Lying liars
I’m not a big fan of Al Franken. While I’m generally liberal-minded, I find his penchant for hyperbole to be no more “fair and balanced” than Fox News. That said, however, I’m starting to wonder if he isn’t right about the Bush administration vis-a-vis his statement that they tell the truth about almost nothing.
Case in point: this Associated Press story which reveals that the administration was NOT caught with their pants down when Katrina struck. They knew what was coming. And they told us they didn’t.
Now, I’d like nothing better than to see the bums get thrown out come November and to see Bush impeached for his numerous lies and for holding himself above the law (King George IV?). That said, however, I wonder if it’ll all just be the same when the Democrats finally figure out how to win an election again.
What I mean is that we seem to increasingly live in a world of spin. Where did our outrage about being lied to go? Nobody seems to really care that Bush has lied over and over. How did Nixon and Clinton get so caught up in their respective scandals while Bush floats above it all?
Something has changed. The strong executive (King). The cynicism of the electorate. I’m not sure. But I wonder what it will take to return to some semblance of sanity in government. Now, it seems like this country is now run by an unholy alliance of the radical right and the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about.