Crime of the Century
While everyone's parsing the details of the collapsing markets, mulling over the multiple choice options to save drowning companies and otherwise pondering the whys and wherefores of the global shitstorm that has galloped onto the scene (with Sarah Palin in the saddle. I just can't quit her.) heralding the Neo-Con Apocalypse, nobody seems to be acknowledging what even an average moron such as myself -- okay, above average -- can see plain as day: the greatest crime of all time is in progress.
Call 911®. Hell, CSI: America!
It began at approximately January of 2001 and has continued unabated. Where are the cops who, like their counterparts on TV, are able to piece together the string of molecular, dynamically animated clues until the entire case is solved? We start with a bloody body on the floor. It has a white beard, wears a red white and blue top hat. His once fierce eyes are now yellowed and rolled up into his head. Fleck of froth on his collagened lip. Clearly murder.
And yet the legion of pundits and know-it-alls are scat-singing as though their jobs depended on it, which they do.
That's accessory after the fact.
Obstruction.
Aiding and abetting.
The bailout isn't working. That's true as far as bailouts are concerned. But as a super-scam and colossal rip off it's functioning with the precision of a Swiss time piece.
And the war(s) has lost its sex appeal, which is just the kind of collateral effect the profiteers never counted on but welcome just the same. In fact, give it deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light (Where have you gone George Bernard Shaw? Our nation turns its low I.Q. to you. Woo woo woo.).
Even my favorite show -- NPR's Left, Right and Center -- causes the muscles in my rolling eyes to palsy as I listen to my beloved quartet of experts talk as though the intent behind the Bush programs which have disintegrated into failed heaps of spent cash were actually created with good intentions.
Bull cakes.
It's The Hot Rock with ugly, evil people ripping off the middle-class instead of Redford and Siegel gleefully scamming plutocrats. It's The Great Train Robbery with dweeby accountants with black hearts and big libidos! It's Escape From Alcatraz with carpetbaggers from New England posing as shitkickers from Texas and getting away red-handed! It's all those and way, way worse. They've brought down and broken the government the way a truckload of fertilizer, nitromethane and Tovex brought down the federal building in Oklahoma.
Has anything BushCo's ever done benefitted the people or the country? Just admit it: we've been robbed, beaten and stabbed.
Here you go, Detective Obama. Just the facts.
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I think they just keep printing more cash as they need it....even tho its worthless without the gold to back it up. How else can they give TAX breaks ? The Govt. doesnt have anymore money and we are up to our Grandkids Eyes in DEBT' . I am pretty sure there arent any rich countries out there running over to grant loans that they know we cannot repay in several lifetimes. ARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH
quick call 911 lol
Bush's greatest legacy the coalition of nations that are helping his war on terror. Most of this help is done behind the scenes but it is being done by strange bedfellows like.... nearly all Muslim countries! Sleep well people, Bush has kept you safe. Happy VID.
George W. Bush cut our taxes, and no, I'm not in the top 5 percent, I am middle class and saved thousands thanks to him. He appointed John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, and they are both excellent judges who interpret the law and don't try and legislate from the bench. The No Child Left Behind Act brought accountability to our nations public schools and they badly need it. He also kept our country safe after 9/11 and revamped our national security. Thanks to him there have been no more terrorist attacks on our soil. It is a myth that Bush and Cheney don't care about America and only help the rich. They have helped all of us.
You passed tens of thousands of debt to your children and grand-children. The only way a tax cut has permanent benefits is to match it to a spending cut or to improve the economy to off-set the losses. Bush has done neither.
My take is that the Supreme Court justices he appointed are legislating from the bench. All in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
No Child Left Behind is a complete disaster from what I can see. The only ones who benefit are testing companies.
Bush and Cheney have made us a lot more enemies and have alienate our friends. We are not safer.
And so the rewriting of history begins. Ignore them folks, the truth will out.
Golly...yo
Completely delusional or lying. I could prove everything you just said wrong without even using "the google" I have a calendar on my desk with all the rediculously ignorant BS that came out of Bush's mouth over the last 8 years. And all you need to know about Cheney is "there is no doubt that Iraq has WMD".
You're kidding, right? Tax breaks have been skewed to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class, resulting in a crushing debt for our children and grandchildren by the spendingist admin. in our history. Just what do you conservatives conserve anyway?
The Supreme Court is skewed heavily to the extreme right and is politicized. Seven of the justices are Republican appointees, while two are Democratic appointees. Four more years of THE SAME would have brought us a clean sweep of ultra-conservative bench buddies. No thanks.
