excellent Hightower Op-Ed "America's Shameful Leadership"

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America's Shameful Leadership
Wednesday 27 July 2011
by: Jim Hightower, Truthout | Op-Ed

OK, Barack Obama has not exactly turned out to be Mount Rushmore material, but -- good God! -- the petulant pettiness of right-wing Republican congressional leaders has turned them into a national embarrassment.

America has big needs right now. But those needs are not even being addressed, because little whiney ideologues like Eric Cantor, the GOP's House majority leader, keep throwing hissy fits, demanding that they get their way, or there'll be no way.

Of course, their way -- on everything from tax policy to Wall Street regulation -- is always the corporate way. Their plutocratic theories were exactly what was tried throughout George W's eight-year reign, and they failed spectacularly. Yet Cantor & Crew are now pushing the same nonsense -- the very policies that caused America's economic crash, which continues to crush grassroots people. "But it's ideologically correct," cries Little Eric, "so we and the Koch brothers won't stop screaming until you give us more of it."

They are so insanely obsessed with extremist anti-government dogma that they have even hitched their star to the reviled Lords of Wall Street -- the only group in America with a lower public approval rating than that of Congress itself!

..... more at http://www.truth-out.org/americas-shameful-leadership/1311772316

[mod mom]

1. Jim HIghtower is a national treasure!

[hifiguy]

2. Indeed he is!

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