Letters to the Editor
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Where oh where was the Washington Post a few years ago
The Washington Post rolled over on its belly and peed on itself for the first term and half of the second term of the Bush administration. Now suddenly they've found the courage to stand up?
A little late, isn't it?
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Lord Vader
The dark side of the Force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.
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Cheney, all-knowing
So Cheney knew more about the Middle East than people who have studied it their entire lives. We all knew that. Now we see that he knows more about economics than well-respected economists! And truly, the results have shown this to be true.
In all seriousness, has this country ever faced a Constitutional Crisis as dire as this one, with the exception of the Civil War? I am dead serious here. We have a Vice President who has not only been given total power to run the government but one that feels he is not part of any branch of that government. What the hell are we going to do?
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As Lord Vader once said....
"apology accepted, Mr. O'Neil."
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Kant on a Rant
Emmanuel Kant has some nonpartisan advice for us all as we pick our next President: “Nothing in the world, indeed nothing even beyond the world, can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgment and other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resoluteness and perseverence as qualities of temperament are, doubtless in many respects, good and desireable, but they can become extremely bad and harmful if the will, which is to make use of these gifts of nature, and which in its special constitution is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of fortune, power, riches, honor, even health—general wellbeing and the contentment with one’s condition which is called happiness make for pride and even arrogance if there is not a good will to correct their influence on the mind. The good will seems to constitute the indispensable condition even of worthiness be happy.”
Kant says that good will comes from adherence to duty, and duty is action based on principal. The sole principal underlying the Bush Doctrine is that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is, not may be, but is limited to those he chooses to acknowledge as “good people”. The Cheney Doctrine is that a shallow, self-serving principle embraced by a shallow, lazy, power-delegating dilettante of a prince may be easily exploited by a sufficiently sycophantic, Byzantine Wormtongue if he isolates the prince from other advisors or-- a priori --poisons the well.
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How was Ceasar killed?
Did the members of the Roman Senate not all give him a stab apiece? Why would this not work today? Cheney is clearly out of control and a genuine danger to what's left of the Republic.
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What a bummer for Shrub.
All his worry about his legacy, which was already nothing but a veneer-thin hope before Darth Cheney was unmasked as the real president, is dissolving before his blurry eyes.
The History books will be a difficult read for him for sure now. "Win" or lose in his pre-emptptive war folly, it will be written that he followed, like dog, his true master into that one, and, apparently, most of his other ill advised foreign initiatives.
Other than the cash cow Prescription Drug Benefit Program sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Lobby so near and dear to President Cheney, Bush will, nonetheless, take the hit for his own disastrous responses to Katrina, the Social Security debacle and his soon to be bumbling Immigration Reform Bill. These disastrous strategies illuminated Bush's uncanny inability to adroitly manage things Cheney could give a rats ass about pursuing.
I can just see the cynical half-smile on Cheney's face as he gave "permission" to George to pursue these deals so that it would keep people's minds off his own antics. Heck of a legacy George...
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Cheney is...
The end of the Republic.
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Bush/Cheney
Bush isn't a 'detail man' the way a hyperactive 10-year old isn't likely to sit still for anything except more caffeine and sugar.
Cheney is the 'detail guy' who's jaundiced eye rooms across the landscape like the wandering eye of Sauron, spreading filth and petulance to those that don't adhere to the dogmatic 'power as religion' beliefs of he and his minions.
Bush is apparently blind to what goes on and appears to be 'trainable' in his agenda to stay ontop the charging horse being driven relentlessly by Cheney's wicked and unforgiving whip.
Bush is likely viewed as 'expendable' to the real power underneath the grounds of the Naval Museum.
Any more news on the construction under and in the Naval Museum grounds?