just finished playing in porto, what a great show. thank you, porto. and thanks andy, joy, liz, rob, sarah, and svet!
now, some politics… i know, the right wing are insane. we all know it, but it still amazes me just how loony they are. they marched on washington on saturday in all of their lunatic regalia.
i guess what annoys me the most is the inconsistency of the right wing in 2009.
they talk about the democrats taking away constitutional freedoms. but yet the bush administration restricted freedom of speech, restricted habeas corpus, installed illegal wiretaps, and marginalized congress and voters.
the right wing complain about spending money on health care for uninsured americans, but did the right wing complain about the $1.4 trillion dollar cost of the war in iraq? the cost of insuring uninsured americans is actually considerably LESS than the war in iraq.
they talk about democrats raising the budget, but the federal budget actually increased more under 8 years of bush and the republicans than at any time in the history of the country. they talk about limiting the size of government, but the federal government was at it’s biggest when the republicans and bush were in power.
it would be one thing if there were even a modicum of validity or consistency to the complaints of the right wing in 2009, but they’re isn’t. everything they complain about was actually worse under bush and the republicans, but for 8 years the lunatic right wing just sat back as the republicans eroded constitutional freedoms, grew the federal budget, grew the federal government, and spent $1 trillion on the unnecessary war in iraq.
the right wing are truly just angry, delusional lunatics. i know, calling names isn’t dignified. but what else do you call a group of people who truly are just angry and delusional and insane?
moby