Starring my boie, Thomas Frank. (I loved how he used the f-word, sweet, ... ) Basically the documentary aboot film mogul, Jack Abramoff is Frank's delicious and spot-on book, The Wrecking Crew, put on film. Before I get all riled-up, and pissed-off again, thinking aboot these assholes that want to truly wreck the United States (that is, the United States that is not uber-wealthy and oh, so white) here is the trailer for the splendid (so good it infuriates you!) Casino Jack and the United States of Money.
The film ends with Tom DeLay's "Wild Thing" appearance on Dancing with the Stars. Dana Fucking Rohrbacher, "Freedom Fighter", has no apologies for his pro-apartheid trip to Angola supporting Savimbi, or pissing off the establishment GOP, including his idol, Reagan, by doing so. He has no apologies for the travesty that is Saipai, the Marianas Islands. You know, it is funny, real funny, how the view from the five-star Saipai Hyatt, or the view from one of its' five scintillating golf courses does not show the $1.00/hour Chinese garment worker chained to her sewing machine. Well, fuck, I mean, after all, The Hammer, talked to a priest there and (although DeLay cannot remember the priest's name) he said everything was hunky-dory. Rohrbacher will not even apologize for Abramoff!
DeLay, natch, is even worse. He sees the Marianas travesty as Liberal meddling. Everything to The Hammer's perspective was fabulous until George Miller showed up. George Miller (D) investigated the working conditions in the GOP's beautiful Southern Pacific No-Reg Capitalistic Paradise and was asked by a worker, through a tearful translator, Would Congressman Miller please buy his kidney so he could pay off his indentured servitude and go back home to China! DeLay (& Rohrbacher) did interviews for this film! The Fucking Hammer laughs aboot how he thwarted Democratic efforts to make Saipai a better workplace, and clean-up the sex-trade there. DeLay rues what happened to Saipai. Saipai is a dump now that all the big garment factories have moved on to greener, more exploitive pastures. All of this for a Made in the USA label.
But it gets better. If we have not truly fucked up the Native Americans enough, why not do it some more? Abramoff enlisted Ralph Reed, Satan himself, and the Christian Coalition, to defeat Indian Gaming in Texas because the Jana Tribe's casinos in Houston would have competed with the Coushatta Tribe's gaming interests in Louisiana. They were successful. Congrats all around. Except part of the collateral damage of that was closing down a v successful casino in El Paso. (An aside, hey! my friends in Texas, did you know what you were voting for? Did you vote for the asshole John Cornyn, the AG of Texas at the time, who shut down the El Paso casino? Asshole John Cornyn is now Senator Cornyn and much of his Election Bankroll came from, Who? Jack Abramoff.) Anyhoo, Abramoff w/ his lifeguard buddy, and former DeLay staffer, Michael Scanlon, proceeded to hose the El Paso tribe for millions of dollars to earn back the Texas state Gaming License the tribe needed through Congress. It dint work. Some unnamed Republican in the House screwed up their plans. I would like to think it was b/c they had a conscience but I strongly doubt it. Meanwhile, back at the Reservation, the Tribes finally started to call Bullshit!
But, of course, it was not until white folks were affected that the House of Cards finally fell with the SunCruz deal in Florida. (Man, it is always Florida & Texas, hunh?)
Bob Ney, who saw jail time (Ney was the fall guy in this Such a Maverick [asshole, also] Senator John McCain, running for President in a couple of years Senate Investigation Production.) and his former COS, Volz are at least contrite, apologetic, feel compunction for their heinous actions in their extensive interviews for this film.
Casino Jack got four years. Four fucking years.
And Abramoff and Baywatch Scanlon pleaded the fifth on every fucking question at Maverick (asshole) McCain's led Senate investigation.
You know, every time this shit happens, the GOP always screams about rotten apples. Bush feigned knowing Casino Jack (despite the dozens of photographs they had together, or the whole Karl Rove, Grover [asshole, also] connections.) But ...
This is what the GOP want. Saipai is truly what they want the United States to become, a nation of indentured servitude, a place with absolutely no labor laws, and a bidness environment with no restrictions or regulations, period.
Grover, Rohrbacher, Rove, Cornyn, Gubner Haircut, Bachmann, Palin, O'Donnell, DeMint, Newt, even fucking former Mods like Huckleberry and Pawlenty are still working today to make our nation one of slavery.
Is that what you want come November? Cause that is what you'll get if you if you vote for the GOP. I would like to think we are better than that but we will have to work for it.
Fuck you Casino Jack & Baywatch Scanlon. & all the disgusting GOP horses you rode in on!
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