Shameless

Is there any depth to which the Bush maladministration won't sink? The most recent noise coming from the reign of Preznit Eternal Sunshine of the Thoughtless Mind informs us that they are seriously considering (which you should read to mean "they've been doing this for a while now") what they're calling the "Salvador option" in Iraq. For those of us who remember the Reagan years and the US-funded and -trained death squads that terrorized the populace in Central America -- but were of course disavowed by anyone connected to the CIA or Reagan administration -- this is the most nightmarish type of deja vu. The boldness of the neocon cabal contemplating this sort of tactic is matched only by the fact that they are so willing to speak nonchalantly now about the existence of and US complicity in those death squads of the '80s.

When Dick Cheney was quoted a couple years back as saying "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter," he might just as well have added "ethics, honesty, morality and rule of law." This crew doesn't care what you or I or the occasional liberal pundit out there might think about their pogroms programs, we've been effectively marginalized. And with a complicit media and a lapdog, partisan Congress and court system, they're feeling freer than ever to initiate any sort of heinous or profiteering endeavor they wish, knowing that our objections will fall on deaf ears. We can scream all we want about the injustices and outrages perpetrated by the New Theocratic Fascists, but until that screaming makes a marked difference at the ballot box or in the courts, they'll just shrug their shoulders and keep on keeping on. They don't need to round us up and send us off to prisons or gulags to silence us, the noise from the Freeper crowd drowns out anything we have to say. And the public, sad to say, is more interested in American fucking Idol anyway.



This graphic lifted from Billmon's newly-reopened Whiskey Bar. Pour me a double, sir, and keep them coming.