denis horgan

I wonder how you set up a Swiss bank account. More, I wonder why you set up a Swiss bank account.

Actually, since there is absolutely no good or honest reason why anyone on the straight and narrow would have a Swiss bank account except to hide money, the “why” is actually easy enough. There was something fishy going on. Having a Swiss bank account as did Mitt Romney is as crooked a project as having one in the Cayman Islands, with the drug money launderers, organized criminals and their disorganized cousins at the top of Republican Party political spectrum.

The question isn’t even how much do you have to invest to make $20 million a year so much as where that orginal money-bloat came from. Bain and its predatory zombie capitalism. Invested in George Bush’s shriveled capital gains tax giveaway scam for the very, very, very rich, Romney doesn’t have to pay much at all compared to honest working people, and does that legally enough.

So why the Swiss bank account? Can you come up with a reason why a zillionaire rolling in gargantuan amounts of money who doesn’t even have to pay much taxes on it then needs to join the slippery types — the oily sheiks, the tottering dictators, the druglords — in Zurich? Or the Caymans?

If he were being taxed fairly, you might imagine he would be offended and might slyly try to slip some of his boodle out of sight; but he was not taxed at anything near the rate as a taxi driver or teacher or soldier — or an “historian” or President of the United States. If his money was all on the up-and-up, why hide it? Is he some wild, romantic, sparky sort of guy given to the flashy gesture? Mitt Romney? Come on.

Because he is rich, the Republicans will not raise even an eyebrow at his money hijinks — even his competitors. When the Grand Old Party is reduced to Daddy Warbucks, Boss Tweed, Torquemada  and Daffy Uncle Charlie, you could hardly expect any more than that.

But maybe the rest of us might wonder why Mitt Romney needs to park his money secretly offshore. If it walks like a duck …

“I sometimes wonder if the Republican Party has become the receding roar of white America as it pines for a way of life that will never return,” writes David Brooks, who pines for a party that will never return — and who has raiseed his 12-year-old son, he tells us, to count John Boehner among his heroes. Twelve years old. Jayzus.

How did this ever happen, that a plastic Ken Doll , an acrylic chameleon, is nearly the least crazed choice among Republicans?

Newt Gingrich is GOP-assailed for telling the truth about the gorging Romney world of ghoulish capitalism and cheered and praised for his pure racism, his des[icable contempt for real working people,  his big moneyed elitism and his scorn for the poor, the black and the unemployed. Rick “Call Me Sarah” Perry imagines that our strongest ally in the Muslim world is a band of terrorists, that our friends the rich Turks who get no aid should not get the aid he says they get, but which they do not. This from a dolt who can’t remember the three little things that he is basing his entire political worthiness upon. The other Rick, Santorum, will have the police checking between our sheets to make sure no one is using contraceptives while spreading hatred and bile on people who’s lifestyles he chooses to loathe — all in the name of Love, theocracy and small government big enough to spy on us all. Ron Paul believes in the law of the jungle when that very jungle would eat up a scrawny old fool like him in an instant, as much as he might not be swallowed easily for all his angry  geezer rantings about banks and people of different color and different nationalities.

Racists. Ayatollahs. Plunderers. Hypocrites. Panderers. Blinded by hate, above all else.

In this menagerie alone, Mitt Romney, programmed and packaged even to the orchestrated wisp of hair that is lacquered “free” from the glisten, looks good. A total fraud by most Republican measures, he towers over his dismal competition. There’s a lot to fault him for but it is not his fault that one chump after another is spawned as opposition by the party of rage and obstruction, the people-hating oligarchs of the Grand Old Party.

This is the best they’ve got.

Racism. Ayatollahing. Plunder. Hypocrisy. Panderering. The blinded of hate, above all else.

What a diference a few months make.

Not too long ago the Tea Party people were huffing and puffing, making believe they were against the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich when, actually, they were bought and paid for by the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich to Brown Shirt the Democrats and anyone who might inconvenience the vast wealth of the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich.

A few weeks ago only, great attention was delivered to the twinkling and well-intentioned Occupy Wall Street movement with the sure prospect that the 99 percenters would somehow ding the rapacious anti-Americanism of the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich.

Today, Mitt Romney and the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich have pummeled to fringe insignificance those lunatic Republicans — Republicans!! — who dared to suggest that Romney was a money-ghoul whose barbarian company plundered and fed on the decaying carcasses of other American companys — firing American workers by the hundreds of thousands to make him a few rotten bucks. People on the one side; big money on the other.

Who wins? The Romneys, of course.

Whatever the challenge, whatever the criticism, whatever the logic or fairness, the Republicans turn to their money. No matter the morality, they will rally against those who imperil their greed and lust for money. They call it an attack on capitalism when someone criticizes the dark truth that the bigger capitalist eats the little capitalist and spits out the bones of the mere people in the process, wrecking actual lives so that they can have a few more meaningless millions on their balance sheets.

The party that stands for nothing but money, that has no principle but principle, that worships at the altar of greed and is pleased offer human sacrifice to wealth, this party — the Republican Party —  never bends, never breaks. It uses as a club The Nazarene — who was actually born poor, lived poor and died poor and who railed against the wealthy and the money-changers. It uses the flag of the nation that overthrew the political monarchy only to be taken over by the party of money monarchy. It kills our soldier-children to protect the interests of the wealthy and the merchants of war and is never satisfied when there is no war going on; it can never get enough of war, even though it is always the poor who do the dying and the bloated rich who make the profits.

And so when even the apostates of their own party actually have the temerity to wonder whether Mitt Romney and his ilk have gone too far, leaders themselves who have done the rich’s dirty work for so long, the party turns on them with a howl of rage, crushing them and the truth under the golden heel.

It has always been this way with the Republican party and it will never change. This is what they are, nothing better.