Can Someone Hire a Day-Laborer To Plaster the Debt Ceiling? 7/28/11

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

I thought that by now the whole debt ceiling issue would have been resolved. This is one of those rare times where both sides really are to blame. Let’s start with the Democrats, as I will now predict the future…Years from now, when Barack Obama’s ideas are presented by the next democratic candidate running for president who just happens to be white, they will be embraced by all as innovative, and just the fresh, progressive thinking that Washington has been lacking for so many years. Obama has known this would happen since the day he took office and does not want his legacy to be that of Nikola Tesla, the man with all the best ideas that no one would listen to. But now that we are facing the worst deterioration of our credit in nearly a century, maybe it’s time to forget your own personal agenda and come to a compromise.

For the record, I agree with President Obama, the Republicans want a temporary solution so that there can be another vote on this in a year just to undermine his re-election. Now he has made that, amongst other points, clear to the American people with his address to the nation on Monday. He gave a clear, well thought out explanation of the situation and urged the American people to tell Congress to make big corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Ok, so we all know what everyone’s stance is, but this has to get done, so let’s do it already because I don’t wanna be the guy screaming in my bathrobe while China comes with a tow truck to re-posses our country right in front of the neighbors.

As for Republicans well, of course you are going to be perceived as being the bad guys when you ask to cut Social Security and Medicaid, all things that rich people don’t need but the rest of us do. Of course you are the bad guy when you blame Obama for signing the government bail out of the banks when it was your idea to give them said breaks so that they can supposedly create jobs. Then you blame Obama for the fact that greedy banks acted greedy banks and created profits for themselves and no jobs. Corporations and banks are the very entities you support getting tax breaks, yet you have done a brilliant job of getting the poor and ignorant in rural America to vote against their own interests and supporting you against the “elite Washington establishment.”

How have you done this? By scaring the shit out of them of course! By constantly refusing to negotiate with Obama on anything, you have made yourself look like petty, petulant children to the rest of the world and anyone with a brain. But to a moron who can't spell his own protest sign, living in a trailer park with a confederate flag hanging off the side of a broken TV antenna, you look like rebels fighting against the government…Yeeeee Haaaa!!!

And while I’m at it…sorry Herman Cain, (In case you didn’t know, and judging by the polls, you don’t, he is the token black GOP candidate for president) but whether you accept it or not, Republicans have been playing the “fear” card greater than anyone could ever play the “race” card. For the last two years they have done everything they can to convince ordinary, middle Americans that the big black president is coming to take away their guns and bibles, and doing it so well, they have gotten them to vote against their own interest.

Why is it that the only lawmaker that has brought this up is Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)? Why is it that no one can see, or no one will mention, that Republicans, and Teabaggers in particular, are doing everything they can to undermine the black president so that we will never again elect another one? Look, the debt ceiling debate is not about race, but the fact that there has to even be a debate is. When George W Bush raised the debt ceiling 7 times in 8 years, no one said anything, and the democrats didn’t hold the country hostage, why are Teabaggers doing it now? Why did Obama need a filibuster-proof Congress to pass a health care bill that will save the lives of people who otherwise would not be covered? Even resident Republican fossil John McCain is calling you people “hobbits.”

The problem isn’t that Obama’s ideas are not great, the problem is that they are coming from a black man, and everyday he is in office undermines the old, white, greedy, liver-spotted establishment. He reminds them that they can no longer parasitically feed of the American public without at least being exposed for doing it. But what bothers me the most about this whole crisis is that I have to come to terms with the fact that I live in a country so backwards that it is willing to cut off its own head to cure a headache rather than let a black man give them an aspirin.  

And speaking of medications, Amy Winehouse dropped dead and an autopsy conducted this week could not reveal the actual cause of death. Damn…how high must you have been where not even an autopsy can determine which was the drug that finally killed you? Guess she should have taken heed when they tried to make her go to rehab but she said “nooo no no…”

THIS WEEK’S REASON WHY TERRORISTS WANNA KILL US

At this point, Americans on both sides of the political fence are numb to sex scandals. I really don’t care if Rep. David Wu is a Democrat or Republican, I don’t even care whether or not he really did try to creepily proposition the 16 year old daughter of a campaign contributor. I am however, greatly concerned with this photograph. This is you isn’t it? You willingly posed for this, didn’t you? Yeah dude, it’s time to resign from Congress.