I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so
Throughout the last week, all the Bush administration has spouted Karl Rove’s directive to tell everyone to ignore the last week and who was at fault and concentrate on the steps now being taken to alleviate the suffering by those affected by the hurricane. This is obviously a good PR strategy and seems like sensible and convincing advice to many Americans. For what is done is done and it is more important to make sure the next steps in this difficult and overwhelming process are done as compassionately and competently as the last steps were done uncompassionately and incompetently.
The only problem with this rhetoric is that it lacks complete credibility and has been the same mantra for excusing and ignoring the same mistakes that have occurred almost continually during the Bush administration. Fool me once, shame on you; fool the media over and over and over again, shame on the media. To ignore the mistakes made is to allow the Bush administration the leverage to continue to employ institutional cronyism, accept and reward incompetence, and to set up a system which allows for directionless and ineffective departments at the highest level of government.
Of course, we will have meetings and committees to get at the bottom of this, and figure out what went wrong, so all these problems will be fixed and addressed in due time. This is the same thinking and strategy which allowed for the Bush administration to get off for failing to protect the public from 9/11, to make up phony evidence so that could fight an unnecessary war, and to ignore the Constitution to allow for catastrophes such as Abu Ghraib, all of which have had devastating effects on our nation's economy, civil rights, and ability to defend our citizens and well as causing irreparable damage to our standing throughout the world.
Allowing the Bush administration to continually put off blame and to set up solutions to the problems they have created has been a dangerous and destructive policy for our nation. Even before Bush was President, everything he has said has been a lie except for the policies which appealed to his base. He has been honest about tax cuts for the wealthy, and not allowing homosexuals equal treatment, and not supporting stem cell research and even for allowing for creationism to work its way back into the school system. When it has come to protection our nation, fighting terrorism, going to war, leaving no child behind, women's rights, economic policies for the middle and lower class, and countless other positions and issues supported by most Americans he has continually spouted lies which are instantly forgotten as soon as the next and even bigger fuck up by his administration inevitably comes into focus.
Every policy and directive to help the average American has been a complete lie. I refuse to watch one more press conference where Bush’s main strategy is to give a bunch of platitudes, because he knows that he cannot reveal to the public his real policies or face abject criticism. The media should refuse to cover anymore of his press conferences if he is just going to spout lies and make bullshit promises he has no intention of keeping and to not answer any question unless it is given by FOXNews or a male escort. Maybe CNN should run a ticker below the screen after every Bush line about what was just said, the last time he said that, and what eventually happened, and maybe then the public would then realize they are wasting their time watching this bullshit-athon.
The media and the public have this natural tendency to care about what is being said more than they notice or care what was and is being done. The Bush administration is fully aware of this, and that is why everything they say that doesn’t appeal to their base, they do not need or have any intention of honoring. It is convenient and easy to comment on what someone is saying, but that has nothing to do with actions, and actions not words is what kills our soldiers and our poor and weakens our nation in every way possible. While we were listening to Bush talk about terrorism and the media believing that this is the issue which defined the focus of his administration, Bush was using terrorism as a way to provide jobs and power for his friends and to set up an untenable bureaucracy which virtually ensured a complete catastrophe and no one seemed to care or comment, except for lone voices such as Seymour Hersh.
Now, Congress is looking for reasons for this catastrophe and trying to distance themselves from Bush for his complete and utter failing as a President. They need to look themselves in the mirror and realize they are not there to rubber stamp policies from the President and to be strong armed from the administration into making unethical and unintelligible decisions and to put their priorities into getting pork projects in the highway bill for their district or disingenious and irrelevant issues such as Terry Schiavo, where they can get a chance to feign moral superiority while rationalizing their own hypocrisy. They are the last line of defense to protect our nation from an incompetent and corrupt executive which is basically tearing down the fabric of our nation and they need to be held accountable for their failing to live up to their responsibility. It is completely disingenous to continually support Bush's destructive policies and approve the nomination of the incompetent and unqualified people he puts into powerful positions and say that you are not partially responsible for the failures of this administration.
