Man, Cheney's "Go Fuck Yourself" insult has crazy staying
power. You can use it for just about anything. Which is probably the
same way George Bush feels about the U.S. Constitution. He can use it
for anything.
His latest
hyperreality involves remixing the Constitution to href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-libbystatement3jul03,0,1741207.story"
target="blank">free Cheney's right-hand stroker Scooter Libby from 30
months in prison, a weak bid by any stretch of the imagination.
Bush found it "excessive," and why not? He'd find any friend of
Cheney's going to jail for any amount of time excessive.
I suppose my only thing to add to this most recent blatant disregard
for anything this country has ever stood for is to ask, "What are we
going to do about it?" Sure, we've been blogging and mobilizing over
the Plame case for years now. She landed a book deal. So did her
husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson. Patrick Fitzgerald is probably up
next. Cheney shot a guy in the face. Libby looked like a pussy walking
into court on crutches. People starting talking about Judith Miller as
if anyone cared what she wrote. It was great fodder for media,
mainstream and otherwise. But now we have nothing to show for it.
So again, what are we going to do about it? When a guy with href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-lugar2jul02,0,539250.story"
target="blank">a name like Dick Lugar -- priceless! -- decides
that endless war in Iraq is lame, it's great press but more worthless
than a Democratic congress talking subpoenas for Bush, Cheney and
Rove, who have shown time and again that law means nothing in the end.
After all, they own the Supreme Court, which just kneecapped Brown vs.
The Board of Education.
Another name that carries more irony than my nervous system can
handle. Think about it. Brown the protagonist. The villain? None other
than the Board of Education. A political entity.
It is a given that, as the Talking Heads sang, it is the "same as it
ever was." Politicians have been on the grift longer than the grift
has been on the politicians. Time and again, they have thrown aside
the rule of law to pretty much do anything they ever wanted. And for
all of you "Founding Fathers" Kool-Aid drinkers, slow your roll. Let
us remember that these esteemed patriots wrote the Constitution for
whiteboys like them. Not Brown. Not Black. Not even their wives. Just
the Board, thanks.
So yeah, what are we going to do about it? href="http://www.morphizm.com/observations/levine/levine_objectiveless.html">Mad
about Iraq, Plame, the U.S. Attorney scandals, Guantanamo, Exxon
and Enron, Abu Ghraib, href="http://www.morphizm.com/observations/klein/klein_gaza.html">disaster
capitalism and the votejacking that defined the 2000 and 2004
elections? What are your solutions? I have none, except to tell you
that it is the same as it ever was.
So please, my friends, let us get back into our SUVs and watch our
Paris Hilton coverage and take our Prozac like good little Americans.
The grift goes on, like George Harrison sang about something else
entirely in Sgt. Pepper's,
"within you and without you." Sure, it couldn't happen without your
approval, but then neither could the href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-thill/bush-to-us-go-fuck-yours_b_38448.html">war
in Iraq, href="http://www.morphizm.com/observations/thill/thill_altered.html">global
warming or, come to think of it, the href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-thill/democrats-admit-it-wer_b_41980.html">Democratic
takeover of Congress.
By the way, how's that going?