Harry Reid continues in his fraternity with political skanks like Tom Delay by calling his Republican colleagues “un-American” for threatening to filibuster the Perpetual Wall Street Bailout Reform measure proposed by Chris “Thanks for the Cheap Mortgage” Dodd. The last time I heard that word it was coming from Republicans and we were about to perpetrate illegal war in Iraq.
And, of course, that’s just what this bill is. It’s a different kind of war, a financial war on the American people; a way to enable the worst sort of gambling addicts, the kind that would sell his mother’s house out from under her for another go at Vegas. That’s Lloyd Blankfein for you. He and his cronies bet against their own people, the people who provide the freedoms they enjoy, who support this country with their blood, sweat, and tears. That’s un-American.
And neither party will do a thing about it; they will just keep gorging like the ticks they are, slipped in here and there among the scales of the giant vampire squid that is Goldman Sachs and the finance/banking industry. Both sides are playing kabuki. Republicans, the former heroes of Wall Street, are filibustering the toothless Democratic bill because it causes Wall Street to dump more bank into their coffers. The Democrats, the new heroes of Wall Street, have offered what amounts to a sweetheart deal to the financial sector, including a new authority to provide a hotline for bailouts. It does not regulate derivatives or any of the other fishy practices that got us into this mess. Instead, our elected crooks want to adopt those practices by forcing a value added tax, which will, among other things, allow them to tax more of your food.
Don’t you see? They’re colluding with each other, just like Goldman Sachs colluded with John Paulson to dupe everybody. It’s maddening to see them arrange things just so and command their bullhorns, turning crowds of people into ignorant, partisan baffoons. In this kind of environment, it is impossible to know what is right and what is real, and that is just the point of it all. That’s also the point of our Chaos Party. Do something about it. Do something unexpected. Take a chance even if you think you’ll get fucked over. You will get fucked over if you do nothing or keep doing what you’re doing.
