We're Being Conned?

While driving, he confesses to
seeing another, she plunges
six-inch knife Into his penis.

I have sadly, regretfully, concluded that we may well be being conned, big time. When you consider what President Obama has done since his election, as opposed to what he has said, you can only wonder where his interests and loyalties lie. Basically, he has continued the Bush/Cheney values, and certainly corporate values, with more than merely random regularity. He has accelerated the useless and nonsensically “war” with Afghanistan. He keeps threatening to bomb Iran. He has kept much of the secrecy characteristic of Bush/Cheney, as well as the illegal wiretapping, executive power, and so on. He pledges loyalty to Israel no matter how they insult him and Biden, and he has not ended “don’t ask, don’t tell,” letting Gates argue speciously that it needs further study. This is nonsense, virtually every major military in the world has had gays serving openly, and I cannot believe it has not been studied and re-studied endlessly. More importantly, he refused to promote a public option even though he claimed to be in favor of such an option, and his widely touted health care bill is little more than a huge present to the insurance industry and the pharmaceuticals. He is in favor of offshore drilling and, what is worse, nuclear energy. The White House recently failed to support a move to break up the huge banks, an absolute necessity if we are to avoid further financial meltdowns. He appointed Sonya Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, at best a middle-of-the roader and at worst more conservative than liberal, and is about to appoint another woman who is also a middle-of-the-roader who probably leans toward the conservative side of the court. He made only very modest changes in the tax code, probably slight enough to avoid the ire of the wealthy and corporations. He has done very little to help Blacks, something they complain about regularly. In short, contrary to his fiery claims of bringing change it has been mostly business as usual, and that business has certainly tended to aid the corporate powers that be. The fact that the tea party people and Republicans in general accuse him of being a socialist or communist is simply ludicrous. They may even be in on the big con that seems to be going on, publicly criticizing him but secretly applauding most everything he has done. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I cannot help but wonder just what is going on. Is Obama just a conservative in sheep’s clothing? I have tried to stick with Obama, if for no other reason he’s been the only game in town, but I confess to becoming more disillusioned day by day.

Is there nothing Republicans will not do or say to try to get their way? Mitch McConnell, for example, has already claimed that as Americans expect their Supreme Court appointees to have judicial experience, and Kagan has none, she is not acceptable. This is absolute nonsense, a complete fabrication, McConnell has no way of knowing what the American people expect and there have been dozens of Supreme Court Justices who were appointed having no judicial experience. Either he is just ignorant or a deliberate liar, and I strongly suspect it is the latter. Coulter has apparently come out with a new book in which she claims liberals supported Hitler (like FDR, I guess). If that is not crazy enough, Hannity has apparently said that Iraq should pay us back all the money we spent “liberating” them. They are supposed to pay us back for illegally and immorally attacking their country, murdering them by the hundreds of thousands, displacing them by the millions, torturing them, and exploiting their country in every way? This goes even beyond insanity (I didn’t realize until just now there must be something beyond insanity, an interesting idea). Lieberman thinks we should strip people of their citizenship if they are even suspected of having anything to do with terrorists. That is, merely on suspicion. I think we should strip people of their office and committee assignments on suspicion of their insanity, Lieberman could be the first to go. Indeed, if we could get rid of Congresspersons on the basis of suspicion of insanity, I’m certain most of them would have to go.

The four-story contraption they tried to cap the leaking oil with failed. I knew it would. I don’t know how I knew it would, but I did. I believe this new one will also fail. Now they are also talking of filling the hole with old tires and golf balls, an idea not more ridiculous than drilling at those depths in the first place. Too bad they can’t figure out how to convert oil into fish food, an idea only half as whacky as their other attempts. What a disaster! What a bunch of greedy morons! Watch them go unpunished while we taxpayers pick up the tab.

LKBIQ:
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod

TILT:
It is far harder to remove an old fence than to build a new one.