I Am Thankful

I Am Thankful

- Ronald E. Hignight

I am Thankful the decade of ‘o something’ is over. I am also thankful to a number of people who shared it with me.
Thank you, George Bush for abdicating. I know the Constitution stood in your way but, it was grand of you to honor it.
Thank you, Dick Cheney for showing us how to hoodwink America into wars to preserve the petroleum industry and global warming.
Thank you, Sarah Palin for being the governor of Alaska, rather than some other state. We needed the humor you spawned by your political foray during the darkest moments of our economy.
Thank you, Glen Beck for sharing your fantasies. But for your myopic vision and dire predictions for America, our village idiots would have had nothing to talk about.
Thank you, Rush Limbaugh for showing us that people of Radio and TV can abuse drugs without losing their jobs.
Thank you, Jerry Falwell, and to all your christian fellows, for sliding into obscurity. You truly gave us a scare, in the 90’s, that there was no longer a separation of church and state.
Thank you, Mark Stanford for reminding us all that honesty matters most and that even gross philandering does not disqualify one from roles of leadership.
Thank you, Tom DeLay for showing us that Kingmakers can become dance floor celebs; which is far more meaningful than Politics.
Thank you, Tiger Woods for showing us that money, like power, corrupts absolutely.
Thank you, Joe Lieberman for proving LBJ correct when he said, “Politics is dealing with chicken shit, which, overnight, becomes Chicken Salad.
Thank you, Michele Bachmann for showing us the danger of living in Minnesota rather than Alaska.
Thank you, Joe Wilson for reminding us that “Our Party, Right or Wrong” remains the mantra of all Republicans.
Thank you, again, to all these people who served to prove Abraham Lincoln right when he said, “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.”