This is way we have to impeach his ass before he pardons anyone. Or bring civil suits against the Gang of (where do we stop counting?)?
The amount of pure, unadulterated bullshit that this administration has piled on the American public just boggles me. That, and the amount of bullshit too many members of the public have been able to swallow. You'll eat shit and like it, dammit!
This is what makes me think we are moving away from democracy toward a republic more like ancient Rome, with its eventual slide into tyranny and civil war. Instead of giving a damn about voting or democracy or accoutnability, citizens just began choosing up sides and creating factions that used elections (and then later coups) as an opportunity to take punitive action against their opponents.
I'm just horrified by the number of Americans who apparently don't care that the president routinely flouts the Constitution and the laws, ignoring them or making excuses or claiming that a "war" (whihc somehow doesn't affect any of his other actions) requires that rights be suspended or curtailed. He just has to invoke the language of fear or the language of heroism, and that's enough for people to accept anything that he does. All the people who didn't like Bill Clinton as King Log are apparently happy to have George Bush as King Stork.
To me, a real war is one in which we give up material comfort so as to maintain the independence and core values of our nation and protect ourselves. Apparently to others, it is more important that we maintain our comforts, for which they are happy to give up our liberties and our laws.
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Re: Oh yes, mission accomplished
Date: 2007-05-02 03:30 pm (UTC)The amount of pure, unadulterated bullshit that this administration has piled on the American public just boggles me. That, and the amount of bullshit too many members of the public have been able to swallow. You'll eat shit and like it, dammit!
>:-O
Re: Oh yes, mission accomplished
Date: 2007-05-02 03:31 pm (UTC)*why
Re: Oh yes, mission accomplished
Date: 2007-05-02 03:56 pm (UTC)I'm just horrified by the number of Americans who apparently don't care that the president routinely flouts the Constitution and the laws, ignoring them or making excuses or claiming that a "war" (whihc somehow doesn't affect any of his other actions) requires that rights be suspended or curtailed. He just has to invoke the language of fear or the language of heroism, and that's enough for people to accept anything that he does. All the people who didn't like Bill Clinton as King Log are apparently happy to have George Bush as King Stork.
To me, a real war is one in which we give up material comfort so as to maintain the independence and core values of our nation and protect ourselves. Apparently to others, it is more important that we maintain our comforts, for which they are happy to give up our liberties and our laws.