I read the news today Oh Boy, and then I noticed that a good cross section of the top tier of American society, the movers, the shakers, the big money makers in government, business, and the religion game, the very pillars of our community, were in prison, under investigation or actually indicted, awaiting trial or out on appeal, on the prison bus or trapped underneath two large convicts named Leroy and Bubba and I sat back for a moment and smiled somewhat wistfully.
A bittersweet moment and a brief smile because I immediately recognized that what I was looking at was a surface tremor, an advance ripple before the onset of the exposure of a tidal wave of corruption, of civic rot, of a great molting of the fraudulent upper crust, of theft and graft and mendacity in public affairs that this country hasn’t overturned since Tammany Hall.
If we begin with Abramoff and Delay, Bob Taft and Bob Ney, William Jefferson and Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling and if you’re willing to bear with me I’ll go on through Bush and Cheney and Scooter the Libby, and an unholy litany of the names of those who have deceived and betrayed brutalized and dismayed their detractors and their supporters alike but I’ll drop the wistful smile and not play games with what is a deadly serious subject involving the future of our Republic.
Those who now stand before the bar of justice or behind the bars of justice do not stand alone, and like all rats they crave company and they will in time, deliver up the names of their spiritual compatriots and coconspirators in order to lessen their punishments and their prison sentences, hence the groundswell that presages the coming tsunami of cleansing of the halls of government, of business, of religion and all the other institutions they have dragged with them into the realm of public distrust.
This is a great opportunity for America in general and Democrats in particular to answer with the “Mother Of All Public Airings Of The Dirty Skivvies.” It is time to clean our public house and to do so loudly, publicly and unashamedly, without mercy or apology before our countrymen, before the world and before our creator. This is an opportunity for a symbolic historical sequel to the tossing of the moneylenders from the temple. The Gods themselves exult in our good fortune and stand in line for tickets to ride and to watch.
Democrats do not wait, do not falter, this day, this very day begin to cleanse your ranks of the filth, of the rot, of all those unworthy to serve the public trust. You know them well, you have ignored and protected and excused them far too long, and they have held us back like a great sea anchor, made from the mainsail of our Ship of State and torn from it’s proud and proper place flying high and boldly before the winds of history.
Take the lead Democrats and do it this day, the gods and the people wait and watch.
I bought a ticket myself.
Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust
