I think I'm getting scandal fatigue.
Fuck that, I have scandal fatigue.
Let's recap 1992-2000, shall we? Feel free to point out things I miss.
Whitewater
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Monica Lewinsky
That's the four major cock-ups of the Clinton years. What was the end result? An impeachment proceeding.
Now, 2000-2007:
Katherine Harris
9/11
Afghanistan
Iraq
More time spent cutting brush than presidenting
Ken Blackwell
Warrantless Wiretapping
Katrina
Secret prisons
Abu Ghraib
Military tribunals
Harriet Miers
Jeff Gannon
Cheney's Got a Gun
Scooter Libby
FBI Patriot Act abuses
Prosecutor dismissals
And that's just the shit I can name off the top of my head. Two stolen elections, two wars, countless violations of the Constitution.
End result? One convicted staffer and a president who thinks that a 30% approval rating is a mandate to ignore the other two branches of government.
I keep thinking "maybe this is the scandal that brings it all down", but I know that it's not. The man was caught lying about a justification for a war that has cost over 3,000 American lives and just south of a million Iraqi lives and over two million refugees. The greatest security breach in American history happened on his watch because he didn't feel like reading a memo, and then any lessons that could have been learned from that were promptly forgotten, leading to the destruction of an entire city.
So no, the scandal du jour is not going to be the one that brings it all down. The only thing that we (hopefully) have to look forward to is January 20, 2009. That is, assuming, that 50.1% of the ballots counted aren't in favor of someone equally as repugnant.
-pb
Fuck that, I have scandal fatigue.
Let's recap 1992-2000, shall we? Feel free to point out things I miss.
Whitewater
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Monica Lewinsky
That's the four major cock-ups of the Clinton years. What was the end result? An impeachment proceeding.
Now, 2000-2007:
Katherine Harris
9/11
Afghanistan
Iraq
More time spent cutting brush than presidenting
Ken Blackwell
Warrantless Wiretapping
Katrina
Secret prisons
Abu Ghraib
Military tribunals
Harriet Miers
Jeff Gannon
Cheney's Got a Gun
Scooter Libby
FBI Patriot Act abuses
Prosecutor dismissals
And that's just the shit I can name off the top of my head. Two stolen elections, two wars, countless violations of the Constitution.
End result? One convicted staffer and a president who thinks that a 30% approval rating is a mandate to ignore the other two branches of government.
I keep thinking "maybe this is the scandal that brings it all down", but I know that it's not. The man was caught lying about a justification for a war that has cost over 3,000 American lives and just south of a million Iraqi lives and over two million refugees. The greatest security breach in American history happened on his watch because he didn't feel like reading a memo, and then any lessons that could have been learned from that were promptly forgotten, leading to the destruction of an entire city.
So no, the scandal du jour is not going to be the one that brings it all down. The only thing that we (hopefully) have to look forward to is January 20, 2009. That is, assuming, that 50.1% of the ballots counted aren't in favor of someone equally as repugnant.
-pb
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I guess it falls under the Katrina category, but still. Makes you want to firebomb something, doesn't it?
Ooh, did I say that? ;)
It just sickens me at how these assholes have gotten away with all this shit.. Just.. argh..
Americans are mostly a nation of spineless, ball-less, brainless stupid fucks and they DESERVE what's happening to them. They have no will to control their own governance nor their own military and they have no will to stand up for themselves against the Republinazis, or even to speak against it. Third World nations have the stones to get up and overthrow a government, but not Americans.
You know what? Black Onyx (someone pbagosy and I know mutually, folks) keep sending me 'support the troops' and 'Bush is a great man' stuff. Nothing I send her about the gravity of Bush's dishonesty nor the criminality of all he's done makes any dent in her mind. She keeps sending me stuff about how the troops are suffering, but won't confront the true cause of it all. She was not like that before she invested herself personally in this military husband of hers.
Tsar was destroying her life, but now this guy's destroyed her intellectual autonomy.
FUCK! This has happened to my sister, too!
FUCK!