Sometimes you have to laugh at the pathetic state of this country in order to keep from crying.
To the rescue comes Chris Cronin of American Dissent Radio with a great guest column published Wednesday on BuzzFlash.
Ironically, somehow the best humor often provides deep insights into the harshest tragedies.
An excerpt:
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The American Civil Liberties Union has a long history of fighting for the civil liberties of citizens and residents of the United States of America. Notoriously, their fight for the separation of church and state has been at the forefront of this fight, and has recently been featured by a judge in Pennsylvania who said Nyet! to creationism in public school science classes.
And now, today, Jesus is finally gone from the Senate chambers, never again to haunt that godless space. For today, Dick Cheney stepped into the Senate and cast his vote in favor of reducing funding for the poor and those who are fighting for a leg up in society.
You see, Jesus -- a radical, Jewish religious figure from days of yore (his birthday is coming up if I recall from a recent rant on Fox News) -- used to tell people that helping poor people was good, and hoarding wealth was bad. He even said that camels pass through eyes of needles easier than rich men get into heaven. He also said things like, what you do to the least of my brothers you have done to me. A real radical, for sure.
But George Bush, President of the United States, fought hard alongside Dick Cheney and Congressional Republicans for the separation of church and state throughout his tenure as president by granting tax breaks which favored the wealthy, despite the commands and advice from his radical religious mentor and favorite philosopher, Jesus Christ.
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