Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Nothing important is changing. Scott McClellan will get his huge book advance & by November be a familiar asshole talking head on TV. Karl Rove just needs more time for shoveling his shit into the '06 elections. A politician admits making mistakes not by admiting the mistakes but by bringing new people with fresh approaches & ideas into the inner circle & listening to them. Bush doesn't believe he's made any mistakes warranting that higher level of reassessment (God won't let him seriously err). For George, there's no problem with the Cheney/Bush junta that can't be solved by manipulating the press, suppressing political dissent, defaming Democrats, keeping (or not keeping) secrets better, & if necessary, reasserting himself as a War President by having another war.
Chatting with a conservative friend last week - someone who bitched unceasingly all the way through the Clinton years (don't they look good now? Not to her. ) - she began griping about how the "nuclear option" toward Iran was a liberal fantasy. But she stopped, mostly because we differ hugely on every political issues & it'sall I can do to keep from asking "Is there anything Bill O'Reilly says that you don't believe 100%?" But it's bizarre how someone who has basically "won" - all three parts of national government are controlled by the people she wants controling them - still isn't satisfied, & maybe won't be until she goes into a voting booth & there's no Democrats on the ballot at all, & if there's any choices at all they're between nut job right wing Repugs & insanely right wing third party candidates, & until she turns on the TV & never sees or hears even a moderate opinion expressed, much less Al Franken (who I consider touchingly old-fashioned, decent & reasonable).
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Chatting with a conservative friend last week - someone who bitched unceasingly all the way through the Clinton years (don't they look good now? Not to her. ) - she began griping about how the "nuclear option" toward Iran was a liberal fantasy. But she stopped, mostly because we differ hugely on every political issues & it'sall I can do to keep from asking "Is there anything Bill O'Reilly says that you don't believe 100%?" But it's bizarre how someone who has basically "won" - all three parts of national government are controlled by the people she wants controling them - still isn't satisfied, & maybe won't be until she goes into a voting booth & there's no Democrats on the ballot at all, & if there's any choices at all they're between nut job right wing Repugs & insanely right wing third party candidates, & until she turns on the TV & never sees or hears even a moderate opinion expressed, much less Al Franken (who I consider touchingly old-fashioned, decent & reasonable).
