Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

The wealthy are given tax breaks, while the "meals on wheels" are cut off for hungry U.S. citizens.  The question of accountability must be considered now.  There are many ways to insure some measure of accountability.

Remember when those playing cards were printed by Bicycle, on which the card cover read Iraq Most Wanted playing cards?  The faces of the Most Wanted were pictured, beginning with Saddam Hussein.

For this next election a playing card collection should be printed with the pictures of the most ardent Republicans who backed this war.  You know who they were.  There were Perle, Wolfowitz, Dr. Rice, Powell, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld.  

Every Republican who ignored the fact that we went to war and cheered Bush's State of the Union Address should be identified and have their faces on playing cards so voters in the next election will know who to vote out of office.  

Even if they are voted out, not to worry about their futures.  They've got it made.  They have generous pension plans.  They can always find employment as lobbyists.  Instead of accepting gratuities from a lobbyist, often tantamount to bribes, they can be handling them out gratuitously as lobbyists.  Their futures are bright indeed, economically speaking.

But their legacies for contributing to this Administration's power by not defying their leader Bush, by overriding any veto he might dream up, shows how much they contributed to this quagmire Iraq War debacle.

Why did Bush go to India?  He was well aware it was a dangerous mission.  That is why the Air Force One's landing lights were turned off.  Tragically, Pakistan had a bomb go off, greeting his arrival in that area of the world, and an American ambassador was killed.  Riots broke out in both India and Pakistan shortly after Bush's arrival.  

Not to worry, back in Washington the endless Air force One plane trips continued as Bush traveled to New Orleans.  What on earth for?  To see what a lousy job FEMA has done?  Bush is like a pariah wherever he lands.

Now today, March 20, Bush is off to Cleveland, giving another of his speeches, defending his policies.  Don't the sagging popularity statistics sink in?  The American public is against his policies.  It doesn't sink in and the question now is why not?

On the March 19 edition of Sixty Minutes one segment dealt with how censorship is being invoked against scientists who want to discuss the correlation between greenhouse gas emissions and the cause of hurricanes.  The Administration's climate control crew refuses to acknowledge the correlation between heating of the ocean with greenhouse gases and the impact that can generate.  

Then again, why listen to the opinions of scientists when you have former bedpan commando, at least sometime drug addict, and perpetual media blowhard Rush Limbaugh in your corner?  After all, don't they always say, "Rush is right"?

Forget about the next Wilma or Katrina.  Rush has told us that all is well, as has Bush.  All is always well as long as Republicans are in power.  To criticize is to "run down America".  

Remember when the bombs began falling on Iraq?  Bush thrust his fist into the air and declared, "Feels good!"  Where was Bush when it came time to enlist in the Vietnam War?  Missing in action, just like Cheney and the rest of the neocon gang.  

Remember when an ecstatic Bush engaged in the mother of all photo opportunities under mentor Karl Rove?  Who can forget that memorable helicopter ride from San Diego Harbor to an awaiting ship.  

He declared victory and announced that the major fighting was over.  Does Bush get anything right?  Tell that to the scores of victims of the Iraq War who have sustained serious injuries but lived to tell about it.  Tell that to the family members of those lying in coffins, those same coffins that the Bush Administration and the Bush Propaganda Network at so-called Fox News never wanted any of us to see.