GOP = Greedy Old Pigs

Let’s hear it for the party that wants to f__k kids with cancer. That’s right, you heard me. That’s what the Greedy Old Pigs are doing right now, because among the services that the government they shut down, used to provide, was treatment for those kids who need us most.

I bet these Greedy Old Pigs are very proud of themselves.  So far they have achieved none of their aims and it doesn’t look like that situation is going to change anytime soon. What do they think they can achieve, these terminal assholes that walk on their hind legs just like humans, but display no human qualities? If my use of language shocks you but their actions don’t, stop reading now because you’re really going to hate what comes next.

They claimed six years ago that their only goal was to keep Obama from getting elected again. They weren’t interested in moving the country forward from a disastrous, eight year fiasco, overseen by their own party; they wanted to stop the man elected by the majority of the country from trying to fix the mess that their party and their president had made of the economy, New Orleans, and two wars.

They have failed miserably in their primary goal but aside from the passing of the ACA, they have pretty much blocked all the legislation that Obama has tried to pass, legislation that has been backed by the majority of Americans, the same Americans that elected Obama a second time hoping that this failed political party would finally understand the message that most of the country was trying to impart.  American wanted certain things and they saw Obama as the man who could bring them these things. They didn’t see Romney doing that, or McCain, or Bachman, or Cruz or McConnell or Ryan or Boehner.

The American people have spoken twice. They want Obama to be able to move ahead with his agendas on health care, immigration, corporate and banking regulation, tax reform and military spending. None of this has gotten done because the dumber people in the country have elected people who are against government, to govern them.

In 1787 the leaders of the country looked around at the chaos that had become America after the revolution and decided that the Articles of Confederation, the document on which this country had been founded was a complete disaster.  In their desire to give freedom of almost everything to almost everyone, they had set up a government that wasn’t a government but only a loosely connected group of independent states that had no central power and therefore could accomplish nothing. Taxes couldn’t be collected, roads couldn’t be built, an army couldn’t be raised, nor a postal service paid for. In fact none of the duties of government could be accomplished because there were elements in each state that wanted it to be so free and independent that they weren’t much more than a pair of deuces at a table full of straights and flushes.

That is the same position as that held by the current libertarians and the Tea Party.  That’s why the leaders in 1787 got together and wrote and signed a constitution that set up a real government that could defend the country against its enemies and function in domestic affairs.

Now we have the same group of useless blunderers that had made the Articles of Confederation such a worthless document, trying to undermine our present governmental and reduce it to non-functioning chaos.

We are dealing here with supposed leaders who don’t even know what they want. One of them, I won’t even dignify him by mentioning his name, goes on national television and says that they no longer want to stop Obamacare. When asked what they do want he says that he doesn’t know but they have to get something. He doesn’t know? He just wants to get something! Even a two-year old child knows, when he is bawling his eyes out, that he wants a sweet or a warn breast. This idiot doesn’t know what he wants but he’s willing to shut down the government to get it.

Where do they come from, these people who voted this cadre of incompetent clowns into office? Well, they are the people of all the former Confederate States except Kansas, the same people who elected governors who are too hardheaded or too stupid to take free federal money in order to expand Medicare for the poorest of the people who live in their states, people who now have no health care at all. They are the people of the Rocky Mountain States who have continued to vote into office, legislators who have destroyed federal efforts to protect the land they live on and the air they breathe. And they are the people of a few mid-western states that continue to ignore federal attempts to save their industrial belt and unfailingly elect dunderheads who will stand by and watch their jobs disappear into the huge trash bin constructed by Bush/Cheney and now maintained by the likes of Ryan, Boehner, Sessions and their cronies. They are the voters who base their votes, not on any kind of intellectual investigation, or any search for facts, but on bigotry, hatred and religious fantasy. They need their guns, their bibles and their hatred of anyone who doesn’t see the world with their limited vision. What they don’t seem to need is any knowledge of what the hell is going on in the real world.

You can’t run a nation with men who hate government, governing it. Somehow these vermin have infested the halls of congress but if this nation is to survive they must be driven out and next year is the time to do it. They have done everything they can to solidify their positions, subverting the constitution by passing illegal voter suppression laws and changing the geographic dimensions of voting districts to solidify a vote that will be favorable to them/ But those in these gerrymandered  districts must be made to see that the men they have been voting for do not have their welfare in mind but only the extension of power that will continue to degrade the form of government Americans have fought for, for the last two hundred fifty years.

Down in Texas, a single mother who stood up for women’s rights to control their own bodies and against the invasive, freedom draining bullies of the right is now running for governor of that almost entirely backward state. She will be running against a slick, photogenic hate monger who will make the more than slightly brain dead current governor, Rick Perry, look like a liberal. He will have the money and the power of the entire fossil fuel industry, the people who really run the state, behind him. This will truly be a David versus Goliath fight and it will only be won if a whole nation of thinking people get behind her.

There will be fights like this in other parts of the country and they too, like last year’s Elizabeth Warren fight in Massachusetts, must be won by the forces of moral good and intelligent thought or this country will disappear.

We the people of the United States must decide what we will stand for as a nation. Will we stand by and allow the forces of greed and power to trample on those less powerful and less fortunate, or will we stand up on our hind legs and show our neighbors and the world that we demand a nation that supports the rights and dignity of every man woman and child who resides in this land.