Diary of a Mad Editor

Sometimes I think that the best weight loss pills available are Wall Street types and the politicians who protect their interests. If you have a fat cat stealing food from a starving cat, you end up with a fatter cat and a dead cat. Such is the orgy of rape and theft being done on main street by the fat cats of Wall Street. Currently, the Democrats are trying to get a financial reform bill through Congress. One can certainly debate whether or not their effort has teeth or not, but no one in their right mind can argue that the measure is unnecessary. The Republicans, as usual, are trying to block the effort. Yesterday, they blocked an effort to even open the floor to debate on the subject. Now, why would the Repugnicans allow a bill to pass out of committee without offering a single amendment only to block the bill from being discussed?

This morning, a reporter posed this same question to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a republican senator from Texas (naturally).  Her answer amounted to a masterful load of Orwellian doublespeak that defied logic. She claimed that she and her Repug colleagues were blocking the Demos because the bill wouldn’t end “too big to fail” and that they wanted to protect “main street”.  However, when probed about specific amendments proposed by the Demos that would do just that, she was against them.  Explain it to me like I’m a four year-old, Kay, because I do not get it. You want to protect main street, but you are against any measure that would protect main street?  You want to end “too big to fail” but you don’t want to limit the size of banks. You want to protect consumers, but you are against a strong consumer protection agency or even the most common sense regulations like limiting credit card usury?  How does that protect the people or promote the success of community banks and small businesses? I’m sorry, but I don’t see how anyone can buy into this line of garbage unless they are brain dead fucking retarded.

So instead of buying weight loss pills, let’s just let the fat cats eat us into starvation. That’s the republican diet plan, anyway. Turn us all into uneducated dittoheads living in a third-rate, third-world country where only a select few live free and rich, smiling from their penthouses overlooking a sea of whites-only country clubs while the rest of use live on crumbs in the ghettos of America. A country where poverty is prosperity, war is peace and up is down.