In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
I'm venturing out on a limb here, but I think George Bush's goose is cooked. I generally keep a low profile (despite my gut-spilling blogs), and when talk turns to politics I shut up and am pretty much all ears. I live in a Republican stronghold (upstate New York) so I try to keep politics to myself, but you can't avoid it nowadays, and what I'm hearing is music. People are fed up. The war in Iraq makes no sense, even to diehard fans, who are really on the defensive, in case you haven't noticed. David Brooks of the New York Times is a perfect example. Can this guy whine any louder? This crowd has been on a mad tear ever since Clinton in '92, and now it's gotten everything it ever wanted, in spades, and they're still foaming at the mouth. What are these people so angry about? They have money, power, a lockhold on every branch of government, wars up the wazoo, and total control of the media. You'd think that would be enough for a sane person. But with every new concession and every rollback of anything progressive in the last hundred years, the rant gets ratcheted up, to the point where it's all scream all the time. They're on constant bash. I think the worm has turned. It's one thing when you're the underdog and you want to shake things up. I can understand the Clinton hate, especially when the guy coopts all your fire. But that was a million years ago. They dragged us through an impeachment, set every dog on his sorry ass, ripped him to pieces, and in the meantime our country got attacked by religious lunatics (and I don't mean Osama). The kneejerk smearing of anything or anyone opposed is now an international joke, and our reputation has gone from 100 percent to zero under Bush. He's completely incompetent. All the foot soldiers in the world can fall on their spears, but the emperor has no clothes, and it doesn't take a child to point it out. You can't distract people forever. Suddenly I'm hearing nothing but excuses. You think people are going to take four more years of this shit? Americans are getting blown up every day, for what? It made no sense 30 years ago and it makes no sense now. All these people are crawling out of the woodwork with the same story, of a White House hell-bent on its ideological agenda, which is nothing more than steal all the money and crash the ship into the ground. All the yelling and screaming is nothing but smoke to cover up thieving on the grand scale. All the tall talk about patriotism and values. Who's saying all this, and how much are they getting to say it? When you're on top, attacking the little guy is repulsive. It was bad enough with Newt, he was the fat kid throwing spitballs in the back of the class, but now the teacher -- no, the principal -- is the fat kid throwing spitballs at all of us, and he's wearing a million-dollar suit. His hand is deep in your pocket, and he's grinning from ear to ear. How long?
Not long. Not long at all.
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