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I mention George Bush, and get this back at me: “I wish we could have a president like Martin Luther King, Jr. He had some really good ideas.”
“That’s why he had to be killed.”
“Riiight.”
This is that period of time where I become a bit loopy. Somewhere or other, she goes onto the subject of the recently passed Bankruptcy Reform Act — a bill whose passing tends to reinforce the idea of a one-party state in my mind (Republican Senators all voted for it, Democratic Senators half and half). The idea being that the Democratic Party gets to duck behind having “saved Social Security” while still having paid their dues to the Insurance and Banking Industries, and on and on.
“You know, the Senator that effectively killed and stalled that bill throughout the entire decade of the 1990s was Paul Wellstone, and…”
Before I could finish that thought (a loopy conspiranoid one to be sure), a third party derails the whole thing to a point of no return… how he would, on the first day of his presidency, declare “ALL CORRUPTION IS NOW STOPPED!”
Wouldn’t happen of course. Look what they did to Robert Kennedy.