GOP - The Party That Wrecked America

[rndmprsn]

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Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler

A Ripe Moment

It turns out the real hurricane blew through Wall Street last week, not Galveston. This morning, Manhattan is strewn chest-deep with the debris of banking and at this hour (seven a.m.) nobody knows how far, deep, and wide the damage will spread. The fear, of course, is that we are witnessing a classic "house-of-cards" or "dominos-in-a-row," situation, and that the death of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch will cascade into a generalized collapse of the entire consensus of value that supports mediums of exchange.

At least one thing ought to be clear: this has happened due to the negligence and misfeasance of the regulating authorities, namely the Republican Party, and that now all the hoopla surrounding Sarah Palin can be swept away revealing that group to be what they actually are: the party that wrecked America. I hope one or two Barack Obama campaign officials are reading this blog. You must commence the re-branding of the opposition right now. The Republicans must be clearly identified as, the party that wrecked America...

...We should be frightened by the political implications of this Great Implosion of presumed wealth. Some group of somebodies will have to clean up this mess. Moving toward a major election, it is hard to imagine the American people giving the clean-up task to the very group that created the mess -- no matter how many cute little faces Sarah Palin can make on TV. Both parties have so far managed to ignore the gathering crisis of banking and money, but they can't ignore the sequoia trees crashing down around their ankles and shaking the earth they stand on...

...So, to begin this process, and to clarify the situation, I urge readers of this blog to identify the Republican Party by its new brand-name: the party that wrecked America. At least, then, we can reinstate one cardinal value into the juddering structure of what we claim to believe: that actions have consequences, that you can't just swindle and loot a society and walk away with the swag.

Spread the word, change the tone of this campaign, and keep posted. This will be a momentous week...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. This fact needs to get through to the masses - The GOP WRECKED AMERICA!

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. great article.

[PerfectSage]

3. Country First. First they wreck their country. Then they wreck their Grand Old Psychopath party.

[rndmprsn]

4. amen...

[renate]

5. I think the problem is that there aren't words for how *badly* they wrecked it

There's no slogan, no sentence, no encyclopedia that can adequately define it.

That said, "The Party That Wrecked America" is probably the pithiest way to sum things up. I hope the Democrats pick up on it for the Sunday morning talk shows.