Get Over It! by Nancy Greggs

Like many of us, I am in a perpetual state of anger
these days. Between the mess in Iraq, the
saber-rattling with Iran, the lobbyist scandals, the
deficit, the outsourcing of jobs, the price of gas,
and a buffoon of a president who thinks breaking the
law is job one, it's hard not to be pissed-off on a
minute-to-minute basis.

Hey, there's probably stuff going on that would really
set me off, if I even knew about it. But these days,
with new revelations about the criminality of this
Administration coming at us on a daily basis, it's
hard to keep up without a Goddamned scorecard.

But then there's always that one little thing that
gets on your last nerve, and this week my personal
rocket's red glare was set off by a remark made by
Antonin Scalia when he was asked about the Bush v Gore
decision, the stolen 2000 election. His response: "Get
over it!"

I have heard that phrase once too often, and it sticks
in my craw like the "Love it or leave it" bullshit I
heard in the 'sixties, a virtual dismissive wave of
the hand that says I have no voice, no power, no say.
Well, you've picked on the wrong citizen if you think
I will shut my mouth, or be relegated to talking to
that arrogant hand.

I am an American. That may not mean much to people
like Scalia, but it means something to me. And when
someone tampers with my country's voting process, or
anything else that impinges on the democracy of MY
COUNTRY, I am not going to GET OVER IT, now or ever.

I am an American. I will not be dismissed, minimalized
or marginalized, especially by hypocrites like Scalia
et al, who persist in throwing rocks at my patriotism
from inside their glass houses.

I will not be preached to by warmongering
pseudo-Christians; I will not be reminded of the
importance of family values by people who have no
values at all. I will not be lied to, stolen from,
manipulated. I will not be assuaged by meaningless
rhetoric; I will not be lectured on the topic of
honesty by people who wouldn't recognize the truth if
it walked up to them on the street and bit them in the
ass.

I will not be condescended to by people who are as
immoral as they are greedy and self-serving. I will
not be shooed away from the adult dinner table like an
ignorant child, while the alleged grown-ups plot the
destruction of my own nation, or the nations of
others. I will not be told to remain silent in the
face of wrongdoing. I will not relinquish a single
freedom that is my birthright as an American.

And no, I WILL NOT GET OVER IT.

When my fellow citizens are suffering, I will speak
out for them, and stand with them. When disaster
strikes, I will not GET OVER IT by going shopping, or
attending a birthday party, or catching a ballgame.
REAL AMERICANS don't do things like that - and
besides, it seems pretty obvious that those jobs are
already taken.

REAL AMERICANS do not need to be told how to act, or
how to react. We know what needs to be done, and we do
it every time. Within minutes of the 9/11 attack,
firefighters, police officers, and emergency workers
were on the scene. They risked their lives to save
others without hesitation. Not one of them walked away
in an attempt to GET OVER IT. And dare I say it? Not
one of them found it necessary to stop and read The
Pet Goat in its entirety before springing into action.

REAL AMERICANS don't condone torture, secret prisons,
or rendition. REAL AMERICANS don't look at photographs
from Abu Ghraib and GET OVER IT. REAL AMERICANS don't
watch footage of dead Iraqi children on the nightly
news and GET OVER IT. REAL AMERICANS don't read about
their soldiers being wounded and killed in an
ill-disguised attempt to put MONEY into the pockets of
the rich and the powerful and GET OVER IT.

This Administration, and the elected officials who
support it, have brazenly picked a fight with myself
and my fellow citizens. Wrong move, wrong crowd. They
obviously don't know who they're up against. You see,
real Americans don't GET OVER IT when it's their own
country under siege. They don't kneel, they don't bow,
they don't yield.

The American people are now standing knee-deep in a
foul-smelling liquid. They know what it looks like,
what it smells like; they KNOW what it is. So stop
telling us it's raining. Stop trotting yourselves out
into the public square with your half-truths and your
spin. We all know the emperor has no clothes; don't
insult our intelligence with grandiose descriptions of
his wardrobe.

I know this Administration and its party just LOVE
throwing those bumper-sticker slogans around. Well,
here's one for them to chew on: "Eventually,
everything comes out in the wash." And I'll be damned
if I'm going to watch all of that dirty Republican
laundry get hung on the line, and be told to GET OVER
IT.

There will be a backlash to the corruption and
incompetence of this regime, of that I have no doubt.
Poll numbers for the current crop of Republicans are
plummeting faster than the average American's savings
account. I guess all of those angry citizens who have
been keeping tabs on where their country is being led
just aren't GETTING OVER IT either.

So to the people in power who have turned my country
into something to be scorned rather than admired, to
be feared rather than respected, to be a harbinger of
hate, violence and death the world over, I say this:
You are going down. Your support is dwindling, your
lies are being exposed, and your failures are as
glaringly visible as a fireworks display on the 4th of
July.

And if you find that upsetting, well, hey: GET OVER
IT!

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