The Untouchable Administration
Over at In Search of Utopia there’s a post, like many I’ve seen today (and many times in the last four or so years), about how the press is finally waking up to President Bush’s administrations failures, etc. I wrote the below in the comment section but decided that it was something I felt so passionate about, it needed to be here as well.
You know, every time something happens that I would think would “damn” Bush and his administration, I get all hopeful, but no one in power seems to be doing anything about it.
I mean, all of us “liberals” and “Democrats” all point together and yell, “Look there! Look there! See? That’s what we’re talking about!” Then we all high five each other for being right and predicting the end of the “evil administration,” but what does it matter? Who’s actually doing something about it? Where’s the independent council investigating this administration? Where’s the payback for wrong-doing, for cronyism, for poor planning for the war, for any of it?
This administration almost seems untouchable. Of course, they don’t care about the polls…they’re just numbers. Nothing’s going to happen. No one is going to actually do anything.
It’s just so frustrating.
tags: George W. Bush, hopeless, Democrats, liberals
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on September 25, 2005 at 7:46 pm
Martian said:
Yeah. Where are the LEADERS in America? You know who I’m going to vote for in 2008? Whichever candidate DIDN’T vote for the Iraq War, or at least has the courage to say, “I was wrong. I was hoodwinked by Bush.”
By the way, I agree with your comment at my blog about link exchanges. That’s why I’m going to have two sections — ones I actually read, and ones that link to me.
on September 25, 2005 at 8:22 pm
Big Dog said:
Yeah, boy, this administration is full of cronyism and that never existed before. I mean, it is not like every Kennedy had a job in JFK’s administration and all of Bill and Hill’s law buddies and friends from Arkansas never had jobs with them. All the folks who paid all the bribes when Billy was guv, and all the partners in land deals. Non of them had jobs.
It is only in the GWB administration. I mean, hell just because Mary Landrieu is the sister of Loiusiana’s LT Gov is no reason to believe this happens everywhere. There was never any corruption in the last administration.
And all this whining ablut the press is pure BS. The press has been all over him since day one. They keep making charges and can not get them to stick because there is no evidence. And any idiot that believes the war was predicated on lies has mush for brains. All available, world wide intelligence was used. A whole lot of countries were wrong. Now I have a question, since you brought it up. Since we know Hussein had WMD (don’t make me go through that again) and he does not have them now, what did he do with them.
Be careful how you answer because you will have to show how your answer is possible.
How any intelligent person can love Bill and Hill and hate GWB, as far as people go at least, is beyond me. We all have our politics and there are actually idiots who loved Carter as a President as impotent as he was. But as far as people go, it is beyond me.
on September 25, 2005 at 8:33 pm
n. mallory said:
I think it’s funny that liberals all think the MSM is tip-toeing around this administration and the right-wings think the MSM is bashing this administration left and right…must mean they’re actually somewhere in the middle — gosh, isn’t that where they are supposed to be?
However, it does seem that the MSM tends to drop the ball on quite a few important stories…from my point-of-view anyway.
And I will say that up until the whole “let’s invade Iraq” thing, I was of the opinion that every President in my lifetime that I recalled had good and bad moments. I no longer hold that as completely true with this administration.
And I can’t answer your WMD question because I don’t agree with the first part of the statement WHICH hasn’t been proven to my liking and I’ve seen and heard reports that repute it.
Oh, and I can’t say I “loved” any politician. I’m a little biased toward Mayor Ray Nagin and Bill Clinton and against Gov. Blanco and Hilary Clinton, but I can’t say I love or hate any of them. However, the Bush administration has made me feel more and more like every conspiracy theory about US government is true and that’s not comforting.
The only thing that gives me comfort in that thought is that there’s no way they could possibly be organized to really be as “evil” as they’re made out to be. 
on September 26, 2005 at 2:55 am
BadTux said:
Dawg, the Lt. Governor of Louisiana is an elected position, not something handed out as patronage by a U.S. Senator. And while JFK put his brother Robert as Attorney General, his brother was actually competent, unlike Drownie Brownie, who was only competent to inspect horses’ asses as a judge for the Arabian Horse Association.
