Reply #16: They are just getting to this?

[Bozvotros]

Here was a letter I had posted in our local paper more than two months ago....

Welcome to 2006/1984, where war is peace, ignorance is strength, treason is patriotic and Big Brother really is watching. After yet another flurry of stonewalling and easily debunked rationales (lies), the administration finally admitted they circumvented the law and without oversight intercepted millions of phone calls and emails. But it’s OK because THEIR justice department approved it. How would this sound to a judge? “Your honor, I knew my robberies were illegal but mostly I just cased the homes I broke into and my attorney said it’s OK, if I needed the money to protect my family.”

In what bizzaro universe is Bush living? He orders his justice department to immediately investigate the leak that revealed his illegal monitoring of American citizens, but his chief of staff who vindictively leaked the name of a covert agent monitoring WMD's, continues high level clearance. The current head of the justice department, Alberto Gonzales, was one of the chief architects of this Big Brother program and should be recused from anything connected to this. But on Planet Bush that isn't necessary; the foxes there not only guard hen houses they get to design them.

What color is the sun in this world where you can change your reasons for war, like you change TV channels and the clowns responsible for the quagmire are awarded the Medal of Freedom? What kind of reality operates when a war is said to go well despite increased attacks, destruction, death and torture? Perhaps water isn't wet there either. This might explain why amid some of the worst storms and floods in history, the President chose to eat cake, play air guitar and tell the incompetent crony who left New Orleans underwater that he is "doing a heckuva job." Even now with California flooding and Texas burning, Bush is on yet another brush cutting vacation.

Down the rabbit hole of the Bush administration, the Clean Air Act means more pollution, The Healthy Forests Initiative means clear cutting and making the world safe for democracy includes having computer hackable elections, torturing people in secret prisons and listening in on dangerous Quakers.

Certainly they have a different economic system in Bushworld. There, one can blow through 6 trillion in surplus, run up 5 trillion in deficits, lose track of 2 trillion dollars in Pentagon transactions, have a completely stagnant stock market, fund unnecessary andun-winnablee wars, cut taxes on the wealthy and still claim that the economy is recovering. All this makes me wonder if Bush made himself exempt from certain drug laws too.

In his world, Bush can claim to be responsible for the messes he leaves, but pay no price for them. He can make and break laws, lie repeatedly, fail miserably, appoint cronies, crooks and contributors to high office and still count on the Republican Congress to cover his butt. It is said that neurotics build castles in the sky but psychotics live in them.

It’s now Bush’s world. He just lets us in live in it, for now.