the rix mix

I'm amused by the chatter of cooperation & bipartisanship coming out the new Democratic majority congress. Maybe time for that later. But Democrats were elected to undo the gawdawful actions & attitudes of the Republicans, it would be crazy to expect their help when we know they'll only hinder the effort. The task at hand is comparable to the one Heracles faced when he cleaned out the Augean Stables. The Repugs are hardly going to shovel up their own shit. They know when the investigations begin there's no way to avoid having their noses rubbed in it. There are so many dirty secrets to expose, you can just pick what most interests you. I want to know how our military services were privatized, who got rich from it, & why there's secretive, paramilitary blackshirted mercenaries running loose in Iraq, Afghanistan, & the United States, paid by our government but operating outside our military command structure. Scary stuff. But the sort of ugliness that Jim Webb in the Senate & Charlie Rangel & John Murtha in the House, are eminently qualified to examine.

My favorite new senator is Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont. Generally considered ultra-liberal in this country, my distant, suburbanite & liberal British cousin Jan would recognize Bernie as a sensible, mainstream Labourite. (Bernie's brother Larry emigrated to England in the 60s, lives in Oxfordshire County & is active in the Green Party. )