Frankly, I have no problem with nepotism if it’s used to put competent people in charge. But the Busheviks don’t seem to care about competence, only about loyalty.
Finally, the Downing Street Memos show that the Bushies knew that Iraq’s WMD program was basically non-existent, but went ahead and manufactured the evidence to take us to war anyhow (to quote one of the memos: “Libya and Iran WMD programs greater threat than Iraq. Iraq WMD program moribund since Gulf War”). As for the whole “everybody thought Iraq had WMD” nonsense, two words: Hans Blix. Wandered all over Iraq with carte blanche, inspecting anything and everything he felt like, with 100% cooperation from the Iraqis. Didn’t find anything other than a few rockets with too long of a range, which the Iraqis promptly destroyed on his orders. Was about to file a report saying Iraq had no WMD (and the CIA knew this because the CIA had bugged the UN headquarters), Bush said “screw that, we’re going to war” and invaded before Blix could file that report.
But you right-wing tools always write Hans Blix out of history… the man who proved that Saddam had no WMD — before we invaded. Hans who? You guys are downright Orwellian, disappearing facts and re-writing history to meet your demented urge to worship your Great Leader…
- Badtux the History Penguin
on September 26, 2005 at 3:04 am
BadTux said:
And as for your notion, Mallory: The problem is that the Busheviks are playing by new rules. Old rules, actually. Rules that go, “He who has the guns, rules.” The Busheviks have the guns. They don’t care about popularity or anything else, because they rule, and their guns insure that they will continue to rule. They care about rule of law only insofar as rule of law confirms rule of gun. Their striking love of rule of law in the case of the NOLA FEMA (non)-response is in stark contrast to their disdain for rule of law elsewhere, where they illegally hold prisoners of war under conditions that violate treaties that are the law of the land (the Geneva Conventions), hold at least one American citizen without trial in contravention of the Constitution of the United States, etc…
In short, the Busheviks do not believe in rule of law. They believe in rule of gun, and pull out the lawbook only when the lawbook is convenient. That, in my opinion, is the biggest difference between the Busheviks and the Clintonistas. I spent most of the Clinton administration fighting the Clintonistas’ desire to turn every electronic device into a spy gadget reporting to Big Brother (the so-called “Clipper Chip” which was going to be required to be embedded in all electronic devices). I am no great admirer of Bill Clinton and his free willie. But at least a) Willie appointed competent people, and b) Willie had respect for rule of law. In that respect, the Clintonistas look far better than the Busheviks, despite the fact that, at the time, I certainly was not enamored of them.
- Badtux the “Chairman Mao and GWB, sitting in a tree” Penguin
on September 26, 2005 at 9:30 am
Karlo said:
There’s a need to organize, organize, and organize. And then act.
on September 26, 2005 at 9:56 am
n. mallory said:
Thank you. This is what my main complaint with the Bush cronyism is. I can’t recall there ever being an administration with such questionable appointments into positions of power. Why would you appoint a veternarian to head the women’s health section of the FDA? And Michael Brown who not only didn’t have the necessary experience listed on his resume, lied on that resume? What about the rampant appointing of lobbyists into positions they were previously trying to influence?
At least Bill Clinton had the decency to handle loyal supporters not qualified for official government roles by simply inviting them for a sleep-over at the White House — something he was criticized for and yet it didn’t affect the American public in any way.
on March 16, 2006 at 9:47 pm
The Naked Truth » Blog Archive » Discombobulated Thoughts - 10/01/05 said:
[…] One of my co-workers is just giddy over DeLay’s indictment. I’m still living in a world of disbelief in the system. I don’t believe anything will really come of it because this administration and the Republican “base” appear untouchable. The sins they accused the Democrats of are sins that they can commit without fear of conviction or loss of faith from their “base”. […]