An older-model sedan in the parking lot, with a familiar bumper sticker: WHY IS THERE ALWAYS MONEY FOR WAR BUT NOT FOR EDUCATION?
I'm no fan of bumper sticker wisdom, but I'll grant you this is--hey, wait. What does the sticker next to it say? VOTE DEMOCRATIC. FOR A CHANGE.
Okay, now you're just trying to piss me off. I want to go into the store, find the owner of this car and thump this person repeatedly on the head.
Does anybody really believe this crap? How little attention were people like this paying to the build-up to Iraq? The Democrats were more than willing to bend to every one of Our Beloved President's demands, have been personally responsible for diverting funds earmarked for education towards the war effort and have continued to hand the Bushinistas unprecedented power. Now they want to stand around and whine? Now they want a change? If they had ever been any kind of opposition party, we wouldn't be in this mess.
They're the majority in congress, and nothing has changed. So if they take the presidency, can anyone really believe things will just somehow be better? Because it's not going to happen. Not in this lifetime.
Sigh.
If only I could just go buy muffins without the real world intruding.
