The queen has no garden, Wal-Mart looted, Stopping Robertscare

Affirmative action gardening
We all know the story of the king's new suit that can only be seen by the truly enlightened.  Well now learn of the queen's affirmative action garden where true believers think the queen is capable of doing something - anything - without someone else propping her up.  Turns out the only time Queen Moochee ever wandered into "her" garden was for a photo-op.

When you think about it, this story makes perfect sense.  The queen of affirmative action gets credit for “working the Spite House garden.”  That is until the government shutdown hits and we learn someone else is “working the queen’s garden.”  Even when the people working Queen Moochee’s garden are laid off due to the shutdown, she can’t get off her ample azz to do the job and the vegetables rot on the ground.  No doubt money will be spent to truck fresh vegetables in and say the Mooch grew them and how wonderful the Mooch truly is.

All that aside, remember the sequester - when the king and queen closed the Spite House to the people for lack of funds?  How is it that there is enough money to pay Queen Moochee’s ghost gardeners but no money to allow the people to tour their house?

What really makes you want to work hard and pay your taxes?
Certainly this does.  Get up early and stay late.  Work harder.  Work faster.  Work longer.  All so that the federal government can loot your pay check and redistribute the money to people like this who take the opportunity to loot a Wal-Mart.

Wanna bet nothing happens to any of the people who robbed the Wal-Mart?  They used an EBT card for crying out loud.  The cops have to know exactly who did this.  But hey, they look predominately like “Holder’s people,” so the cops will just have to look the other way.

Why Robertscare needs to be stopped now
I caught a segment of Hannity on Fri – I think.  He talking to 15-20 talking heads from both sides of the aisle.  Now, if you cannot stand two people shouting over each other for a 7 minute segment, try an hour of a mob shouting – unwatchable.  Anyway, during a brief moment when the host actually had control of his show he asked, “Does anyone think that the roll out of Robertscare has gone well?”  Some Kool-Aid drinking ditz named Sally Kohn actually raised her hand to signify that she did indeed think it has gone well.  She blamed any failure of the system on the Republicans refusal to sufficiently fund it.  YGBSM!  Hannity pointed out that the system that was supposed to cost about 93 million actually cost over 600 million.

There in lies the problem with government in general and neo-liberals in particular.  Nothing ever fails because it’s a stupid idea – Robertscare – or inefficiently run – Amtrak– or out of date – the post office – or riddled with fraud – food stamps and every other government program.  According to neo-liberals, the only reason the government is not humming along at 99.99% efficiency is due to a lack of tax payer funding.

So, for those who advocate that Republicans should just let Robertscare collapse under its own weight, I do not doubt that Robertscare will collapse under its own weight.  I also do not doubt that neo-libs will blame that collapse on a lack of government funding.  The neo-libs will just ask for more money even though no amount of money can make it work.  No amount of money can make Social Security work when the worker to benefit ratio gets inverted and benefactors live into their late 80s.  No amount of money can make the post office work with a 1960’s business model and no way to reduce the unionized work force.  No amount of money can make Amtrak work while competing with commuter airlines that offer faster and cheaper means to get from point A to point B.  Hell even a bus offers the option of rerouting in the event of a rout blockage.

So, Lex is in the Mike Lee, Ted Cruz Tea Party camp of kill it now.  Even if you think it cannot be killed, does not mean honorable people shouldn’t try.  The Nazi war machine looked pretty unstoppable at one point.  But what the heck, it’s only the future of the country we’re talking about.  Why suffer endless attacks from all sides in an effort to save it?

The closer we get to a deal the more nervous I get that Boehner and the Republi-Rats will fold like tent.  If they think they are being blamed now, wait until they fold without a single thing to show for what they tried to do.  The only left to do is win.