Beat the failed-energy-bill blues
Published 10:48 am Friday, December 21, 2007
It’s Friday and that means its time for a little satirical criticism from my favorite crazy-but-loveable lefty, Mark Morford.
If you’re frustrated with the energy bill that’s grinding its way through our lovely federal government …. If you’re annoyed with Democrats as well as Republicans, you might hit Morford’s latest column, “America: We’re the new China!”
He complains like so in his tragic yet poetic prose:
It’s so brutally hypocritical as to be actually rather insane: We’re on track to spend $2 trillion on a failed Iraq war that’s tied directly to our appalling oil dependency, and yet we can’t even allocate the governmental equivalent of pocket change toward encouraging people to install a solar panel on the condo? What kind of nation are we, really?
Well, the Dems tried. And they failed. They failed because they’re not smart enough and they don’t play dirty enough and they’re completely terrified of Dubya’s shiny newfound veto pen, which he apparently just found under his box of Osama finger puppets and private stash of gay stem cells.
They failed because, despite their hairbreadth control of Congress, the oil-sucking GOP henchmen are still deeply entrenched and are clinging to their corporate cronyism like a Kentucky teen clings to his meth pipe. Hence, one of the most impressive pieces of legislation in 10 years gets choked to death like a pit bull at Michael Vick’s house. What, too harsh? Not even close.
Read it all here. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry.
Merry Christmas, folks, and a Happy New Year!
