Un Believable

These fuckers!! Now comes word late on Tuesday night that the Senate Democrats, in a last-ditch attempt to win the needed 12 swing votes in the House to get their precious bailout passed, are tacking on some random tax cuts to the bailout bill before putting it before the House on Thursday, just knowing that the House Republicans won't be able to stay away from voting in favor. This after the President's own Republican party voted down the original bailout bill on Monday by more than 2-to-1 against.

Tell me, does anybody remember another time the F-heads in Congress -- our elected officials, mind you -- just tacked on some unrelated bullshit onto another bill that they knew was going to get passed? That's right, our beloved UIGEA. The thing that took away Neteller, took away Firepay, took away so many of the fish from the cash games, basically the thing that made it 10 times harder to get money in to the game we love, and about 5000 times harder to get it out. These little assholes just tack shit on to bills, thoughtlessly wielding their power in support of whatever silly pork or earmark or whatever the fuck they're calling it nowadays, with no regard whatsoever for what they're supposed to be doing there in Washington. It is a classic case of a system gone awry, the politicos in Washington who clearly have grown complacement and entitled from too much power and care too little anymore about the whole reason they're supposed to be there in the first place.

I have to say, I am seriously fucking mad about this latest development. I'm so angry at the Senate for thinking they can just throw in some tax cuts onto a bill that is supposed to be helping end the banking crisis in this country, just for purely political reasons and not because a single person of the entire 535 members of Congress actually thinks this is the time and this is the bill to cut taxes right now. And I'm mad at the House of Representatives too, because I already know it's highly likely they're going to pass this revised bill. They're going to roll over and let the Senate's ridiculous ploy work.

And I ask you: what the flying phuck is wrong with this country? The people of America by a large majority do not want this bailout, that much is obvious. There is no good reason for it. As I've discussed recently, something definitely does need to be done to stabilize the banking system. But spending $700 billion of taxpayers' money? Come on. With no explanation offered as to where this $700 billion figure comes from. With no explanation as to why this specifically is the right thing to do. Without directly targeting the consumers and the taxpayers of the country, but instead aimed directly and purposefully at the banks, helping the nation's financial institutions get the troubled assets off their books with little regard for helping struggling Americans, creating new jobs, cutting gas prices...you name the problem facing you and me today, and this bill does not contemplate it. But it does cost us $700 billion of our own money, that much we surely do know.

The American people don't want this bailout. In fact, we hate it. It makes most others' blood boil as badly as it makes mine. Everybody knows it. And everyone under that Rotunda in the Capitol building knows it as surely as I do.

But nobody in Washington fucking cares.

And that's the shit I just can't live with.

I said it here on Tuesday and I'll say it twice as strongly again here today: these shitheads in DC know their constituencies hate this fucking bailout, and yet they're willing not only to approve the bill but in some cases to tack unrelated bullshit on top of it just to coerce others to vote directly in the face of the very people whose interests they are supposed to be there supporting. These Sentors and Congressmen and women all thumb their noses at the very Constitution of the United States, which requires them to serve their offices by representing the interests of their consituencies. If I had my way there would be a full and complete housecleaning in DC. Rip the entire shit down and start all over 100%. They deserve it with how they have perverted the system.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Never was it truer.

Go Phillies!