Ill Wind

“O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! --J. H. Bumbleshook” by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, orig. 1906

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

~ It is a liar’s pride that he is not caught. ~ “It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief” [Japanese proverb]. ~ It is a thief’s pride that he, too, is not caught.  Moral:  For appearances, beg; advantage: liars and thieves. ~

~ Momma, I don' wanna play this game no mo'. ~

There was, to ’Fork’s mind, a spectacle of such supremity this week as to tear-up even Lady Liberty.  ’Fork believes that we were begged, badgered, and bullied repeatedly to embrace a ‘jobs bill’ albeit unwritten, of deeply faulted lineage, farting more fiat flatulence into the paper money bubble.

For the ‘good of the country?’  No.  For fiscal repair?  No.  For monetary repair?  No.  For the chil’run?  No.  For national security interest?  No.  For progressing life, liberty, and the HAPPINESS?  No.  For votes?  What's not.  For the love of God?  Whose?  For the love of Bo-Bo?*  Yes.  For the narcissist-in-charge?  Yes.  Big huggers.

* Bo-Bo and Bo are short for Barack Hussein Obama II and may be pronounced (in the singular reference) as ‘boe’ or ‘boo’ depending on which seems more respectful to you. [Ed.: Whereas, Bo-Bo may cozen or covet a messianic mien or more, that myth now sputters and chokes, hunting in vain for the honor of it all . . . in the end, for any of it.]

Bo-Bo's Barney moment . . .

“Not for the first time, Obama called back to an audience member who shouted ‘I love you’ with ‘I love you back.’

“. . . ‘. . . if you love me you've got to help me pass this bill.’

. . . “ ‘Give me a win? Give me a break,’ Obama said.”

‘Fork cries, his beloved country.

“Obama: 'If you love me, you've got to help me pass this bill' ” By Alicia M. Cohn, The Hill, 09/14/11.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/181507-obama-if-you-love-me-youve-got-to-help-me-pass-this-bill

PS:  Of lesser moment by national measure, of no less a moment by the pathetic and the pitiable . . .

“The [Ed.: Egyptian-born immigrant] mayor of a New Jersey town apologizes for a 9/11 memorial that contained the names of politicians, not victims, and promises to replace it.”

“9/11 Memorial in NJ Inscribed With Names of Politicians, Not Victims” [Ed.:  Reportedly, there were no 9/11 physical victims from this county’s township] By Brian Thompson, NBC New York, Sep 14, 2011 http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/911-Memorial-Removed-Washington-Township-Inscription.html