What amazes me is the cluelessness of everyone involved. Someone made a pantsload of money from these deals - follow the money! Find out who made the tremendous bucks to begin with and who is going to benefit from the hundreds of billions that is being poured down the same rathole. The American taxpayer is being taken for a ride and the meter is running at about MACH 2.
You say you haven’t read much of him. You should. You should also buy his books. Search his name at Amazon. Easily the funniest conservative writer I’ve ever read.
I’ve been a fan of P.J. O’Rourke for years. I highly recommend everything he’s written.
As usual, he hits the nail on the head with this article.
I like what he wrote - I keep hoping that We The People can rescue the idiots in the GOP/RNC from themselves but this last election hasn’t inspired me much.
Check this out - I stumbled upon it while looking up something else yesterday. While a hoot, they do make a point.
http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/Update/Update2008-05-17.htm
and of course this: (from Rush Limbaugh today)
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
Samuel Adams