On March 3, 2010, the first minority President in history from the majority party gave his blessing to the majority party having a majority vote so they can pass legislation by majority rule. The minority party got upset that the majority party was going to have a majority vote to pass legislation by majority rule, even thought the majority party’s bill has been decimated, blocked and gutted by the minority party.
The absurdity of this didn’t escape me or my listeners, as the show that followed that Presidential speech shows. Nor did the time wasted in the last year, the year of debate, of tea party madness, of death panels, killing grandmothers, government takeover of health care and all the other lies that surfaced when the obstructionist party of “No” known as Republicans decided to shut the bill down not on the merits, but because of its authors: the majority party.
And now the majority party is doing what it could have done six months, 10 months, 12 months ago, getting something done by majority rule, the majority the people gave them out of frustration, out of a need for change, out of desperation. The people didn’t want moderation, didn’t want bipartisanship, didn’t want a lot of “No’s,” they wanted action, they wanted solutions, real ones, they wanted help.
They’re not getting it. Because as the majority President told the majority party that it was all right to pass a piece of legislation by majority rule the actual legislation itself doesn’t address health care, only health insurance, and moves poor America or uninsured America really not one step closer to any immediate or lasting help. The bill is not a bill a majority President of a majority party really should be touting as an accomplishment; it’s a bitter failure so mishmashed and rehashed it is just a tiny bandaid on the gushing wound of America’s health crisis.
The majority president from the majority party would have kept the majority in Washington, D.C. if, six months ago, the majority party would have realized that the minority party has no interest in working with them, despises their commander-in-chief and for eight years showed a huge disrespect for the very people they govern through their often criminal but always harmful actions; Actions like using the majority vote for themselves to do things like give tax breaks to the very rich.
No, this call to action is way too little way too late. The majority president of the majority party would have won many supporters if a public option was in the final bill. They would have actually worked on solving the problem if they had used the majority vote of the majority party to bring medicare for all to the U.S.; a simple buy in program for Americans to buy in to the existing health insurance company owned and operated by them already.
In fact, the majority president of the majority party could stop 45,000 Americans from dying, or over 130,000, by enacting medicare for all effective in 2011 and rolling out from there. Instead, the majority president by majority vote will use majority rule to enact a bill that allows those 130,000 to die over the next three years while the nation waits for insurance companies to adjust to the new changes and find ways to deny, pillage and financially fleece Americans with impunity once more. The majority president by the majority vote will use majority rule to enact a bill that will still let over 1.8 million people fall in to bankruptcy because of health care expenses prior to any reform taking place.
In other words, the majority president, by majority vote with access to majority rule could act swiftly and urgently to stop death and bankruptcy across the land, but the one thing that is absent from the majority is urgency. This is all legislation, not people. It’s a political failure or victory, not a lifeline to the people.
Because in all of this the majority party and the majority president have made it clear that they will heed the words of the minority party and their people more than sticking to their own platform and values. Because all parties see Americans not as people, but as an unfunded liabilities, as consumers or as revenue generators for the corporations that actually make the rules and line the pockets of the powers that be. We are an expense to be paid, consumers to be protected, revenue streams to be lined up and made to feed in to some insurance company or else a tax will be levied and we will be law breakers. Again, not people. Violators. People responsible for a tax.
All parties have forgotten that people are attached to the bills. Each party finds thousands of dead or bankrupt Americans acceptable, just a percentage point in a balancing act. We’ll cover 90%, 80%, 95%…talking about the remaining 10% or 20% or 5% as a small number for which all should be grateful isn’t larger. All but the 30 million (10 percent of America), 60 million, 15 million, whatever the number…it’s people that will die or suffer. It’s not a margin of error. It’s not an “acceptable” amount. To some patriotic Americans, myself included, 100% coverage, zero preventable deaths is the only workable equation.
But patriotism and morality are costly. To let one American die from lack of access to health care is immoral. To make money a key issue in the debate about making American’s healthy, and protecting companies whose time has come and gone (medical insurance companies, it’s painfully obvious they’ve run their course and must go) is not only unpatriotic but it is un-American. The minority party wrapped itself in the flag so tightly prior to Iraq that the stars were imprinted on the flesh and anyone that spoke against it, or war funding, were un-American. I know, I was called that very thing daily on air at that time. Not supporting single payer at a time when 45,000 Americans are casualties of the public’s war with big insurance shows an allegiance to corporate constituents and a betrayal of the American citizens they serve.
