Who elects these people anyway? If the likes of John Boehner and Michelle Bachman (just to mention a couple of shameless nut cases) actually get elected by vote and by the people… one is left to wonder what do the people they represent and vote for them look like. In other words, if this are the sane and “responsible” ones, what are the ones that elect them like? I can see Michelle been elected by the patients at the asylum she comes from. What state is she from again? Kind of scary if you think about it… planning a vacation in country anytime soon?
While I was making this caricature of John Boehner I kept feeling that it looked like someone very familiar and peculiar. It just hit me when I saw it posted… remember Fantasy Island? Does he look like Tattoo or what? Or is it more like Billy Bob Thornton, What do you think?
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We started the “America’s Most Wanted” series with Joe “The Snake” Lieberman thinking that hands down he will be the ultimate most wanted champion. Come to think of it, it may not so easy… Here comes Michelle “Crazy” Bachman to give Joe a run for his money. I’m kind of thinking of framing the most obvious “Most Wanted” characters out of the way first and than move towards more subtle choices. Something is bound to jump here and there along the way but for now she’s most defiantly in the hall of fame and well deserving of a spot right on the top of America’s Most Wanted list. What do you think?
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Perhaps no one is more fitting to start the “America’s Most Wanted” series than Joe “The Snake” Lieberman. This guy almost single-handed added the straw (of should I say the whole haystack) that broke the camel’s back. I was interesting to see his expressions at the state of the union address when the cameras surreptitiously centered on him while the subject of serving “special interest” was being addressed in the speech. He’s now officially the poster child for subject of government corruption. Way to go Joe.
I’m still debating what the reward amount should be. Any ideas? Be mindful that in the Michelle “the alarmist” Bachman poster the reward is $ 0.25.
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Please don’t FORGET and DONATE. Whatever your faith and/or beliefs this is a good opportunity for honest to goodness redemption. The people in Haiti STILL need you!!
Here’re some legit links for donations (even some credit card companies are rebating processing fees for these donations).
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(You can text “YELE” to 501501 to automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund, charged to your cell phone bill. This is Wyclef Jean’s Haiti charity)
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Oh, no the sky is falling!! Do they mean that the sky is falling again? “Democrats” are now running around all panicky and feeling destitute about losing the 60-vote filibuster proof majority… yeah, like they had it just before and look what happened. I mean seriously, what’s the difference? In my mind the “wake up call” had already come when we all came to realize that “special interest” and “money” rule above all. We saw the very democratic majority we thought we had elected (the mandate) to effectuate “change we can believe in” being the ones who most effectively blocked and derailed healthcare reform. It seems like unless you take “cold cash” (like the kind you hide in the freezer) as a bribe you can get away with it like in the case of Joe “the snake” Lieberman (to mention just one snake). I’m in no particular mood to sound “activist-like”; I don’t like it but these are such basic things and they are actually as bad as they sound. It’s like a comic book out there, and once again, reality is crazier than fiction.
“Frankly” speaking, what the voters in Massachusetts actually said is “We already have insurance so screw you”. I mean really, as much as they like to complain about it, they are all covered and of course they where not voting to take out “their own” health insurance but just for the rest not to have it. And it makes sense on the basics of course, why pay “additional taxes” to cover everyone else when you’re already covered? I mean really, and that’s the bigger irony aside from the other irony that it was Ted Kennedy’s very own seat. What are the odds that all of that would come together, right at this junction of the debate? And no “God” has nothing to do with it; and no, there’s no message to Washington; and no, the “republicans” have not been proved right in any front. And let’s not be masochistic either. If the democrats, obstructions or not (and this is not child’s play), have shown that they cannot govern effectively… that should not mean that we should now re-elect the assholes that fuck it –and continue to fuck it all up.
So now what? Well for starters if the only shameless philosophy in Washington is going to be about winning or losing rather that the common good (or the serving the people thingy) then the “democrats” are going to have to play hardball (and it’s about time). One thing that the republicans got right (if that’s the game that in the end we all have to play) is that they have no conscience. The guidelines for being a prick (an asshole) are easy to follow and apparently they work. Shame on us of course but when it comes to doing the work of the people why not be an asshole? I mean really what’s there to lose? And what’s the point of running around all “sensitive” and afraid of everything? If you are going to lose either way, why not at least get something good done; something that generations afterward would appreciate. The means to an end thing. And why not play by their rules, the cause is good and they are not playing by ours anyway. I can live with being an asshole for a good cause, Can you?
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In practical terms the bill now being considered may be too big and twisted (after all the bizarre deal making who really knows what’s there and how it would affect us) that we may be better off passing bits and pieces of it (up and down votes). At a minimum they should pass a basic “patient bill of rights” and get rid of the preexisting condition and dumping customers when they get sick. These are not –or shouldn’t be- legislative issues (like what’s there to negotiate and/or with whom?) but of basic principals of law and fairness. These are basic rules and laws most people would agree on. We can all be cowboys all we want, but even in the Wild West there was “the law” to protect the “law abiding majority” against those who, rather than making it on their own prayed on the others. And back then they used to “hang” horse thieves.
We’ll see what happens in the end (and there are many people of conscience on capital hill). But if we all finally came to the conclusion that Washington is “completely” screwed up, corrupted and useless, then we’ll perhaps see something else emerging. Grass-root technology-enabled initiatives to get around “government” and take advantage of the immense business opportunities that will emerge within the default of government. We’re in many ways on our way there already (we’ll see what happens with Google vs China in the long run). All that is needed is this kind of “additional motivation”. The opportunities may be enormous; we’re resilient and innovative. After all, this is America and there’s plenty of socially conscientious entrepreneurial-spirit to go around.
Young minds and the technology they dominate had made a difference in the past election… but stopped short by thinking that someone as smart and noble as Obama may make the difference. So maybe it is not possible to change Washington, but maybe we don’t need to. Maybe is time for a real change, a change we can believe in and actually do something about it.
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Please don’t HESITATE and DONATE. Whatever your faith and/or beliefs this is a good opportunity for honest to goodness redemption.
Here’re some legit links for donations (even some credit card companies are rebating processing fees for these donations).
(You can text “YELE” to 501501 to automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund, charged to your cell phone bill. This is Wyclef Jean’s Haiti charity)
KW: Earthquake, haiti, donate, worldvision, charity, unicef, red cross, cartercenter, pih, oxfamamerica, ushahidi.
