The Fossil

     Fundraising maven Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants to be Speaker of the House--again.  The Democratic Establishment supports her ambition.  Her "experience" is the main thing touted as her prime qualification.  She helped President Obama push through the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, also as Romneycare, as in Mitt Romney, who adopted the plan many years ago as Republican Governor of Massachusetts.  The plan, generated by the Heritage Foundation, a right wing think tank, is still the low rung on the health care ladder bragged about by corporate Democrats.  It enriches the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries, those behemoths powering the campaigns of corporate Democratic politicians, the kinds of leaders propagandizing for  Pelosi to be the next Speaker of the House.
     Pro-Pelosi politicians, Donald Trump (who endorses her as Speaker) among them, are aided in corporate news media by pundits and insiders, all robotically mouthing the same praises for an unimpressive longtime politician who makes her comfortable multi-millionaire living appealing to "liberal" and Neo-Liberal donors for huge amounts of cash to keep the Democratic Party rolling on its way to change by gradualism--change that never comes, because the Democratic establishment, like its Republican sibling, is obsessed with money and cares not for those who don't have it.
     Pelosi, on a Sunday morning show a while back, talked about her qualifications to be the next Speaker, bragging only about her fundraising abilities.  The word millions attaches itself to her character like an ugly barnacle.  There's no soul or breadth of ideas inside that woman.  She epitomizes the sickness inside the Democratic Party, the so-called opposition, the hashtag Resistance, which includes Democratic luminaries like former Vice President Joe Biden presenting the Liberty Medal to George and Laura Bush on Veterans Day.  Biden spoke of the noxious atmosphere in Washington, the loss of civility.  He makes it seem as if ordinary Americans suffer from the fact that Republicans and Democrats don't always speak nicely to each other, not from lack of health care, clean water, and endless warfare sucking the American economy dry--the latter a condition hoped for by none other than Osama bin Laden.
     "President Bush was my opponent, not my enemy," Biden said.
     Biden voted for the Iraq War, the Afghan War, so as far as killing people goes it seems they agree with each other wholeheartedly.  To get the Liberty Medal, I guess it helps to order the creation of a torture program, and then wait about fifteen years for someone so buffoonish to become president that the torturer/war criminal seems like the Good Old Days.
     Pelosi, the night she won Congressional re-election in California, spoke of seeking unity with Republicans--with a party committed, evidently, to doing nothing to stop the ecocide that will kill everyone, leading to a time when being a millionaire will no longer be relevant, and greed-motivated shits like Pelosi, already old, will be long dead.

                                                                               Vic Neptune