An Angry Saturday Rant

I am no longer astonished at the magnitude of House & Senate Republicans' arrogance and their assault on the average American. I am mightily pissed off about it, but no longer astonished. Yesterday, the idiot bastards changed their tactics on the minimum wage. Instead of refusing to increase it after 10 years of padding their own salaries nicely (which they have done repeatedly), they decided it is time to give the appearance that they are actually trying to increase the minimum wage...but they are tying it to capital gains tax cuts for the wealthy.

Their thinking is obvious: Let's put Democrats in the uncomfortable position of either supporting the minimum wage increase while begrudgingly allowing the tax cuts to pass or fighting the increase in the minimum wage because it is tied to unacceptable tax cuts.

Republicans in Congress are the most disgusting excuses for human beings I have ever encountered. They are arrogant, heartless, uncaring waterboys for the wealthy and they are PROUD of it!

Aside from being just downright bad human beings, I believe the Republicans in Congress are not smart enough to realize that what they are doing through their complicity with the Bush administration's corrupt policies and their unabashed groveling at the feet of war-mongers and the monied elite is to seal the death sentence for the United States of America. November is too late. If we don't change their minds by getting the message through to these unethical bastards right now, this country is cooked.

There is so much to do. We need to get out of Iraq without uttlerly abandoning the population that is now facing civil war...a civil war we enabled. We need to stop the bloodshed in Lebanon before it escalates into an unmanageable firestorm of war that crosses not only borders, but oceans. We need to take care of our own citizens who are being paid wages that allow them to live only in poverty and no more. We need to change the complexion of this country to reflect its founding principles. We need to build a national personality that values humanity over wealth. We need to turn toward religious freedom and away from a religious state.

This country has fallen so far, so fast. I never dreamed, as a child or young adult...or even when I was in my mid-forties, that the United States would wither the way it has. I could not imagine that the conscience of the nation would simply fade away. We have allowed a single party, the Republicans, to utterly wreck the humanity of this country and replace it with pure, unbridled greed and disregard for human life.

Maybe the "good old days" weren't really that "good," but they were, at least, not this bad. We've never had it this bad in this country. Thanks to Bush and damn near every Republican in Congress, we're at the lowest ebb of our existence as a country. We're at the second Civil War, but this time there's no fighting, only slaughter.