Political Theater of the Absurd

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

Buzz Flash,

Tragedy/Comedy: Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expressions of grief. Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

Tragedy was the election in 2000 due to election fraud and the partisan, political interference of the U.S. Supreme Court that will forever tarnish that court. After that, it was one tragedy after another for eight long years.The Bush GOP members of Congress are talking about the trials in New York regarding 9/11 as being dangerous. The world is dangerous today because of the Bush GOP regime and their acts of terrorism around the world, using as an excuse, the word, terrorism, as in "fighting terrorism." Every act of violence is an act of terrorism. Just ask the victims. Bush, right after 9/11, bombed and killed close to 5,000 innocent people in Afghanistan. People, who had nothing to do with bin Laden or 9/11. Think about that number of deaths due to revenge. An action to please the blood thirsty people in this country at the time. No leadership at all in that action. It was cold-blooded murder.

Bush and Cheney had two to three months of warnings before 9/11 and took them seriously enough to warn friends not to fly commercial flights, such as Ashcroft and Willie Brown to name a couple who confessed of being the recipients of such warnings. Just as we Americans experienced for eight long years of the Bush/Cheney GOP leadership . . . no thought as to what their actions or lack of actions would cause to others, including the airlines. Why no accountability? Why do the Bush Republicans get to pick and choose what they want to remember about history? They remember 9/11, but fail to remember that if Bush had been a responsible resident of the White House, and had the American people and the airlines been warned, 9/11 most likely could have been prevented.

I don't know how the majority of Americans are feeling today, but, after what we have seen funneling down from the Republican Party for the last 30 years, and especially the last eight years, coupled with what the Democratic administration has been able to do in the last nine months . . . where's the leadership? Where's the accountability? Responsibility? We didn't have responsible leadership during the Bush/Cheney administration. We had crimes being committed throughout their eight year reign. We see in the news that Ft. Hood is going to be investigated for that horrible criminal act of violence. Good, it should be. From what we've read, they had warnings, just as most of those type of violent crimes do, but people fail to take them seriously until it's too late.

Where's the investigations to hold those responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the deaths of our own military and National Guard? To this day, in DC, Republicans whine and complain about the cost of healthcare for the American people, yet, we don't hear a word about the billions still being spent daily on death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's seems almost impossible to get our members of Congress to save lives instead of taking them. It can't be said enough, how many members in Congress tried to stop the illegal invasion into Iraq and Afghanistan? It's too easy to give death sentences to people whose faces they can't see. The American public has also been prevented from seeing the death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. We did see it in New Orleans, and that city is still in need of a face lift.

Also taken from the news and many felt that this guy should never have been in Obama's administration in the first place, no surprise here . . . brutal report issued Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner — then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nation’s Treasury Secretary — responsible for overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs.

How does Congress feel about those dollars, eh? A watered down healthcare bill is not going to save lives and we Americans are not stupid enough to accept anything less than what we need for this country. Why is it so difficult to get a Congress that is supposed to work for the American people . . . to actually work for the American people! Senator Reid uses a news conference to talk the talk about the progress and their cooperation (paraphrasing) with the Republicans . . . would the Democrats cooperate with known bank robbers who haven't been charged? Probably, because cooperating with the very political Party that supported the debt, death, and destruction brought about by the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration is not something to boast about. It only tells us Americans that we really do need a whole hellava lot more change in D.C. People need jobs today, and decent healthcare . . . and, as fast as Congress is moving, the people in this country will be ready for retirement before these problems are even close to being solved.

Today, the same Bush GOP, instead of trying to solve the problems the Bush/Cheney/Rove regime brought down on this country (the debt, death, and destruction that no one seems to want to take credit for), instead, are thinking about the next election, which, in my opinion, if this government made people accountable, the Bush GOP in D.C. would be more cooperative than they have been. Many Republicans (males) have said that they think Palin is a "hottie?" I agree. She is exactly the face of the Republican Party today. And, Palin should do well with the Party because Republicans believe only what they want to believe. Truth and honesty have nothing to do with what they choose to believe.

Palin is just another member of the Bush GOP preaching, phobophobia, the fear of fear itself. What would the Bush GOP do without "fear?" All looks and no substance . . . and, that is exactly what brought this country to its knees during the Bush GOP regime. The utter arrogance of thinking that the Executive Branch of the US is a whole lot less than being a soccer mom or a governor, which she quit, is oh, so Republican. An empty book with just a cover. The Republican Party of "No" exhibits complete disrespect for democracy and for the people of this nation. They don't give a damn as long as their greed for power is fulfilled and others take the blame for their mistakes. Power without responsibility. Under Bush, that's what they became used to.

