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Or,... "Oversight means to OVERSEE,.. not OVERLOOK." The overall economic rescue mission appears to have the following problems and omissions, and closer scrutiny suggests they have something in common. So maybe they weren't "problems and omissions" after all.
First, and we've been told this for some time, now,... there would be no concerted effort to bring Bush/Cheney regime criminals to justice. This would simply be a "distraction" from the economic disaster (they created) and we need to pull the country together. Leahy's "truth & reconciliation" effort may be a nice thought, but it also might be an artful device to placate those demanding legal prosecution (per the Constitution, mind you) without anyone ending up in court.
Second, we still handed over a ransom of hundreds of billions to wealthy bankers and financiers to cajol them into staying on the job they've been so royally (deliberately?) screwing up in recent years. Not only is real accountability for the money a murky area (when it's not the subject of elaborate theatre),.. but somebody among us agreed to accept the patently impossible assurance (from the bailout recipients) "Oh no,.. we aren't using THAT money for the bonuses and parties and jets." (Turns out most of the bankers being questioned yesterday had contributed campaign money to most of the questioners.)
Third, we learn that one of the "compromises" we made in order to set things right again was to dispense with the protections for so-called whistle-blowers in cases when all these same problems crop up again. A GOP modification, to be sure,... but haven't whistleblowers been the real heroes of the past eight years? Aren't they our last line of defense against history simply repeating itself?
And fourth (this just in) Diane Feinstein wants to start monkeying around politically with Internet neutrality, the Internet being the vehicle by which I even have the privilege of raising these troublesome concerns this morning. More importantly, with all the convincing suspicions currently being cast upon FOX and the MSM, isn't the 'Net another one of those last lines of defense,... the one way we all (all of us) may be assured not only of hearing everything that's out there, but of contributing to it, as well?
It bothers me that these four items have something in common. They are occuring because "someone" wanted them to occur, and that someone may not be clearly defined by stated allegiance to either of the two principle political parties. Suffice it to say that "someone" does not want the Bush administration's obvious misdeeds investigated,.. wants those suffering to send billions to those not suffering,.. wants to be done with the inconvenience of the occasional snitch who learns too much,.. and doesn't want the rest of us to take media and communication into our own hands, "town-hall" style.
Okay,.. picture Columbo raising his hand, cocking his head to one side and saying almost piteously, "I gotta tell ya, Mrs. Robinson,... find that "someone" who wanted all those things, and you'll find the killer."
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