Bart,
What was that Randall McMurphy said about
Nurse Ratched in the movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?
"She ain't honest; she likes a rigged
game."
This is apparently the Bush Administration's
modus operandi: change the rules during the middle of the game
and then claim that those were the rules
all along.
Bush said again and again during the 2000
campaign that he was going to "change the tone in Washington."
Perhaps it was simply one of his verbal
flubs. Maybe he meant to say he'd change the TUNE in Washington,
again and again and again and again. We
weren't going to engage in nation-building in a Bush presidency.
Now we're just crazy about nation-building.
We were going to get Bin Laden dead or alive. Now he's not
all that important. We were going to march
on Iraq to disarm it. Now we're there to liberate the Iraqi people.
Weapons, what weapons? We never said they
definitely had weapons But we have found weapons.
Well, not really weapons. We found trucks
which mighta, coulda been used to make weapons. It's ridiculous,
and these people use the deaths of over
3,000 human beings on September 11 (on THEIR watch, not Clinton's)
as the justification.
On an unrelated topic, it looks like there
will be a recall vote on Gray Davis before the year is out. If he is recalled,
I have just one thing to say to California
Democrats: Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger (or whoever might take Davis' place).
Last time I checked, Davis got more votes
than the other guy, which is more than I can say for some Republican officeholders.
Turn the tables on these bastards who only
seem to care about the will of the people when they're on the winning end.
Am I the only one who thinks Schwarzenegger
would be an awful governor? Probably the most successful
actor-who-can't-act in Hollywood since
John Wayne, he plays a robot in the Terminator movies for a reason.
This is the California GOP's great white
hope? God help us all. Two years of Governor Schwarzenegger,
and the State of California will be up
for sale on eBay.
That's it.
John H.