Mukasey has myspaced - is not investigating wiretapping, waterboarding
We have now the Attorney General of the United States telling Congress that it’s not against the law for the President to violate the law if his own Department of Justice says it’s not.…President Bush has now laid down his most aggressive challenge to the very constitutional authority of Congress. It is a naked assertion of executive power. The founders would have called it tyrannical. His cards are now all on the table. This is no bluff.
Yeah, yeah. Par for the course. But they’re really doing this? I mean, nobody’s calling them on it? I mean, really calling them on it?
Where the hell is the outcry from Clinton? Obama? Oh. They’re on the campaign trail. Maybe they don’t want to ruffle anyone’s feathers.
I’d hate to believe that critiquing the Bush administration’s policies has jumped the shark*, but unfortunately, it seems that it may have. In a rush towards centrism and change (!) and the hands-across-the-aisle farce, the 2 remaining Democratic candidates aren’t really talking about how the Republicans really screwed up this country over the past 25+ years (and notwithstanding Bill Clinton in the White House when the Republicans controlled Congress). Sure, Reagan helped end the Cold War, and he had some “ideas” that people like to falsely think that he had, but the USSR was on the decline anyway. He did a lot more harm than good, as I can recall, and the haze of time seems to wipe much of that away and add to the Great Conservative Reagan myth. I remember working with a guy at a restaurant a few years ago who got drunk one night at an after work thing and told me a little bit about being a sniper in Nicaragua. This guy was really straight laced, not one to make up stuff like that. So, tell me again. Why were we in Central America during the 80s? And didn’t that have to do with Iran? [And Iraq?] Weren’t we playing both sides of the fence over there in the 80s? Didn’t Donny Rumsfeld talk to Saddam a couple times? Didn’t we help the Taliban in our proxy war with the Russians in Afghanistan? (See Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars, quite a good book. Almost too long and meticulous, but worth it to get an exhaustive history and a feel for names and dates and what the heck was really going on in Afghanistan.)
Oh the domino theory. Hearts and minds! That’s Condoleezza’s bread and butter. Where’s she been lately? Afghanistan — where the leaders are desperately asking us not to take NATO out. Oh, why would we do that? We don’t want the terrorists to win, do we? But it’s our forgotten war. I guess Afghanistan can suck it, like New Orleans.
What would be so wrong with talking about Bush’s policies? How they have failed over and over and over again. How our country is worse for them and how we can change (!). Please Clinton/Obama, really explain something. Don’t put up policy proposals on your website. Don’t love fest me at the next debate.
Is it really just that the journalists who are the gatekeepers to this sort of dialogue in both the television and print media just don’t want to talk about it? Or is it just that the candidates themselves aren’t talking about it. Honestly, I believe it is a mixture of both.
Come on, jackasses.
(*Jumped the shark has “jumped the shark” IMO but the only other term I’ve heard that comes close to the same meaning is “myspaced,” which, is actually kind of funny, but I think it’s meaning is closer to “(blank) sucks now/has started to suck/will start to suck at some close future time,” as in, “Did CBS news get myspaced when they added Katie Couric as the nightly news anchor?” “Nah, didn’t you know that talking smack about Katie Couric on CBS jumped the shark?” Jumped the shark doesn’t seem as harsh as “Myspaced,” rather, it denotes a connotation that something has merely become passe.)
I hope the Democratic Party doesn’t get Myspaced. And please, oh please, for goodness sake, I hope the Democratic party doesn’t get fucking “Facebooked.”
James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 47: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense: “In America, the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
