So, how about this weather? Kinda wacky... rainy... snowy...
Oh, Hell!
What's going on with our elected employees in Washington? While the Republicans are joyously fulfilling their party platform of stonewalling anything that does not enrich their Corporate Owners, the Democrats are reverting to the invertebrate status so many had hoped left D.C with Tom Dashle. Just think what the Republicans could have done with a 60 vote majority! We'd be at war with Iran, China, and Canada by now! (Damn them and their hockey!) The Democrats, on the other hand, literally cannot win when they've won! "Oh, we can't pass anything, we only have a freakin' MAJORITY! And besides, the Republicans might filibuster anything they disagree with."
First of all, I believe many good, kind, caring Americans would pay cold hard cash to see Joe Lieberman filibuster until he passes out. Talk 'till ya cough up a duodenum, Joe! Don't you want to see a reverse "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" moment - Lieberman, McConnell, Bunning or any of those obstructionist hand puppets putting their diastolic pressure where their mouths are and having to speechify until they pop a hemorrhage in the well of the Senate? That's Theater! Where's the popcorn?
And as for Obama... why can't it be like this:
Afraid the Republicans will try to block any part of the agenda they disagree with? You mean your entire agenda, you worms? If these same craven, boneless, Democratic meat puddings had been in the majority at certain key moments in our history I'd still be a slave, women would be without the vote, and we'd still be fighting in Vietnam! Imagine Henry II giving his rousing "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..." speech to an army made up of the Democratic Senators. Not only would they have surrendered before the third stanza, Brits would be up to their hips in French cuisine in London today!
Okay, maybe not a bad thing given the sad state of English cooking, but you get my point! Most, not all, Democratic Senators have revealed themselves as skinny, hairless night weasels, caught between the bright light of having the power and position to do what they promised, and the pitiful funk of pissing off the Oligarchs who pet them, and who they hope to feed off once they leave "Public Service." That's the real reason the they won't use their majority for "Change," why they won't fight for the Common American, won't clamp down on Lobbyists and Wall Street's criminals... they don't want to "change" anything that might slow the current gravy train, or put the brakes on the private sector high-speed rail slop buckets they hope are in their future.
"It's one thing to tell people that the Fascist Government is spying on us all. It's another thing to find out you might be right! That's the bizarre, farcical situation the Morning Glory Baking Circle for Revolutionary Self Defense find themselves in. A group of older, armchair revolutionary women who've committed their lives to overthrowing Capitalist Tyranny... by selling baked goods, and donating the money to any group they believe is committed to Justice! "
But suddenly, on the eve of their greatest political statement, the bakers suspect that the young reporter interviewing them might be a Government Agent sent to destroy them! What happens when they find out that all their wildest conspiracy theories might just be true?"
A political farce about revolutionary women "of a certain age"! Who doesn't want to see that?
Monday, March 8, 7:30pm at Stanford University (For more information and reservations: davidg1@stanford.edu)
Tuesday, March 9, 7pm at Central Works (Berkeley City Club). For more information and reservation: jill@playwrightsfoundation.org.
