Convenient

Well, well... this appeared just in the nick of time, didn’t it?

Let’s recap the past three weeks: soldiers sent off to fight in a pointless “war” are found to be recovering from their wounds in appalling, Dickensian surroundings at Walter Reed; a company with political ties to the Bush family was found to be installing defective pumps on the levees in New Orleans; “Scooter” Libby becomes the first publicly acknowledged felon in an administration full of them; and Bush crime family/mob lawyer Alberto “Abu” Gonzales is about to have his ass hauled before the Senate Judiciary Committee and be forced to testify (under oath, again) about the latest bit of skullduggery to ooze up from the White House swamp. Then, smack in the middle of all this, the King Terrorist Of The World (Osama who?), whom we’ve had in custody for years, suddenly “confesses” to everything short of the fall of Rome and the Great Potato Famine. Funny how years of ongoing torture has a habit of making a person admit to, well... just about anything!

Could this administration get any more cynical? I’m sure the knuckle-dragging 30 percent or so True Believers will buy into this predictable bullshit, egged on by reliable gargoyles like Hannity, Limbaugh and Coulter, but the rest of the country sees it for exactly what it is: another smokescreen tossed out to deflect attention from the White House’s current and richly deserved mountain of political problems.

I think what’s most revealing about all this is the administration’s bald-faced, utter contempt for the American people in thinking anyone (outside of their “base”) would buy this, given their deplorable record of mendacity for the past six years.

(On top of all that I am getting very, very sick and goddamned tired of them hauling out the dried, blood-encrusted mummy of 9/11 every time they find themselves in yet another ethics-challenged situation and need a quick distraction. It’s long surpassed being tasteless and, given this adminstration’s track record, a kick in the teeth to the families of the victims.)