I don’t know who disgusts me more – President NObama, Senator John “I Have Two Purple Hearts” Kerry, or every single member of the Congress of the United States, Demoncratic, Republican, and Independents alike.
If you’ve been paying attention to the news about the economic status of the United States and the impending recession – that’s right, friends and neighbors, recession – then you know what the source of my disgust is. And right behind being disgusted I’m also scared shitless as to what the future is going to bring our nation, thanks to the morons, idiots, and downright assholes in the great stinkhole known as Washington , DC.
So let’s start at the top where, in the words of President Truman, “the buck stops.”
Unless you’re Barack NObama, that is.
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I always thought that the President of the United States was supposed to put political party affiliation aside once he’s in office, and run the country in a fair, impartial manner, holding both houses of Congress responsible and calling them to task when need be.
Unless you’re Barack NObama, that is. If you’re Barack NObama you continue to side with the Demoncratic party, totally ignoring the blockades to an agreement on the debt ceiling put in place by your fellow jackasses and placing the blame squarely on the Republicans. You get up in front of the nation and hold a press conference, specifically blaming those in the Congress who disagree with your socialistic and uber-liberal views, and you chastise them for not being “understanding” and “cooperating” and doing “what’s best for the nation.”
Never mind that your fellow jackasses in the Demoncratic party are doing the same thing. Oh, by all means, let’s not confuse the issue with facts, shall we?
And then when an agreement is finally reached and the debt ceiling is raised – not averting financial disaster but only postponing it – you stand up in front of the nation again and laud your fellow jackasses for the fine work they did in getting the agreement hammered out.
Fair and impartial. Riiiiiight.
Just about now I’m sure all of you who voted for this man are going to start with the usual chorus of, “It’s not his fault, he inherited this problem from George Bush!” Well, that’s not gonna fly with me, and here’s why – like it or not, the President of the United States, while he may not be the one who caused the issue, is the one who is ultimately RESPONSIBLE for it simply because he’s the President. It’s as simple as that. And it was the same way during the Bush administration as well – he didn’t cause the economic issues facing his administration, but he was RESPONSIBLE for it because he was the President.
And if memory serves me correctly, all of the Bush-bashers out there who are now rabid NObamabots said the same thing about Bush then that I’m saying about NObama now – you can’t avoid the responsibility just because you inherited it from the previous administration!
Which would be “Slick Willy” Clinton, by the way, another member of the Demoncratic party.
Now, for those of you who are going to retort with the statement that “Slick Willy” was the last President to have a balanced budget, I’m sorry to inform you that you’re wrong. According to the ultimate source, that source being the Federal governments’ own accounting office, the last president to have a balanced budget was Dwight David Eisenhower. So that pretty much ends that, and I don’t give a good Goddamn what CNN says.
So the debt ceiling is raised, and the nation’s economic rating is subsequently downgraded for the first time in the nation’s history despite the “historic agreement” Congress hammered out in the 11th Hour. And then, a few days later, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are downgraded as well, causing the stock market to continue its record tumble.
This is the part where Senator John “I Have Two Purple Hearts” Kerry comes in. This jackass gets up in front of the cameras and places blame for the downgrading squarely upon the Tea Party, claiming that their “radical” ideas (emphasis is mine, not his) on reducing spending and cutting the size of the government are the cause of the downgrade.
So lemme get this straight: the financial wizards at S&P who did the downgrading think that cutting spending and not going further into debt is a bad idea? Somehow, I just don’t think so… Seems to me that all Kerry did is prove what a pompous, ignorant jackass he really is, and if he’s thinking about another shot at the Presidency then I have two words for him: Swift Boat. ‘Nuff said.
That brings me to the band of merry idiots who are responsible for this mess in the first place, that band of idiots being every single member of Congress. This cluster of clueless clowns has steered the country on a course of rampant spending and over-extending of resources for decades, passing the responsibility for the mess from one President to the next and never having to worry about getting their hands dirty from it. After all, the President is the one who’s responsible and will catch all the flak, right?
Unfortunately, that is a correct statement. These self-centered, non-caring assholes are able to get away with this kind of crap for two reasons: one, they keep finding equally clueless people to vote for them, and two, there are NO TERM LIMITS in Congress. And make no mistake about it, if we didn’t have a House and a Senate that was full of fatcat politicians embedded in the hide of the government deeper than an Alabama tick we wouldn’t have this problem. If you want to get right down to brass tacks and the harsh reality of it all, the President isn’t the one who’ running the country no matter who that person may be – the ones who are running it are the members of Congress. The President is nothing more than a figurehead in a lot of instances, a temporary occupant of the White House whose policies and power expire at the end of eight years at the most when his term is over. The next President is free to reverse things the previous one may have done – such as Bush not extending the Clinton-era gun ban – and there’s nothing that the old President can do about it.
Congress, on the other hand, faces no such limitations because they don’t face a term limit, so they’re free to wreak havoc for as long as they can fool the public into electing them.
I am a firm supporter of term limits for members of Congress, and I sincerely hope I live to see the day when term limits become the law of the land. Of course, that may very well never happen because who are the ones who have to draft and approve the law?
Why, the members of Congress, of course.
But there is hope, and unfortunately the circumstances that will bring it about are somewhat less than ideal. If the economy does what I think it’s gonna do and tanks, thereby causing a full-blown recession, I have a feeling that the outcry from the public is gonna be so loud, so long, and so severe that several things will happen: NObama will become a one-term President, and the members of Congress are going to be forced by popular opinion to enact term limits.
So our choices are not to have a recession and let Congress continue to screw things up for us, or have a recession which will cause the nation to have a new President and enact term limits for members of Congress.
Some choice, huh?
IHC
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