November 30, 2002
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Ever since Dubya stole the presidency from Gore (Gore got more votes, remember?), thus perverting and debasing our political system even further, three questions regarding Republicans in general keep coming to mind? Have they no shame? Have they no decency? Have they no intelligence? Well, I have finally gotten a partial answer to one of those semi-rhetorical questions.
If you have been paying attention to the news, Dubya and his cronies have been doing lots more damage to America this week. They rolled back clean-air standards by about ten years, so Dubya’s rich buddies can pour more poison than ever into the air we breath. The creeps in Washington are working hard to do away with your Miranda rights. And finally, and most egregiously, SOMEONE managed to tack a rider onto the Home Security Act (which is really fucked up–fucked up from the point of view of those who cherish the Bill of Rights–to begin with), which would exempt a major drug company from liability suits stemming from kid’s dying from their vaccine with a rather questionable ingredient.
The drug companie in question donated $1.8 or so million to various politicos, 79% to the Republicans. And boy are they getting a good return on their investment. Now here is the interesting part, and I promise I will get to the point very soon.
As you know, politicians like to take credit for stuff, whether they had anything really to do with it or not. (Was it Al Gore who once claimed to be the father of the Internet?) Anyway, according to the New York Times, the latest party game in Washington is trying to guess who added that rider to the Act–no one seems to know.
Thus, one of my little questions–Have they no shame?–has been partially answered. They have no decency or intelligence, really, but at least, one or two of them have some shame, expressed by the anonymity of the malefactor who paid back Big Pharm big time. It stinks.
The whole system stinks. And I keenly await the day the whole sorry mess comes crashing down under its own weight. It has already started happening.
Comments (5)
go gore!
I have it on good authority that Dubya is a sociopath. It’s in his eyes, too. Sociopaths have no shame, no conscience, but they learn to keep up a front socially. I guess it’s good that someone in the administration has some empathy and compassion for the rest of us.
“It’s already begun.” (meaning, a change). Alas, a refrain I heard from grownups when I was hardly out of diapers. Have you noticed that something is always beginning to happen but nothing ever happens? Another refrain which is popular: “It’s getting worse.”
Seeing has I didn’t have my son get his shots…or most of them anyway. I hope never to have to deal with this. But folks who don’t know/or don’t care are in for a long bumpy ride. MAKE a great day!
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