...remain uninvestigated, unprosecuted and breathing the air of free men.

The crumbs left over after seven straight years of war profiteering and sleazy investment fund manipulating, with the $750 BILLION financial coup de gras (just a down payment, mind you) administered as the Bushies were finally getting the hell out of town, wouldn't feed a robin for a month.

Then there's the raw fact that the entire planet detests this country for its hypocrisy; its 100 percent record of perfection in backing the wrong side; its cruelty to its alleged enemies; its pomposity over stolen elections (OK here; not OK elsewhere); its use of the world's mightiest military and the world's best-funded intel and black ops organizations to fight proxy wars on behalf of the petrochemical industry; its fuck-you attitude toward environmental sanity ... You name it, the US is guilty of it.

By giving it all up to Wall St. and the rest of the world-class thieves who run the country, our virtual representatives proved once again that a) they're honest pols in the sense that, once bought, they stay that way; b) they have absolutely no shame any more, nor do they need any since a nation of idiots has come to expect venal third-raters as the best government they'll be allowed to have; and c) as long as there corporate money is equated with free speech, this is, in fact, the best government we'll be allowed to have.

The idea that Reid, Pelosi, Harman, Hoyer, Obama, Biden, Baucus, Emanuel, any of Obama's cabinet appointments or the hundred yowling blue dogs running around subverting the will of progressives everywhere ... The idea that these rotten, greedy little self-interested people have the best interests of the american people at heart is, at best, hilarious and, more accurately, a long-term disaster.

Toss in corporate mass media and the nauseating propaganda it churns out by the ton; Grover Norquist; bigots, racists and misogynists; pro-life murderers; a government that's expected to lie constantly; a country where Dennis Kucinich is actually vilified and ridiculed for advocating for peace and social justice...

You get the picture. We're just living down to our expectations.

And then there's the for-profit medical system...


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