Vanquishing The Beast, Part Forever

I'm transferring this entire post; it's short and sweet and provides a link to two of my favorites at once, Hullabaloo and Glenn Greenwald. The emphasis is my own:

Actually, It's Not That Hard

by tristero

Glenn Greenwald:

Both legally and politically, it's hard to imagine a more significant scandal than the President and Vice President deliberately obstructing the investigation of the 9/11 Commission by concealing and then destroying vital evidence which the Commission was seeking. Yet that's exactly what the evidence at least suggests has occurred here.

Oh, I dunno about that. As utterly outrageous as it is, most of us can all too well imagine this administration destroying torture tapes and not telling the 9/11 Commission about it.

And as far as scandals go, there's the 2000 election, and 2004 Ohio. There's Bush ignoring August 6, 2001. And let's not forget the entire Bush/Iraq war. And Plame. And Schiavo. And the subversion of science. And surreptitiously hiring journalists to flack for the administration. And let's not forget Katrina. Or those attorneys general who were gleefully indicting and jailing Democrats for partisan advantage. And what about the energy companies and Cheney? Remember California's blackouts?

Which brings up an interesting question. Given such an extraordinary number of world-class choices, what IS the most significant scandal of the Bush years?

Well, I'm certain what would be considered the worst scandal, if we had a working press and a non-befuddled citizenry. And it's that the leaders who perpetrated and funded the worst attacks on American soil since the Civil War have never been found. It's an indication of how truly weird things have become that this most fundamental function of government - you protect your citizens by bringing to justice those that are known to be responsible for attacking them - has kind of been finessed or forgotten. But I can think of even worse than that.

The most significant scandal of our time is that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are still wielding power.

And sadly, I can imagine even worse. That the United States elects as president one of the uber- bozos contending for the dubious honor of GOP nominee.

tristero 1/02/2008 07:08:00 AM Comments (49) | Trackback (0)

Tristero is exactly right - the fact that these two slimeball crooks, along with countless minions who have served and enabled their lawless regime, have thus far avoided prosecution, and in all probability will finish out their terms having done so, is a national disgrace. I don't think that we are going to elect a Republican president this time, but I'm afraid I also don't have much faith in our Democratic leaders to be able to effectively counteract the damage done by this administration. That, to me, is the most significant scandal of our time.