Nothing ever surprises me anymore....I am beyond the pale as they say, when I find out that Goldman Sachs, has gotten away with a bullshit $550 million dollar slap on the wrist, when I find out that now, according the MSM, that most 'Americans' think that the 'Wars' are 'boring' (so that they hope we do not pay attention to the new 'Pentagon Papers' of our century by WikiLeaks), or more recently, what the MSM has said: The BP Oil is now all 'underwater' where it does not 'show'...you know..it must be.............wow......just 'gone' while BP just took $ 10 Billion of a subsidy paid by our own fucking government to pay off their $20 Billion so called 'escrow account'......
Both parties, hope that if we can just 'blame the Tea Baggers and the huge Right Swing' in our own party' (aka as the Blue Dogs) as being just another 'strange beast' that has shown up out of no where....we will all believe that same shit.
So I find it amazing, and hysterical that the Republicans are now calling the new Bio- Dubya's New Book being called, 'Selfish and Stupid'.......Let me tell you what 'Selfish and Stupid' really is:
Just so you know about the new 'Pet My Goat That Fucked American To the Max, So That 'They' Could Rob All the Middle Class, and Bring Down Our Entire Country, While Hank Paulson Held a Gun To Your Heads, and Dick Cheney, Got Away With the 9 Billion Dollars That No One Can Find, and How 'They' (both parties) Fucked Everything, Including Being Responsible For Selling Our Jobs Overseas, So that Our Jobs Are Never Coming Back...Ever... And Obama, Bernanke, Greenspan, Geithner, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Whores Are Us Congress, Let Us All Get Away With It Story' since then can not be denied.............absolutely:
NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE, at all......(my waiver is here: don't pay attention to the truth America).....go to the nearest BWD pictures with Michelle's latest fabulous clothing vacation clothes)...
This is the latest:
With the 2010 election season underway, Republicans are reportedly concerned about how the impending release of former President George W. Bush's memoir, Decision Points, may affect the party's success at the polls come November. While the widely-anticipated book from Bush isn't set to be released until November 9 -- one week after votes are cast across the country -- details from the text have already begun to leak out. Moreover, the unpopular Republican leader and contentious policy initiatives put forth by his administration have already resurfaced to shake-up this year's heated midterm match-ups.
Matt Latimer at the Daily Beast reports:
[Some] Republicans, particularly those most closely tied to the Bush regime, actually argue the book could help the party by reminding some voters of what they liked about Bush. Still, that has not stopped some Republicans, traumatized over the last two election cycles, from fearing the worst. "Monumentally bad timing" was the reaction of one former Bush aide who learned of the book release date. Another prominent conservative compared the Bushies' public-relations savvy to LeBron James. "Selfish and stupid" was another noted right-wing columnist's reaction.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Wow..............selfish and stupid, is what they are calling Dubya, now? Let me tell you what is selfish and stupid:
What is selfish and stupid is this:
The truth we just refuse to face up to:
Question One:
- Selfish and Stupid is not admitting in our own, once brave and progressive party that we cannot seem to admit this basic truth: Why are our jobs never coming back? Could it be that 'both parties' willing and knowingly sold them overseas, without ever standing up for Middle Class Americans, who are now on their very last legs?
- Selfish and Stupid is not admitting in our own, once and brave progressive party that both President Clinton and President Obama, are continuing the same policies that led us down this same path, which is this:
We are no longer a nation of laws, but of men, the opposite of what our nation was built upon. Did I expect it to change overnight?
Never. Did I expect real 'bold action' and change? Yes I did. Did I expect that President Obama would take the time, to not take the 'easy' way out and continue business as usual?
I did............'Yes, we can'.....
Did I expect the same 'endless wars that have no meaningful end...ever..because these wars are now the only way that our young men and women can find meaningful employment, to continue?
No, I did not. Did I expect that the ideal of real 'Leadership' meant a new 'hard FDR'........no I did not. Did I expect, at least a President that would be willing and bold enough to hire 'the best new minds and new blood into our party' (like other bold Democrats did in the past)...to not just' let all the other Clinton Clones' check in as 'usual'...yes I did.
I guess that just means I'm being selfish and stupid. I guess that means, that 'we' as a party, can continue to blame this all on Congress and the 'asshole' Rethugs, the party of NO, when many of our own party as doing the exact same things the Rethugs are doing:
- Selfish and Stupid, is to continue to believe that the American people are not going to be further polarized by the same 'failed two party systems' that have done these past three things, that have continued to polarize our society:
a. 75 percent of the American people wanted a 'public option' for health care insurance for 'real competition.' Despite this huge push, on all sides, Congress and the President ignored this in favor of the private health insurance companies/Big Pharma, who got the best deal they ever paid for at the direct expense of the those that lost their very homes, jobs, retirement incomes, as Wall Street/the Banks got away with the 'Big Heist of 2008'.
