Yes, because those Republican meanies in Congress won't allow the Messiah Most Miserable to hike our taxes yet again, we must cut back! We must tighten our belts!
However, there are some programs so essential to the well-being of these United States of America, that their gravy trains cannot pull into the station. And what are some of these vital endeavors?
Reduction in "human-elephant conflicts" - $3.8 million, lest those dastardly elephants leave us "pies"
Doesn't all this give you such reassurance that your tax dollars are being put to worthwhile use? It should! More of your dollars are being seized as tax dollars!
That's the gist of Harry Reid's screed against HR1, the House budget clean-up bill that starts to strip nonsense pork-barrel money drains from the budget. As you watch this, notice that he first whines that HR 1 would defund "national public broadcasting". After NPR's little stings of the past few weeks, we rejoice in that prospect. More importantly, the Federal government has no Constitutional mandate to interject itself in "public broadcasting".
He then bemoans the fate of (drum roll, please!)
THE COWBOY POETRY FESTIVAL!
Oh my, oh my! How will the United States ever survive without the "Cowboy Poetry Festival"? After all, as Dingy Harry says at the 0:29 mark, "had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist." Wow! It sounds like he's been hanging around Joe Biden for way too long!! The people would not exist?? Alright, you liberal crybabies! For weeks you ballyhooed when then-Vice President Dan Quayle mispelled the word "potato", so don't bother to snivvel about any alleged "mean-spiritness" from me!
Listen to Dingy Harry for yourself! If you can't see embedded video, click here.
Hey! If this festival goes on (hopefully with no tax dollars of ours), I think I'll enter this into any contest they may have. Here goes!
We cowboys will have us a rodeo,
'Cause Dingy Harry rustled up some taxpayor dough!
That's what I see bandied about in last week's Boston Herald! The "Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate" is already slated to receive $38.3 million of our tax dollars! Now John Kerry and Edward Markey have stuck out their hands for $30 million more!
Excuse me, but aren't we already spending ourselves into an insurmountable debt in the trillions? But don't worry! They want to draw $29 million from (wait for it!) the defense budget. That's the one area that rightly deserves funding, and the one area that the Messiah Most Miserable seeks to dry up. Isn't that a coincidence!
What has Ted Kennedy done for us? He has inspired the Hell Bill that will trash health care in every way while forcing us to subsidize abortion and euthanasia. He was "pro-life" until 1971 when he put politics before his Catholic faith and always voted for the murder of babies and for the trashing of the traditional family. He was also a flagrant womanizer, and had been known to abuse alcohol, both of these being factors in the death of at least one woman (how he earned the nickname "Chappaquiddick Teddy"). Of course, while doing all this, he thumbed his nose at his own Catholic tradition. His bishops were of no help to him, as they continued to cooperate materially and formally with his reception of sacriligeious Holy Communion - but that's its own rant. And for all this the United States should strap itself for $68 million?
Let us hope and pray that this does not go through, and not only for the abysmal waste. For should it go through, and this idolotry ediface is completed, I cringe to think of all the Catholic prelates who will go to shame themselves at the thing's ribbon-cutting ceremoney.
