Political Pawning...

PK’s article hits a responsive note with most of us. I also connected it with a piece I found today by William river Pitts on the www.Truth-out.org blog site. Here is the beginning of the piece: [It is entitled: Class Warfare My Ass.]

I have been saying this for years upon years, but it bears repeating: the most awesome, fearsome, and effective weapon in the arsenal of the modern Republican Party is their total, utter and complete lack of shame.

That weapon - the ability to say or do anything, literally anything, even as it flies in the face of on-the-record comments made just the day before, or contradicts thousands of votes cast in congresses past - is the equivalent of a battlefield-deployed tactical nuclear weapon. It clears the field, but good, and if everything is ashes in the aftermath, so be it. So long as effective spin makes the news cycle, it's a victory for them, and screw the people who get hurt.

The GOP wins when that is the contest, and that is all they care about...and the awful irony comes when the very people getting screwed are up on their feet cheering after the deal goes down, because "their team" won the day.

I am often amazed at the inability of right to take any responsibility for the damage they have done to this country in recent years, then blithely condemn the present administration for things they began. And then continue to block actions that help bring the country back a better place.

On Bradblog.com I found more of this shameless activity about the Koch brothers, the ones that held secret meetings of high rollers for the Republican party. These guys dumped at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled benzene in was streams at its Corpus Christi refinery. Under the Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft dropped 88 counts over the spill in exchange for a guilty plea to falsifying documents and a $20 million dollar fine (which could have been a 320 million dollar fine. A pretty good return on the $32,000 known contributions to the 2000 Bush campaign. Nobody went to jail on that one. But in their words they are “waging the mother of all wars” to regain the white house.