The Legacy

Posted on 01/23/2008 at 8:43 am by Bob Cesca

One of the legacies of this decade is that a majority of Americans were so blinded by fear and kneejerk patriotism, they failed to see the cavalcade of horseshit dispatched from the White House:

The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.

How this group avoided impeachment is another legacy of our time.

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  • jmrunning3

    That’s how it works best! If you can get enough weak-kneed people afraid of the “outside” world and its “threats”, they’ll stay home and defer to the self-described leaders. Now that the man-behind-the-curtain has been exposed, many people are in denial at having been fooled so easily.I too can’t understand how impeachment has been avoided. Would somebody please give this president a blowjob!! That seems to be the only way.Conservastism reeks of hypocrisy, authoritativeness, and a sheep-herd mentality.

  • Nanotyrannus

    After Watergate, I think the country pretty much assumed that various administrations might be lying from time to time. I don’t think anyone ever expected that an administration would lie on such a scale, about something so very serious. Complete lack of oversight from both Congress and the media has helped them out as well. It’s been up to a few intrepid reporters and the progressive blogs to ferret out what’s really going on. What’s equally dismaying is that even now, knowing everything these criminals have done, our own leadership in the Congress still – STILL – cannot seem to cobble together a coherent narrative on why these bastards should not be trusted with ANYTHING. Impeachment? Again, after everything that’s been done, Congressmen Wexler wants us all to go internet-sign a petition supporting impeachment and when he gets 250K signatures (oh boy!), he for the most part promises to bring it up to somebody at some point. Hey, thanks. That bunch can’t even get a few amateur lawyers from Texas to show up for hearings, even when compelled by Congressional subpoena. Good luck Mr. Wexler. Good luck.They are outmaneuvered constantly by a withering party led by a lame duck and extremely unpopular President. Believe me, every time George Bush and Dick Cheney cook up another lie, conceive another violation of the Constitution, or hit the podium and look right into the camera and deceive the American people, they don’t even look over their shoulder to see if anyone’s watching.

  • http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/ Suzie-Q

    We can still impeach them! :)

  • Nanotyrannus

    Right now our congress wont bring a contempt of congress citation to the floor for a vote. I’m referring to the contempt citations issued by the committees for Harriet Miers, et al, because of their refusal to obey a congressional subpoena. Why they are ignoring the entire issue is unfathomable. In any case, if they don’t have the wherewithal to get a contempt of congress vote to the floor, how are they going to accomplish the herculean task of moving a impeachment through Congress? I’m scared to think of what Bush/Cheney would have to actually do to get these guys moving, and then it would probably be too late.My feeling is they are going to let all of it drop. All of it. The fraud, the lies, the trampling of the Constitution. For whatever reason, the Congress is content to just run out the clock and then let Bush/Cheney leave office and reap the rewards of their eight years of law breaking.I think that we as a country are experiencing a certain amount of political scandal/shenanigans fatigue. We just can no longer muster the necessary amount of rage to throw them all out, and they know it.I know I’ve veered slightly off topic, but I think it all goes hand in hand. The reason the White House has spent years shooting bullshit at us with a cannon is because they are fairly certain by now that nothing will be done about it.Did we ever think that we’d have an administration that could teach Dick Nixon a thing or two?Shit I’m supposed to be drawing and now I’m all worked up.

  • bajasteve

    Well, Bush may never be punished by impeachment, but at least we know for sure he won’t ever inflict the world with any more offspring – his balls are securely in the pocket of the king of Saudi Arabia.

  • jmrunning3

    @ Nanotyrannus:Regarding your comment about scandal fatigue: I have thought the very same thing for months. It seems quite possible that the thinking process is such that by initiating scandal, after scandal, after scandal, we’ll just walk away in exhaustion. I think that’s what they’re counting on at this point.

  • Nanotyrannus

    Exactly. The ink is hardly dry on today’s headlines before the next scandal breaks. Each one in succession makes us forget the previous two or three and before long it’s hard to keep up. It’s also hard sometimes to see the whole picture and connect the dots. The whole sorry web of deceit and malfeasance centers around Cheney and his cabal. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a whole team (secret, of course) that has it all laid out on a big white board, moving the bold-type magnets around like a bunch of network programmers.I’m suddenly thinking about Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine.” I’m just reading that all of a sudden Congress doesn’t want to rock the boat with the White House so that there can be a nice bipartisan stimulus package. Something tells me that the FISA Bill (with New & Improved Retroactive Immunity Bleaching Power) is going to slip through practically unnoticed. Or am I just seeing things in the shadows that just aren’t there?Holy shit my whole outlook today is just morbid and dark. I ramble on endlessly. Can someone have the marionette make up a new word today during a press conference so I can at least laugh at what a half wit he is?