Ned Pepper's Outrages

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Ned's election analysis

For the benefit of his many followers, Ned will provide his election analysis in advance of the actual results, following standard procedure.
The voters are apparently set to administer a stinging rebuke to Democrats after giving them enormous power in 2008. The Dems had overwhelming control of the House, the Senate and of course the Presidency. And what, given that the country was mired in a devastating "Recession" (for working class and middle class persons only of course--plutocrats exempt), did they do with this power? They engaged in a catfight over "cap and trade" that divided the party and emboldened the know-nothing, anti-intellectual, room-temperature IQ crowd. Not content with that, they came up with a "health care" reform bill that nobody understood due to its complexity, and that rewarded health "insurance" companies with billions, the same group that had brought health care to its knees. The bill that finally passed, over overwhelming Republican objection, doesn't even start to take effect seriously until 2014.
And what did they do about the 10% unemployment rate? Bugger f***ing all. Good students still can't get jobs to pay off their crushing student loans, and hard working people are being laid off by the thousands by the sneering plutocracy, which is then rewarded by the slobbering sycophants on corporate boards with even more obscene amounts of cash stolen from the very same workers laid off.
So the voters response? To turn out the Dems, and reward the people who GOT US INTO THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE, the Republicans, who will, no doubt spend the next two years trying to blame Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and even Jimmy Carter for every ill that befalls this benighted country.
We already have it from Mitch McConnell that his goal as Senate Minority Leader is to--wait for it--not work to end the recession, not work to enhance the middle class, nor to provide jobs for the jobless, CERTAINLY not to deal with the 50 million people who can't afford health care, and not to deal with climate change, but to "do everything we can to see to it that Barack Obama is a one-term president."
Such civic-mindedness imparts unimaginable awe in Ned's worshipful eyes when he beholds such a man.
And those voters? Ned can only say that he wishes each and every one would get what he would give them.

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