Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Don’t Talk to Me About Scandals
Recently I heard the phrase “mounting scandal” applied to BushCo. I don’t remember which crime it was in reference to. It doesn’t matter. Do you know why?
BushCo is virtually scandal-proof — mounting or otherwise.
Let’s get serious.
We are way, waaaay past scandals, my friends
Scandals are soooo ‘80s (Iran-Contra) or ‘90s (Clinton’s cock).
C’mon, folks, it’s over.
Are you expecting Watergate II?
You know, that “history repeats itself” fantasy in which BushCo, in some predestined parallel to Nixon administration, comes crumbing down early in its second term.
Please, spare me the fatalism — the mysticism.
This is not 1974.
History buffs need not apply.
This country is over.
Repeat.
This country is over.
No WMD.
No scandal.
Horrendous photographic and documentary evidence of White House-sponsored torture.
No scandal.
Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001 stating that bin Laden is “determined to strike inside the United States” is made public.
No scandal.
Dick Cheney’s Halliburton logs a record of unprecedented corruption, war-profiteering, and pillaging of taxpayer funds in Iraq.
No scandal.
A gay prostitute is exposed as a White House press room plant.
No scandal.
Insufficient armor for troops.
No scandal.
Absolute filth falsely adorned in the robes of Christian morality taking this country to hell.
No scandal.
FYI: The Great Reckoning is not coming.
The pendulum ain’t swingin’ our way.
This country is over.
Don’t talk to me about scandals.
