re: George Will's WaPo Article 09/24/08

fr: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302325_Comments.html

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." - Thomas Jefferson



Georgie Boy,

You once said: "The future has a way of arriving unannounced."

Well, the future is here. The American economy is in tatters. Congressional oversight, once a dream, is soon to be a nightmare. And the 'free market' is but a corrupt joke.

The brand of political and economic freedom you prize so dearly has failed. Its potential sold short. Sold on the cheap. Sold on the backs of the American public.

You once wrote: "Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses." Now with capitalist excess rotting the foundation of the once "shining house on a hill" I beseech you to recant.

The incestuous relationship you have long championed was built on nothing but a sick symbiotic relationship between the ideals of power and greed. The perverse troika of amoral politician, complicit regulator, and abetting banker has borne America a bazturd child. One that threatens all the pillars of American Democracy.

I wonder if Rome's recalcitrant pundits in its waning days also tried, like you, to rationalize the irrational?

Empire, always fleeting, is never defeated from without - it is always from within. And in your case one need look no further than the Conservative mirror to see the culprit. Reaganomics, thy name is mud. The only trickle down you ever bring is abuse of power.

Georgie, wishing no ill-will, I pray you fare better than Shakespeare's 'Cinna, the Poet' from "Julius Caesar". You may recall "a mob, eager for blood" kills him using the "excuse that they never liked his poems much anyway". Such is the fate of the facile poet- beware the mob Georgie Boy!

9/24/2008 1:27:51 AM