Even Santa Clause has signed a pledge to Grover Norquist.

Since when has our Congress become beholding to Grover Norquist? A man with no elected office. Not even appointed to anything by anybody. Certainly not confirmed by any congressional committee. Just a roving Washington DC jerk.

I thought the congress took an oath to up hold our United States Constitution. Nonetheless, most of congress has mindlessly sworn a pledge to Grover. A freaking lobbyist! The man behind the curtain in the Emerald City. The wizard of Odds.

Dorothy! Look behind the curtain. It’s a trick. A sham. A little weasel pretending to be somebody. But, he is not! Grover is just a oozing oily smelly lobbyist. How disgusting! Get out the hoses!

Never the less, our elected air headed congressmen and women have chosen to follow GN like he is the pied Piper. Leading the naïve and unassuming congress folks down a Yellow Brick road. A road paved with hollow pledges.

Following like Mr. Norquist had a fist full of candy. More like a fist full of cash. Deep pockets filled with unregulated anonymous money from unknown corporations. Secret corporations as allowed by our far right Supreme Court. Remember, corporations are now treated as people. Anonymous and with no limit on their donation amounts. Thanks to Citizens United and the Koch Brothers. They have the freedom of expression and their expressions have unlimited cash flow.

Grover Norquist, the Koch Brother, and Citizens United are the anti-patriots. Anti-American. Traders of the worse kind. Free enterprising terrorist. Malicious enemies of the American people. Appalling individuals beholding only to the quest of raping and devastating the national resources of America.

They are skunks and slithering snakes of the worse kind. Low down and intent on hijacking the Constitution. Holding it hostage until they have the last dollar bill left in America. Real Caca heads all of them for sure.

The voters vote and the lobbyist get the ear.

When are we going to realize our congressional leadership is beholding to the very rich?  Beholding to the very incorporated.  The very polluted.  The very unregulated.  The very self-serving.  The very lobbied.  When?  When will we realize this simple fact?  Huh?

And what this means, ladies and gentlemen, is they value their special interests more than their constituency.  Reelection money is more important than good laws or good government.  In other words, money talks.  Not only does money talk, it barks.  It bites.  Special interest money gets between you, me, and the voters best interest.  It separates us from good representation. 

Do you feel sorry for the special interests?  Does special interest feel sorry for you?  Not to likely. 

So, why do we continue to support the political partisans that take money for favors?  They easily take money from lobbyists and large corporate interest because they can’t raise their reelection campaign money otherwise.  Their valid talking points are few and far between.  Necessitating taking and accepting large cash donations (more like bribes) in order to save their failing reelection campaign.  Which means we get a mediocre representative without representation.  His or her reelection cause is to be reelected.  Just that simple.  Just a corporate automaton taking care of their corporate sugar daddies.  Is this the type of government you want?  Well, sorry to say, this is what we have now.  Should we continue to reelect them?  Lets hope like heck not.

The real motivation behind TEA partying. And it aint Booz.

In a recent issue of the New York Times, Paul Crugman says it’s the extreme politics of the TEA Party that was holding the budget negotiations hostage.  Certainly no new news here.  But anyway, who would know better than the Pulitzer Prize winner economist and NY Times columnist than Mr. Crugman.

So to find more information about the TEA party and its hidden motivation, I found this article and commentary on the net.  The main article was printed in the New Yorker.  Here it is:

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Money Behind the Tea Party

While it's popular fiction to say that the Tea Party is a grass-roots movement (it is neither grass roots nor a movement), it's interesting to see who is behind it. Jane Mayer has a profile in The New Yorker of the billionaire Koch brothers who have been the funds behind the nutsery.

The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a “kingpin of climate science denial.” The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies—from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Octopus.

In a statement, Koch Industries said that the Greenpeace report “distorts the environmental record of our companies.” And David Koch, in a recent, admiring article about him in New York, protested that the “radical press” had turned his family into “whipping boys,” and had exaggerated its influence on American politics. But Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”  (and the article goes on.  Click on link below to read the rest of the article.)

http://www.barkbarkwoofwoof.com/2010/08/money-behind-tea-party.html

Here's our new life guard, Grover Norquist

Here is our new life guard, Grover Norquist.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 6:58:25 AM | Chuck Ayers

The nare do well Grover Norquist has mention he would like to shrink the size of the US Government to a size that could be drowned in a bathtub. Thus eliminating the entire American government. No military. No air traffic control or aircraft inspection. No White House. No bridge repair when bridges collapse. No regulation of broadcasting including what might appear to be offensive to some listeners or viewers. No head start programs. No Medicare. No Social Security. No Coast Guard to protect our shores. No Border Patrol to protect us from drug smugglers. No advanced warning systems to advise of unfriendly incoming aircraft or missiles. No national weather service to forecast inclement weather or hurricanes. No environmental protection. No safety standards for trucks and cars. No money for public schools. No money for police or fire safety personnel. No college education loans. Unemployment would press near fifty percent. And the list would go on and on.

Basically reducing our beloved America to a third world country like Haiti or Somalia. Both of which exist in a very corrupt political system. A system, which favors the very rich and disdains the poor. They have no middle class. We would be either very poor or very rich. And, if you are very rich, you better have a well-paid large army to protect your interest.

Our basic infrastructure would eventually crumble. Clean safe drinking water would become a thing of the past. You would have to collect rainwater for drinking. Our sewer system would stop up and we would have to resort to doing our business in an outhouse. Public health would decline. Life expectancy would drastically fall. Disease and epidemics would be the normal.

All of this and more would be true if Grover Norquist has his way. You can’t separate the government from America. It is one in the same. Drown the government and you drown America. Is this what we want? Tell old Grover to