Delay Supports Delay

Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay spoke out recently to support the actions taken by Jim Bunning, who if you recall recently stalled the unanimous Senate vote to extend unemployment and health care benefits for a month.

In his remarks Delay explained to a shocked reporter that unemployed people are essentially lazy people who only bother to get off their ass and look for a job when their benefits are about to be cut off. He suggested that we all know someone who is sponging off the system in this manner, and that really Bunning was doing us all a favor by being such a tool.

I have to say, even after all these years I am still shocked by fuckers like these. It's hard to even imagine how a person can remain so out of touch with reality, and also simultaneously be unaware at just how offensive their comments are. It's almost like having a conversation with a KKK member, who just tells you 'how it is.'

What made me laugh about the interview was that he also took the time to rail against Obama for, "...spending monies that we don't have..." This one always just leaves me speechless. Because when it comes to one of the hallmarks of the Bush administration, it is the unbridled spending of money we don't have, while simultaneously cutting taxes to the richest Americans.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Bush administration is 90% to blame for our current economic crisis. So when we see an ardent Bush supporter like the ever sleazy Tom Delay, talking about the need for saving money, it sounds a little hollow. If only we'd had that kind of thinking during their rein of terror and stupidity. There would be a lot of employed Americans very thankful for it.

Republican Shocker

I know that for some readers of my blog, this is going to come as something of a shock. So make sure you're sitting comfortably, and if you have a heart condition you might want to stop reading now...

Okay, so here's the news. Apparently, there is another stupid old white Republican douche bag in the Senate. I know, who would have thunk it?

This particular dinosaur is Jim Bunning, aged 78. He's the guy that just used another idiosyncrasy of the Senate to block a unanimous decision to extend unemployment and medical benefits to millions of Americans.

Having spent hours wasting everyone's time blocking a 30 day benefits extension, he likened the sacrifice he is forcing upon unemployed Americans, to his misfortune of missing a televised sporting event.

When pushed to reconsider his senile ramblings, he allegedly muttered "tough shit" and refused to alter his position.

Of course, sarcasm aside for a moment, it should come as no surprise whatsoever that a Republican doesn't give a fuck about poor people. Nor that a 78 year old former jock, would be too stupid to understand what the fuck is going on. But it raises two very important questions I've had for a long time:

1. Why the hell do we still allow these old morons to have any position of power whatsoever? Isn't it time we put an age limit on service?
2. If America is supposed to be the shining example of democracy for all the world to see, how is it that one decrepit douchebag can log jam the whole democratic process?

In any case, it seems even Republicans are embarrassed by this one. We all know that their master plan is to block everything they can to make Obama look ineffective, but sooner or later (with luck), the American people are going to wake up and realize that Republicans are deliberately hurting our country and the people in it, just to score political points. It's truly obscene.