Like many, I have about two weeks worth of "good " undies and a week's worth of "wouldn't want to get in an accident in these." Regardless of how empty the hamper is, I can never seem to "find" all my good undies. They mix in with sheets, hide with the t-shirts, or become doggie stolen treasure. The laundry room sock conspiracy has expanded. Perhaps this is a fitting metaphor for the current state of politics.
Where the hell are all the good Democrats/Progressives? We had serious game-changing numbers (and actions) in 2008, lost some damn good ones in 2010; in 2011 too many are lost, hiding or are a great right-of-center treasure. We had a solid core of "good" Progressive and a few blue dogs who we wouldn't want to count on in an ideological pinch/national car accident as we have just witnessed.
At home, personification of the various key players in the laundry drama are: The Hamper (Eric Wont'er), The Washer (Orange John), The Dryer (aguynamedJoeWalshshouldbeaDemocrat), and The Dogs affectionately known as the Grover Pack. (Note: no dogs were harmed - not having thumbs was accepted as a valid reason for their inability to sign the tax pledge)
Is there a conspiracy? Perhaps Corporate America offers "incentives" to household laundry members for misappropriating my undies. Drawers are capitalism at its finest. Underpants are American!
It seems to reason that because my taxes are low, I can buy A LOT of said drawers - a lingering lingerie stimulus contribution. This, it stands to reason, will create jobs in the "Foundations Sector" which has been sadly ignored.
Unfortunately, my Middle Class/Small Business drawer-impaired self pays proportionately a hell of a lot more in taxes than Corporate Underpants and its management team, asset managers, speculators, hedge fund Huns, and board members. Sadly, the one-woman lingerie stimulus package will not create jobs in the US, as they are made in a South East Asian sweatshop of Big Underware.
Big Underware is unrepentant and phoned the "team laundry" to ensure they continued to receive tax breaks to buy and fly a corporate jet to visit said factory (and fly to Aspen to "brainstorm") and offshore its jobs. There is, sadly, no tax break for actually exploiting the local workers. Though perhaps paying them to "model" the new...models could be written off as an entertainment expense. This gives "trickle down" economics another sick visual, as if it needed one...
...F*&^ it! I'm going Commando.
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