The future’s so dark I gotta wear headlights

Politics around here gets more depressing by the day. On the national level, Barach Obama has been an abysmal failure as President. I actually had hopes for him when he got elected, but the man just didn’t get it. His predecessor single-handedly ruined our economy and I had all the hope in the world he would turn it around. He hasn’t. And his failure to turn it around is the single reason all those idiot Tea Party right wingnuts got elected all around the country. Health care reform is a requirement in a civilized society but on the priority scale it falls below jobs. Here’s an idea: Why not send a bunch of folks who are spending their days trying to figure out that to do at the Commerce Department over to the U.S. Patent Office. Go over all the recent patent filings that have been approved for those that might turn into a startup businesses. Then shop matching grant proposals to cities for the rights to locate these companies in their burgs. And what have you got? New jobs. Which translates into new dollars spurring the economy.

Of course, no city in Texas would be eligible for these matching grants. That’s because under the iron fist of Gov. Hair, Texas is systematically dismantling and ultimately destroying the state’s public school system so that there will never be enough people in the state with enough education to compete for the types of jobs these grants will create. Hair’s on his way to doing to the state’s economy what his predecessor did to the country’s. When they are not doing that, the state’s lawmakers are calculatingly disenfranchising the elderly and minorities and anyone else who tend to vote for real leaders instead of partisan political hacks. And these dirty old men spend an inordinate amount of time intefering in the privacy of pregnant women and make it impossible for injured consumers to ever seek justice from the businesses that victimize them.

On the local level, we have two completely out-of-touch candidates running for mayor, one who won’t give a straight answer on building a toll road out where it floods and another who doesn’t understand flow control or how to grow a local economy. And one of these clowns is going to be sitting at the head of the Dallas City Council for the next four years. Thank heavens for the council-manager form of government.

It all reminds me of an Animals song and, no, I’m not referring to The House of the Rising Sun.