We Are in Trouble

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Which brings us to an equally schizophrenic aspect of American culture: the Bush Administration. Carl Rove, Bush's 'brain,' has recently escaped being charged with a crime by the current grand jury in the case, and has launched a counterattack against the Democrats, calling them the historical party of 'cut and run' (meaning, I suppose, 'cut your losses and boogie out.') He apparently refers to the Vietnam Problem of the '70's, when Johnson refused to run again.

Bush does not seem to realize that putting a politico in charge of policy is a blunder of the first magnitude. People like Rove understand only one thing: the Welfare of the Party. The welfare of the nation necessarilly escapes them. And this has been the Republican Malady since 9-11: those folks don't give a fat fornicate about the national welfare: they only want to be re-elected, and they'll kill anybody and everybody in order to achieve that goal.

And Bush, of course, is too dumb to figure it all out. We are in trouble (being RF'd here).

That is my political opinion of the week.