No Child Left a Dime is an unmitigated disaster. Go talk to a few teachers. They will gladly back me up on this. Let's take the funds required to run this lumbering behemoth and start paying teachers what they are worth. You know, it's about respect for an honorable profession.
If you mean that we in the US are safer by completely alienating the rest if the world with unilateral cowboy posturing, then you betcha' we're safe. Never mind that our foreign policy has created a billion or so new jihadis. Osama? Still out there and much more valuable to Herr Bush alive than dead if you want to keep the fear thing going. Keep in mind, our high altitude spy equipment can read the label on Bin Laden's skivvies.
I don't wanna hear about what the teachers have to say. There are some great teachers out there but there are also some incredibly lazy ones who refuse to accept responsibility when their students score poorly on standardized tests. The teachers unions yield too much power with the democrats so they refuse to stand up to their extreme demands. We need merit pay for teachers and school vouchers to help families make the best decisions about the schooling they choose for their kids. The truth is, most democratic politicians including Barack Obama wouldn't dare send their children to public schools.
The Supreme Court is not to the extreme right, look at Justices Stevens, Souter, Breyer, and Ginsberg- all far left activist judges. Kennedy is a moderate and the only swing vote. The court is split down the middle.
And in response to safety issue...ha
Yes. He cut our taxes.
Ah, so you're part of the top 1%?
That's a huge myth. Even if you paid less taxes during Bush's reign, the fact is that the trillions of dollars in debt that were racked up during the last few years are going to have to be paid back somehow, by someone. That someone is likely to be you or any progeny you may leave behind. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
I am at the 15 to 20 % level, and he didn't cut mine.
Great piece by Weber, but I agree with MilwaukeeDan--the democrats are enablers of the Bush crimes and do not have the moral compunction to prosecute crimes. And it appears right now that it goes for Obama too.
He voted for immunity for the telecoms, and he voted for the Paulson bailout. Obamacain might be the operative description, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
"Has anything BushCo's ever done benefitted the people or the country?"
I think the most significant aspect of President Bush's legacy will be his proactive counter-terrorism measures. Our homeland has not been struck by terrorists for over 7 years. Numerous terror plots have been foiled by these measures. Hopefully, CBS and the NY Times will curb their habit of broadcasting national security measures being taken and about to be taken.
"Numerous terror plots have been foiled by these measures", please list these "terror plots"(and the chance of them actually working) and was it worth getting over 4,000 Americans killed for "the war on terror" and bankrupting our country? "War on terror", a moronic statement if there ever was one.
OK.
In 2002 the U.S. disrupted a plot to attack targets on the West Coast of the US using hijacked airplanes. The plotters included at least one major operational planner involved in planning the events of 9/11.
In 2003 the U.S. and a partner disrupted a plot to attack targets on the East Coast of the US using hijacked commercial airplanes.
In May 2002 the U.S. disrupted a plot that involved blowing up apartment buildings in the US. One of the plotters, Jose Padilla, also discussed the possibility of using a "dirty bomb" in the U.S.
In 2004 the U.S. and partners disrupted a plot that involved urban targets in the UK. These plots involved using explosives against a variety of sites.
In the Spring of 2003 the U.S. and a partner disrupted a plot to attack Westerners at several targets in Karachi, Pakistan.
In 2003 the U.S. and several partners disrupted a plot to attack Heathrow Airport using hijacked commercial airliners. The planning for this attack was undertaken by a major 9/11 operational figure.
In 2004 the U.S. and partners, using a combination of law enforcement and intelligence resources, disrupted a plot to conduct large-scale bombings in the UK.
In 2003 the U.S. and a partner nation disrupted a plot to attack a tourist site outside the US.
Maybe so, but at what cost? Osama bin Laden is still alive, isn't he. Further, remember the deal to pull the troops out of Rhiyad. What don't we know about in order to keep another attack from happening? The two mentioned are obvious to the scorekeeper.
1.) Do not pursue bin Laden
2.) Pull all western troops out of Rhiyad
Is 3 possibly the hike of the cost of oil per barrel? What else? There's a reason that this country has not been attacked. In listening to Aviv on the O'Reilly show a week before the London bombing and since, this country is to easy and way vulnerable. So what's the deal that's been made between BushCo and al Quaida? With the Blackwater fiasco and everything else this administration has sold this country out for, I don't trust a single word that comes out of his mouth and certainly anyone that represents his administration.
I hate to take a pin to your bubble, but I'm still waiting for the price tag on keeping an attack from happening during the Bush era.
Steve, I really enjoyed your presentation of this issue. Everything, I've caught on HP that you've written, I've enjoyed.