b. 75 percent of the Americans wanted 'new and strict' rules for direct oversight and a return to the Glass-Steagall Act, and strict derivative reform with no more 'loop holes' that our President, would not only support, but have the fucking decency to stand up for an amazing woman like, Elizabeth Warren, who was, unlike he promised us, to stand up for the 'Middle Class'.....God forbid that he would and should after, he, as 'Candidate Obama' ran on that single most important dictum in his entire 18 month run up to his Presidency.
c. 75 percent of the Americans know, without a doubt, our nation is heading in the 'wrong direction'. There ARE NO JOBS, because not one decent House Member or Senate Member, has stood up in either house, and admitted the absolute TRUTH: OUR JOBS ARE ALL STILL BEING SOLD OVERSEAS, and 'both parties' willingly stood by as our Unions were busted, and are being sold overseas.
d. More than half of the people in our nation do not understand why we are still fighting these 'endless wars' that are draining us dry, with no end in sight, 'nation building' when our own nation, is falling apart. Could it be, that 'both parties' are still supporting the Military Industrial Complex that is draining Americans who are now on life support, living on food stamps, moving into poverty faster than at any time than the great depression? Could it be that NO ONE IN OUR NATION IS STANDING UP FOR US?
That, my fellow Democrats is what we can call 'selfish and stupid' and not only that, we can call it for what it is:
All four of these points above a a deep, deep disconnect, that should remind all of us, that our voices are not being heard, and in fact, they are not being heard, at all. THEY ARE BEING IGNORED.
And have been ignored for a very long time. Some call it 'broken government' but you know what I think it really is? It is exactly what we refused to admit, and are in complete 'denial of'.....we do not want to believe that our voices and our votes do not matter any more....and I wish, more than anyone, it were not so...
But the proof is right before our eyes. Selfish and Stupid, is who both parties have become,....not just the totally 'corporate pigs' of the Republican party, but our very own party, and I know, there are some really great people that are still fighting for what is left of our nation...
What it really 'stupid and selfish' is not just the 'asshat' of the century, the worst President since Grant, 'Dubya' (a false President elected by the Right Wing Supreme Court) fully admitted by his own party, but 'ourselves' as a party.
We in fact are as 'stupid and selfish' to believe that irregardless, of the deep polarization that is now continuing to go on, that these 'decoys' of class warfare....are not just another way of us not taking a deep microscopic look at what it really going on here:
Of course, the Republicans and Dubya, are the 'ultimate' stupid and selfish party of 'them against us'..........but who is really 'with us' is what we need to ask.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I can count on 'one hand' who is standing up against the 'Oligarchy Madness' that has overtaken our nation: Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson, Al Franken, ....go ahead...name your own...who are the 'Mr. Smith's Goes To Washington' types that are still left....the floor is yours.
Who in our party, either party, is willing to stand up for American rebuilding of our manufacturing base? Of our jobs? Our dying Unions/Labor... Of the only hope we have left?
I leave it to you to read the great, great diaries of others: OPOL, bobswerve, Pluto, NYeve, and Slinkerwink, to point out these great truths of where we are now.
I'll tell you what is really 'selfish and stupid' right now....
Why hasn't President Obama stood up for the 'only damn person' in our nation that has stood up for the 'Middle Class' to head the Consumer Protection Agency............
Elizabeth Warren?
When President Obama literally ran on that 'entire platform for 18 months' of perhaps the most outstanding candidacy of any other American candidate in our nation ever?
You tell me that, and then, go ahead, and tell me how 'selfish and stupid' our own party can possibly be for all the Democratic Senators in the Senate not demanding that she be elected immediately to that post?
That is what I can only call 'stupid and selfish' for the American people, who have lost all their jobs, their hopes, their dreams, who are not living with no jobs on the horizon, and still believing that anything at all has changed for Americans, when both parties are still playing their 'bullshit class wars' and guess who is winning?
You see, I worked, as a volunteer, gave up my job, to work for President Obama, for six months... to proudly serve him after Teddy Kennedy handed over the mantel he gave him.....
That mantel, included a deep, deep trust, to 'lift up the Middle Class' so that they would not fall into poverty, but now they have...........
yes...they have......so who is being 'selfish and stupid'? It is us? Or is it our leaders?
You tell me.
Leadership requires, every American that remembers who spilled their blood for the grandmother's and grandfathers on the earth of this nation and the the nation's they escaped from, but I guess, we forgot that, didn't we?
I never thought for a moment that it would be an easy road that was left for President Obama, but I sure as hell, expected him to show up and lead, and not let 'others do his fighting for him.'
Sometimes 'selfish and stupid' just means, not showing up at all.
Flame away, I don't care...because I still care about my nation, and I'm not afraid to say so.
When we 'gave up accountability' we gave up our entire nation, and that has led us to this point of being so deeply divided. Of course this deep vacuum is not what we are willing to look at. When the 'narrative is lost, and vision is lost, and leadership is lost, who will step in?'
The 'selfish and the stupid'....and that is who we have become.
BTW, Dubya, good luck with you new book. I'm sure you'll be able to sell at least 10 copies....why do I have the feeling that Karl Rove, will be a huge 'recommendation'?
Thanks as always.