Nothing is going to happen in Congress before 1pm tomorrow afternoon, so you can go to sleep now. Hopefully, you have already put all your wealth in your mattress, and you will sleep well. If you want to document your displeasure with our political system, use the comments section.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
So, the Treasury mints a couple of trillion dollar coins. Where are they going to stash them? And whose face is going to be on them? I’ve heard, Betty Ford and Ronald Raygun are good as contenders as any, over at Big Orange.
Ronald Raygun would be provocative. Can you imagine Reich Wingist attacking a coin with the personage of St. Ronnie on it? Still, I’d love to see a coin with Betty Boop adorning it, and instead of “In GOD! We Trust,” something like Cindi Lauper’s, “She Bob She Bop.” My displeasure BooMan, manifests itself in cynicism, humor, and 80’s Pop references.
Call the coin an Atreides. One Atreides = $1 trillion.
Put Kyle McLaughlin’s face on it, and instead of “In God We Trust,” the motto “Fear is the mind-killer.”
I once waited on him at restaurant in Chicago. I was kind of out of it at the time, and I didn’t even recognize him. I was obsessing about a history term paper due the next day that I only had half finished. Another waiter commented, “Lucky you, waiting on Kyle McLaughlin.” I mean they gave the guy a shitty table, so maybe the maitre d’ didn’t even recognize him.
Kyle smoked a ton of cigarettes (this was 1989.) He would take a drag, and then snuff them out in the ashtray. I think he was trying to stop smoking. He was with his girlfriend and his mom. He was very cordial, and he paid for his fifty dollar check all in single dollar bills..weird! But, a nice guy none the less.
I haven’t, and that’s why I’m worried.
always.
I am.
ps: have you read my book?
I can’t speak for all of America because I often don’t understand why they think what they do when responding to polls.
….BUT, and it’s a BIG HUGE-ASS But, I really think we’re all exhausted from this crazy self-made crisis. And we all know who created the crisis. If we can only manage to remember all of the stress we’re being forced to endure for no good reason once election time rolls around, the Republicans deserve to lose about 200 seats in the House and all (R) Senate seats that are up right now. And Barack Obama has nothing to worry about.
I’m so f-ing fed up with this hostage/blackmail scenario that I have already turned the channel. Someone tell me when it’s over.