Elaine Meinel Supkis
Congress, upon failing to do their Constitutional Duties by writing and passing a budget, went of vacation! They went home! To mess around and prepare for the next elections! To attend fund raisers sponsored by corporate interests that have set up this disaster by voting themselves unpatriotic tax cuts and then an illegal war. Arrest these traitors. Arrest Bush.
By CARL HULSE
Published: April 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, April 6 — House Republican leaders on Thursday abandoned their efforts to win approval of a budget for the coming year after they were unable to bridge widening differences on fiscal policy in their party.The decision to halt the budget debate hours after it had begun and send lawmakers home for a two-week spring recess was the latest and clearest illustration of the Republicans' difficulties in holding lawmakers together with a crucial election approaching.
After struggling all week to round up votes for the budget, House leaders abruptly threw in the towel when they could not find a compromise to appease conservatives who want new budget rules and members of the Appropriations Committee who see those rules as cutting into their power.
"We're hung up on the process right now," said Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois.
There is an old saying that facing a hangman concentrates the mind wonderfully. Perhaps we could apply that here. The fact that all of America sits there, gape-mouthed, while our entire government collapses speaks volumes. I suspect most people are in the mental frame of mind that bankrupt people slip into: keep up the spending on credit, keep the ball rolling, perhaps the creditors won't notice, maybe if we don't pay this month's bills, no one will call or pull our credit. Oh, look, more toys! Let's buy them!
More fires in the Midwest as well as violent storms and tornadoes, all simultaneously. As Nature goes into meltdown mode, so does our government. As the money hemorraging in Iraq reaches epic proportions, we increase spending there even as the religious war (this is not a civil war, it is much nastier) causes yet another mosque to blow up today, Condi's attempts at strongarming people fails, our own courts are persuing the President who openly lied about the Valarie Plame case, the President might be an unindited co-conspiritor and the papers handed over to the dead Congress who will probably go on vacation for the rest of the century rather than follow Constitutional rules.
And Americans will hope no one will notice we are collapsing. Of course, the Chinese track all of this. They know we are at the end of our rope and they will play it out some more, they are not done with us yet, the Japanese are hitched to us and they are in a panic because they can't hitch themselves to China thanks to WWII's atrocities which they steadfastedly refuse to correct or even apologize for.
We managed to crush the Palestinians and steal their pathetic few possessions and gave it to wealthy American Jews, now we are attempting to literally starve them into submission a la Hitler. We are still poking the Iranians in the eye and talk today is for the Iranians to be boycotted, just what we need, to send world oil prices to the moon.
And Congress is going on vacation. Time for all those K Street junkets! On corporate jets! Time to put the old palm out and to talk about how more tax cuts and benefits can be funneled to the rich. The media talks about how mean the French people are, refusing to give up hard won worker's benefits, how dare they! Americans must ignore the illegal worker's demonstrations! These prove the government fears NON VOTING Hispanics more than VOTING American citizens! Because the illegal workers are acting French! They took the streets!
Maybe working class voters are awake and aware that protecting unwanted fetuses means destroying their living children! And they will vote out the GOP and the right wing Christians. Finally. And maybe Congress might begin to do some work again. This is why we pay them! They gave themselves five pay raises in the last 20 years and didn't raise the minimum wage! They hate us, they are not us, they are traitors just like Bush and Cheney and that whole lot of criminals.
Arrest them. Put them out of office. TIME FOR MASS DEMONSTRATIONS!
By the way, the only reason the illegal workers got organized is because they have radio and TV stations directed soley towards their own needs and wants. A clue here, America! Corporate TV and radio is run by traitors who want to mislead.
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