So the minority president from the majority president has given the majority party permission to rule by majority vote. It’s a shame he didn’t give them permission to actually do something, like scrap the 2000 pages and bring fourth 17 words through majority vote that would truly reshape America: All American Citizens shall have all one policy that covers all medical necessities from birth until death. Let the minority party that claims to be good a finances figure out how to pay for it (even if a war or two has to be trimmed back or stopped) and get it done.
And the sad part is that this will be one of the few times the majority president will instruct the majority party to rule by majority vote. Because he, and the party, didn’t do this sooner, because they didn’t do it with anything of real substance, a majority of voters in the usually smaller turnout midterms will remember their inaction and then when they finally acted the weak policies and insurance mandate that they passed by majority rule and they will, I’m afraid, become the minority again.
And then, the minority president from the minority party will have to sit back and watch what the then majority party will do with impunity, without bipartisanship and by their majority vote: they will rule, they will push their agenda through, no matter how horrible or destructive; agendas like wars, patriot acts, tax breaks for the wealthy. No, they are not afraid to do it, and when they do, they’re not afraid to be bold.
A majority of Americans want affordable (or free) access to health care, an end to war, new energy policies, reinvention in most areas of government. A majority of Americans went to the polls and sent that message in 2008. It’s a shame the minority party has prevented that by majority party forgetting they are, in fact, a majority. And when they remember, it’s a shame that their big, bold act of an up or down vote is wasted on reforms that a majority of people don’t want or need, and the public option, the single payer, the solutions and those that support them have been treated like the minority.
The pendulum will swing, and when it does, we’re the ones that keep getting cut by it. But, under this bold move, we’ll still have to bleed for three years, and then bleed while we navigate the new changes and by the time we actually get some kind of new mandated coverage the blood loss may be so severe that a trip to the hospital useless. And when the pendulum swings back and the minority party becomes the majority, that swing will sever America in two.
Literally. Karel Stands Up! Talk radio superstar, controversial Huffingtonpost blogger, author and outrageous entertainer Karel takes to the stage to bring his unique brand of humor and social commentary directly to audiences without the filter of the FCC or corporate media. From biting political insights to just plain funny things, Karel takes the audience member on a non stop tour de force, leaving Karel and the audience standing up with excitement while splitting with laughter. Don’t miss this HiNRG show from the person Bill O’Reilly has named a pinhead twice, and Michelle Maulkin thinks is “what’s wrong with America.” He’s openly gay, and straight to the point. To find out more go to www.radiokrl.com and be sure to listen to Karel live daily in the San Francisco area on Green960, 3pm to 6pm.
“Don’t miss the item in our Special Report where Huff-Po blogger Charles Karel Bouley wrote that Tony Snow’s cancer was deserved, like the Justin Timberlake lyric “What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya.” He’s still blogging for Arianna in 2010….”
I had to say, “Enough already! Get your reporting accurate! Talk to the source!”
But no, these people with their ridiculous agendas never bother.
Yes, I once wrote, when Tony Snow’s cancer was revealed, that I believed some diseases can be fostered by or accelerated through surroundings and environment. Snow was in a high pressure job, one in which he knowingly had to lie for his boss in one of the most oppressive, and allegedly criminal regimes in America’s history. Negativity and unimaginable negative pressure surrounded him daily. So I wrote that when anyone, Snow included, subjected themselves to that how could something bad NOT happen? And it got taken out of context so I removed it within minutes of my own volition because it wasn’t the point of the article. In the same article I wished him health, speedy recovery, love from his family, all things one would wish to someone in that situation.
But they don’t see anything except what they want to see, hear what they want to hear. I never said I am glad he had it, that he deserved it in any way, that he should die some miserable death from it. Nope, not what I said at all. But they don’t care.
