Letters to the Editor
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Dodging a bullet...
For those who went in a depression after the November 2004 John Kerry loss, there is a silver lining! Since a Kerry win was probably not going to be accompanied by a Democratic control of House and/or Senate, can you imagine the troubles and the low blows that the Republicans would have fielded while the Kerry administration would have been trying to address the mess left over after only 4 years of W.'s figureheadship at the top? Then the Republicans would have claimed -again- that Democrats cannot govern (all this despite 8 years of growth, lowered deficit, lower interest rates, lower public debt and increased international respect!).
Now the Republicans, despite having all control of the legislature and the executive, are showing their real stripes as managers of the country and they cannot blame anybody but themselves.
The bill for this debacle will be high but it would not have been any less if Kerry had won. Now at least, we have athe opportunity of the Republican exposing themselves for the bunch of incompetent and corrupt scoundrels that they are and for the country to take note. And with a little chance not having them back in power for a long time...
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To Donna K, re: Democrats answer about voting for the Iraq War
You must have heard me screaming at my TV every day leading up to Election Debacle '04.
I said exactly the same thing to anyone who would listen. The perfect "out" for any Dem that was craven enough to vote in favor of the Iraq invasion was "I trusted our president, and that was a mistake". Not only would they have given relief to those of us who already knew this war was a colossal error (and wanted someone to say so), they would have given initial war supporters the "cover" they needed to scapegoat someone else (Bush) for their mental discomfort in figuring out they backed the wrong horse in the first place.
I thought it was a winning strategy for both sides, and would have allowed us to unite in getting the hell out of Iraq. "I trusted the President of the United States, and my trust was misplaced." Hell, I might almost have forgiven the idiots for voting for him myself (almost, but not quite).
I think it would have worked, but what the hell do I know?
And now, here we are. And here we will be - for a VERY long time.
My only consolation is my response to Bush supporters when they bitch about anything today:
"YOU VOTED FOR IT"
It absolutely sucks to be right and still be 100% screwed anyway.
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Either Impeachment or Revolution
This is a man who believes in Capital Punishment. Yet where is his?
Bush is a spot that needs to be rubbed out. He is a stain that needs to be removed. The law allows for his impeachment.
And never mind the naysayers. The people who say it "cannot be done." It can, and it shall. Congress will damn well do whatever we as a people say needs to be done. It's been done before -- it can be done again.
We need a rebellion against the new aristocracy. Like the Boston Tea Party. We can then call ourselves the N.U.S.A. The New United States of America.
I'm in. Party the revolution.
Impeach Bush. Impeach "Oil and Haliburton" Cheney. Impeach Them All. Take our country back.
The king is dead. Long live the revolution.
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A deluded King and his court lickspittles
It should come as no surprise that Bush is an incompetent, the real power is Dick Cheney who knows he has an incompetent with a historical name who can be manipulated easily.
An interesting comparison between the current President Bush's failed business and the way he is running the government might be enlightening. I will bet that you will find that he hired and promoted friends and yes men with no experience in the job they were given. Until the business failed. If it wasn't for his family he would not have gotten out without a total failure.
Just think:
Do poorly in college
Ignore your obligations to the Military (Air Guard)
Show no capability to be successful in business.
AND YOU TOO CAN BECOME PRESIDENT.
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House of Cards
Along the lines of someone pointing out that Lincoln was rewarded for all his efforts, and successes, such as they were, with assassination, I would point out that Gandhi wound up the same way. If two cases make a trend, undoubtedly there are more, that being seen as having ultimately done great things, as opposed to only great damage, earns assassination, then I think Bush is very safe.
On the other hand, very few truly evil people, Hitler, Stalin, Amin, Duvalier, the Shah, and many other monstrous dictators were ever brought to justice, or even assassinated. Mussolini was killed by a mob, which was hardly justice, Hitler killed himself, presumably, Stalin probably died a natural death. This dull prince of the entitled classes, pampered wastrel of the Republican corporate old boy elite, will die a natural death and be accorded all the honors of a deceased former president that he so richly doesn’t deserve.
I actually wish the naked boy-emperor a long life since he may someday achieve a level of wisdom he so sorely lacks now. That is doubtful since his incurious nature will hardly disappear. We tend to become more of what we are as we age, and as long as he isn’t in any powerful position, for all I care, he can wallow in his mind numbing mediocrity and isolation with impunity while history appropriately relegates him to the bottom of the greatness heap.
The vast dunce herd of Americana, preferring football, a six-pack, American Idol and its own illusions, devoutly believing all the propaganda about our greatness, to what most educated people around the world would call reality, doesn’t yet know what has been lost, or its value. Thanks to Bush, Cheney and Field Marshall Rumsfeld, we have lost our honor, and more importantly our soul. Wars of aggression, torture, rendition, domestic spying, all done by order of a mutated Christian God, and whispered into the ear of our fearless and idiot leader, have transformed the image of America and Americans from something approaching noble to just another ruthless country pursuing its own narrow economic interests. Monetary deficits can be calculated. How does one calculate the value of a growing deficit in morality? And how long does it take to pay it back?
I am a great fan of schadenfreude, especially as applied to the catastrophic accomplishments of this disastrous presidency, since it’s just about all we have to keep ourselves going. There is no opposition worth mentioning, so watching the breeze whip up into a gale against the teetering house of cards called our government is small solace for the emotional damage and heartache we have all experienced over the past, seemingly endless, five years.
But I hasten to add the nightmare is far from over. Yes, Cheney and Rumsfeld run the show, the boy-dictator only thinks he does and ultimately doesn’t care, but none of the three is going anywhere, despite reports to the contrary. We’ll be lucky to be rid of them in 2008, about which I have my doubts, since they have too much to lose unless they figure out a way to keep their house of cards intact. Unraveling endless scandals have to be kept under control lest they point to the real perpetrators, and justifiable charges of war crimes can make travel difficult to countries supporting the International Court of Justice.
So the real question at this juncture is: who will be the next stooge? Questions about honest elections aside, and they aren’t small, the great ignorant dunce herd, if it votes at all, won’t vote for competence or intelligence. Such traits are considered elitist, and discomfort those who prefer to spend their days and nights not thinking. We’re fooling ourselves if we believe there will ever be someone in the White House with intellect, curiosity, and enough dynamic personality to actually run a government worthy of the name. We’ll be lucky if we can piece together the shreds of the Constitution we can still find lying about, and recover a country now mostly pretending to be a democracy.
Maybe we could on a given day and time all face Washington and exhale as powerfully as we can. Maybe that would generate enough of a wind to blow the house of cards out to sea.