the rix mix

So what is America learning this week? That John McCain tried to convince us he's one of the Senate's top bananas & now we know he isn't, if we didn't already know it. He suspends his campaign in a panic, rushes off to D.C. (stopping by first to see Couric), but ends up sitting at the same table with Obama in a photo op arranged by that Great Statesman George W. Bush.

Aide: You better sit on this phone book, Senator McCain.

The American people are furious, just furious about the $700 bil. We're still paying for the wars, then they send us checks to fix the economy, it doesn't work & now they want the money back - for a start. Dems say maybe that amount's a bit too low, Repugs say they might be cool with it if rich folks get off the hook, throw in some highest bracket tax breaks. We want to blame somebody, but the tentacles of the beast go every which way. The only Senator with the right to take it from the outside is the only overt socialist in the room, agree with him or not, hello Bernie Sanders of Vermont. It wasn't his beast. Odd thing, Wall Street owned the guv'mint, & now guv'mint is buyng Wall Street. Maybe Repugs really are secret Trotskyites.

* "The stench of carrion rises from the vile, base Trotskyite degenerates." Nikita Khrushchev, Moscow, January 1937.

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