Well, on the record, let me say that as society becomes more and more disconnected, as horrible behavior not only becomes condoned, but political parties are being based around it…cancers are at an all time high. We’re doing something wrong. I don’t know what, but I do still believe that they way we live, the people we surround ourselves with, our jobs, and the positivity or negativity of those environments can, in fact, contribute. And yes, I also believe in karma. I know bad things happen to good people, but bad things do tend to happen to bad people more often, at least enough for a balance. I’m not saying Snow was bad or karma was taking out retribution or that any of my philosophies relate to him. All I’m saying is I do believe, as I’ve been quoted, that what goes around comes around. Isn’t that the divine principal? If you are good, you end up in a good place. If you are bad, you do not. Sorry for believing the hype. I know as humans we all hope, as Snow’s family hope, that we, he, us, all end up in a good place, and it’s only who he truly are as a person that will determine that I guess, not me or anything I wrote, for Snow or anyone else.
And it saddens me because I have never wished anyone, in my heart of hearts, something like cancer and I meant it in the article when I hoped he was surrounded by love. And then it got perverted, and for that, I am sorry. And that’s a fact.
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are insane zealots who pervert Christian teachings to meet their own bigotries. There is nothing that Fred Phelps or his lunatics could scream or say that I, as a thinking American and openly gay male, care to hear or need to know. It’s why today, February 19, 2010 as they harass young students at Wilson High School and other locations all over my city of Long Beach, I won’t be there, I won’t be listening, and if I had a kid, they’d be staying home today.
I say this in the same vein as I don’t need to sit through speeches on White Supremacy to know what those speaking are about, I don’t need to hear anti-Semitic rants to get the agenda of those that wold spout them and I don’t need to attend a skinhead meeting for anything other than looking at hot guys with tattoos. And whereas liberal radio has so little air time in this country as it is, I’m not going to spend precious hours of it on my syndicated show playing sound clips of such people for any reason; be it to show how insane they are or to make some point. You don’t indulge or publicize the fringe out there that are truly, truly disturbed.
Why? Look to the skies. Did you see the plane fall out of it February 18th, 2010 in Austin, as an angry man with an agenda that sounds very much like another fringe radical group, the Tea Baggers, decided to use a small plane to try and kill IRS employees because he hated taxes? Or the radical that killed Dr. Tiller? Or walked in to the Holocaust Museum or, or, or… That’s why I wish the media, my liberal friends on radio, and every other thinking person would stop listening to people attending “tea parties” or even CPAC Conferences. These people are blind ideologues who ignore facts and history and make dangerous and very seditionist, almost anarchal speeches. They are the fringe, they are disturbed and thus they can be dangerous. Take former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Many, including myself, believe he is a war criminal guilty of ordering torture and other offenses. Each time I see him I want him arrested; he is a disgrace. To give anything he, or his family, has to say any kind of press or airtime is not only ridiculous but goes against established practices. News agencies don’t broadcast the manifesto’s of criminals, and if they do, they don’t do it to show agreeance or acceptance.
Be it Dick Army or Sarah Palin, these people only want power and are crazy with it and should be seen as the zealots that they are. I could rant, but why. I could print some of their statements to back up my opinion, but why? Let’s stop paying serious attention to and subsequently giving power to these small, fringe, disturbed groups of individuals be they Westboro or CPAC. They hate, they divide, they want things one way or no way at all, theirs. Ignoring these groups has worked well so far, let’s keep it up.
In 2005 Oprah Winfrey presented “The Color Purple” on Broadway starring Fantasia, from American Idol fame. It was a rousing success, nominated for 11 Tony Awards, but really, how could it miss with Oprah’s money, a Pulitzer-Prize winning book by Alice Walker, the foundation of a movie by Spielberg on which to build and an ensemble of singers that could raise any roof, any where, any time? Oh, and did I mention lyrics by Brenda Russell, one of the most respected R&B song writers around (think “Get Here” or “Piano in the Dark”).
31 years ago I first stepped in to the Pantages theatre, a wide-eyed high school kid, reviewing plays for his school paper for free by taking the words “high school” out of the paper’s masthead and getting on all the PR lists. I was a broke young gay kid who needed to see theatre, so that was a way. Thursday February 11th, opening night for “The Color Purple” I found myself not driving up in my parent’s blue Oldsmobile Cutlass SS with Long Beach Poly High School writing partner Emily Johnson, but with my 26 year old niece on the back of an Aprilia Mana 850, my best friend James and his girlfriend Amy on the Moto Guzzi Griso roaring through Hollywood traffic on our way to the bright lights, red carpets and limos on Hollywood Blvd. Had you told me then…
The Pantages was filled with the regular glitteratti at a play opening. We chatted with Arsenio Hall out front, I have met him several times because of our mutual friend R&B diva Vesta Williams and Amy works for Hal Sparks, and met him through him. Play lyricist Brenda Russell was there looking much better than the last time I saw her at the BMI Music Awards (she was thinner and on a cane then, now, she looks great and seemed to be walking fine). Various celebs from current Hollywood life or past worked the red carpet, as the four of us realized the Pantages is one of the grandest theatres in Los Angeles (having been renovated for Disney’s “Lion King” return in the 1990s) but it is not made for motorcyclists. The seats are small as it is, and no place for helmets, jackets…so while they mingled, we compressed and stored.
