Producers II: Republican Congress Courting Big Donors--But Will They Deliver?
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At first glance, it looks like a GOP Controlled Congress that has lost its collective mind. But what if the insanity is all an act? What if we are witnessing the con-job of the century?
Way back when (2013) I wrote a silly little story about a pair of grifters who decide to exploit Citizens United in order to collect lots of legal political contributions by running a phony campaign---and of course, due to unforeseen circumstances, they win.
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2013/09/godhead.html
In 2016, we saw Trump do the same thing. He promised everything to everybody---including Russia and Putin and Big Business and the Working Class, all of whom have mutually exclusive economic needs---and then was forced to deliver on his ( mutually exclusive) promises when Russia successfully hacked the election. A story that readers would have decried as "Implausible!" if we did not all see it happen.
In recent weeks, national politics has taken another implausible turn. Congressional Republicans are jumping sharks that no politician has ever jumped before. They are in the process of delivering huge tax cuts to the wealthy aka the Reviled 1% complete with scribbled in amendments that no one has even read. Next on their agenda---they plan to cut federal funding for housing, nutrition and health care for the elderly aka our Beloved Old Folks. They are about to make it even easier for gunmen to shoot up churches and country western music concerts---churches and country western music for chrissake! They are willing to let CHIPS expire---no more health care for kids. And they are willing to kill the Dream Act---because, apparently the sins of the father must be visited upon the children Never mind that the average American thinks that being fair to kids is a good old fashioned American value. Land of opportunity and all that.
Why are Republicans in Congress emulating Scrooge in front of the national press right before Christmas? Why are they going out of their way to act like total dicks with an all important midterm election coming up? With a massively unpopular president of their own party in the White House, meaning that many of them could lose their seats?
I think that Congressional Republicans have given up trying to win elections. I think they are putting on a performance designed to solicit campaign contributions from the NRA, the Kochs, Big Oil, the Banksters and, of course, any foreign power that would like to increase its influence in Washington or simply bust a foreign born criminal out of a US jail. I think that Congressional Republicans are staging a huge fund raiser. And, when skeptical donors ask "Are you sure that you can keep your promise to make slavery legal again in this country?" or "Do you really think that the voters in your district will go along with your plan to turn their Social Security savings over to our bank?" House Republicans smile and whisper "Sure. Don't forget, we have Russian hackers on our side." Wink wink. Nudge, nudge.
I will go one step further. I do not have a crystal ball nor do I have any flies on any walls in any smoke filled rooms, but I will bet that at this very moment, Steve Banyon is holding court, like a giant, bloated spider in the middle of his web, telling anyone with a million dollars to spare "I can get you what you want. Give me the money and I will buy the politicians and Putin will deliver the 'votes'" Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
I think that folks like McConnell and Ryan and even Trump who are being blackmailed by Russia---politicians who are living under the Sword of Damocles---would like nothing better than to get out of public life. A "pee tape" of Citizen Trump has no value. A "pee tape" of President Trump is priceless. But these politicians don't want to leave DC empty handed, dependent upon the kindness of strangers. They want to leave as rich men. And so, they are staging a cart and pony show, with the U.S. taxpayer as the poor, burdened pony being forced to haul a cart of full of loot which will be squirreled away in Swiss bank accounts and Dubai condos. Because Citizens United does not say how a politician has to spend all the lawfully collected (foreign as well as domestic) bribe money. Citizens United protects the rights of the the ignorant, the gullible, the greedy, the "money simple" and the senile rich folks of this country as well as the rest of the world to pour their money into GOP coffers---of candidates who are fast making themselves unelectable. Unless you believe that Putin's Russian hackers can perform miracles.
Do you believe in miracles? This man does. And he will sell them to you. Cheap.
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