I am reading way too many diaries from folks who seem hell bent on the destruction of the ONLY hope our country and maybe even the world has. You guessed it... Barack Obama and the US Democratic party! D'oh!
President George W. Bush gets a presidential daily briefing on August 6th 2001 "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." and does nothing. Sure enough, Al-Qaeda strikes in the United States on September 11, 2001. Despite lots of tough talk from the president and his knuckle-dragging Neanderthal cronies, Osama Bin Laden is never captured or killed. Instead, Bush and the chickenhawks figured we should attack Iraq because they might have weapons of mass destruction and would welcome us with flowers and candy anyway. How were Haliburton, KBR and Blackwater supposed to rake in huge profits if people were not fighting and dying in some pointless war?
The sensible thing to do now, Bush thought, would be to cut taxes for wealthy Americans and corporations while fighting two wars. Are we having fun yet?
While spending money like drunken sailors themselves, republicans thought the whole country should join in the fun. Go shopping! We were all proud citizens of the "Ownership Society". Everyone was encouraged to borrow and spend money like crazy! After all, the government was doing it! Deficits are not that important! Look how good the economy is doing! In your face Clinton!
Soon the moral majority was in full swing with tons of cash, disgusting video footage and photographs from places like Abu Ghraib prison, Walter Reed hospital and New Orleans. They celebrated their finest leaders like Mark Foley, Larry Craige and Ted Haggard in their very own gambling casino-madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey whorehouse-megachurch-of-America.
Then it happened. Their whole phony house of cards came tumbling down just like many of us predicted it would. A horrible worldwide economic meltdown, massive deficits and debt, hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost, countless people left bankrupt and destitute and a shattered and shameful reputation around the globe.
So go ahead folks. Keep knocking the (hell of alot) lesser of the two evils. Tear off those Obama bumper stickers. Be mad as hell and stay home at election time. We can always count on the republicans for competent governance, fiscal responsibility and of course, moral and ethical values!