This is not the time to forget the past and move on unless we want to kill more innocent people and to create more catastrophes so Halliburton can get even more contracts to repair damage caused by the Bush administration. The people of Mississippi and Louisiana demand that Bush is held accountable or he will continue to screw them in the future as he has continually screwed them in the past.
The only problem with this rhetoric is that it lacks complete credibility and has been the same mantra for excusing and ignoring the same mistakes that have occurred almost continually during the Bush administration. Fool me once, shame on you; fool the media over and over and over again, shame on the media. To ignore the mistakes made is to allow the Bush administration the leverage to continue to employ institutional cronyism, accept and reward incompetence, and to set up a system which allows for directionless and ineffective departments at the highest level of government.
Of course, we will have meetings and committees to get at the bottom of this, and figure out what went wrong, so all these problems will be fixed and addressed in due time. This is the same thinking and strategy which allowed for the Bush administration to get off for failing to protect the public from 9/11, to make up phony evidence so that could fight an unnecessary war, and to ignore the Constitution to allow for catastrophes such as Abu Ghraib, all of which have had devastating effects on our nation's economy, civil rights, and ability to defend our citizens and well as causing irreparable damage to our standing throughout the world.
Allowing the Bush administration to continually put off blame and to set up solutions to the problems they have created has been a dangerous and destructive policy for our nation. Even before Bush was President, everything he has said has been a lie except for the policies which appealed to his base. He has been honest about tax cuts for the wealthy, and not allowing homosexuals equal treatment, and not supporting stem cell research and even for allowing for creationism to work its way back into the school system. When it has come to protection our nation, fighting terrorism, going to war, leaving no child behind, women's rights, economic policies for the middle and lower class, and countless other positions and issues supported by most Americans he has continually spouted lies which are instantly forgotten as soon as the next and even bigger fuck up by his administration inevitably comes into focus.
Every policy and directive to help the average American has been a complete lie. I refuse to watch one more press conference where Bush’s main strategy is to give a bunch of platitudes, because he knows that he cannot reveal to the public his real policies or face abject criticism. The media should refuse to cover anymore of his press conferences if he is just going to spout lies and make bullshit promises he has no intention of keeping and to not answer any question unless it is given by FOXNews or a male escort. Maybe CNN should run a ticker below the screen after every Bush line about what was just said, the last time he said that, and what eventually happened, and maybe then the public would then realize they are wasting their time watching this bullshit-athon.
The media and the public have this natural tendency to care about what is being said more than they notice or care what was and is being done. The Bush administration is fully aware of this, and that is why everything they say that doesn’t appeal to their base, they do not need or have any intention of honoring. It is convenient and easy to comment on what someone is saying, but that has nothing to do with actions, and actions not words is what kills our soldiers and our poor and weakens our nation in every way possible. While we were listening to Bush talk about terrorism and the media believing that this is the issue which defined the focus of his administration, Bush was using terrorism as a way to provide jobs and power for his friends and to set up an untenable bureaucracy which virtually ensured a complete catastrophe and no one seemed to care or comment, except for lone voices such as Seymour Hersh.
Now, Congress is looking for reasons for this catastrophe and trying to distance themselves from Bush for his complete and utter failing as a President. They need to look themselves in the mirror and realize they are not there to rubber stamp policies from the President and to be strong armed from the administration into making unethical and unintelligible decisions and to put their priorities into getting pork projects in the highway bill for their district or disingenious and irrelevant issues such as Terry Schiavo, where they can get a chance to feign moral superiority while rationalizing their own hypocrisy. They are the last line of defense to protect our nation from an incompetent and corrupt executive which is basically tearing down the fabric of our nation and they need to be held accountable for their failing to live up to their responsibility. It is completely disingenous to continually support Bush's destructive policies and approve the nomination of the incompetent and unqualified people he puts into powerful positions and say that you are not partially responsible for the failures of this administration.
This is not the time to forget the past and move on unless we want to kill more innocent people and to create more catastrophes so Halliburton can get even more contracts to repair damage caused by the Bush administration. The people of Mississippi and Louisiana demand that Bush is held accountable or he will continue to screw them in the future as he has continually screwed them in the past.