the American public obviously cares very deeply about this situation
and that, my friends, is the saving grace.
Basically what's dawning on people is that we have no functioning federal government worthy of the name. It's possible that we liberals spent too much time worrying about creeping tyranny when the real problem was that the federal government was becoming a fragile, hollow shell like the late-stage government of the Soviet Union.
So this is Chernobyl. Let's hope we don't end up with some creep like Putin in the endgame. We can do better than that. I'm trying to figure out how we get through the next few years; all I can figure is that we limp along with what extragovernmental organizations we can until we get people in Congress in '06 who will do their damnedest to remove Bush and Cheney, or scare them enough that they resign Nixon-style. We might end up with Dennis Hastert as president (if he's still speaker then), and he's a jerk, but the symbolic purge would be useful in itself and maybe whoever it is can be convinced to put actual administrators in charge of things.
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Date: 2005-09-02 12:33 am (UTC)and that, my friends, is the saving grace.
Basically what's dawning on people is that we have no functioning federal government worthy of the name. It's possible that we liberals spent too much time worrying about creeping tyranny when the real problem was that the federal government was becoming a fragile, hollow shell like the late-stage government of the Soviet Union.
So this is Chernobyl. Let's hope we don't end up with some creep like Putin in the endgame. We can do better than that. I'm trying to figure out how we get through the next few years; all I can figure is that we limp along with what extragovernmental organizations we can until we get people in Congress in '06 who will do their damnedest to remove Bush and Cheney, or scare them enough that they resign Nixon-style. We might end up with Dennis Hastert as president (if he's still speaker then), and he's a jerk, but the symbolic purge would be useful in itself and maybe whoever it is can be convinced to put actual administrators in charge of things.