According to history, I'm pretty certain ANYONE in office at the time of the attacks of 9/11 would have done their damnest to make sure that that scenario never happens again. I'm sure as the ground I spit on, that any President at the time would have effectively made sure this country didn't get attacked. Now, that being said, Gore would have actually gotten Bin Laden and probably security of this country would not be so much in qusetion as it STILL IS now.
Oh, God yes. We must muzzle the press .... while we're at it, lets make gatherings of two or more people illegal in order to quell dissent.
Bush and Cheney LET 9/11 happen. Investigation of the detained "20th hijacker" was intentionally blocked by the Adminsitration. Warnings piled up on Bush's desk. Bushy-boy took cover in Crawford as long as he could. The only thing that surprised them was that there was more than one plane.
Steven, I always enjoy your writing and in this post, you're right as always. The problem is, Obama and the democrats aren't going to do anything about it. The're just happy they get their chance at the feeding trough. I think Obama is a very smart man and politician, but he doesn't think "outside the box"(why even consider Republican-Lite Clinton for Sec Of Sate) and he has surrounded himself with ex-Clinton flunkies. The American people have been brainwashed into thinking what is good for neocons is good for them and the world(that's why you see all the poor aholes driving beaters with W and McCain/Palin stickers on them). What have they done for them? Turn out the lights, the partys over, it was nice while it lasted.
...just one piece of staggering data to support mr weber's point: no one is at all addressing the $405,000,000,000 in cost overuns in the past 5 years granted by bushco. to the already bloated military industrial complex corporate profiteers, insatiable gluttons masquearding as uber-patriots defending america by producing myriad ultra-tech weapons we dont need and in many cases are useless in fighting terrorists/ground war battles etc. . thats approximately $220,000,000 in tax payers money PER DAY (!) JUST FOR THE COST OVERRUNS..
these robbers ARE the terrorists and should be treated as such. They are bringing America to her knees and no one is willing to call them the criminals that they are. WHY are we letting them continue? Is there no one with enough authority to say ENOUGH! ?
i would like to start a class action to sue the bush administration for mental cruelty.
in the meantime, how excellent to see you on "desperate housewives", steven!
there's an irony in it...
Great post Steven. Indeed, Y2K was no hoax. It didn't come in the form most thought it would. No computer meltdown or anything like that. It came in the form of a fake cowboy mediocre governor living off his father's and grandfather's legacies brought to power by equally nefarious but smarter politicos who saw a relatively empty but willing vessel in which to take over the country and bring the world as we knew it to its knees. Bush was the Y2K we were all afraid of. It was no hoax.
Most people have come to the objective and seemingly correct conclusion that Bush jerked the country around on Iraq intelligence. We have over 4000 dead Americans to show for it. Because of a senate that is half republican there is not a thing can be done about it. Senate hearings have fully revealed that the Iraq intelligence was conflicted and thus did not support the decision Bush made.
And there is of course the issue of democrats who were afraid of what truth might be revealed (by impeachment) and that the country might have actually faced the fully justified execution of a sitting president. I think Bush is guilty as hell and I think also that he correctly figured that congress wouldn't do a thing given the stakes for the country.
A lot of books have already been written on this and in the end I think historians will conclude the same as I have stated here.
Bush is without a doubt the most accomplished criminal this country ever raised. He has no peer.
As criminal enterprises go, the Congress of the United States is in a class by itself.
Apart from those things the U.S. isn't such a bad place.
Maybe some day the people of this country will actually figure out that their representatives have telephones and call and complain. I'm quite sure that if enough people took two minutes to do that things would be different. Just dial and scream into the recording all you want with all the epithets you can think of. They are justified.
The Bush presidential library will be an amazing lesson in unfettered propaganda. School kids should tour it for that reason and that reason only.
Our country was formed to get out from under the deprivations of King George. Now, we have to do this again.....
That said, we are once again beginning all over. Our Constitution has to be reborn....
The 30+% interest on credit cards needs to be abolished. The golden parachutes for the laughing executives ripped to shreds...t
Ahhh.....b
Do folks realize that 10 out of the 50 states STILL have riggable voting machines?
Check out
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to see which ones.
And remember this quote:
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article... that the White House didn't like...I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He...told me something that... I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'.
Ronald Suskind
The Price of Loyalty
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They are history's actors. What actions did they do? They wrecked the economy. Did a Reverse Robin Hood where you rob the poor to pay the rich corporations, and established a corporate dictatorship. I am glad to finally have some better people going into the government. But we and they sure have our work cut out for us!
Yes, the quote shows the Bush team was almost more concerned with illusions than with reality.
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