Obama’s Potemkin Democracy

In a timely bit of stagecraft that was conducted to much pomp in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday afternoon Barry backed off and proclaimed that he would seek the approval of Congress prior to launching WW III.  It is total horseshit of course, the military attack on Syria is already in the bag. Obama is only going through the motions of the ridiculously passé idea of checks and balances – he already HAS the votes.  The presser had all of the hallmarks of the great dictators of the past, for example the call for national unity:  “Today I’m asking Congress to send a message to the world that we are united as one nation” and the outsider “this menace must be confronted”.  Let’s face it, the United States Congress is nothing but a criminal organization that in any decent society would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and its members would be rotting in prison for their treason against the people that they are tasked by the Constitution with representing. This parliament of whores (to borrow a term from P.J. O’Rourke) is a den of thieves, liars, perverts, de-facto corporate lobbyists and other miscreants who are beholden only to self-promotion and money, foreign or domestic.  Barry has stones, I have to give that to him for reversing field for this bit of chicanery on the first Saturday that NCAA Football season kicked into full swing. Alas, it is nothing but a triple reverse, statue of liberty, flea-flicker play designed to trick the American people into actually thinking that they have a voice when it comes to another war. They don’t.

I have often wondered about one thing regarding the U.S. Congress, especially the U.S. Senate. How is it that so many of the most powerful members who effectively are able to control the entire body through abuse of the arcane rules to stall anything that is remotely beneficial to the American people just happen to come from states that aren’t demographically significant when it comes to population? For instance take one Harry Reid, the Democrat Majority Leader who hails from Nevada, according to the 2010 U.S. Census this is the 35th most populous state in the nation. What about Max Baucus, who was the key middleman in brokering deals with the insurance parasites when Obamacare was designed, he hails from Montana which according to the same 2010 Census happens to be the 44th most populous state. Then there is our Secretary of Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Tim Johnson from South Dakota, the 46th most populated state. Both are retiring in 2014 and will likely join the ranks of highly paid officials for the very sectors that they truly represented. Throw in that South Dakota happens to be a favorite location for rapacious credit card companies to incorporate in and operate out of and see that their other Senator is the influential Republican John Thune and something stinks badly.  It goes to reason that it is likely much cheaper to buy a Senator from a smaller state isn’t it?

The really big money though, the Wall Street banking cartel and military industrial complex dough goes to New York and California, represented by Chuck Shumer in the Empire State and that fat virulently anti-American toad Diane Feinstein out on the left coast. Shumer heads up the Senate Rules Committee and Feinstein lords it over the Select Committee on Intelligence where she serves as the impenetrable firewall of cellulite that protects Obama’s NSA Stasi. The entire system is rotten to the core and anyone who may speak out as opposition to  this racket, for instance Rand Paul is rapidly demonized by the corrupt state media. Republicans are led by the mush-mouthed, deal cutting Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, number 26 in terms of population. I could go on but why bother other than to say that Vice President Joe Biden’s long held Senate seat was in Delaware, 45th on the list and another Mecca for usurious credit card companies.

It is a dead bang certainty that Sunday morning’s bloviation circuit talking head shows will be led by a gaggle of ghouls and war freaks sent forth by Obama’s imperial decree to sow the seeds of fear in a manner unseen since the run up to the Shock and Awe invasion of Iraq. John McCain and Lindsay Graham will likely be front and center. It will be Syrian leader Assad who will be trotted out as the latest version of  the new Hitler and by God it is only Barack Hussein Obama who like Sir. Winston Churchill all those many years ago is the one to stand up to him. Bomb Syria for the flag-swaddled glory of mom, apple pie and what Ronald Reagan once referred to as that “shining city on the hill” before Obama and his predecessors turned it into a toxic, lawless slum thanks to their corrupt bastardizing of capitalism and vampire like taste for blood.

The fix is in folks, this is nothing but a Potemkin democracy presided over by a pack of psychopaths and  greedballs. It is all just a show for the suckers, schmucks and rubes. It as the late, great H.L. Mencken once so eloquently nailed it that “Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses”.  The ordinary people have not one iota of influence when it all comes down to it in Obama’s Potemkin Democracy.

Goebbels shrugged.