In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Top 10 Conservative Idiots (and I'm linking it on Monday no less):
Here's some of this week's listing:
3. Sonny Perdue
Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, died last Monday at the age of 65. And to recognize the great work of this civil rights pioneer, Gov. Sonny Perdue did... absolutely nothing. Despite pleas from the public to commemorate Jackson's passing by lowering the state flags to half staff, Perdue announced that he would only lower the flags on the following Saturday, for the funeral service. But the very next day, Perdue couldn't get those flags down to half staff fast enough. A sudden change of heart? Hardly. Perdue was memorializing Lester Maddox, a former governor of Georgia who died two days after Maynard Jackson. Maddox is fondly remembered as a die-hard segregationist who chased black people away from his restaurant with a hand gun and a mob armed with axe handles the day after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law (he later sold the restaurant rather than serve blacks.) So thanks, Sonny Perdue, for demonstrating where your priorities lie.
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5. Tom Scully
Let's just take a look at this quote from last week's UK Guardian, shall we: "The Bush administration's top Medicare accountant has calculated how millions of senior citizens would be affected by bringing private managed care into the program, but the administration won't release the information." Hmm. And why is that? Because "an earlier analysis suggested that a Republican plan to inject market forces into Medicare could increase premiums for those who stay in traditional programs by as much as 25 percent." Not only that, but Medicare chief Tom Scully threatened to fire anyone who released the calculations, and said that he would release the report "if I feel like it." See, the next time someone tells you that George W. Bush is taking such traditional Democratic issues as education and medicare and making them his own, tell them that he's not making them his own, he's flushing them down the toilet behind our backs. I mean, commissioning a study on the impact of Medicare changes and then not releasing it because you don't like the results? Must this admistration do EVERYTHING in secret? I guess so - otherwise the public might actually realize just how badly they're going to get screwed.
6. Donald Rumsfeld
An astute observation by the Defense Secretary last week shed some light on the way the Bush administration views the electoral process and democracy in general. Referring to the transition to a democratic government in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld said "If you think about it, Adolf Hitler was elected. So elections are not the certain judge." Well, that makes sense. Iraq should probably give up on the idea of fair elections altogether, just like we have here in the United States. Rumsfeld was, of course, referring to the difficulty of establishing a government in Iraq that wouldn't immediately a) turn into a fundamentalist nightmare, and b) get in the way of us walking off with their oil. Which begs the question... shouldn't the administration have thought about this before they went in and took Saddam out? Oh well, too late now.
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