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

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

http://www.facebook.com/david.rosen2?v=app_2392950137&ref=name#/video/video.php?v=229808010789&oid=49684288002

David Rosen on WBZ Radio

David Rosen describes the power of drawing and/or painting, the healing power of art. The first of an on-going narrative, shot by Lisa Lunskaya the Boston-based artist and curator- shot in natural light- watch the portrait develop in front of your hooded eyes.

Lisa Lunskaya portrait by David Rosen.