I think it safe to say that the time has now come to formally declare that former Wyoming Senator and certified RINO, of Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission fame, Alan Simpson, has now most assuredly lost control of what few mental faculties he may have at one time possessed. After spending what has been described as a career mastering the art of the pithy sound-byte, evidenced by his setting off a bit of a firestorm last August, when he by exclaimed that “Social Security has become a milk cow with 310 million tits,” Simpson has once again taken a stroll in lala land, putting on display his rather juvenile side.
I say that because his most recent episode of psychotic behavior can be said to have exceeded even his usual, and more than a little bit bizarre, standards. It seems that the esteemed former senator sent a withering letter just last month to a group called the California Alliance of Retired Americans, in which Simpson sets about berating the group for a flyer they apparently circulated which urged the deficit commission to “Stop using the deficit as a phony excuse to gut our Social Security!” Apparently Mr. Simpson took exception to that and, apparently, was none too happy about it.
“Your little flyer […] is one of the phoniest excuses for a ‘flyer’ that I’ve ever seen,” wrote Simpson on what was actually some official Senate stationary. Now look, this imbecile hasn't been in the Senate since 1997, so what the Hell is he still doing with official Senate stationary? Did he grab a bunch, way back when, as he headed out the door, or what? But, I digress. Simpson continued, “You use the faces of young people, who are the ones who are going to get gutted while you continue to push out your blather and drivel.” I don't know, I think I would have expected something just a little different from a former senator.
Urging the group to “Read the damn report,” Simpson minces no words: “What a wretched group of seniors you must be to use the faces of the very people we are trying to save while the ‘greedy geezers’ like you use them as a tool and a front for your nefarious bunch of crap. You must feel some sense of shame for shoveling out this bullsh*t.” Personally, I think this little letter leaves very little doubt that our buddy Alan is now ready to escorted off to the funny farm. I mean, unlike him, not everybody gets to leech off the taxpayers in the form of a rather exorbitant government pension.
And in what was his final, colorful bit of imagery, Simpson advises the group, “If you can’t understand all of this you need a pane of glass in your naval [sic] so you can see out during the day!” Man. I have heard such language since my days back in grade school. Talk about somebody pushing "blather and drivel". Old Alan must have been nearly apoplectic. Supposedly, Simpson’s letter was forwarded to the media by The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, (AFL-CIO.) I guess they saw it as a way to use Alan's words to possibly strike at this group of seniors. Guess that's ok with Alan.
So this is the caliber of weak-minded individual that Barry thought he could turn to to come up with some sort of solution to our current, and continuing, budgetary mess? By his selecting Simpson I think Barry made it very clear from the outset that he was not taking our fiscal situation at all seriously. And as I recall there weren't all that many folks who were impressed with what Simpson and his fellow commission members came up with. Obviously, Barry wasn't, since he pretty much ignored the whole thing. Not that he ever intended to do anything else, the whole thing was nothing but more smoke and mirrors anyway.
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