I know he’s just crying out for attention, but Rudy Giuliani saying “I do not believe that the president loves America,” highlights some deeper issues in the Republican party and our democracy in general. For one, the failed presidential candidate and former mayor made the statement at a private dinner featuring Scott Walker, one of the top Republican presidential contenders.
The event at Manhattan’s Club 21, though dominated by the Giuliani rant, was hosted by some prominent trickle-downers who unfortunately still have loads of influence over Republican candidates, never mind things like, um, numbers. Let’s also not forget the undue influence a handful of billionaires have on our democracy, with the Koch brothers pledging to spend nearly a billion dollars on their personal political agenda.
With the 2016 election season is just getting started, it looks like we’ll be treated to more billionaires and more of the same this go round. So while Giuliani is looking to get some press in the hopes of upping his speaking fees and/or Fox News pundit potential, there are some real issues within these silly attacks that are savaging our Democracy. And it ain’t just Republicans, Democrats should be doing plenty of soul-searching about the corrosive influence of money in politics. Enjoy the cartoon, and be sure to dig into more of the links behind the cartoon.
America the Rudyful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
Ex-candidate in pain.
A nation-hating president,
Like ISIS with a plane!
America! America! God loves the GOP,
From Walker, good, to brotherhood,
More American than thee!
O beautiful for billionaires,
We love you brothers Koch.
The dollar signs that make-you-stare,
Tricklin’ down, it is no joke!
Republicans! Republicans! Love God, country and law!
Unlike the heathen, with his Kenyan breathin’,
And ev’ry Democrat I saw!