Intruder in the Dust

[H2O Man]

14. It's safe to say

that there are cells of cheneyites in various agencies, some from the distant past, and others installed during the Bush 2 era, that are engaged in coordinated efforts to damage President Obama. And it really makes little or no difference if his policies are relatively in line with neoconservative republicans, or not. That is what these bureaucrats, well entrenched in the bowels of DC, are programmed to do.

Some of those efforts make use of the republican puppets in both houses of Congress. And they use the corporate media, as well. Likewise, they have ties with non-American entities, some in similar positions to themselves, others in the overlapping corporate world.

That's the nature of the beast.

It's interesting to look back and identify who in Washington fought the hardest to keep the Congressional committees from getting access to information on domestic spying programs, and equally hard to keep the Congress from informing the public on the extent of those programs. The single individual most closely identified with those obstructionist efforts was none other than Donald Rumsfeld.

For years, I've posted information on the "shadow government" here on this forum. I focused a lot of my attention on it, back when DU had the outstanding series of OPs/posts known as "the Plame Threads."

Hence, while I think it is fair to hold President Obama fully responsible for what he does in office -- both good and bad -- I think it is important to keep in mind that we are, at best, being provided with an image that is merely the top of a huge iceberg. I don't interpret it the same as republicans do. It's what lies beneath the surface that threatens to sink democracy.