This Administration

The US Attorney firings, reports of political activity on government premises and other nefarious doings of the CheneyBush administration give me cause for a dark hope. The hope is that their corruption will burst into the light of day for all to see. From the blind arrogance of Iraq, to the stunning incompetence of Hurricaine Katrina to the cynical subverstion of Constitutional government this adminstration has ill-served America. Clearly, these people have little respect for law or ethics when it comes to seeking cutthroat advantage. These ideologues and conspirators have had six years of unchecked power with no oversight or accountability. The one thing you can always count on with unchecked power is its insatiability. Nothing I've seen about this administration suggests that it is at all imune from this iron law of human behavior. I suspect the scandals and schemes that now bedevil CheneyBush are only the first of many more.

Especially with a Congress that has rediscovered its oversight authority and is learning how to use it. CheneyBush no longer has his back covered and must suddenly answer for the actions taken under his command. He IS the commander-in-chief of EVERYTHING, you know. It's really all on him, The Decider. If events so far this year are any indication, the abuse and misuse of the public trust will be widespread. I would predict that the results will destroy what little credibility and trust the public has for CheneyBush and his henchmen, but the persistence of a 30 percent hard-core base after the waste and incompetence of the past six years, has so far confounded my faith in human nature.

This administration ain't so new.
Did pretty much what it set out to do.
Take from the many and give to the few.
And don't think it gives a shit about you.

--Cindy Lee Berryhill (1989)