Posted by
skep41 on Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:24:50 AM
When
I look at our fine legislators in Washington (and in Sacramento) I'm
reminded of that scene in Cheech and Chong's 'Next Movie' where Chong
shows Cheech a bag of cocaine but wont give him any and Cheech
yells,"Dont you read Dear Abby,man? That stuff's bad for you!" and then
grabs the bag and shoves it into his own face and inhales deeply. Well,
the Republicans criticizing the Democrats for spending and earmarks is
as sincere as Cheech's health warning, they just want to get their
noses in the bag and inhale deeply.
In today's column Bob Novak
gives an example of an earmark proposed by the oily Chucky-Schumcky
Schumer and Her Royal Thighness (D-NY) to fund a museum (The Bethel
Center) dedicated to commemorating the giant acid-party at Woodstock in
1969. You see its SO meaningful to us boomers, even though we've gone
from ingesting hand-filled capsules of LSD from the hands of strangers
(yes, I plead guilty, your honor) to trying to make hamburgers illegal
because they're bad for your health (hey, you know, Dear Abby said
taking LSD was bad for your brain and now most of these ex-hippies are
mad-dog Democrats. That woman was almost as smart as The Smartest Woman
Ever In History-- you know, the one behind the Bethel Center earmark.
Maybe we should earmark some money for the 'Dear Abby Center'). Anyway,
he goes on to list a pile of earmarks proposed by both Republicans and
Democrats and refers to the campaign contributions provided to the
legislators by the interested parties. Is this an incurable disease our
country has caught? Will anyone elected to legislative office just
naturally turn into a swine? Was it always like this but our
grandfathers just couldnt think big enough? Are we just doomed to stand
there, helpless, while these short-sighted idiots tax and spend us into
third-world poverty?
It's too depressing. While others are debating
lofty issues Novak is making the case that trading subsidies for
contributions is alive, well and sadly bi-partisan. You wouldnt suspect
the Dems would have brains enough to drop the earmark crap but after
last year's election dont you think the Republicans would have wised up
to how mad we all are about this nonsense? Nope, they're shoveling the
same old horse dookey hoping we dont notice the smell. I guess none of
it matters anyway, as soon as the boomers flock to enroll in Social
Security the fiscal rowboat goes under the waves and all these
subsidies and pet projects will get swamped along with everything else.
Good! Now, I'm not one to say that half a million people taking LSD and
fornicating in the mud to the overamplified squeals of electric guitars
wasnt a great moment in American history (actually it was a turning
point to a society based on total self-indulgence) but I will be happy
to hear that a crowd of ragged New Yorkers, stripped of their
possessions by pitiless tax collectors have seized the Bethel Museum
and are using it as an ad hoc homeless shelter, have ingested some
nameless drug and are roasting stolen hamburgers on a fire they've
kindled in the foyer using debris stripped from the exhibits for fuel;
it'll be what they deserve for voting consistently for liberals.