28 June 2006
Is It Time for Cynicism yet?
One sad indicator of the success of the Bush loyalists is the absence of public demonstrations against this defrauding of our form of government, the rule of law domestically and internationally. The most egregious wounding of our Constitutional republic has been the destruction of hope held world-wide in the United States as custodian of trust that personal freedom and fair, just government is possible--when life experience has always been an oppressive opposite.
This Spring the Bush Junta made a coordinated, visible change in the roles of key personnel: specifically, the reassignment of Karl Rove, a new Chief of Staff and a new Administration spokesman (with disappearing hairpiece) to replace Scott McLellan. These are tactical moves to restore George Bush's flagging public opinion numbers. Rove is heating up the anti-gay marriage and parenting zealots to divert public attention from the demonstrated incompetency and corrupt nature of the Bush administration.
As in the time when the Viet Nam war rendered our cultural norms, a proposal to amend the Constitution to make criminals of anyone perceived to desecrate our national flag. Grand gestures to reform immigration law enabled fiery public debate that took Enron, Katrina and election reform off the front pages and away from CNN News' repetitive microphones.
Suddenly, Condi Rice drops below radar and within two weeks there become public the possibilities of agreement about whom talks might involve and how to begin negotiations with Iran about their nuclear aspirations. Plus, the President changed "portfolio managers", a new Treasury Secrretary to restore solvency without facing the radical accountability of international financial markets and without causing political disaster.
Then GWB flies into the midst of the Iragi miasma he created for a photo op with the Iraqi government the US established to demonstrate a legitimate government is in place. To a public and world desperate to find anything good amidst tragedy, Bush sets the political pilings for a major military redeployment out of Iraq just in time for Republican candidates in their November election campaigns.
I guess it's just easier for us who are onto their games to write in our blogs and letters to the editor from our computers than to engage in any overt, public demonstrations of protest or demands for change, impeach and prosecute under Constitution-based laws. Keyboarding is so much more convenient and less disruptive to the demands on our personal lives. What will it take to get us back in the streets to demonstrate our disgust with George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condolezza Rice and their enablers and co-conspirators in the Congress and in the Judiciary--from the Republicans, Democrats and news media?
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This Spring the Bush Junta made a coordinated, visible change in the roles of key personnel: specifically, the reassignment of Karl Rove, a new Chief of Staff and a new Administration spokesman (with disappearing hairpiece) to replace Scott McLellan. These are tactical moves to restore George Bush's flagging public opinion numbers. Rove is heating up the anti-gay marriage and parenting zealots to divert public attention from the demonstrated incompetency and corrupt nature of the Bush administration.
As in the time when the Viet Nam war rendered our cultural norms, a proposal to amend the Constitution to make criminals of anyone perceived to desecrate our national flag. Grand gestures to reform immigration law enabled fiery public debate that took Enron, Katrina and election reform off the front pages and away from CNN News' repetitive microphones.
Suddenly, Condi Rice drops below radar and within two weeks there become public the possibilities of agreement about whom talks might involve and how to begin negotiations with Iran about their nuclear aspirations. Plus, the President changed "portfolio managers", a new Treasury Secrretary to restore solvency without facing the radical accountability of international financial markets and without causing political disaster.
Then GWB flies into the midst of the Iragi miasma he created for a photo op with the Iraqi government the US established to demonstrate a legitimate government is in place. To a public and world desperate to find anything good amidst tragedy, Bush sets the political pilings for a major military redeployment out of Iraq just in time for Republican candidates in their November election campaigns.
I guess it's just easier for us who are onto their games to write in our blogs and letters to the editor from our computers than to engage in any overt, public demonstrations of protest or demands for change, impeach and prosecute under Constitution-based laws. Keyboarding is so much more convenient and less disruptive to the demands on our personal lives. What will it take to get us back in the streets to demonstrate our disgust with George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condolezza Rice and their enablers and co-conspirators in the Congress and in the Judiciary--from the Republicans, Democrats and news media?
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