Front and center we have John Boehner, the House Minority leader. A fine upstanding individual who during the course of his congressional career has never met a lobbyist he didn't like or couldn't refuse money from. Even if he was about to vote on legislation directly affecting them. And of course one of the go-along, get-along enablers of the deregulation legislation which got us where we are today.
Standing behind him with the shit-eating smirk on his face is Roy Blunt, the House Minority Whip. All you need to know is that when Tom Delay was elevated to Majority Leader, good ol' Roy here succeeded him as the then Majority Whip. And like all the others, he got where he is today by religiously adhering to the orders of their masters in Big Biz and Big Oil.
Standing to Blunt's left, the one who looks like Howdy Dowdy, is Representative Adam Putnam from Florida. He has seen a meteoric rise through the House Republican ranks since coming to Congress in 2001 and is currently the fourth ranking Republican in the House. He has become something of the Republican show horse and is often trotted out to deliver statements mainly because the usual spokesmen look embalmed and they're hoping to shift the demographics. His biggest claim to fame so far has been his attack on Nancy Pelosi for her choice of government aircraft to shuttle her back and forth between San Francisco and Washington.
But I have saved the best for last. And that would be the nerdy guy standing behind Boehner's right shoulder. The inestimable congressman from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Eric Cantor. To say that he is dumber than a bag of hammers is to insult hammers. More than once he has been absolutely skewered by Chris Matthews for his nonsensical unintelligible statements. He is the male Republican equivalent of Sarah Palin. Be that as it may, he is, in fact, the Deputy Minority Whip. Go figure.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, the great political leaders who yesterday in a fit of pique served up with a huge helping of right-wing ideology sent the stock market tumbling 777 points and put the country in its greatest economic peril since the Great Depression. But after all, what's more important, one's principles or the welfare of the people of the United States?
The answer to that question has never been in doubt.
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