Is we is, or is we ain't...

Tried for killing his wife,
accused gets new trial
because of blind juror.

Is we is, or is we ain’t…in a real “pickle?” I have I missed something? I thought that virtually everyone realized we were in crisis situation similar to what happened in 1929. And I thought most everyone agreed that in order to overcome this desperate situation we all had to cooperate. But it looks to me like all is pretty much just “business, or politics, as usual.” Certainly the Obama administration is getting no cooperation from Republicans. Indeed, they have made it clear they will obstruct and obstruct until they cause him to fail. As Obama represents our government, they apparently want our government to fail. There seems to be no reason for this other than their hope that they will eventually return to power. That is, their loyalty is to party, not to the nation. They intend to filibuster and drag their feet, and criticize at every opportunity to make sure than Obama and his plans will not succeed. I suggest this is not only a failure to cooperate, it is also un-American in the extreme.

It also seems clear that the massive corporations that have ripped off the taxpayers over the past years are also failing to cooperate. Even though they have begged for handouts, and been given massive assistance, they continue to live the good life with multi-million dollar bonuses (for failure) and lavish trips to the best hotels and hot spots. They are also spending our millions of re-decorating their offices, buying new corporate jets, and whatever. This does not seem to me to represent cooperation. Of course they are going along with Republicans as they always have. If they can just return their lackeys to power they won’t have to think about regulations, honesty, decency, law, justice, compassion, or any of those sissy democratic ideals that might prevent them from robbing the poor to further enhance the rich.

Even in democratic circles there seems to be those who do not want to cooperate, unless it is on their terms. A small group of so-called Centrist Democrats has formed with the apparent intention of insuring that the Republicans can continue their endless filibustering and thus keep preventing the majority from actually prevailing. These Centrists are being led by Evan Bayh of Indiana, who has apparently at long last decided he wants to demonstrate that he is not merely an empty suit. There is nothing that would prevent any of these individual Democrats from disagreeing with Obama’s priorities, or anything to force them to vote against their better judgment, or expressing their opinions, or whatever. I cannot understand why it is they feel it necessary to join together as a block so as to thwart Obama, unless they feel safety in numbers or something. In any case, no matter what they do, it does not seem to me to be being done in the spirit of cooperation.

Of course I suppose it would be out of the question for the MSM to cooperate with anyone but Republicans, and certainly the right-wing blowhards would never consider cooperation no matter what. It would be different if all these people were merely disagreeing with Obama because they have honest differences of opinion. This does not, however, seem to be the case. It seems clear that they have no alternative proposals that make any sense (and do not seem even to exist), and they basically make no pretense about their goal of bringing down the Obama administration in order to return to power. It is threatening to become a self-fulfilling proposition: we want him to fail, we will cause him to fail, and thus he will fail. Now that’s what I call cooperation!

I think it is becoming quite hilarious that many of our “leaders” have still not figured out that technology will no longer permit them to lie constantly as they have always been accustomed to doing in the past. Last night, for example, on Charlie Rose, Condi Rice sat there denying that anyone had ever linked Saddam Hussein to 9/11. Rachel Maddow then produced clips of them doing just that repeatedly. A few days before that Ari Fleisher was doing precisely the same thing, blatantly lying even though there were clips demonstrating that he was doing just that. Of course Jon Stewart has used this technique often to demonstrate the lies being told. Do you think they will ever come to the realization that “those days are gone forever?” Or is it the case they are so hopelessly revealed as incompetent they have no choice but to keep on lying. I rather doubt that either Bush or Cheney have ever told the truth. It could be in their cases they just don’t even know the difference.

LKBIQ:
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell

TILT:
The great Chicago fire was not started by a cow kicking over a lantern.