The Saturday edition of Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog has this excellent, much too polite characterization of the current administration:
Bush has broken the US government. The US military was there to protect us. Bush has used it to fight a fascist-style aggressive war of choice. FEMA is there for emergency aid. Bush did not deploy it effectively for New Orleans. Social security lifted the elderly out of the poverty that had often been their fate before the 1930s. Bush declined to use Clinton’s surplus to fix the system, and has essentially borrowed against the pensions of us all to pay for his wars. Government is there to ensure our security. Bush has used it to spy on us, to prosecute patently innocent persons, to manipulate the media and instill us with lies and propaganda.
This is what intelligent, compassionate Americans have to push against every day trying to stay sane and care for their families. It was not always so, and some of us remember. (Amazingly, the Democratic party does not.)
Onward!
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So? What do you suggest besides angst? But I suppose bloggers must post something.