Sunday, September 26, 2010
Golfin' John Boehner channeling Andrew Mellon
And his erstwhile boss Herbert Hoover with one major exception. Hoover and Mellon really did think they were doing the right thing. Golfin' John just wants to put his pasty white ass* into the Speakers Chair. Robert Reich explains and hopefully you will understand the impending threat.
* No way will I ever believe that GJ puts the Man Tan on his butt.
John Boehner, the Republican House leader who will become Speaker if Democrats lose control of the House in the upcoming midterms, recently offered his solution to the current economic crisis: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. People will work harder, lead a more moral life."Golfin'John wants power at no cost to himself or his masters and he doesn't care how many bodies he has to climb over to get there. And John does know who the fittest are because they have been in his foursome.
Actually, those weren't Boehner's words. They were uttered by Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary, millionaire industrialist Andrew Mellon, after the Great Crash of 1929.
But they might as well have been Boehner's because Hoover's and Mellon's means of purging the rottenness was by doing exactly what Boehner and his colleagues are now calling for: shrink government, cut the federal deficit, reduce the national debt, and balance the budget.
And we all know what happened after 1929, at least until FDR reversed course.
Boehner and other Republicans would even like to roll back the New Deal and get rid of Barack Obama's smaller deal health-care law.
The issue isn't just economic. We're back to tough love. The basic idea is to force people to live with the consequences of whatever happens to them.
In the late 19th century it was called Social Darwinism. Only the fittest should survive, and any effort to save the less fit will undermine the moral fiber of society.
* No way will I ever believe that GJ puts the Man Tan on his butt.
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