Serious Implications

For all the Republicans acting like they never saw let alone voted for a deficit before, Professor James Edward Maule at MauledAgain has it right:

We wouldn’t be in this mess had more reasonable minds succeeded in derailing the radicals who tore apart the economic well-being of the people whose sweat and toil made the nation the great experiment in democracy that it has been. Surely the bad decisions need to be un-done. It is mind-boggling that the people who engineered the economic train wreck want back into the locomotive’s cab, and failing that, are busy obstructing the tracks on which the rescue equipment is being brought to the scene. All the while complaining that the rescuers are responsible for creating the wreckage.

A country needs a a conscience: something like this from Robert Stein at Connecting the Dots:

Since colonial days, there have always been con men and swindlers among the American dreamers striving for success in the world’s most open society, but as Rich reminds us, we have come a long way from the kind of people in “Our Town, whose narrator could say at the town cemetery:

“New Hampshire boys had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, though they’d never seen more than 50 miles of it themselves. All they knew was the name, friends–the United States of America. The United States of America. And they went and died about it.”

In this century, small town boys are still doing that in distant parts of the world but those of us they are leaving behind had damned well better clean up the Union they are dying about.

Last, proving some can have a good time telling it like it is, there’s: Hard Times in the Land of Plenty by Omar and the Howlers.