THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The shortest line at China Mart will invariably always have the slowest people.”
Let us suppose for the sake of the argument that it was possible to buy the highest office in the land. But wait you say, “this is not possible, we have laws against that.” Uh huh, sure. But let us suppose that you wanted to be hooked up and in the company of the truly powerful in this land, could you do it?
The answer is … Sure. Piece of cake.
If you make out the check as a contribution to build a “Presidential Library” your donation and your identity is safe. Donations to these secular shrines of our past Presidents are not governed by lobbying and elections laws and the donor’s names and the amounts of the contributions, can be kept secret.
Now you are saying, “don’t be silly, this could never happen in America.” We are after all, beyond all that.
Not so. The London Times showed where a recipe for “sleaze” invariably leads. The newspaper set up a meeting with a big-money Bush fund-raiser named Stephen Payne, convincing Payne that he was dealing with an exiled Kazakn politician who was seeking an “in” with the White House.
Payne told the Kazakh imposter that a meeting with Dick Cheney, Condoughlezza or other key officials was “possible” for a donation of “a couple of hundred thousand dollars” to Bush’s library. (Man, I didn’t even know the guy actually reads) Sounds like the perfect Bush – Cheney symbiosis to me and modern day Washington DC. Poor Newt, he has to actually write a book to get his end of it all.
Now of course you know what is coming next, dont’cha?
Administration officials deny that any access selling went on and this NEVER occurred. It appears that one of the boys got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and now the official response is to deny, deny, deny. I buy into that … And if frogs had wings, they wouldn’t bump their butt when they hopped … UFO’ … And Santa Claus. Like the country singer sez … “I know one when I see one, and I am looking at one right now.”
Bill Clinton raised $20 million in secret pledges for his library, and doled out a pardon for fugitive Marc Rich after his ex-wife made a $450,000 donation. Now if any of this sounds outrageous to you, it is.
There ought to be a law. But there isn’t.
Some say there is a school of thought on the breakdown of Democracy in the Western World, it goes something like this: In ten years, if we don’t pull our act together, it’s not gonna be right or left wing. In ten years, if we don’t unify like every other mammary species that’s in trouble and form a herd, it isn’t gonna be conservative or liberal, it’s gonna be people outside the dome who cannot breathe and people inside the dome who can breathe, and us pounding on the dome with them waving at us like, goodbye stupid!
Yeah, it’s not right and left, it’s up and down, and the rich ones go in the dome. It’s a “domeocracy.” And all the 2008 love-ya-babe-call-me-on-the-cell-phone crap ain’t gonna mean very much when you’re on all fours trying to wrestle a Mars bar out of a rat’s mouth in an alley somewhere.
For all you movie buffs, it is Charlie Hesston and Soylent Green all over.
Oh I am so sorry, on Monday it is just so hard for me to be an optimist! It might be best that I stick to my lack of self esteem issues, and the problem with my incredibly flat feet. Get back to serious items, like will the new Toby Keith movie be a blockbuster or a dud?
Impotent stuff like thet, y’all.
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