Just scrolling down the latest breaking news column is enough

[cornermouse]

to make you wonder if we can ever get things set right again.

Some nut job from the Heritage Foundation was on Fresh Air, I think, making it extremely clear that he has no contact with the financial realities of life that most of us deal with. The Brookings Institute guest was only marginally better, but didn't really put up much of a defense. They both just kept pretending us little folk are either going to be able to accumulate a pile of money to retire with or us little folk are going to be healthy, free of alzheimers, and eager to work till the day we die. I just kept thinking soylent green facilities are probably more realistic given their scenario.

I guess the repubs are trying to keep their house of cards from collapsing until they lose the White House so that they can blame the democrats for the disaster that they engineered.

I was thinking about Bush's policies of torture, nuclear race rearmament, massive debt, massive military spending, destruction of the social security and medicaid/medicare programs, destruction of our kid's education; that nasty little habit he has of blaming the people he just victimized for his actions.

I just don't know any more whether it can be fixed or whether it would be better to let it collapse and then pick up and start over with whatever is left.

[SoCalDem]

1. Smile when you say that, pardner..

Doesn't it creep you out when they announce this crap, and yuk it up while they do it? Then they segue into some inane celebrity-fluff..right after they have told you that the best case scenario for most of us is to die at your desk...when you are 85:)..on your lunch break:)

[cornermouse]

2. Yes, they creeped me out pretty good.

(That best case scenario is uncomfortably close to what they were saying.)