For Democrats and Deadheads, the Gilded Party
January 5th, 2007Enemy Collaborator Democrats—out to escalate “The War on Terror”—and their shit for brains hangers-on, throw a weird, feel-good event, complete with the decrepit remnants of the Grateful Dead!? Man, if this isn’t a revolution, what is?
The Grateful Dead. This thing almost has a Wellsian darkness about it…
No matter how low I set my expectations for the Democrats, they always, and I mean ALWAYS, manage to amaze, amuse and astound me with their sycophantic freak shows.
Via: Washington Post:
Despite the promised “new direction for America,” getting the money out of politics and all of that, some facts of Washington life appear immutable and eternal.
“One hundred hours to make this the most honest and open Congress in history,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared at the beginning of a history-making day — which ended last night with the Democrat from California presiding over a glitzy fundraiser open to anyone with $1,000 for a ticket.
A few folks in the block-long line of partygoers waiting to get into the National Building Museum — social activists, feminists, union organizers, fat-cat liberals, Hollywood allies and not a few serious Deadheads — did sense the cognitive dissonance. They promptly dismissed it in a tidal wave of idealism about the future under the nation’s first female speaker of the House.
They had waited a long time for this night to party, nibble on goat cheese ravioli with pumpkin and truffle, wipe their lips with paper napkins embossed in gold with “Speaker Pelosi January 4, 2007,” listen to former members of the Grateful Dead sing “Truckin’ ” and Tony Bennett sing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
“Democrats are back!” Pelosi said in her remarks during the few minutes reporters were permitted inside. “We are ready to lead, prepared to govern and determined to make you proud.”
Wow…I watched some of that congressional swearing in bullshit on tv. All that kept going thru my head was,”Who the hell are these people?” Close behind was, “How much does this shit cost?”. Unbelievable. Someone ought to put video of that crap on Youtube with the Beatles song Piggies from the White Album for background music.
The U.S. political system is so incredibly depressing, and has so little chance of actually solving any real problems.
Here is a potential antidote:
Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
Here is a good review “great book. it will change your life. inspirational. informative. easy to read. there are more facts and ideas and solutions than doom and gloom. you’ll want to buy two: one for work and one for home. love this book.”
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It was an eloquent example of every more sound and fury on prominent display, yet as always, signifying nothing.