A brand new Agnieszka

My anger at this country’s conservatives is getting debilitating. I’ve decided I need to stop reading the papers for the next few years or I will explode, so this is probably the last political rant you will hear from me.

Today, the conservative core in congress voted to block the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. Surprise, America. Those darling republicans don’t really give a damn about you. They’ve also cut spending to education (again) and programs like Americorps that empower young people to help the poor. Thank goodness we have Christians and their moral values running the country – wouldn’t want to be helping the poor, like some wacky bleeding heart liberals. Especially since all these people in the blue states are subsidizing all the anti-tax heros in the red states. For every dollar that California or New York gives the government, California and NY gets 60 cents back, for every dollar that (insert any southern red state here) gives the federal government, that state gets about $4-6 back. Of course, who knows what those states do with their money, because they have the worst education systems in this country. And though Congress was "forced" to skim $120 million from Americorps, they somehow found $60 million to pay for a new courthouse in New Mexico (Dear NM, Hope you are well. Thanks for voting Red. Here’s your courthouse. Don’t worry about the deficit. Someone else will pay for it, maybe California? Love, Congress – “Getting Redder by the day”)

Those lovely conservatives have also cut spending to the environment again, which is just irrelevant given that the administration has not let the EPA enforce a single substantial environmental law since it came into power. But - thank the Red-State worshipped God! – those Republicans are finally going to protect marriage. Wouldn’t want to be like morally-depraved Massachusetts, which has legalized icky gay marriage and happens to have the lowest divorce rates in the country. No, no, better to be like those red states, nine out of ten which happen to have the highest divorce rates in the country.

You know what’s really scary? Even news agencies are afraid. This week, UCB did a study that found that the counties in Florida that voted more than predicted for Bush were also the counties that were using electronic voting machines. That was the only correlation found, and they looked at many. CNN, reported this story with the following title (and no, it wasn’t on it’s opinion page): “Academia still not over November 2”. They also never reported the fact that in Ohio, in a predominantly democratic county where only 650 people voted at the polling station, Bush got 4000 votes. Oops. (Fortunately, in this case, all those paranoid liberals called in and said that they thought there may have been a mistake, and the votes were recounted (some silly liberal had insisted on a paper trail!!!) and it turned out Bush only received 150 votes.)

So there’s my last rant. I’m not going to talk about the 10,000s of dead Iraqi civilians and 1200+ dead American soldiers that really haven’t made the victims of 9/11 feel any better (or safer), because that would probably make me cry.

From now on, I’m keeping my eyes and ears shut until they set up a "camp" for dangerous unpatriotic former immigrants like me, who are going to medical school to help icky poor brown babies. If only those conservatives would speed up global warming so that I could move to Canada and not lose out on the heavenly California weather. Hey, at least they’re trying, right?