Kickass and the shortest day

Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper, that on the shortest day of the year, the millionaire legislators passed a bill with the longest text, but one that only postpones the very real misery and the threat of starvation for the long- suffering peasantry.  Within its 5600 pages, the bill included a direct payment of only $600 for the people being evicted, going bankrupt, sick with the coronavirus or mourning for a lost loved one, and for those wondering how the hell they are going to feed their hungry children.

On the shortest day, when food-bank lines were the longest, coronavirus cases and deaths were soaring across the country, and small businesses were closing by the thousands,  the millionaire legislators passed a bill that preserved the tax deduction for corporate executives buying three-martini lunches.

On the shortest day, a few of the millionaire legislators voted against the life- preserving bill for the peasants, saying that it was too costly.  Senator Ron Johnson, who had blocked an earlier form of the bill, was among them.

On the shortest day of the year, the longest night loomed in the lives of millions of Americans. That long night has to do with a lot more than darkness and not being able to see any light, even “at the end of the tunnel.”

On the shortest day, using the current absurd governmental structure bought and paid for and managed by the rich two-percent, the millionaire legislators were like fat, pampered lap dogs reluctantly herding sheep while being led by rabid Rottweilers.

Kickass has a canine sense that some millionaire legislators deserve a bite in the ass, and if he were that kind of a dog, he would start with Senator Johnson.