This touring company is no second rate, almost on Broadway group. No, the sheer excitement and joy of the Broadway stage was reflected from the first note of the overture to the 11′oclock song (the big number at the end of every musical). Gary Griffin is directing, just as he did on Broadway. Fantasia is there as Celie, but it’s not a one woman show; on the contrary, this is an ensemble. Broadway cast mate Felicia P. Fields stops the show several times with her portrayal of Sofia, the role made famous by the money behind the play, Oprah. Sofia’s no-nonsense attitude and amazing agility for her size bring to life the stage each time she’s on, be it uttering a “Hell no!” in song, or vamping in one of the funniest “sex” scenes on Broadway.
But the heart of the play is Fantasia’s Celie, and this woman again proves that when the right actor is matched to the role, they are inseparable. As Whoopi is to the movie, Fantasia is to the play, unexpected, wondrous and fearless. Her voice soars and yet has the grit and soul of a woman well beyond her years. She’s done everything she could to be a train wreck, including a reality show on VH-1. But the reality is, in spite of every quirk we may know about off stage, on stage, she’s untouchable in power, range and emotion.
Another Idol alumni LaToya London from season three, plays Nettie, theysister from which Celie is torn as a child, a separation from which she never recovers, a hole in her life that is never filled until they are reunited. Another Broadway cast member, Angela Robinson portrays the vixen of the production, Shug Avery. Shug is by chance the most disappointing character, but for all the right reasons. We wanted more, I wanted more. In the film, the Shug character has a great reconciliation in song with her pastor father, the convergence of good and perceived evil, of sinner and holy man during a song originally sung in the film by former disco sensation Tata Vega. I waited for Shug’s triumph, for her character to get a bit more. She is one of the major protagonist in the story, the woman that actually caused most of Celie’s torment; because Celie’s husband can’t have Shug, he beats other women who aren’t her. And Celie loves her, too. The lesbian component of the movie is heavily exhibited in the play, a risk since homosexuality is frowned upon still in the African American community, the play’s target demo. But by the end, the love between Celie and Shug is shown as pure, as a needed step to help the character reach her full potential, to realize, she, like everything under the sky, has worth and beauty.
If it pisses of a God when you walk through a field and don’t notice the color purple, it would certainly upset the Theatre Gods if any lover of incredible, moving theatre didn’t see this play on tour. It is not a watered down version, but a full blown soulful experience. Once, in Paris, my then-14-year-old nephew Jake turned to me at 11pm and said, “Uncle Charles, I don’t care if we ever go to bed or ever go home, this place is incredible…” and I had never felt more proud or happy to be Uncle Charles (which is Auntie Mame in the real world). After the Color Purple at the Pantages, my niece Heather turned to me and said, “that was possibly the most moving and exciting theatre experience I’ve ever had.” Since I, and her late uncle Andrew Howard, started taking the kids to plays as soon as they could walk, that’s saying something. And in both cases, I was so happy to be the one making it happen.
In the five years since Fantasia, Fields and others under Oprah’s umbrella and Griffin’s direction took Broadway by storm, the play has only matured and ripened. Now, it’s ready for the entire country to see and, more importantly, feel.
To hear Karel review the play, please go to the podcast at www.radiokrl.com or in iTunes or listen live daily 3pm to 6pm PST on KKGN Green960 San Francisco, KRXA Monterey, KUDO Anchorage or online.
Greetings. I would like to speak to you today about your permeating theme of bipartisanship, particularly in regards to healthcare, but also on a broader scale and also the populist anger that many keep referring to in the country today; you see, they both are related.
