Plumbers

The current debate in the media seems to be centered on Obama’s burgeoning national debt. But wouldn’t you say that debt is largely inherited from brain-drained Reaganomic reactionaries? Where was the media when Bush and Cheney were exploding our debt into the stratosphere with a fake war and specious tax cuts and then hiding the weenie so we wouldn’t see it going into their pockets, and the tax-relieved oligarchy that supported them, instead of into our nation’s infrastructure and basic human services such as health care and higher education?

It seems as long as the rich and powerful are making out like bandits, the debutantes in the mainstream news media just don’t get it as long as they’ve got their dance cards filled out for the next D.C. uberball. Warren Buffett himself has said, as you may recall, that the superrich have been on a spaceship for the past 25 years while the middle class has been on a treadmill.

Well, as Madoff has made off with a lot of their moola and Wall Street has crashed under the weight of their hair-brained speculation in mortgage-backed securities and other shell games, they have turned the tables on themselves. Now they’re crying like little babies because their bottles are empty and mommy has run off with Joe the plumber, who also got the family jewels. These worms have turned once again; and now it’s time to drain the rest of their bulimic brains and restore the national trust.