what's in a word?

What is the difference between these two words, defalcate and defecate? Oh wait let me see, there seems to be no difference whatsoever between these two words when it comes to politicians. With one you get crapped on and with the other you get crapped on. Defalcate means; to steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one's care. Defecate of course means, to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement. Once again it is very hard to tell, because the fecal matter spews forth out of their mouths as well as their butts, so what are the citizens of our country to do? We try to elect who we think will do a decent job and look what we get, scandal after scandal. Do any of those guys in Washington pay any attention to our laws? Do you remember the congressional check cashing scandal? In the late 1980s and the 1990s Congress faced a series of scandals relating to questionable fund-raising practices and abuses of congressional privileges. House Speaker Jim Wright resigned from Congress in 1989 after an ethics investigation into a controversial book deal that he used to get around fund-raising limits. In 1991 investigations revealed that several hundred House members had written bad checks that had been paid by the House “bank,” in effect taking personal interest-free loans from the government. Voters replaced many members implicated in that affair. The bank was actually a House business office that offered check-cashing services. Dating back to the 1830s, the office had for about 40 years honored overdrafts from members of Congress as an advance against their next month’s salary deposits. These knuckleheads weren’t happy to get a good deal, oh no, they had to over do to the point of criminal deeds. Some of those checks were written on known defunct accounts that had nothing in them. If you or I had done that it would be called, “negotiating a worthless instrument,” by the way, that is a felony.

Now we have Daschle's resignation who was nominated to be secretary of health and human services, which came hours after Nancy Killefer's withdrawal as Obama's chief performance officer, whatever the hell that is, who was just one in a line of screw ups. Let's not forget Governor Bill Richardson who had to withdraw as secretary of commerce, Geithner who didn’t pay taxes and is now the secretary of the treasury, not to mention that flaming frigg’n idiot up in Minnesota, Al Franken, what a piece of work that guy is. The worst part about that fiasco is, he not only has the demeanor of a fool, but the heart of a larcenist and he actually has a shot at stealing that election.

What is it with this guy Obama anyway, he just picks one poor association after another right from the get go. Unfortunately in this case being faithful to your friends and associates is not a quality to be emulated. He sticks by these malefactors till public opinion or some other controlling body puts a halt to them. Now he has picked a person (David Ogden) to be the deputy Attorney General of the United States of America who is a lawyer that defends child pornography. Look I am perfectly willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, now here comes the but, between this insane stimulus package and his judgment sucking, I just don’t know where we are heading. Is this what we get? Plus we get this bill that is jokingly called a “stimulus package” which is nothing more than a giant Christmas present and payback for all the favors and pet projects that any Democrat could ever possibly come up with, what! Are they insane? At a time like this with everyone in the country accept politicians hurting, they have to go playing games of money and power grab, which is not only disgusting and disgraceful, it is morally and ethically reprehensible. I have to say that at least Obama is looking into limiting the bonuses that the big CEOs get if the company they work for gets our hard earn tax money for a bailout. I’m not for government telling corporations how much they can earn or spend, but if it’s my money, and therefore I own a share in the company, I want to make damn well sure they are not playing the high roller at my expense. Hey how about this? Since we the taxpayers are now shareholders in these companies that we are bailing out, when they start raking in the dough again do we all get a share of the profits? I vote YES.

Have you guys been checking out the money grab these knuckleheads have been trying to perpetrate upon the unsuspecting taxpayer? I mean it’s just ludicrous. There is so much that if I went into it here it would take a couple of pages. Things like American Samoa commerce, ATV tracks, abortion for foreign countries, zoo renovations, water theme park, in of all places Florida, yeah they really need yet another one of those down there. This one is near and dear to us, 4.8 mil for a polar bear exhibit in Roger Williams Park in Providence, 6.1 mil for corporate jet hangers Fayetteville, Arkansas, airport, $20 million for renovations at the Philadelphia Zoo; and a $1.5 million program to reduce prostitution in Dayton, Ohio. a proposed $20 million minor league baseball museum in Durham, North Carolina. As I said, I could go on and on, but you are getting the idea here. I know many say that all these wacky proposals will create jobs, they may well, but that will be down the road a bit. They keep talking about, “we have to do something right now,” well then shouldn’t they give us our money back so we can spend it and jumpstart the economy immediately?
The question is this: how do we get these wingnuts out of office? Can anyone say Blagojavich? How many times have we seen and heard about corrupt and inept solons getting re-elected time and time again, ok, now can anyone say Kennedy? Speaking of Kennedy, R.F.K. Jr. just reasserted in front of a House Judiciary Committee he believes that big hog farms are more of a threat to the U.S. than Osama Bin Laden, now I agree he did a great job on cleaning up the Hudson River, but that kind of talk makes one wonder if he should be allowed out in public. Then we have Rahm Emanuel, The White house chief of staff who is fond of sending dead fish to those who disagree with him. If you have ever seen the God Father you know what that means, if not it means you sleep with the fishes, cement overshoes, get it? I’m sure he did it as more of a threat than an actual statement, nonetheless do we really want a guy like that in there? How about Eric Holder head of the Justice Department (attorney General) who along with Clinton worked to release 16 Puerto Rican terrorists. Here is an excerpt from the proceedings; the Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations, according to interviews and documents…
…President Clinton’s decision to commute prison terms caused an uproar at the time. Holder was called before Congress to explain his role but declined to answer numerous questions from angry lawmakers demanding to know why the Justice Department had not sided with the FBI, federal prosecutors and other law enforcement officials, who were vehemently opposed to the grants. Also in that freeing frenzy they pardoned Mark Rich. Here is an excerpt from Time magzine's article; In 1983, financier Rich was indicted for evading more than $48 million in taxes, and charged with 51 counts of tax fraud, as well as running illegal oil deals with Iran during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis. During his last week in office, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich, who had fled the U.S. during his prosecution and was residing in Switzerland. Clinton's eleventh-hour move, along with pardons of his half-brother, Roger, and former business partner Susan McDougal, outraged Republicans and Democrats alike. The Rich pardon sparked an investigation into whether it was bought by the hefty donations Rich's ex-wife, Denise, had given to the Clintons and the Democrats. In the end, investigators did not find enough evidence to indict Clinton.

How about the Governor of Michigan, Jennifer M. Granholm, and she is one of Obama’s advisors, so what? is she going to run the country into the ground like she did Detroit? Duval Patrick, I guess not much needs to be said there.
Here is what I’m getting out of this. Obama is coming from a whole other place than you or I. He comes from the most corrupt political environment in the country, “Chicago Politics,” So when he nominates these transgressors he thinks they are just fine, but when the vetting starts the rest of the country and some of the worthwhile politicians take great exception at the past and present dealings of these rapscallions. So maybe it’s not just that his judgment sucks, maybe it’s that he just plays at a more corrupt level than the rest of us, ergo he thinks being a lawbreaker and doing whatever is good for number one is high on the agenda and nominating thieves and scoundrels is perfectly okay.

No one party holds sway over right or wrong, however we need to do something before our country is no more.

So what is the solution? I wish I had one, other than throw them all out and start over, I don’t know.