Like you, I talk to many people for a living and then render an opinion. I’m a communicator, an entertainer that speaks to and hears from hundreds of thousands of Americans and they’re angry and frustrated, and the reason is so painfully clear; yet it is something no Democrat, yourself included, seems to be able to vocalize. They don’t want bipartisanship, they want leadership; right suffix, wrong word.
You see, Republicans, neocons, the Right has had their say, for eight years, and it destroyed us. Over those eight years they diid not practice bipartisanship, they practiced a mock dictatorship or coup. Democrats sat by and basically watched as the country was decimated; in 2006 when the country gave the Congress a Democratic majority, Nancy Pelosi, your speaker of the House, refused to impeach George W. Bush (we both know starting the proceedings doesn’t mean removal, but it’s the process that’s important) and Democrats continued to support and fund the wars which the people that sent them there opposed. We didn’t want bipartisanship then, either, we wanted resolutions.
The fact is, Republicans lost because We, the People, wanted them to. We were tired of their governance, their style, their lack of concern for the people and their sole focus on corporations and monied interests. We sent you, and others to Washington D.C. for change, we gave you a majority, and now we want that change. What we don’t want is rehashed ideas that only serve the Republican masters of money and power.
Take heath care in the United States. Poll after poll, and call after call to my show, make it very clear that people don’t want health insurance reform, they want access to health care. During your big push, you told us, We, the People, that 40,000 of us each year would die without access to health care. Many of us took the figure of 100 of us a day dying literally; in fact, when the horrible earthquake in Haiti hit, and the world responded, many of my listeners thought perhaps if the 40,000 dead in America from lack of health care ended up rotting and bloating on the White House lawn as people were in the streets of Haiti that maybe the world would care for our tragedy; maybe our Congress would respond.
No, it’s clear, people want a strong public option, MediCare for all. Americans are not the idiots many, including your administration, seem to think them to be. We, the People, Mr. President, own an insurance company already, MediCare. Why on Earth would our government subsidize private insurance companies with payments, funds, fees, opening up yet another revenue stream for these faceless entities that do nothing to improve health but push paper when we own our own company? No sane people would, and we regained our sanity, we believed, by electing you.
We want the other side, the Republicans, to shut up, to sit down, to get out of the way. We want you to lead by shutting down the fillibuster and getting things done. Incite the Senate to get rid of the fillibuster now. We didn’t elect you to a system of 60 votes and nor will we accept that number as a reason to not get anything done. The Republicans got plenty done with their majority, you are quick to list their accomplishments, two unfunded wars, deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthiest, illegal wire tapping and surveillance…torture; oh yes, their war-crime laden agenda got pushed through often and without much to-do; now it’s time to get a peace time agenda through, one for the people.
So Mr. President, stop pissing the people off. While they have tea parties and speak of racism, of division, using code words or thinly veiled, very thinly veiled, racist and xenophobic remarks, while they derail your agenda through ridiculous propaganda campaigns on their corporate funded media voice Fox, Americans are dying, slipping in to poverty and waiting for the MAJORITY of you in D.C. to stop trying to play nice with the other side and work.
You see, Mr. President, I’ve watched your appearances of late and in case Mr. Emmanuel or others won’t tell you, the Republicans don’t like you, at all. None of them want to work with you, and if they do, their base will punish them, so they believe. They have open disdain for you, again, thinly veiled racism wrapped in party unity and anyone that supports you. They will, and have, shut down America to get back in to power and that is as dangerous as any military coup and you and your party have let them. Stop asking them to play in your sand box, they don’t want to, and stop asking them to care for their people. Didn’t the last eight years show you they don’t care for the people at all? Because the people certainly got the message, it’s why your in the White House.
You will lose in 2010 for the party and lose the White House in 2012 if you keep this up, not because people don’t like you but because currently you are allowing the opposition party to shut down your government.
So, if you’d like to regain favor and actually help America, I, and my listeners and readers, have a few suggestions:
A; Scrap the Health Care Bill. Write a much simpler, easier to understand one of only 16 words: Every American Citizen shall be covered under Medicare from birth until death for all medical necessities. Pure and simple. All Medical necessities from birth until death because a healthy American is a healthy America. And don’t bother us with the cost. We are aware that if we can spend over one trillion dollars on two unjust occupations without the blink of an eye, we can fund health care. So stop the money lie right now. We can afford it. We just can’t afford it and some of the other dirty little programs out there, like Iraq. So fix it.
