Helping, Not Helping

Helping:

Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler CEO, is not the kind of person who you’d expect to be lashing out at Republicans, and in fact has generally supported the GOP politically, having endorsed GWB back in 2000 as one recent example. But in his new book? The gloves are off:

Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.”

Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I’ll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!

You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don’t need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we’re fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough. How about you?

I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged…. Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them — or at least some of us did. But I’ll tell you what we didn’t do. We didn’t agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn’t agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that’s a dictatorship, not a democracy.

Not Helping:

Rosie O’Donnell seems to want to take the mantle away from Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon and Barbra Streisand as “the lunatic liberal whose views make it easy for us to dismiss rational liberal viewpoints.”

Unfortunately, I can’t find anyone disparaging Rosie from the left – and I really hate posting links from what appear to be all raging wingnut sites. Why aren’t left wing folks talking about Rosie in the way they should – as a nutjob? I’m not saying that anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is crazy – everyone is entitled to their own opinion – but she’s not helping. She’s a joke across the country and is not the kind of spokesperson anyone wants on their side. I’d be a little more impressed with my side of the aisle when and if someone comes out talking about what a ninny she is.