Redistributing Old Money

Who would know that the real face of the Republican party was that of a redneck from Texas? There once was a time that a Republican was represented by a businessman in a freshly pressed gray suit smoking a cigar in a posh men’s social club in Manhattan. Listening to Tom Delay speak on Hardball this evening shored up this image of the Republican party. Everything that came out of his mouth was a lie. Calling Barack Obama a Socialist for wanting to redistribute the wealth in America was enough. Could we just paraphrase Delay’s statement to say, “We’re the Old Money. We have always had the money, and we should keep the money. Screw everyone else.” It is this redneck, Texas, renegade attitude that has plagued this government and this nation for the last eight years. Bully the Supreme Court? Excuse me Mr. Delay, but you are mistaken. George Bush and his failed cabinet were responsible for bullying the Supreme Court. I am all but certain Barack Obama has had nary a thought about such. To utter dishonest and ignorant words on national television albeit at 3:00 a.m. on MSNBC is a desperate plea for the failing John McCain campaign. When we as Americans are left to lying as a last hope…. Well I think the fat lady truly has sung in this case. When a former House Majority Leader gets it this wrong, you can understand why he was not the Speaker. Indictments and convictions today are commonplace in American politics and finally it seems, “What goes around is coming around” for the first time in eight long years of political disaster. The recent bail out of Wall Street assures that all ready we are a Socialist nation. The severe penalties of greed in the public marketplace have been masked by a doting mother’s hand. This nation always has been Socialist, because when private business fails they look to our federal government to bail them out. If we truly were Capitalist then no such bailout should have occurred, whether the American home owner needed it or not. We have always been a Socialist nation disguised as a Capitalist one, because losing money is not in the real spirit of the “American Way.” With the good comes the bad and responsibility for one’s mistakes. If we were a Capitalist nation, Wall Street’s hands still would be empty, and we would be using George Bush's and Dick Cheney's money to finance the War in Iraq.