Oh I just love this person, and the funny name of his blog, and even when I disagree with him, he is just soooo grouchy and sarcastic I still like to read him:
Here is a excerpt:
I wonder if Barack Obama himself is sleeping in a casket in the
White House basement these days, waiting for fairer conditions before
facing a nation spinning into the dark unknown. Of course he has to put
in the annual appearance before a mostly hostile joint session of
congress later in the week. I can't imagine that coming off as anything
but an orgy of self-congratulation for our national wonderfulness -
especially on the occasion of a multiple slaying - and cheerleading for
the marvelous restoration of the set of revolving rackets we call "the
economy." I pray to all the Gods that assorted heroes du jour will not
be planted in the balcony of the House Chamber and subject to the
Reagan-style show-and-tell, which the Gipper's managers so astutely used
as a sly distraction from straight talk about where we are at as a
polity.The bloodbath in Tucson completely obscured a
momentous development in Mr. Obama's executive sphere, when he brought
on JP Morgan factotum William Daley as White House Chief of Staff, for
Gawdsake, and nobody in the news media so much as coughed into his (or
her) sleeve. He also hired recent Goldman Sachs errand boy Gene Sperling
to direct the National Economic Council. At Goldman, Sperling was
charged with running self-esteem workshops for Third Worlders - an
obvious public relations ploy. You wonder now whether he'll be carting
American "99-ers" off to the Aspen Institute for weekends of buffet line
cruising and "ideating" - to use a popular new vapidity from the
lexicon of Big Business.The
Meanwhile, GE only incidentally makes electrical things anymore.
Mostly, like everything else in America, they became a financial
company, looking for ways to make money off of money, and mostly losing
heaps of money in the process - for the excellent reason that it's
really not possible to get something for nothing in this universe,
though we wish it were. Likewise, GE's vaunted new battery initiative,
which is aimed mainly at the idea that we can run the whole US vehicle
fleet on electricity (mostly powered by coal, you understand, the
dirtiest of all fossil fuels) is another quixotic project based on
something-for-nothing wishes.
appointments of Daley, Sperling, and Immelt show not just the total
"capture" of Obama's government by sociopathic corporate interests
(which, after all, have the sole mission of rewarding their
shareholders, boards of directors, and executives), but it also shows
the astounding poverty of imagination at the center of American
political life. This is a fatal vacuum that invites something like
revolution, because the only thing this vacuum seeks to do is suck
things outside of itself into its own darkness.