The Obama administration has substance, but it seems to be nailed down, unable to move. We cannot move this democracy forward until there is accountability for the last eight years, and we do not need to be making friends with those who supported that criminal and treasonous regime. Again, taking the old saying, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer," a little too seriously? What can be gained by giving into the Republicans who want to blame Obama for what Bush/Cheney/Rove did to this country, and they say so every chance they get, hoping that the American people will forget these last eight criminally treasonous years. I would think that Obama would have learned years ago, that giving into such racist, disagreeable types, reaps nothing more than contempt and disrespect. Want their respect . . . bring the law down on these people. Show some anger and a whole hellava lotta passion about the job. Do what is right for the American people . . . this is your legacy President Obama, and, frankly, we, the American people, don't need the okay from those who have supported the illegal and treasonous regime of the Bush GOP. Democracy does not need them. The US is on its knees because of them.

What this country needs is a swift kick in the pants of our Justice System to get it moving. Why do the Republicans think that someone as empty headed as Palin could be a winner in the future? Because they have had that already with Bush, and there's been no accountability, no fear regarding mistakes and crimes of yesteryear. Their pockets get filled when the U.S. is without any leadership at all. The last time this country had strong, dedicated Democratic leadership was before Nixon.

More along the lines of the absurd is the attack on women by Stupak, and he's supposed to be a Democrat and in his ninth term, however, he is also a Catholic, and as it's been in the news, the suggestion that this attack on women's health and right to choose comes from the Catholic Church . . . it's not a jump out of reality to assume he's doing the bidding of the Catholic Church. Every time we see men in Congress use their power over women to do such unthinkable abuses, which punishes mostly poor women, (because we all know that money in D.C. buys everything from power to privacy) we have to wonder, would they be so open if this was all about orchiectomies? Women are still not treated with much respect in U.S. society when it comes to the Republican Party and power. It's not been that long ago, since women got the vote, or women were able to get good jobs, along with decent salaries for women doing the same jobs as other professional males, or when rape was questioned in a U.S. court using a coke bottle. It hasn't been that many years in U.S. history since women were expected to stay at home, have children, and bake cookies, and then women found out that they can have a career, a life of their own choosing, and do it all, unless they happen to be married to today's ideology of the Republican male.

What's disappointing about this Stupak bill is that he is one of those Democrats who should be running on a GOP ticket. He is not a Democrat. Whatever his personal beliefs are, they do not belong in a democracy that protects the rights of all individuals and their beliefs. This is an abuse of power. It's oh, so Republican.

One of the most absurd problems with the Democratic Party is that it has too many members of the GOP running on a Democratic ticket and voting and supporting the Republican Party. This allows the GOP to rule both parties. We will never see Republicans voting Democratic. Never. This is not a religious thing, and it should never be decided by any male outside the lives of any females having to make such decisions. Women have the right to make decisions over their own lives, their own bodies in the same way that men prefer doing their own thing regarding their own bodies. It's years past the time that Democrats get rid of those who are not Democrats in this Party. They do a disservice to the whole Democratic community, and it is another reason why people have trouble in today's world, telling the difference between the Bush GOP and some Democrats.

In a real, working democracy, religion and personal beliefs are not made into laws. This is an abusive move towards women and the men in those women's lives, and a power move by the Catholic Church. Again, the stories concerning many families and the decisions they have had to make cannot be taken lightly by people such as Rep. Stupak, and he has no right to judge. The wealthy members in Congress cannot relate to the other 95% of American society. Their lives are too comfortable and instead of doing the bidding of the majority of the people, they take their orders from those with special wants, such as the Catholic Church, so it seems, in this case.

Speaking of judging . . . more absurdity in the news lately . . .

As attorney general of New York, Spitzer had a reputation for cracking down on white-collar crime. He was elected governor but lasted only 15 months, resigning in March 2008 amid revelations that he had spent tens of thousands of dollars as a client of a prostitution ring. And the madam who ran that business said Wednesday she is outraged that the ex-governor is lecturing a paying audience on ethics.

Madam Slams Eliot Spitzer's Talk at Harvard Ethics Center -- Sphere News, Opinion and Analysis

I have to wonder, why should this "madam" feel she has the right to judge Spitzer, she took his money didn't she? Absurd? Only in America.

Leave the matter of religion to the family . . . the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the Church and the State forever separate. Ulysses S. Grant, speech, Des Moines, Iowa, 1875.

The Bush/Cheney/Rove regime just about killed US democracy. It's months past the time for the Obama administration to begin breathing life back into our democracy. Until that happens, nothing will change. When something or someone is almost DOA, it takes drastic measures, powerful measures, at once, not months from now, not years from now . . . and, whatever Obama does, the Bush GOP will try to kill it because that's all they know . . . debt, death, and destruction. Resuscitation will not come from those who supported the near decapitation of U.S. democracy by following along, and doing the bidding of the dictatorial Bush/Cheney/Rove imperial regime.

Thanks Buzz Flash,

Shirley Smith

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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