White House officials are determined to reverse President Bush's poor poll showings on the topics of Iraq and "honesty and trustworthiness."What they're going to learn is that honesty and trustworthiness are like virginity--despite "born again" Christian claims of assertion to the contrary, once you're fucked on any of these, you're not honest, trustworthy, or hymenally intact, whichever the case may be.
I'll be charitable--everyone is entitled to one mistake, even two mistakes. But when the evidence stacks up for dozens of breaches of the public trust, or if your significant other is caught in bed with someone else thirty times, or if a car salesman's statements are provably wrong ten instances in ten minutes, reestablishing credibility, fidelity, or belief is impossible. But hey, nobody accused the White House of living in a world governed by logic or common sense.
White House aides, who agreed to speak to CNN only on the condition of anonymity, said they hoped to increase what they called their "hit back" in coming days.Yeah, that'll work--repeatedly shout what has already been discredited and no one but the dimmest fanatic of Chimpie is going to even hope to believe. How are they going to do it?
The officials say they plan to repeatedly make the point -- as they did during the 2004 campaign -- that pre-war intelligence was faulty, it was not manipulated and everyone was working off the same intelligence.
They hope to arm GOP officials with more quotes by Democrats making the same pre-war claims as Republicans did about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.This is actually good news for the more leftist radical among us, because it will help to tar the "moderate" Bush bootlickers in the Democratic Party with the aiding and abetting brush. Shitheads like Biden, Lieberman, and, yes, Hillary Clinton, political opportunists all who voted for war will be exposed for the traitors to the people that they indeed are. Perhaps some fresh blood with real democratic ideas, with real desire to serve the people, will at last ooze into this sclerotic political whorehouse.
But in the meantime it's going to be hysterical to watch the backpedaling, rationalizations, and pretzel logic of these assholes squirming together under the new light of American awareness.
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Olaf, I'm puzzled. If, as I believe, "honesty and trustworthiness [sic]," like sincerity, can't successfully be faked, that is, used as a technique, how can so many people--voters--be apparently oblivious to the present administration's fakery in these ways? No, this is not a rhetorical question; I want an ANSWER!
Oh, I think these things can be faked--what they can't be is recovered. That explains why the phony-baloney integrity and honesty bullshit that Chimpie spewed on the campaign trail worked so well. Yes, people are gullible. However, if he proves that he is dishonest (and he has, in spades), then only the STUPID will believe him when he tries to reclaim a position of honest, integrity, blah, blah, blah all over again. The gullible can be forgiven for just having a good nature, however naive, and they won't be fooled again. Those who will be fooled again are the terminally stupid. Sadly, we seem to have more than our share of them in this country.
Olaf, sadly my momentary high that perhaps the Dems were mobilizing has been unravelled, primarily by just remembering our own, personal history with this "war" (if by "war" you mean blowing up an impoverished nation beyond all recognition and destabilizing their infrastructure to the extent of allowing an insurgency that has proved to be just as deadly, if not more, than any of Saddam's supposed evil plots). I would never dare say that Chimpie is "right" (he will ever remain a mindless fuck-wit for all I'm concerned), but I will say that I think that it is true that Dems are finding, within this messed-up point in history, an opportunistic moment to gain more political clout. Where were these assholes two years ago? And why are they not developing a "shadow govt" that would put forth some semblance of an exit strategy? Once again I am reminded of the absurd theatrics of the "Republican vs. Democrat" rhetoric that disturbs far-leftists like ourselves in so much that it leaves us, the Cassandras of the nation who always knew what catastrophes would befall from an Iraqi invasion, marginalized in this whole discussion. But then again, it's just politics as usual...
CB
CB,
Sadly, sadly, sadly, even if the Dems regain some power, it will still be in service to a fundamental system that excludes the broad spectrum of opinion thanks to our "winner take all" two-party system. Minority representation, unlike in a parliamentary system, gets no traction at all. And, of course, the whole thing is set up primarily to serve a capitalistic system gone mad, in which any horror can be justified if our economy is somehow perceived to be threatened.
Let's face it--we're on the fringe, and will ever remain so. Even the Great Depression could not shock the culture of America into a recognition of social relationships being more valuable than economic relationships. Until we understand that, we will ever live in this slaughterhouse.
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