America’s an addict, out-of-control, doesn’t care who gets hurts

[kpete]

Yes, the Four Horsemen, again. The perfect biblical metaphor for today’s bizarre world, where irrational ideologies prey on us, driving America deep into a dark world we’ve seen before: Goethe’s Faust, Dorian Gray, Dante’s Inferno.

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How else to accept today’s bizarre plot line: A decade ago Republican George W. Bush took our great nation into a $3 trillion war on lies. Today that party is mindlessly controlled by a cultish anti-tax pledge made to lobbyist Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform group, who once proclaimed: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Yes, drown. Kill. Folks, this insane plot line has advanced into a no-compromise, scorched-earth vow to do everything necessary to drown the presidency and reinstall another conservative who will return America to the Wild West policies that sabotaged it in the Bush/Cheney years.

They’ve become a vengeful cult that will never back the president on anything, even their own job-growth policies. Will even destroy the economy to achieve their goals. They do not care about democracy. They want absolute control. And they’re succeeding.

MORE:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/an-apocalyptic-end-to-worlds-biggest-bubble-2011-10-25?siteid=rss
(of all places...)

[kpete]

1. what?

not a peep?

[Kaleko]

4. Oh, I'm late. Ok, Thunderous applause by one

person at least. :)

Paul Farrell is a guy who gets a lot of what's really going down. Has been for years.

[davekriss]

2. K & R

[cliffordu]

3. Yep. perfect. K&R

[Initech]

5. I've always wondered why the people who really want to get elected really hate government.

It's mind boggling that there's such sadists out there - I think the way to change is to tell these people to shut the fuck up and start electing people who really care about the job. That's what needs to happen!