Category: Friends
Republican majority goes so far over to the side of the business community that their pet war turns into a huge spending gang bangananza, with private contractors repeatedly violating every orifice of the American taxpayer until they’re so spent they don’t have any energy left over to actually do the job they got all this money to do. Orgies always end like that, and the morning after is always icky. Now the Democrats are the majority.
Fox news goes so far to the right as to call Ted Kennedy a “hostile enemy”; Bill O’Reilly goes on a mad rampage against the well-known commie lefty pinko bastards over at MSNBC, who years earlier, along with virtually every other nationwide TV “news” source, skewed violently to the right to chase that selfsame demographic Fox News* monetized to begin with. In response, their viewer base continues to grow older and more irrelevant. More people in “generation next” get their news from the Daily Show than any other source. You can argue about whether that’s a good thing, but I don’t doubt it’s a reaction to the previous newscape.
Voting machine companies go so far away from what marginal accountability existed under previous systems that they spark an immediate–and almost immediately effective–backlash by so many respectable computer scientists and voting rights activists that electronic voting machines may actually end up what the public (the cows!) always thought they were intended to be to begin with–the most auditable and reliable voting technology available.
The Bushies go so far with their clandestine spying on the American people that they spook their own spooks, who run screaming to the media outlets and the American people.
Sometimes I fear there’s hope for this country yet.
Then again, I just read Sidney Blumenthal’s How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime, a collection of articles he published in The Guardian and Salon dating back to November, 2003, and there’s nothing in the public’s late revelations about the perfidy of this administration that wasn’t laid out in plain site and in plain words lo these three years ago. So, maybe not.
*–Not to be confused with plain ol’ “Fox”, which, Rupert Murdoch would rather you forget, is the network that gave you “The Family Guy” and “American Dad”.
