported and
enabled every step of the way. Shame on you both. If truth
were trousers maybe the two of you should hoof it on down to Walmart and buy a
pair quick and stop runnin’ around butt nekked and showing your asses!
“Little Big Man” was a great movie. Old Lodge Skins, played by Chief Dan
George, was a Nes Pers chief who delightfully referred to himself and his
people as the ‘Human Beings.’ It
was one of the finest of movies of 1970 when the world was gearing up to
embrace a brave new world of computers, data, and other forms of
dehumanization. In describing the
world to his newly adopted son, Little Big Man, played by Dustin Hoffman, the
chief’s words moved me: “Do you
see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human
beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But
also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The
man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own
his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe
EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people!
If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the
difference.”
It’s obvious that Chief Lodge Skins looked beyond the
material universe. He was about
being, not taking. Perhaps America
would be a better place had the white man not set foot on its shores. Today every square inch of water is
laden with Mercury atoms. These
coal-fired byproducts have spewed out into the air forever, it seems, covering
the earth and water with their toxic presence. Energy companies will tell you straight out that if they had
not been allowed to pollute the waterways, the fish, and the land by generating
electricity with cheap coal, our lives would not have been as convenient and as
efficient.
President Obama has glorious plans for green energy. With luck and serious implementation,
many new jobs will be created. We
will see solar breakthroughs, wind-driven megawatt machines, and hopefully, new
nuclear power plants to provide us and the rest of the world with new sources
of clean energy. With our
technology we should be able to construct massive arrays of solar panels and
windmills in the thousands of acres of badlands of West Texas to Arizona where
only Gila Monsters and scorpions live. Going north from there the wind corridor extends all the way up to the
Canadian border. We lost our way
in clinging to fossil fuels, but now Nature demands that we clean up our
act. In so doing, chances are
quite good that we will clean up our water and air, too, with wind and sun-powered
machines. With any luck we should
be able to power not only the United States but the rest of the world, too.
President Obama is committed to our cleaning up our energy
act, and in so doing, our part of the planet. He has been in office only one month. Already, the detractors, the Lindsey
Grahams, the John McCains, and the Rush Limbaughs have begun their negative
criticisms. I think they should
shut up and give Obama a chance. They had their turn for 8 years and blew it. They continued to support the smokestack industries for the
big money. Where were they when it
really counted? So why not give
Obama an honest go and support him toward such noble ends? After all, haven’t the Neocons failed
miserably? We are still dependent
on foreign oil which means we are occupying foreign countries where war is an
ongoing quagmire. The Energy
Department policies of George W. Bush have us standing in line with our hand
out for foreign oil at manipulated prices by OPEC and other oil-producing countries
and organizations who do not wish us well. CO2 emissions have been the by-product of smokestack
industries that burn fossil fuels. In many parts of the world air emissions are so severe that merely
breathing the air has become risky to one’s health. Wouldn’t the earth be a better place to live if the air and
water were cleaner, world countries were hooked up to the United States green
power grid, jobs grew by the millions, and the big bucks kept on rolling
in? And wars over oil became a
thing of the past? We need to grow
up and give Obama a serious shot at it. Can we pull it off? Yes, we
can. So Lindsey and John, give it
a rest. 