Through the Looking Glass An Ecomaginary Voyage Through The Wonderland Of Washington

I’m not sure what they’re smoking in Washington. It’s pretty clear that they don’t know a serious topic from a joke. The ultimate bit of humor comes from Tom “The Hammer” DeLay who’s ruled this corrupt Congress for years and now finds himself in hot water for taking trips with indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

In Congressional lingo they’re called junkets and the Members classify the trips as work. It is part of why they only have 96 days to be in session it takes time to fly to resorts and golf. The lobbyists pick up the tab of course. It’s one of the things Members of Congress come to expect, no matter what someone else will get the tab. It’s no surprise that Tom DeLay has posted a website with a plea for donations to help with his defense fund.

The jolly jokester has a clip from the Colbert Report. DeLay must think Steven’s charm will play with the viewers. If the sarcasm escapes them, the irony of DeLay appealing to the public for funds shouldn’t. He’s one of the architects of the K Street project, a hugely successful plan to fill all the key appointee positions with corporate interests and fill the key lobbying roles from the Republican ranks. The whole world inside the beltway is chock-full of Corporate Republicans and they’ve cashed in like never before in history.

Now it’s the consumer’s turn to hand money over to fund poor Tommy’s defense. What has DeLay done for the consumers in his leadership role in Congress?? It’s a long list. There’s the law passed in 2004 making it a crime for Americans to smoke a Cuban cigar anywhere in the world. That’s a good priority and a very important step toward protecting us.

DeLay has called the EPA the Gestapo and he helped to make bankruptcy harder for individuals and give more freedom to prosecute to the credit card companies. Never mind he’s been a supporter of the war and head of the Congress to take a surplus and turn it to trillions of debt in a few short years. Yes America, take your after tax dollars and help the poor man fight. He voted to let big oil keep their profits now he wants thanks.

What else is happening in the land of the corporate free ride? Oh it’s a busy day. President Bush has decided that defense contractors, and other public companies that do business with Uncle Sam, should be able to keep their financial data secret. Listen to the interview. Heck of a job Negraponte!!

If this policy had been in place before the Enron collapse no one would be on trial now. It could have been handled like the Federal Trade Commission investigation into the big oil price gouging. The FTC head was pulled from the corporate attorney’s for Texaco. Now that’s efficency.

Once public companies roll back reporting we can feel really safe. You know how those radical terrorists hedge portfolio risk. We can’t let them know how well GE and Halliburton are doing. How would it look if the terrorists knew how GE used nuclear waste in human tests. They could get ideas. We need to keep those ideas at home. We need to keep America safe and build walls across our borders. The President has a plan and our job is to let him run everything in secret, even if it seems like the secret plan is to run it into the ground.

All the pesky websites like open secrets and corporate watch would stop posting all the unflattering stories about the contractor fraud and waste. All that talk hurts the morale of the troops and things are tough in Iraq. Oops, the message is Democracy is growing and there are sunny skies ahead. According to the Global Warming data, really sunny skies.