Yesterday, Shakes posted about her profound sense of weariness at writing about the corruption of the current administration.
Blah blah blah. I literally cannot bring myself to heave out one more post elucidating how profoundly corrupt and deserving of permanent exile from government is every last bloody member of the Bush administration
Yeah.
It’s impossible to wrap your mind around how foul and corrupt these people are. Which is why we elected a bunch of Democrats into Congress to do that for us. All these discoveries, all these investigations, they’re all about examining the bricks that built a single corrupt house. Mismanaging Katrina, fomenting a corrupt war under false pretenses, disenfranchising voters, politicizing the Justice Department, covering up sexual misconduct by Republicans, outing CIA agents, it’s all of a piece. It’s all a group of only-money-and-power-matter thugs who have taken the government of our country hostage.
Investigation is how we bring them down, but it’s also exhausting. Again, bricks of a corrupt house. Easy to be furious and focused when you look at the house. Impossible not to be drained of frickin life force when you look at each brick. One. By. One.
But it’s also hopeful, because it’s the way we’re going to kick the pricks out.
what makes me nuts is that the corruption has been right there in plain sight for so long and nothing has been done about it. Maybe it is the new congress, but where is our press and where are our ethical leaders calling for a change?
It is SO much and it is so exhausting and time consuming, can anything be done in the short time we have left?
Bush has every intention of letting the war go on until he is out of office. At that point, we will have to withdraw, or we will have to have a draft so that there are enough feet on the ground to manage this properly.
More and more miliatry are being called back up due to “stop loss” tours are being extended, our heros are being abused by this administration.
Where are our voices?
( by the way, I’m making a pain out of myself every week by calling or emailing my congressman R-fla, Connie Mack) with a call for change and impeachment.
The media is in the pocket of conservative corporate interests, we have Ronald Reagan to thank for that. But even with the conservative networks, with CBS firing Batiste for speaking against the war, with Glenn Beck’s racism and Chris Matthews giving free blowjobs to Republican presidential candidates, even with all that, our Democratic Congress under the leadership of Pelosi and Reid is getting the investigations done, is issuing subpoenas, and is doing the real work of responsible oversight that the Republicans abdicated.