Today marks the 69th anniversary of one of history's biggest military blind-sides, when the Japanese attacked the US Navy at Pearl Harbour and kicked off the Pacific Theatre portion of dubya dubya two. Alot of brave men and women died that day and this post is meant in no way as an insult to their sacrifice. In fact, I am using it as a clarion call to anyone (and it probably is only 'one') that reads this to pay attention to what is going on in this country, and to gird their loins for the upcoming conflict.
Today, December 7th 2010, President Obama made it official, he becamse the greatest republican president of the new century. He accepted the deal (if by 'deal' you mean steaming pile of rancid horseshit) offered by the republicans regarding their platform promise of 'Leave No Millionaire Behind'. Obama has once again proven his willingness to unilaterally fuck over the stupid motherfuckers that thought that he really meant what he said on the campaign trail. 'Hope' and 'Change' apparently only apply when the President is speechifying, and do not actually come into play when dealing with any real policy decisions. I, along with tens of millions of other voters in America, didn't see the asterisk that must have been on the campaign banners. We didn't read the small print disclaimers in the campaign brochures that apparently stated 'Actual hope and change may differ once elected'.
So here we are trying to digest the news that the republicans in congress got absolutely everything their greedy, blackened hearts desired, PLUS concessions on the estate tax which, although they affect less then one tenth of one percent of the total population, have been so successfully marketed by the gop and their whores in the M$M as the "death tax" that the President apparently caved, well, just because. All we're left with on the left is the minor concession from the Millionaires Club (aka the House of Representatives) that the unemployed get their benefits extended for 13-months. Got that? Tax breaks for everybody (but most importantly the jet-set) extended for 2 years PLUS give backs on the estate tax, PLUS a holiday on payroll tax, but the unemployed get only 13 months of relief, and if you've been unemployed for 99+ weeks already, well that's just too fucking bad, you get a nice big helping of sweet fuck-all.
Calling him a republican isn't a case of irrational hyperbole, it isn't a case of a screaming liberal like myself going ever-so slightly mental because I didn't get my fucking pony, or because Obama didn't send the entire gop to re-education camps as soon as he was sworn into office. No, this is the plain god-awful truth.
Don't believe me? Look at the facts.
Since being inaugurated he has: failed to close Gitmo, allowed the spying on US citizens to continue unabated(he apparently missed the fourth amendment class at Harvard whilst becoming a 'constitutional scholar'), given a multi-billion dollar gift to the health care industry and insurers and called it 'health care reform', extended the scheduled 2011 exit date from Afghanisnam to 2014 at the earliest (and somehow still managed to win the Nobel Peace Prize in the process, fuck knows how), he has declared that the President has the authority to execute American citizens abroad without due process, he has defended the previous adminstrations use of torture by failing to investigate or prosecute the offenders and now he has validated the bush tax cuts, and in the process fucked the terminally unemployed.
I know of no real Democrat that would ever, EVER, think that any of those actions were acceptable in any manner, shape or form, and yet when he was ushered into office with a massive majority in both chambers of congress, and an absolute mandate from the people to change course from the previous policies of division, he barely changed a thing. Oh sure, the press conferences now feature complete sentences, and when the President says he reads alot of books no-one sniggers and asks if they have lots of pictures, but when it comes to actual change, you know, doing things differently than before, well that just hasn't fucking happened. And judging by today's latest capitulation it isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
With this guy in office and a republican majority in the House the next two years could be very, very rough indeed.
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