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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Elvis Has Left The Building Again

Today was the opening day of the new Congress. Something I have been waiting for with baited breath.  No, not really, I was just kidding.  So out with Nancy Pelosi and in with John Boehner, the orange-skinned crying man.  Don't get me wrong, I have never been a Pelosi fan.  She did a few good things, but she was mostly a failure, as was the majority of the Democrats in Congress.  They had the opportunity to do good things and they wasted it. 

So now we have Boehner and his merry band of lunatic fringe corporatists, lobbyists, beauty pageant airheads and hangers on who have no clue about how government is supposed to work but they have been told it is bad by the cream of the crop experts like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh so that is good enough for them.  Keep the government out of my Medicare they cry!   Wait........oh never mind, it wouldn't matter anyway.  Sense and sanity left this country long ago.

So we are left with what?  Not much.  We have let the fox back into the hen house and we are going to see how that works out.  Albert Einstein was a genius in more ways than one (you know, he said that insanity was doing the same thing over and over thing).  Can't wait to see what the first order of business is, probably trying to repeal that healthcare thingy that can't be repealed but we are going to try anyway because the lemmings want us too.  Then on to the business of continuing to not do anything to help the country unless it makes the President look bad.  Not that the President hasn't done well enough on his own.  You know, trying to play nice with people who hate you is not something I would recommend. It tends to, you know, fail and make you look bad.

As someone who has been unemployed for two years now, I have no hope for better things to come.  No, I suspect much worse is coming.  A man I used to work with once said something profound that at the time I paid no heed to.  He said if you look back at history, all great empires have fallen.  Who is to say the United States won't be the next one on the list?   

We probably should all learn to speak Chinese.