Notice how grudgingly Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) is given the floor. Can't you just feel the rage, even the hatred, of Republicans forced to put up with the ravings of the crazywoman from Ohio? Fortunately, from their perspective, they know that no one's going to pay a damned bit of attention.
by Ken
Howie passed this video along from Nepal. (Our information "back channels" at DWT are way back.) He asked, "Does this appeal to you?" And by the time I got this far into Marcy's speech, I wrote back, "Not only does it appeal to me, it's perfect for the post I'm pulling together for 6pm dumping on David Brooks as part of the 'them' conspiracy. Here's somebody who ISN'T."
Now we even have a bill that's going to take food away from about 350,000 women and children. Now whose fault is that?
Here's a little note from somebody in my district. [Reads from a paper plate.] She says -- [waving paper plate] she signed up this plate at the food bank, the local food bank -- she says: "Without help from the food bank, I would be on the street. I struggle every day to make ends meet, so my kids have a place to lay their heads at night. I have a job, but with two kids it's still very hard. I have a lot of trouble paying rent, and bills. I just wish there were more help for parents like myself.
That's from the rural part of my district. From the urban part of my district [holding up another paper plate] and plate is signed at the food bank: "My income is spent on bills which leave very little money for me to purchase food for myself and my two daughters."
You know, the majority of people in this house are Christians, and I'm not pushing that, though I am one of them, but the First Beatitude says, "Feed the hungry." It doesn't say, "Rugged individualism." I'm as individualistic as anybody else in this chamber, but I'll tell you what, there's a heartlessness that goes with people who take everything for themselves and turn their back on the rest of the American people. So when Big Oil makes record profits and pays no taxes, there's something really wrong.
There's something really wrong with the country, and the American people know it. They didn't clean house here last November because they thought you were better. They just wanted a change. And they'll vote for it again if their lives don't get better, and their lives won't get better unless we fix what Alan Greenspan and Goldman Sachs and Bank of America and the whole rest of those buzzards up there did to this country.
And they're taking bonuses! In fact, they're making so much money, they take members of Congress out. You know the average amount of the meal? $193. $193 a plate. These folks [holding up the paper plates], a couple of bucks in a day they spend on food.
So I stand with the American people, not those wealthy interests who took the nation to the cleaners. . . .
Speaking of "who took the nation to the cleaners," you'll be thrilled to know that no less intrepid a detective than Our Davy Brooks has figured it out. And you know who it was? Freddie Mac!
As I suggested earlier, media dunce-whores like Our Davy are crucial to the corporatist juggernaut now running roughshod over non-plutocratic America.
And how does Our Davy know this? He read a book. Well, apparently he read part of a book -- the part that said what his dunce-whore ears wanted to hear. See, Our Davy "thought" (using the term in the very broadest possible sense), it wasn't the fault of the Godlike Rich People who make it possible for me to enjoy my scrumptious standard of living as their dunce-whore bitch!
But of course, as always, he's wrong. And it apparently doesn't bother the people at the NYT who have his checks cut that he's always wrong. People like Our Davy and the Rose Douchebag given them "balance" -- balancing their roster of moderates with right-wing dunce-whores gussied up to look like people with working brains.
We'll go more into the specifics of how Our Davy f**ked up this particular scoop tomorrow.
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