An Unnecessarily Extended Nightmare

Alberto Gonzales is a stupid man, and he always has been a stupid, stupid man. He works for--certainly not the American people!--a more stupid man, in an administration full of equally stupid men.

And none of this is a secret. It's been obvious from day 1.

But now, somehow and for some reason unfathomable to logic, Alberto Gonzales is in hot water because he lied. Baldly and shamelessly, he lied to Congress and the American people, and the press. And magically, somebody noticed and cared enough to not let it go, to not give the same free pass the administration has been given thousands of times over 6 years.

Every single word spoken by Bush and his little Bolshevik carnival of monkeys/supporters has been a lie. It wasn't subterfuge, or obfuscation; it required no lengthy explanation to the masses or parsing of words to get at the truth underneath. The malfeasance of the Bushites was on full display for anyone who cared to look, and yet somehow, for years, nobody with a bully pulpit could be bothered.

So now the little minstrel Gonzales did what he has been trained, like a Pavlovian dog, to do: lie his ass off and receive no punishment, but in fact a satisfying reward: the praise of the media and the lucrative adulation of the right. But this time, inexplicably, he's caught. And somehow, he can't stop lying.

The proof of his lies and his criminal activities, along with his bosses' indiscretions, forms a trail so neat and easy to follow that even the media can do it.

The shame of America, however, isn't that this venal little race traitor, this scab, this pus-filled toady, is guilty of harming our nation and our people, but rather that this entire administration has been built upon the laziness and inertia of the public mind and its self-appointed, self-important guardian, the press.

I want the last 6 years of my life back, you fuckers. You could and should have nailed these bastards the first time they opened their mouths. I blame the tyrant for instituting tyranny, but what's to be expected, after all, from someone who proclaims his intention to be a tyrant? I blame far, far more the silly little face-puppets on the evening news who ignore and massage and shallowly reinterpret the tyrant's words for a time, only to be shocked--shocked!--to find tyranny the result.

There is nothing complicated about telling the truth.