CAN WE IN GOOD CONSCIENCE ALLOW GEORGE BUSH TO CONTINUE TO MAKE LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS FOR AMERICANS?

GETTING OUR MINDS AROUND OUR GEORGE PROBLEM
-Mags


With George the Witless' approval ratings down into the low 30’s by some counts, retired Generals coming out publicly against his war plans and policies in the Middle East, the GOP in shambles and several of his staff under investigation for serious crimes, it is hard for us to figure out what comes next. George himself recently came out and said that he was not subject to laws that did not suit him.

There are rumblings that this administration may stop holding televised press conferences. And, George wants to try reporters who report on his illegal actions as spies. Seems to me that would effectively silence what is left of the press. Well, except for the commentators of the common person who George Bush would have us believe is that drug addict Rush Limbaugh, or the centerfold turned moralist Dr. Laura, or ex-con, G. Gordon Liddy.

Even Colin Powell is sending up smoke signals and today another past Bush official from the Department of Homeland Security is telling his story of being pressured to squelch criticism of Bush.

This is national cod piece day, the day that Bush pranced on an aircraft carrier decked out in his “flight suit” causing almost all conservative news commentators to nearly get the vapors over his “manhood.” He doesn’t look so manly now. The joke is on him. Even though his minions at Fox are already chiding Steven Colbert for having the nerve to tell the truth to the president’s and the MSM’s face, it is crytal clear Steven certainly has a set, and he did not need to strut around in a flight suit with his privates trussed up.

We learn this week that George has okay’d the sale of a military supplier to the Dubai group, and that the congress will not require cargo to be x-rayed. The mountain is getting taller and taller. This is just the new stuff. Iraq is an old old lie. That seems to have been told so often, we hardly notice that at all. And, Katrina, George may yet “dodge that bullet.” Abu Grahib……wha? Torture…..Guantanmo…renditions? Wha?

Shall we go on? Harriet Myers, Jack Abramoff, Valerie Plame outing, the lost funds of the military, Halliburton under-serving and over charging…the record breaking deficit….the loss of wages…..the current reality that many of us stand to lose our pensions after a long life of work…..on and on.

Brownie, you’re doing a Heck of a job!

The resignations from Bush’s cabinet and from positions within his administration tell a story as well. Time does not permit an even cursory glance at that issue here and now. His sins and shortcomings are certainly public, but the accountability is no where to be seen.

Where is the outrage? I feel it. You feel it. We write letters and essays and call our legislators. We ask, no beg the media to do its job. We write the cable news channels and we write the Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough…etc. and etc…”please show balance in discussions of the issues!" And, yet it seems to me that we are lacking something. That click…that cue to start the show….something…..

The comedian Eddie Izzard talks about our complete inability to take in the really huge crimes like murder on a mass scale. We simply do not have a way to get our minds around it. We do not have a penalty large enough, to fit a crime like Hitler’s holocaust. And, so we often put these guys under house arrest and attempt to try them, Milosevic who died in custody being a recent example. Maybe that is the problem here.

Maybe the massive proportion of George Bush’s incompetence and criminality is just too overwhelming. We simply have not seen this before. We do not know what to do. It is comedy in the dark sense. We are in shock. Certainly, his whore mongering, morally bankrupt allies in congress are not going to call him to account for anything in the near future. When we add to his incompetence the weight of theirs…it staggers the imagination. The enormity of the machine stymies us. The enormity of the crime and damage seem surreal. How often do we hear it being referred to as a bad dream?

What is the mechanism? How do we get corporate media to give a damn? Who will be the first to stand up and ask the question seriously…..”Can we really in all good conscience allow this man, George W. Bush, to continue to make life and death decisions for Americans?” Could it be that simple? I honestly do not know. What I do know is that we are past, way past real world events. We have entered into a culture that has been made up by this kabal. We have entered their version of make believe. The rules are changing. What do we do now….that is the question that drops with a thud. What do we do? Now, that we have a nightmare for a leader who is leading us far far from who we are….what now? And, do we have a party…or perhaps even parties who will allow this to go on? Will they fail to act until it is too late? I don’t know.

All I keep hearing is that awful thud.