'White House in Chaos' & Other Utter [EXPLETIVE]

[Deirdre Helfferich]

Warning: Strong language--

'White House in Chaos' & Other Utter Horseshit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gilroy/white-house-in-chaos-_b_10159.html
by Tom Gilroy
Nothing could be more damaging for the bridge club of armchair politicians
known as the Democratic Leadership than the recent spate of sound
bytes like
'Bush's worst week in Office,' 'A White House Demoralized,' and
'Bushies on
the Brink of Collapse'.
You can already feel Schumer, Dean, Hillary, and their media addicted
minions being taken over by that familiar self-satisfied stupor,
validating
their inaction and cowardice, even repositioning it as though it was
part of
a grand plan, an agenda, even an ideology.
It's like a bunch of fat people on a couch learning about the obesity
epidemic from 60 Minutes and concluding they must be skinny.
The problem with these snappy doomsday pronouncements-collective wishes
really-is that they bear no relationship to reality. You really have to
wonder what kind of bloated house-bound moron could think slumping
polls and
plummeting approval ratings would worry a gang of fanatics who stole two
elections in a row, invaded a country they knew couldn't defend
itself, and
gave a male hustler White House security clearance.
As long as Democrats and their well-fed punditocracy measure Bush, et al
with a yardstick of morality, popularity or ethics, they will never
recapture the majority, and here's why; Bush, et al aren't driven by
morality, popularity, or ethics. They're driven by money.
You can almost deduce what Rove will tell them to do next by simply asking
yourself what would be best for the rich. But ask yourself what would any
normal person do when their egregious gluttony, mendacity and utter scorn
for the common man was exposed and you'll find the Bushies actions
baffling.
You'll wait for their humble confession until you're blue in the
face-uninsured at an underfunded emergency room. Judge them by their drive
to get at even more of our public resources and money, and suddenly you'll
recognize they're still a well oiled machine.
So they don't 'Reel With Frustration' or 'Rethink Their Message' or
'Try to
Recapture the Public Mood,' that's just delusional journalists waxing
poetic
over how a decent person would behave. But these people aren't decent,
they're crooks, and crooks don't give a shit about you seeing them for
what
they really are. They don't care what you see as long as they're getting
you're money.
But 'On the Brink of Collapse?' 'A Crack in the Empire?' Running Scared?'
'Drowning in an Ethical Quagmire?' 'Crisis of Leadership?' 'Humbled by the
Damage to Their Legacy'?
Yeah ,sure.
They're so humbled they just last week passed landmark changes gutting
Florida's Medicaid and Medicare programs, to be used as a model for other
red states so their Republican governors can appear fiscally
responsible. So
you crippled grandmother better not exceed her spending cap next year, or
she's shit out of luck; her dog food rations will have to go up to 3
meals a
week just to pay for her meds. Boy, thank God the GOP's been humbled
by the
ethical quagmire.
They're so humiliated by their treasonous lies and media intimidation
in the
lead-up to the illegal war, they just nominated a raving puritan
lunatic to
the Supreme Court, a brown-shirted lemming so in thrall of corporate power
and totalitarian government control he makes Maggie Thatcher look like a
feminazi. Running scared!
Dick Cheney's act of contrition for the public discovering he'd
sacrifice a
CIA agent 's head on a silver platter so an illegal war could funnel money
to Halliburton was to replace his indicted chief of staff with David
Addington, a stealth gorgon who's hatred of democracy reaches back to
Iran/contra and co-authoring Gonzales's Torture Memo.
Dick's so horribly ashamed he's even bucking the entire Congress to
force a
torture loophole into a bill that would otherwise compel America to
abide by
The Geneva Conventions. You remember The Geneva Conventions, those
rules of
ethics drafted by all of humanity in response to the Nazis gassing 6
million
Jews? Clearly, our VP is so demoralized he must be triple popping Prozac
just face his morning coffee.
W is so decimated by the embarrassment of his (and his mother's) classism,
racism and venal cronyism in the wake of Katrina, he could barely
muster the
courage to eliminate minimum wages and environmental protections in the
great domestic funneling of cash to Halliburton , otherwise known as the
rebuilding of New Orleans. Just look at the chickenshit run! We got
'im now!
Talk about cowering at the feet of liberals. That's why they're
offering up
the olive branch of the Guest Worker Program, that nice euphemism for
a lot
of poor people without constitutional rights, occupational protections,
health insurance, the ability to establish or practice their culture, send
their kids to school, or have a permanent home-all for below poverty
wages.
Which is of course another way of saying slavery. Boy, they're in the
final
throes!
And the face man for torture and CIA-trained death squads from Honduras to
Nicaragua, John Negroponte, is still running Iraq, probably using an
Ottoman
vase as a chamber pot while tallying up our weekly Geneva Convention
violations on a centuries-old Koran with a Sharpie.
Boy, are they reeling in humiliation. I'm surprised they can muster the
dignity to get out of bed in the morning, they 're so debilitated and
demoralized.
Here's a little secret; they never reel because they are never
demoralized.
They don't measure success and failure they way you and I do, by analyzing
public benefit or desire, or even legality, or ethics. They measure
success
by how much more money they feast on from the public trough. And by that
measure, they hogs are literally drowning in shit.
So while you fold your arms in the triumphant reassurance that Scooter's
indictment and the GOP's plummeting ratings reveal the world to be what
you've always had faith it was, think again. The pendulum you always talk
about is not swinging back. The Truth has not come out. What has
happened is
what you've known all along has merely been reiterated. There is no new
information, and so there will be no new consequences. And while you smirk
and feel validated they'll go right along gobbling up more and more,
laughing at you between belches.
Because they don't care about your moral indignation, your ethical
judgment,
or what the public thinks. They don't care what's popular, legal, or good
for the country. They want your money.
So while the Democrats brunch and strategize about who to run in 2008
(choosing from the 3 frontrunners, all of whom want to INCREASE troop
numbers in Iraq), the dozens of Rove wannabees over at the The Federalist
Society are planning their fifth, sixth, seventh move from now in their
uninterrupted plunder. They're thrilled you think they're running scared,
because that means you'll go back to watching 'Sex & The City ' marathons.
Because while you're in your HBO or 'Desperate Housewives' coma, they're
moving way beyond small potatoes stuff like Valerie Plame and Patrick
Fitzgerald. They're plotting new ways to get at our money in places you've
never even thought of.
They're gonna spread those Medicaid cuts to every state in the union,
they're gonna make billions overcharging us for avian flu vaccine, they're
plotting ways to dissolve land trusts via 'eminent domain.' They're paying
lawyers to strategize ways to let every corporation in America out of
honoring pension and health insurance commitments.
While you're smirking about them finally getting their comeuppance,
they're
hiring investigators to find out if Barack Obama ever had gay sex, Elliot
Spitzer ever paid a maid under the table, or Kenye West ever went to a
hooker.
They're plotting Phase II of the 'social security debate,' and the PR
sliming of China and Venezuela into the new Russia and Cuba. They'll have
every anchorperson in America calling environmental and animal rights
activists 'domestic terrorists,' Homeland Security monitoring the email
records of college students, and the ATF following future Cindy
Sheehans by
tracking their EZ Pass.
Think I'm wrong? Ten years ago, could you have imagined evolution being
challenged, 'affirmative action' a political liability, or a pregnant GI
posing for torture photos?
If these are the actions of a humiliated cabal, imagine what an emboldened
one would try to get away with. The mind reels.
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