Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Finally time to call bullshit? I wonder.
The buzz in some circles is that this secret, warrantless, domestic surveillance might be the thing that finally does in the Worst President Ever. I wonder why it would. Why this, as opposed to the innumerable other insults that he and his handlers have lavished on us and the rest of the world for the last five years. Is it just that a critical mass of voters in this country might finally perceive it as something that affects them directly, and negatively?
Waging elective war, by contrast, happens somewhere else, to people we don't know. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead, torture sanctioned and protected, civil war fomented, and now we're about to hand the country over to the democratically elected Islamic fundamentalists -- none of that counts as a hanging offense. But now we think that intercepting e-mails and phone calls to/from American soil is going to bring him down? Something's out of balance.
I'd like to think that it's just the last straw in the steady accretion of everyday atrocities, and that the cognitive dissonance has finally become too much. But if this is the thing that truly mars the Bush Lite presidency in the eyes of a majority of Americans, I suspect it's because we finally feel that we're the target of President Dumbfuck's quirky brand of insanity.
Waging elective war, by contrast, happens somewhere else, to people we don't know. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead, torture sanctioned and protected, civil war fomented, and now we're about to hand the country over to the democratically elected Islamic fundamentalists -- none of that counts as a hanging offense. But now we think that intercepting e-mails and phone calls to/from American soil is going to bring him down? Something's out of balance.
I'd like to think that it's just the last straw in the steady accretion of everyday atrocities, and that the cognitive dissonance has finally become too much. But if this is the thing that truly mars the Bush Lite presidency in the eyes of a majority of Americans, I suspect it's because we finally feel that we're the target of President Dumbfuck's quirky brand of insanity.
