The R's are an unqualified success

(susang at daily kos...)

In electing Republicans, America, you put people in charge of institutions they overtly, caustically loathe and proudly proclaim should not exist. Good thinking, USA, and stellar results: Katrina, Iraq, Medicare D, trade and budget deficits, mine disasters and on and on and on and ...

Conservatives have declared officially for decades that they hate public programs and love private business. Why then, do Americans profess shock when these same people run the public credit card up to bunker-busting levels to line the pockets of friendly corporations, leaving taxpayers - current and the as-yet unborn - the bill? It's the dine and ditch mentality writ large, and American citizens are the unfortunate waiters having their lowly pay docked to cover the deadbeat loss - and their future grandchildren's pay docked as well.

We are witnessing an orchestrated, unprecedented transfer of public wealth to private pockets, a national one-party feeding frenzy that's making beggars and beseechers of us all, and yet many Americans stand around muttering in a daze of semi-apathetic befuddlement about gosh darn how did all this come to be and how sure as shit, uh-huh, those Republicans shore were right, government doesn't do a the little guy a damn bit of good, no sirree bob. Better drown it some more. Cut them taxes, privatize something, anything, pronto!

Kee-rist on a pogo stick.

If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail.

finally, someone else is seeing the light... i've been fulminating against the seemingly overwhelming common wisdom that this criminal administration is incompetent... they are nothing of the sort... they've accomplished a phenomenal part of what they've set out to do...

• voiding the u.s. constitution

• removing any and all remaining obstacles to the rich keeping and adding to their already obscene wealth without shouldering any burden whatsoever for the common good

• eliminating any implied or explicit social contract

• creating and maintaining a climate of fear that allows for better manipulation of public opinion and the bending of the public will to their agenda

• waging an endless war thus assuring an uninterrupted money flow into the oil and defense industries

• insuring the blockage of anything that might interfere with the money-making capacity of oil and defense (e.g., global warming)

• rendering government functioning to be so laughably ineffective that citizens throw up their hands in despair and are forced to find alternatives

• forging an alliance with religious extremists to create a social environment of authoritarianism and control where social behavior is closely monitored and misbehavior isn't tolerated

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