More inappropriate thoughts

Amidst all the keening & rending of garments about Wikileaks, I think we are missing the true motivations of the U.S. Government apparatchiks who are wailing the loudest. These cables will be the political equivalent of Gravity's Rainbow, frequently cited but never read. As embarrassing as the 250,000 State Dept cables might be, it is hardly shocking. American diplomats have a condescending & chauvinistic attitude towards their host countries? Gasp!... Many of the thuggish satraps we've installed as custodial dictators around the Middle East parrot our views about Iran which are total contravention of the sentiments of the people they govern... that is surprising. Hillary Clinton might violate the intent & the letter of the law to further her own agenda? Say it isn't so... As humiliating as these revelations are, or should be for a democracy with some notion of honor or decency, that cow already left the barn & that toothpaste is not getting back in the tube.

Joe Lieberman's machinations to strangle Wikileaks' Paypal Account & access to the Amazon distribution cloud... the Department of Defense Denial of Service attacks against their host servers... the thoughtful cries from the traditional media to take out Julian Assange with a predator drone strike are not intended to undo or ameliorate the damage of those documents already leaked. This is a pre-mptive strike to bottle up distribution channels in anticipation of the document dump that will compromise Bank of America. Lieberman, The Pentagon, The Post & Times don't forget for 1 second for whom they are working.

Kudos to our corporate overlords on installing Barry Obama. Contrary to the heartwarming tales of schoolchildren sending their dimes to Obama for America, one of the most creative PR gambits since Hill & Knowlton had Iraqi soldiers tossing babies out of incubators, it was no secret that far & away his largest financial sugartit was Goldman Sachs. GS has been predictably rewarded by the placement of their well-fed stooges at the helm of the Treasury & Council of Economic Advisors. Business as usual. Whatevs...

I will shamefacedly admit that I was timidly hopeful that, in spite of his provenance, given an overwhelming mandate & two houses of Congress to back him up, Obama might deliver some modicum of the change we were promised. We now see that, regardless of being nominally graced with more intellectual heft, Obama is the most do nothing President since Warren G. Harding. Unfortunately, the necrotic moral compass of the American electorate is incapable of outrage, so no modern day Teapot Dome will bring this government down... although it might get on the next season of Skating with the Stars. But only recently has it occurred to me how masterfully the plutocrats have tweaked us. This four year interregnum will reinforce all their stereotypes of Barrack as the Shiftless Negro. Absurd because Barrack Obama could not be more divorced from the African American experience if he'd shared a bedroom with Wally & The Beave inside a black & white Philco TV set. The risibility of Barry's blackness notwithstanding, The American People will be primed to elect the reanimated corpse of Theodore Bilbo in a landslide come 2012. Well played, gentlemen.

Asylum for the Criminally Inane

The term Fascism is bandied about carelessly in our thoughtless American political discourse, but it is indeed what we have in this country now. The plutocracy has effectively gamed both parties to prevent any Liberal/ Progressive/Leftist policies from succeeding. Clinton & Obama were both stalking horses for the Corporatist agenda. There are a very few honorable men who still serve the interests of their constituents in both parties... but sincere progressives must recognize that the Democratic Party no longer represents them. Democrats collude with Republicans to advance Corporate interests. Democrats will continue to screw their base in the same way that Republicans screwed their base. We will never get DADT repealed... hey will never get an Anti-Abortion amendment. What we will get, regardless of who controls the White House & Congress is more regressive taxes and fewer regulations which might impede the flow of wealth from bottom to top.

Sincere progressives would do well to make common cause with the Teahadists. Glenn Beck is a cat's paw for Rupert Murdoch, the quintessential Corporate thug. Beck is Howard Beal, ranting & spouting nonsense that sells overpriced gold & adult diapers while driving ratings for his boss. His prescriptions to fix what is wrong with this country are categorically wrong & ridiculous. But he is channeling the fear, frustration & anger of people who rightly recognize something is, in fact, wrong. Most Liberal/Progressives are too busy laughing at these people for wearing tri-corn hats & carrying Gadsden flags to realize that their sincere agita is a resource that could fuel meaningful change.

Liberals justifiably decry their antipodes for being racists... and they are... this is a racist nation... we've been soaking in it for five centuries. If Liberals were a little more honest they would they would acknowledge the bigoted timbers in their own eyes. Then recognize that all previous movements that accomplished anything worthwhile were racist at the outset. Amongst the Abolitionists Methodists didn't like the Baptists & everybody hated the Quakers. The Suffragists, which mutated into the Temperance movement, were classist & nativist. The Labor movements of the early 20th Century were frequently segregated. Colored folks were not welcome at the Chautauquas. The Black Panthers were sexist. Progress doesn't happen all at once. Once everyone is jointly engaged toward some greater purpose, tribal differences will pale. This is the lesson we all should have learned on the decorating committee for Junior Prom.

God shed his grace on thee

Every American should be able to live in a million dollar home regardless of income or credit history