Stimulus plan Meets More GOP Resistance

I tried to post the following as a comment to the Washington Post story dated January 23, 2009 with the headline "Stimulus Plan Meets More GOP Resistance" by Paul Kane but no matter how many times I tried to post the comments they would not post. There appears to be a Orwellian filter that screens out certain words. The filter is Orwellian in that no poster knows which words are on the list of acceptable "Double Speak" and which are not. I'll be the first to acknowledge there is nothing in my comments worthy of acclaim, but neither is there anything like profanity that should automatically exclude my comments. Here is what I tried numerous time to post.

So The Con Men (aka confidence men, aka conservatives, aka Republicants) are unhappy. The Con Men are unhappy are they? Excuse me if I don't shed a tear because I, trapped by a neurotic need to closely scrrrrutinize my nation's history, can not, no matter what alcoholic or narcotic tincture I imbibe, overlook a maddening little fact about The Con Men.

You see, America, way back in 1921 The Con Men managed to con America into adding to The Con Men's control of the House and Senate (gained two years earlier) by giving the White House to The Con Men by electing Warren G. Harding, a Con Man from Ohio who couldn't figure out that his closest fellow Con Men, his erstwhile friends were flaming thieves who gave American historians perpetual employment researching scandal after scandal like the Teapot Dome Scandal.

The Con Men then held all three branches of the federal government for a full 10 years (1921 through 1931) giving us as presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover along the way, presidents who consistently rank near the bottom in polls of presidential historians.

And how did they reward America for their collective political amity, for falling for their contemporaneous confidence game? Well, let's see. They call it THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

Now, you could call it just bad luck, tut, tut, or, more likely, the average American could not be faulted for calling into question the underlying philosophy of The Con Men.

Now, fast forward to our current economic disaster, in 1995 just three years into the Democratic administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the American people once again fell for The Con Men's thimblerig by giving The Con Men control of both houses of the Congress by falling for a sly bit of humbuggery cast under the moniker of "The Contract With America." (It should be noted, since it has escaped the notice of historians, who missed this little known fact, that the original contract went by the title of "The Contract ON America", --badda bing--and it was only a mistake by the printer, who, in his cups, failed to mind his "p's" and "q's" that America labored on until the year 2008 believing The Con Men weren't out to kill America.)

In the year 2000, by a particularly pernicious purloining of the political process The Con Men gained control, once again, of ALL THREE BRANCHES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, and proceeded though they inherited peace and prosperity to plunge America, in eight short years, (beating their old and uncontested record by two years) into economic ruination. This time making The Great Depression look like a boom time.

Now, America, does it really matter that if it is the monumental bad luck of The Con Men or a result brought about by purposeful design of The Con Men that within a span of 79 years the Con Men have managed to nearly destroy America???

If it is just "bad luck"? "bad timing"? what should America DO with the "TYPHOID MARY" of American politics?

But if the financial and moral near-destruction of America is the result of design, is the unavoidable outcome of a pustulant political philosophy visited on America like the plagues of the bible by The Con Men what then? What should America do?

What does America do with a political movement that holds, as one of its high priests of hugger-mugger, Grover Norquist, does that its sine qua non when it comes to the American government is "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub"?

I do not know about the rest of America, but I hope this dying old quasi-Liberal can be forgiven for suggesting that a "Hunting Season" be instituted for The Con Men. I suggest $100 per scalp, and better to do it now then at a future date when the old Soviet Union could reconstitute itself because you know the "commie b_astards" could find no greater source of instruction when it comes to DESTROYING AMERICA than extant Con Men!!!