There's a big stink in the air, and it's coming from our 'leaders'

[struggle4progress]

Syl Jones
August 14, 2005

Can you smell it? There's a deep and abiding stench in the air and those with sensitive olfactory organs had better keep quiet. Because the emperor has no nose and you, loyal subject, are expected to inhale without frowning or mouthing off. There's a war going on. People are dying. Somewhere in a cave, shady people are planning to end civilization as we know it. So shut up, you anti-American pig. <snip>

You see it at the state level, where the people's business has taken a backseat to an ideological imperative expressed by a "no more taxes" mantra. Good leaders would long ago have explained that when a people refuse to pay for what they need, they inevitably get what we're getting: bad schools, inadequate infrastructure, increased crime and generalized despair.

It's obvious too at the very top, when a president of the United States can give the finger to the media without apologizing and the media allow him to get away with it. The vulgarity of this administration has always been clear to me. Using American kids as cannon fodder to prove that Donald Rumsfeld's theory of limited war is right strikes me as criminal, right up there with the glib pronouncement that, "You go to war with the Army you have and not the Army you want."

What's most intriguing about this new brand of vulgar conservativism -- from Vice President Dick Cheney's use of the F word to skanky Ann Coulter's diatribes -- is that it's shamelessly primitive. Lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it turns out, was just the beginning. They also want you to swallow the story that Karl Rove, aka Turd Blossom, didn't violate federal law by leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press. <snip>

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5557801.html

[Stahl]

1. Leaders?

:)

[indepat]

2. Yet most of the MSM have given these leaders a pass, have given them the

cover needed to stink up the world.

[wli]

3. we're a fascist dictatorship now, they don't care what the sheeple think