What would I like to see in a person whose job, in this White House, involves lying for a living?

As it is the policy of the Bush administration to hire liars who lie for a living, the rest of us would be best off if the Bushites would hire the worst liars they can find.

This shouldn't be much of a problem, since they've already used up the competent liars. The liars were evidently the only competent people Bush had in his administration.

The trick is to get these people in front of a grand jury and let them lie their pointy little heads off. Bush himself would be a real spectacle. I'd pay top dollar to see that.

Who would have ever believed that the destruction of our country would come at our own hands?

It was predicted:

"This nation can never be conquered from without.

If it is ever to fall it will be from within.

Abraham Lincoln

The primary weakness of democracy has always been the possibility of electing to office persons who are prepared to subvert that democracy. Throughout history, from Athens to Rome to the Weimar Republic, democracies have nearly always succumbed to this weakness and devolved into personal or party dictatorships. Fascism has no such inherent weakness.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

- John Adams

It might not be to late to reverse it, and we have to try even if it is.

Another charming lie from NPR News; Bush didn't veto the program.

Oh really?

The facts say otherwise:

Bush Vetoes Children’s Health Bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/washington/03cnd-veto.html

You don't lie very well, wingnut, no matter how much practice you get.

How can we incentivize people to get off welfare if welfare is more financially lucrative than working?

It's not. It's a myth.

But if it were true, it would be a great argument for paying a living wage. You know, enough to live on. Not slave wages.

It was better back in the old days when the conservatives at least tried to use logic.

Logic wasn't working for wingnuts, so they had to give it up.

Facts don't work for them either, so they had to give those up too.

Resorting to mindless fantasies seems to be working pretty well for them, so they're sticking with those. So do blatant lies, like Elephantasyman's, below. People who have been indoctrinated (read: brainwashed so much the bleach damaged the fabric) in the ways of the Radical Right don't seem to notice.

Pretty soon now they'll be telling us that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.

The Constitution does not merely establish the form of US government. It also states what the government cannot do, in order to protect the people from the government.

Bush hates the Constitution precisely because it proscribes dictatorship, and his policy is to undermine the Constitution for the purpose of establishing a dictatorship.

Bushites don't need radical police powers to "protect the country".

But they do need them to establish a corporatist dictatorship.

Bush hates your freedoms.

Anime cartoon-credit video clips are their own art form

You can call it art, but some of us are more discriminating. Calling cheap junk like this 'art' puts Michelangelo into the same category with plastic Elvis appliqués. Some of us won't do it.

The term 'art' carries the connotation of the presence of a meaningul esthetic. Cartoon-credit video clips have the esthetic of a flower pattern printed on a roll of Bounty ("the quicker picker-upper"), which is to say, it would have to acquire some to have none at all.

There's another word for this sort of thing, and it's not 'art':

Kitsch /kɪtʃ/ is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious to the point of being in bad taste, and also commercially produced items that are considered trite or crass.

You know better than this, Andy.

Keep in mind that there are many thousands of people in prison because they have committed armed robbery. These people were willing to kill to acquire wealth and power, but made the mistake of not doing it by proxy by becoming politicians and weapons makers instead. Only certain forms of armed robbery are illegal. Others forms are promoted as state policy.

Corporate militarists are fully willing to kill for money and power. It's America's biggest heavy industry anymore. And if they're willing to kill for it, you should not be surprised that they'd be dead-set, so to speak, on letting or causing people to die for it.

Medical care for the masses takes profits away from the greedy and powerful, you see, and they'll have none of that. They swindled all that money out of suckers fair and square and they're going to keep it. The goals and methods of the medical industry are little different in principle from those of weapons systems manufacturers with respect to enabling large-scale premature death. The attitude of 'health-care' corporatists comes down to 'pay up or die', meaning "your money or your life."

What's remarkable is that so many lower-middle-class American rednecks have been persuaded that this state of affairs is actually in their best interest, just as they've been similarly persuaded that voting for right-wing candidates who make sure companies can replace them with cheap illegal aliens is also somehow in their best interest. It is a fact that somebody who works for a living who votes for the candidates of corporatists also votes for their own impoverishment, and worse.

Some people may suppose this analysis to be rather harsh, when instead such people should consider that it is quite actually true.