== America: We're the new China! = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Weak, gutless Democrats, sneering, oil-loving Republicans and cars that belch and shrug

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/12/19/notes121907.DTL&nl=fix

Printable: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2007/12/19/notes121907.DTL&type=printable

As part of my ongoing effort to save my own soul and avoid repeatedly stabbing myself in the eye with a fork in screaming frustration, and also because it's Beltway politics and watching it too closely is akin to having your cerebral cortex raped by encephalitic trolls, I've only paid cursory attention to the massive, landmark energy bill that's right now passing like a painful gallstone through Congress and getting snagged here and gutted there and stripped of key provisions over here, all so Dubya won't veto it, given how it might be just too mean to his fat, piggish pals in Big Energy.

Besides, it's an energy bill. It's Congress. It's like saying "altar boys" and "the Vatican." What are the odds of something good coming of it?

But oh, there was a glimmer of promise. There was, for the briefest of time, the possibility of a shift, of progress, a bit of light at the end of the bleak, dank Bush tunnel, just enough to maybe let us raise our heads from this seven-year hole of misery and let a tiny drop of hope fall into the collective heart. The bastards.

There was, most notably, the Democrats' rather astounding provision that dared to rescind a rather disgusting $13.5 billion in corporate tax breaks enjoyed by Bush's oil cronies, basically a massive government handout to Exxon and Shell and the rest to keep them fat and happy and flush with even more billions in profit because heaven forfend they actually pay their fair share of the tax burden for keeping the nation hooked on its unbelievably destructive brand of heroin. ...

[Ganja Ninja]

1. No we're the new Argentina.

China has never been in debt like we're in debt. And China has always had a strong government that was in complete control of things. Our government is a basket case when it comes to controlling it's own functions.

[madokie]

2. speaking of debt, our congresscritters and prezNUT is spending money like a drunken sailer

like there is no tomorrow. Oh shit maybe they know something we don't and that we should, like for instance the big day is just around the corner so none of this matters anyway or sumptin

[Kadie]

3. K&R n/t

[mdmc]

4. kick

too late to r