He has morphed from a whiny, disloyal and incompetent boob to a public sector quisling and shill for the insurance industry.
But rather, I am embarrassed at sharing homo sapien status with him.
Not just with this pathetic man but with too many leaders entrusted with the greater good.
It is horrifying to imagine that I breathe the same air as cruel soldiers in Africa, killing young children while raping and torturing their fellow country men. And especially women.
We are share the same DNA. It just arranges itself differently on people and arrives with mutations and specific attributes. Also, folks are plunked down in different areas during a variety of historical eras.
Thus, I am the same as the woman shrieking in pain as her infant is cast upon a pyre. And I am no different from the thug who grabbed the baby from her arms.
As a planet, we have to realized that pain which just one person feels, diminishes us all. If only a few are in need or hungry, that means we as a species are lacking. Sadly, there are millions.
Life is hard and presents everyone with difficult choices. The best basis of reasoning that I have found is to discern if the ramifications of any action will hurt or help. Harm or heal.
Get that Dick Cheney?
Public officials, elected in the manner set out by our Constitution, who only represent business interests, have destroyed us. And doomed our nation.
Leaders must speak for the people. Their actions should be analyzed in regard to long term effects as well as immediate benefits.
I don't care who pulled the lever for Max Baucus. His corrupt and probably illegal stance is a bane to us all.
When did our government sell out the people completely?
Did it begin with Reagan?
Many Presidents have fought industry and prejudice at great risk to their careers.
Lyndon Johnson slashed through beliefs he culled from growing up in the south to marshall through the most comprehensive civil rights legislation in our history.
Teddy Roosevelt- a Republican no less- went after monopolistic industries like the big game he also hunted.
His patrician cousin, FDR, crafted a series of government programs to provide a minimum safety net to the poor and elderly.
At some point in time, people became numbers on a balance sheet. Layoffs meant higher profits without a lot of thought in regard to the discarded workers.
America stopped making things. We import virtually all merchandise. Our only native industry seems to be bundling paper together and reselling it.
Who benefits from that except a knot of greedy financiers?
GM made a multitude of mistakes. But at least it made a product. A tangible thing that people could buy and use.
Unless folks were without jobs, because they were thought to be simply overhead.
All I want from leaders is for them to be more like James Madison. Okay, very few are as brilliant.
He wrote our Constitution and then co-authored the Federalist Papers to explain the concepts to citizens.
Now, this great treatise is fodder for bird cages. Our rights are eclipsed as easily as folks are thrown out of their homes.
Madison and many of the Founding Fathers believed in the greater good.
All leaders- of government, finance and media- need to make that their personal credo.
Or go home.
Too bad the citizens of Connecticut couldn't prevent Lieberman from returning to the Upper House after he lost in the Democratic primary. We are all diminished by his perfidy.
Indict Bush.
And the Ethics Committees of both houses need to examine the link between campaign contributions from the health care industry writ large and amendments to the poor beleaguered health care bill.
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