B: End the fillibuster by getting the Senate Majority to act, your majority, our majority. Get the health care bill approved by a 51 majority, not 60. In other words, get ‘er done. The nation understands that.
C: Get party members to threaten impeachment of each of the five Supreme Court justices that decimated our election system and our nation by granting corporations personhood; impeach those that breached ethics in 2000 by accepting and ruling upon Gore V. Bush; by breaching the First Amendment by denying freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the Prop 8 trial in California and for a list of other usurpations. In 1969 the mere threat of impeachment caused a justice to resign. It is clear to all they no longer interpret whether laws meet Constitutional muster, but rule from a very ideologically conservative place incongruous with the document they are sworn to defend and uphold. Our founders gave us a process, how about you and and your party stop being too afraid to use it?
D: Give the last decade some closure. Start public, open torture and war crimes trials. If you don’t have the stomach, buy Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Rove one way tickets to the Hague. I’m not being rhetorical here. Many now see you and the Democrats condoning war crimes by not at least looking in to the validity of the charges in the form of a trial or hearings. We are big boys and girls. We can, in fact, move forward, while prosecuting those from our past that did harm to us and our country.
E: Govern for the love of any God named or unnamed. Don’t ask Congress to repeal don’t ask, don’t tell. Sign an Executive Order. The same for DOMA. Just get rid of bad policy quickly and easily.
F: And most importantly, stop asking Republicans, the party of Opposition, what they think, feel or would do in a situation or on policy. We, the People, have made it clear by a majority that we do not care about, nor want their ideas, good, bad or otherwise. Their time has come, and gone. They are the past. Treat them as such, with deference and politeness and that’s about it. They will, in fact, do that to you and your party once they regain power. And if you and your party keeps up your inability to govern, then they will, in fact, regain power out of frustration of the populous and nothing else.
You are the President of the United States of America. Arguable, still the most powerful man in the free world. Stop acting like a swim coach that wants to be popular and start acting like the President. Lead your party, they will follow, and so will the people. And if they don’t you lose nothing because at least you tried and if you don’t start forgetting the bipartisanship mantra and start inflicting our will on government, then you’ll lose the election anyway. So either way, you stand to gain much and lose nothing in the long run by at least trying.
Again, Mr. President, you are my President and I want you to win, to succeed, to govern. You, and your party. Not the Republicans and their ilk. That’s not what we voted for, so please, politely, tell them to sit down and shut up, take power away from them, don’t give it to them; remove the ability for any of their ideas to permeate policy, we don’t want it. Even if people are too afraid of being rude to say it, we simply have heard enough from the other side.
Let me put it for you in a way one of my callers put it on my radio show to me: George W. Bush, neocons and republicans abused the country and it’s people like a battering spouse. They were abusers, took advantage of everything they could, beat us down many times with fear and other methods to gain control. They never let us recover from 9/11, really recover and work through it as a nation and just beat us when we were down until we submitted. They were an abusing spouse. And now that we’ve gotten the divorce, broken free, moved them out of our House, you’re asking us to get back in bed with them. Well, we don’t want to go back, we want to go forward. We don’t want to hear the ideas of those that did us harm, harm you and your party often point out to us when you want to win something. We don’t want to have to date our abusers again.
So please, Mr. President, do the unpopular thing in Washington D.C. but the one thing that would gain you support across the board: stop waiting for the other side to approve or contribute and simply run with the ideas you told us about, that you said you would do once you got to D.C. with your party. Use the majority we gave you to give us things Republicans never would: an America where Americans come first, not corporations or monied interests. For once, Mr. President, for once in modern history be a President that isn’t afraid to use the system the founders set up to the full extent, be it impeachment of Justices or universal health care by a 51 majority vote. If a war, wait, ,two occupations, can be pushed through easily, so can this.
In other words, we didn’t send two parties to Washington D.C. by majority, we sent one. So stop making us deal with the others and their ridiculous ideas. Them, we’ve heard. We wanted new ones, yours. If you and your party can’t lead, stop blaming the other party for the inability. And fear not, keep this up, and in a few months, and then another couple of years, we’ll have nothing but their ideas all over again as they retake control as Americans have proven time and time again that in times of great despair they often will vote against their own self interests out of frustration. After all, they reelected George W Bush.
Thank you, Mr. President. My best to your lovely family and doggie.
