1 Boring Old Man

Somehow, my mind went quickly to Obama and the political year 2009 – which by any scoring method was one of the worst. I don’t fault the President. I don’t really even fault the Republicans. I do think that Fox News, Talk Radio, and the idiots with tea-bags [who all had their taxes cut] protesting tax-hikes have been almost too much to bear. But there is blame to be partitioned. In chronological order – Ronald Reagan, the Religious Right, Phil Gramm, Wall Street, the Big Banks, the Hedge Fund Managers, the Lobbyists, anyone in the country named Bush or Cheney, the American Enterprise Institute. But if there’s to be a symbol for the sickness of it all, I’d pick the Lawyers – David Addington, John Yoo, Robert Bork, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, and their Klan known as the Federalist Society.