I don’t know why I’m so disheartened.

I guess it’s obvious that right-wing politicians are acting like children – making shit up (even though Sarah Palin told us not to, in support of the troops, dont’cha know – and even though I have no freaking idea what the connection is between her lying ass, the press, and soldiers, but ya know, that’s just Sarah!), obfuscating, obstructing just for the sake of obstructing and just plain forgetting about their constituents until they need to stir them up into salivating, gun-toting, town-hall-shouting frenzies in order to get the brain-dead main stream media aroused and off their sweltering summertime DC bar stools.

But what’s new about all that?

And then these Republican bastards are joining with their Democratic bastard pals to lick the stinking buttholes of the health and insurance lobby so that the steady flow of money, and the high-end Congressional and Senatorial lifestyles, power and influence funded by such a flow, won’t be interrupted.

There are no death threats from public healthcare. Just a death knell to profit-bloated insurance companies who will spend every fucking cent of your premiums to whip the slaves into a final oar push of their gold-laden pirate ships through these tumultuous waters of late. Oh, and the bell also tolls for the silent people who die every fucking day because they either are not insured or are underinsured or are insured but afraid to go to the doctor because their premiums will go up or they’ll be diagnosed with a pre-existing condition and be fucked for life. These evil insurance companies will do anything, anything at all, to convince an enormously gullible and reactionary and childish American public that the very same companies who deny Americans health coverage and spend every waking hour thinking of ways to deny their claims, are their fucking SAVIORS.

Well, it’s just…stunning.

And then, after 8 years of the BushCo ass-kissing press minions running images of Kalashnikov-wielding Middle Eastern “terrorists” on the front page of once-glorious and now laughable daily newspapers, and Americans looking at those pictures with sneers and horror and saying, “What a bunch of ragheads! Look at ‘em! Running around with automatic weapons in the street for God’s sake! BARBARIANS!” we now have people showing up at Obama’s town hall meetings toting automatic weapons. But that? Why, that’s just fucking dandy. We’re UHMERICUH after all. Not barbarians!

And then that amped-up (was she doing coke OR WHAT?) Betsy McCaughey on Jon Stewart slapping the giant healthcare bill on Jon’s desk for no reason whatsoever that I could discern, since every time she did it she said, with her own flavor of repulsive gusto, “I’ll READ it to you!”, then she never would fucking find the particular paragraph and read it. I kept yelling at the teevee, “Just READ the fucking thing! Will you just read it? OH MY GOD just REEEEEEEED IIIIIIT!” Then she insisted on playing to the jury (audience) as if she’d been prepped by OJ’s trial lawyer, instead of actually having a reasonable discussion with Jon. She’s the self-declared expert but Jon sat there calmly with all the knowledge of the bill in his head while she scrambled from page to page never finding anything she was looking for, but when he finally had to grab it from her and read it, she had to keep looking out at the jury and nodding and smiling and frowning and then back at Jon where she’d lunge into his face and point at some general point on the page. I bet you a million dollars that she was grinding her teeth at the same time. That girl snorted a big fat line right before she came on stage. She did a big-ass bump. I know she did.

Maybe McCaughey should have done what D’Amato told her to do in the first place and blown ol’ Giuliani, after all.

I’m just exhausted by all the ignorance and tomfoolery. These are grown men and women, but you could have fooled me. And I think that countering all this shit, in writing or in conversation, is an enormous waste of breath. And don’t fucking get me started on Obama and the Democrats who actually have allowed this three-ring circus on healthcare to devolve into pandemonium, WHEN WE HAVE A FILIBUSTER-PROOF MAJORITY! What the FUCK? What the FUCK! is all I can say.

For those of you who think this is a fun game where politicians make things up all day long because ‘That’s politics!” and get your rocks off on arguing and fussin’ and fightin’ and fueling the fire…I think, no matter what side you’re on, that you need psychological help. The current state of American affairs is not amusing at all. It’s a despicable and shameful part of our history that is sure to be laughed at (I hope, I hope!) by a more evolved human race 20-50 years from now, if the planet hasn’t been blown up by a toothless gun-totin’ anti-immigrant pro-life pro-gun gay-hatin’ Krishtian fundamentalist nutcase Republican next week.

And … just after I hit the post button and shuffled back sadly to my feed reader, I got to have a big laugh at this. My mostest, mostest favorite? We Are All Nazis in the Eyes of the Lord!

Ahh, perhaps we’re not so lost, after all.