An American Engineer

Libby Down, Rove to go

I am not a fan of the current administration, though I have to admit I voted for G.W. in his first election. Seriously, I felt that he was genuine and that the country needed a shift to the right. I believed that Colin Powell and Dick Cheney and the rest of his Dad's crew would give the country a solid team to lead the country in a new direction after the partisan warfare that marked the end of the Clinton administration.

Who could have known that I would be so wrong.

I still think that George II is probably an ok guy, but he clearly is in way over his head. Cheney is clearly the evil Dr No and if Karl Rove is not the anti-Christ, then he is part of the Posse of the Damned. Everything that this administration has touched has turned to merde, to the point where I am convinced that this is both the most corrupt and clearly the most inept administration since U.S. Grant was in the White House. Strangely, Grant and G.W. share the same basic fault, they put loyalty to friends and cronies far ahead of the national interest.

That, and Colin turned out to be something of a wussy. Now THAT was a surprise.

So here we have it. We are embroiled in a war that has no end in sight, scant support at home or abroad, led there for reasons that turn out to be faked, so faked that one if not two of the architects of the fiasco saw fit to use dirty and possibly illegal tricks to discredit an opposition voice.

We have a government that as consistently failed to protect us, first from the crooks at Enron and more recently from the lash of natural disaster.

Our budget deficits are out of control and our economy is under serious threat of a housing market meltdown that could make the Dot Bomb look like a holiday picnic.

Lets not mention that our Terrorism President has done more to embolden and inject life into the international terrorist movement than they could have done themselves, and our Energy President has left us at the brink of an energy crisis that also threatens our economy.

What have these guys done right?

What world have we inherited?

Created?

We had better start asking.

posted by Maurice_Basilius @ 12:48 PM