garrison on the repub faithful
November 1st, 2006 by tree
From Salon:
The Current Occupant, who is two years and three months away from retirement, was quoted last week as saying, “They can say what they want about me, but at least I know who I am, and I know who my friends are.” A pathetic admission of defeat for one who has owned all three branches of government for the past six years — did he seek power so that he could attain self-knowledge? If so, the price is too high. The beloved country endures a government that merges blithering corruption with murderous incompetence.
Congress, which once spent an entire year investigating a married man’s attempt to cover up an illicit act of oral sex, has shown no curiosity whatsoever about a war that the administration elected to wage that has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands and led our own people to commit war crimes and squandered hundreds of billions of dollars and degenerated into civil war. The contrast is deafening. Republicans haven’t tolerated much dissent in their ranks, the voice of conscience has not been welcome, and now the herd finds itself on the wrong side of the river. It’s discouraging seeing so many people go so wrong all at once. It makes you question the idea that each of us has unlimited potential for good.
Washington is a city where a bill to relax air-pollution standards would be called the Clean Air Act and a bill to protect government officials from war-crimes prosecution would be called the Military Commissions Act, and so a man’s statement that he knows who he is and who his friends are needs to be taken as meaning the opposite, a cry for help. You come to office as a uniter and you wind up doing the opposite. You stand for American values and you wind up defending torture and the waste of resources. Knowing who you are is a minimal adult requirement, and you don’t get there by being an object of attention. Retirement is recommended. The sooner the better.
well said, Garrison!
Never talk to Republicans. That kind of greed is a sin.
The liberal side of the political spectrum was just as virulent in the months and weeks before the 2004 elections as it is now.
There just may be a broad enough segment of the population unwilling to pay over $3/gallon of gas so that the Republican plan to “stabilize” (meaning Americanize) the Middle East will be allowed to carry on.
Another view of that can be taken of the ‘foaming at the mouth GWB haters’ is that they scare too many members of that vast herd of intellectually lazy Mid-Americans who don’t take the time to form opinions and vote their hopes rather than their minds.
All I really care about are tax cuts and a good truss.
“vast herd of intellectually lazy Mid-Americans who don’t take the time to form opinions and vote their hopes rather than their minds.”
Or even people in Apple Valley
“the liberal side of the spectrum”?? Odd reply to Garrison’s comments. Is he really writing just as a liberal?
I think Conservatives (I voted for Bush in 2000) are equally concerned about the incompetence, the corruption, and Bush’s twisted view of reality. If they’re not concerned, they’re just as “virulent” as the other side.
It’s a big fucking crap shoot. I don’t know what’s going to happen and I think I’ll have a stomach ache for a long time.
“I voted for Bush in 2000″
Why? What reasoning led you to this choice?
“All I really care about are tax cuts”
LOLOLOLOLOL
Clinton Fatigue, Bly
Treemonisha, what with politics, children and the uphill battle of, in all ways, keeping your head above water, your stomach may ache for a long time.
I wish I could pass along to you my brain brew. If I could tap, bottle and sell my brain brew, I’d be head of one of the 12 Tribes of Israel and never have to wait for a table at Viva Maria’s.
I’d settle for one lunch with you and VQ at Antonio’s.