Get Over It!

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[GranniesAgainstGeorge] Get Over It!

 

 

 

 

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Get Over It!

 

By Nancy Greggs

 

Like many of us, I am in a perpetual state of anger

these days. Between the mess in Iraq, the

saber-rattling with Iran, the lobbyist scandals, the

deficit, the outsourcing of jobs, the price of gas,

and a buffoon of a president who thinks breaking the

law is job one, it's hard not to be pissed-off on a

minute-to-minute basis.

 

Hey, there's probably stuff going on that would really

set me off, if I even knew about it. But these days,

with new revelations about the criminality of this

Administration coming at us on a daily basis, it's

hard to keep up without a Goddamned scorecard.

 

But then there's always that one little thing that

gets on your last nerve, and this week my personal

rocket's red glare was set off by a remark made by

Antonin Scalia when he was asked about the Bush v Gore

decision, the stolen 2000 election. His response: " Get

over it! "

 

I have heard that phrase once too often, and it sticks

in my craw like the " Love it or leave it " bullsh*t I

heard in the `sixties, a virtual dismissive wave of

the hand that says I have no voice, no power, no say.

Well, you've picked on the wrong citizen if you think

I will shut my mouth, or be relegated to talking to

that arrogant hand.

 

I am an American. That may not mean much to people

like Scalia, but it means something to me. And when

someone tampers with my country's voting process, or

anything else that impinges on the democracy of MY

COUNTRY, I am not going to GET OVER IT, now or ever.

 

I am an American. I will not be dismissed, minimalized

or marginalized, especially by hypocrites like Scalia

et al, who persist in throwing rocks at my patriotism

from inside their glass houses.

 

I will not be preached to by warmongering

pseudo-Christians; I will not be reminded of the

importance of family values by people who have no

values at all. I will not be lied to, stolen from,

manipulated. I will not be assuaged by meaningless

rhetoric; I will not be lectured on the topic of

honesty by people who wouldn't recognize the truth if

it walked up to them on the street and bit them in the

ass.

 

I will not be condescended to by people who are as

immoral as they are greedy and self-serving. I will

not be shooed away from the adult dinner table like an

ignorant child, while the alleged grown-ups plot the

destruction of my own nation, or the nations of

others. I will not be told to remain silent in the

face of wrongdoing. I will not relinquish a single

freedom that is my birthright as an American.

 

And no, I WILL NOT GET OVER IT.

 

When my fellow citizens are suffering, I will speak

out for them, and stand with them. When disaster

strikes, I will not GET OVER IT by going shopping, or

attending a birthday party, or catching a ballgame.

REAL AMERICANS don't do things like that – and

besides, it seems pretty obvious that those jobs are

already taken.

 

REAL AMERICANS do not need to be told how to act, or

how to react. We know what needs to be done, and we do

it every time. Within minutes of the 9/11 attack,

firefighters, police officers, and emergency workers

were on the scene. They risked their lives to save

others without hesitation. Not one of them walked away

in an attempt to GET OVER IT. And dare I say it? Not

one of them found it necessary to stop and read The

Pet Goat in its entirety before springing into action.

 

REAL AMERICANS don't condone torture, secret prisons,

or rendition. REAL AMERICANS don't look at photographs

from Abu Ghraib and GET OVER IT. REAL AMERICANS don't

watch footage of dead Iraqi children on the nightly

news and GET OVER IT. REAL AMERICANS don't read about

their soldiers being wounded and killed in an

ill-disguised attempt to put MONEY into the pockets of

the rich and the powerful and GET OVER IT.

 

This Administration, and the elected officials who

support it, have brazenly picked a fight with myself

and my fellow citizens. Wrong move, wrong crowd. They

obviously don't know who they're up against. You see,

real Americans don't GET OVER IT when it's their own

country under siege. They don't kneel, they don't bow,

they don't yield.

 

The American people are now standing knee-deep in a

foul-smelling liquid. They know what it looks like,

what it smells like; they KNOW what it is. So stop

telling us it's raining. Stop trotting yourselves out

into the public square with your half-truths and your

spin. We all know the emperor has no clothes; don't

insult our intelligence with grandiose descriptions of

his wardrobe.

 

I know this Administration and its party just LOVE

throwing those bumper-sticker slogans around. Well,

here's one for them to chew on: " Eventually,

everything comes out in the wash. " And I'll be damned

if I'm going to watch all of that dirty Republican

laundry get hung on the line, and be told to GET OVER

IT.

 

There will be a backlash to the corruption and

incompetence of this regime, of that I have no doubt.

Poll numbers for the current crop of Republicans are

plummeting faster than the average American's savings

account. I guess all of those angry citizens who have

been keeping tabs on where their country is being led

just aren't GETTING OVER IT either.

 

So to the people in power who have turned my country

into something to be scorned rather than admired, to

be feared rather than respected, to be a harbinger of

hate, violence and death the world over, I say this:

You are going down. Your support is dwindling, your

lies are being exposed, and your failures are as

glaringly visible as a fireworks display on the 4th of

July.

 

And if you find that upsetting, well, hey … GET OVER

IT!

 

 

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