Crying at the Drop of a Gavel
So, Boehner and the crying game?
What at first was endearing, quickly became pathetic and embarrassing. I think he has a god-complex typical of Republican’ts who claim god, country and *truth* for their own. He tears up at the mere mention of children and not leaving them a huge debt, (for example)…and then he gives tax-breaks to his rich golfing buddies and votes against ALL regulation: ANY regulation…even food safety regulation! I hope his kid get’s salmonella poisoning. No really, I do hope for this. Almost as much as i hope for world peace.
All these Republican’ts who talk about cutting governement but who don’t have the courage to name the cuts. Those Republican’ts who try to convince the ignorant that tax cuts for the wealthy should come at the expense of the working, middle classes. They won’t cut the military either. So, what do they want to cut? Where do they intend to get the money to cut the deficit? The same place they always do: the underclass who can’t afford their own lobby. Two wars and a tax break for the wealthy put us in this (deficit) hole. No sane economist would argue that fact.
But Republican’ts are not interested in “sane argument”. Not while they have a filibuster. And until campaign refinancing becomes a _hold-their-hand-to-the-fire_ issue…corporate interests who lobby against regulation and oversight (because it’s “bad for business”) will rule the roost. I hope the FOX gets drunk and eats its tail by mistake.
If a woman cried as much as Speaker Boehner, she wouldn’t survive in politics. That’s not a double-standard. Like it’s not a double-standard to complain about an oil spill while out of the other side of your mouth you are campaigning to DRILL BABY DRILL and kill any regulation on the companies that will continue to cut corners and spill their slops on real places that have real people that also have children. Those kids are real too. They don’t cry as often because they’ve become used to it. Used to being treated like shit. Used to having no health care. Used to having no voice.
And if the sky cried as much as the Tan Man…maybe we’d get the fact that we have a global warming crisis, the magnitude of which will inform our future, our cultures and it’ll be amazing how fucking quickly we forget about Bin Laden when food and water begins to run dry. (Jesus, we forgot about him the moment the jobs ran out).
But why should they care?
They have their Rapture (somewhere between eschatology and scatology).
Order your portable bomb shelter now (while stocks last) and you will inherit the earth (in heaven).
Pass me a tissue, while stocks last 
everything is nothing
flat, devoid of and ungiving
the window doesn’t change:
it STOPs
Yesterday was SURE
PLOTTED
last night, dark and mOvInG
There is NO TODAY
but a mourning which has broken
leaving its shattered shell as a reminder of what was.
a bird shrieeeeeeeks across the flatness
its call: pure
echoing in the window
which is NOW
open
dgr
sprayed it on the wall of a local church when i was 21
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David’s interview on WBZ Radio
David Rosen appeared on the Jordan Rich show on WBZ Radio a few weekends back. David shares his thoughts on Reason8, art, and his battle against cancer. He then closes out the interview with a brilliant reading of his spoken word piece called “The Imperfect MouthFool.” Listen below!
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