Energy-Independent Future for the American Dream....by the way of comedy.

Once again, Jon Stewart provides a little bit of brilliance. Insightful. Enlightening. And of course, funny:

An Energy-Independent Future - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 6/16/2010 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

And I cannot resist sharing some choice quotes from it:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me eight times...am I a %#$@ing idiot?"
"%$&! it, let's just use oil....I will not allow the dinosaurs to have died in vain."
"WE ARE AN UNSTOPPABLE OIL-DEPENDENCY BREAKING MACHINE! Unfortunately, that machine runs on oil."

The only think lacking is an answer to the question: how do we get out of this "sad, somewhat Groundhog-Dayish saga"?

For the American Dream to be fulfilled, for our country to know economic health and success -- not to mention (possibly, hopefully) freedom from entangling wars in oil-rich regions of the globe, and for the future health of our Earth -- it is clear we need to end our oil dependence. However, it is also clear that the rhetoric from both sides of our political partisans has not been matched by real action. The fact that it has gone on so long forces us to ask: why? For one thing, it must go beyond the issues or idosyncracies of any one Presidential Administration, or one decade. Our political system is broken when it cannot accomplish those tasks which we agree are necessary for our own prosperity, nay, survival. Our democracy is dysfunctional. Fixing it is the key to moving forward on this issue (and many others....but that is a discussion for another time).