Requiem For A Has-Been!
by Don Nash
Alas poor America, I know ye not…anymore.
Condo’s boy Tobias up and resigned. Wow, go figure. Monica ‘bug’s butt’ Goodling up and resigned. Wow, that figures. Movers and shakers in the upper echelons of American government are tripping the light fantastic directly out the door. Exit stage right and double quick time get gone. Possibly, there is thinking around the Bush regime that exiting on the quick can and may possibly avoid the public humiliation of forced frog marching. Oh when those frogs go marching off to avoid a criminal prosecution! Sing it with me now. Frogs and toadies and sycophants and war criminals, glory gosh ah-mighty, what a spectacular collection of nasty and nefarious evil-doers. Remember when our Lord and Savior George Bush offered up the phrase “evil-doers� thinking that he was referring to someone else? Pretty darn funny, no?
Let’s see, Ari ‘immunity’ Fleicher is gone. Scotty ‘dough-boy’ McClellan is gone. Harriet ‘wicked witch of the least’ Myers is gone. And to think that Bush was going to put Myers on the Supreme Court. That’s rich! Gale ‘gank Native Americans’ Norton is gone and her icky little deputy is going to prison. Stevie ‘vile’ Griles will do federal time. Just like Scoots Libby. Griles’s home-girl, one Italia Federici is facing six or seven counts of various federal felonies and she’s going to love the girls in the federal big house. Hey Italia, can you say house mouse?
Condo’s boy Tobias has an appetite for “escorts� but, he didn’t do anything wrong. Just ask him, he’ll tell any federal prosecutor that very thing. Hey Condo, what’re you hiding in that closet over there? Gosh sweetie, you can’t dodge that subpoena forever. So now we all know why it’s called “Foggy Bottom.� Diplomatic corruption is best kept cloaked and properly covered. Kind of like Iraq and that stodgy intelligence.
Christine Whitman of the formerly EPA Christine Whitman is gone and her conscience is still eating her heart out. Golly Chrissy, how does it feel knowing that all those you exposed to the 9/11 toxins are living under a death sentence? Yikes, that should elevate the temperatures in hell by a hundred degrees or so. I remember how Scrooge had trouble living with Marley’s ghost. 9/11/01 has a lot more ghosts than Jacob Marley.
Tom ‘treason’ Delay. Jack ‘me’ Abramoff. That Ohio dumb-ass, that Cunningham dumb-ass, fired U.S. Attorneys, the bankrupt Social Security Trust Fund, rendition, detention, and torture. John Yoo, Guantanamo Camp Inquisition, secret CIA prisons and here you thought that was over. Un-indicted Congressional aides, un-indicted Congressmen and women and hey Sen. Feinstein, how’s that war profiteering working for you, your husband, and that new grand El Casa del Profiteer? We didn’t even get started on Bush’s illegal war of genocidal insanity on Iraq or is that Iran or Lebanon or Somalia. However, there’s genocide in Darfur and the world does absolutely zip about that.
The corruption in American government is like a metastasized cancer. It’s spread throughout the body politic and diagnosis seems to say it’s terminal. Clinically insane? Aren’t ‘we the American people’ better than what we’re getting from our elected leadership at present? Wait a minute, how about former Sen. Gravel and Sen. Chuck Hagel for a third party run for office? Six of the eight Democrats in their recent debate are about nothing. Empty, vacuous, and stiflingly vapid. The Republicans next up for debate are worse than the Dems. Either way, Dennis Kuchinich should be America’s next Secretary of Peace. Dennis deserves that much.
America can’t allow the world to offer us a requiem for has-beens. Time to get busy.