Mass SNAFU

A liberal revision to a classic fable

 

 

Adapted from an email I recently received...

 

OLD VERSION:

 

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.   Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.   The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself

 

 

2009 HOPENCHANGE VERSION:

 

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.   The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.   Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

 

CBS, NBC , MSNBC, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering  grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.  America is stunned by the sharp contrast.  Keith Olbermann screams “How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?  This is a moral outrage!” 

 

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'  ACORN and SEIU stage demonstrations in front of the ant's house where the media outlets film the groups singing “'We shall overcome.'  An SEIU member assaults the ant’s son as he tries to enter his home.  The ant’s son is arrested.  Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's well being. 

 

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that they have “inherited this mess” from the previous administration and that the Bush Tax Cuts have allowed the ant to get rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.  Finally, the EEOC drafts the 2,000 page Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Discrimination Act.  The President claims "we must act now or face undeniable calamity!"  Nobody reads it and it’s passed without debate in 24 hours and is retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

 

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs, is labeled a racist by the media and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar. 

 

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

 

His reputation ruined and unable to find work, the ant has disappeared into the snow.

 

The grasshopper is then found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be thoughtful when you vote in 2010

More Van Jones. Updated: He just resigned!

I can't stop asking myself this question: "How did this guy get appointed to a position in the White House?"

UPDATE: Van Jones just resigned and in doing so unleashed this pile of garbage:

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me.They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide," he continued. "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

I find it very amusing when he suggests that he's been urged from "across the political spectrum" to stay and fight.  Yeah, right.  Even better is that he accuses his opponents of "using lies and distortions" when it's all on video!

Those red flags of extremism during the campaign meant nothing! Well, maybe they meant something.

During Obama's campaign, a bunch of questionable relationships with radical extremists were uncovered.  Relationships with Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Saul Alinsky, et.al. all raised some serious concerns initially.  Obama denied knowing any of them in depth and assured all of us that he did not share any of their views. 

Well, eight months into his presidency it's looking like Obama lied, as his radical views and connections have surfaced like a whale crashing up through the ocean looking for some air.

Case in point: Green Jobs Czar Van Jones.  This is a man who’s views are so radical that he honestly believes that GW Bush was the mastermind behind 9/11 and killed 3000+ Americans for oil and poppy fields.  Seriously, he believes that, or did until he was confronted with it...now he claims he misunderstood what he signed.  Regardless, he was appointed to a position in the President's Administration!

Anyway, here's a list of Van Jones headlines from today alone compiled by Drudge:

White House tight-lipped about Obama adviser...
LEADING REPUBLICAN ASKS FOR 'GREEN CZAR' TO RESIGN...
Van Jones: 'We've never seen a Columbine done by a black child'...
Only 'Suburban White Kids' Shoot Up Schools...
COMPARED GEORGE W. BUSH TO 'CRACKHEAD TRYING TO LICK CRACKPIPE FOR A FIX'...
ZERO COVERAGE: NY TIMES, WASH POST, ABC, CBS, NBC...

To say this guy is a radical extremist piece of crap is an insult to pieces of crap...yet Van Jones is still a happily employed czar for the Obama Administration. The main question is, with his history, why was he even considered in the first place?  The main stream media, curiously enough, finds nothing newsworthy about this appointment and his beliefs and hasn't said a word about it.

Fox News has been all over it however, and some wonder why they have the highest ratings.  It's not because they focus on Michelle O's arms or her shorts.  It's because they report the news and look into questionable items...you know, investigative journalism.  It's a wonderful thing.