dead beat descendant

This morning in the breakroom, where the World Cup has been playing all day everyday on the teevee set, superceding even soap operas, it occurred to me the following: wouldn't it be something if we could harness the popular power of football (soccer, natch) to fight Global Warming?

Okay, all you marketing geniuses! Get on the ball!

My good friend Dale is sending this to the LA Times today: 

 

To the Editor:

When Bush won re-election, he said he had a mandate.  Apparently that mandate was to attack middle and lower class Americans with every ounce of his party's energy.

 

The Republicans are proposing slashing Medicaid, student loans, the food stamp program, as well as pension guarantee and unemployment insurance programs.  They've removed the safety net of bankruptcy protection and allowed fuel prices to skyrocket, while cutting taxes for the rich, and giving massive corporate welfare to the oil and pharmaceutical industries.

The Bush Administration has come unhinged and the Republican Party is at last transparent.  As a middle class American I am celebrating every Republican indictment, political stumble, back peddle, and bead of sweat.  It’s time to impeach and if this travesty of a Congress doesn’t agree, then the midterm election cannot come quickly enough.