These Abnormal Times

In normal times, nobody would give any time to a raving, intellectually challenged blowhard like Glenn Beck. Nobody would even tune this guy in on the idiot box, and he would have to go out and earn an honest living or go back into rehab. The fact anybody like this gets any kind of ink at all not only shows how far political discourse has fallen, but it also points to the glaring fact there is a complete absence of leadership in Washington.

Mr. "Hope and Change" turned out to be Mr. "Same Shit, Different Day." What "reforms" he has helped enact have been nothing more than windowdressing. They don't do anything to rock the boat against the health insurance industry or Wall Street; hell, the guy is nothing but a tool for those corporate interests anyway. We needed RADICAL surgery in this country by rejecting the special interests and financial elites, but instead we get the same damned thing.

The fact is Obama is little more than a Republican of the Friedmanite type than a real Democrat. The neoliberal poison has infected the Democratic Party and promises to destroy it from within.