Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Colson's daring enthusiasm to do what it took to assist a corrupt leader ultimately led to him wearing prison grays, as Dick Cheney's man about Washington Libby will currently be doing.  Given the strong relationship between Cheney and Libby, along with the constant monitoring of the White House political scene by Karl Rove, could it really be that Libby's actions in the Valerie Plame affair were strictly freelance?  

Only the pathetically programmed robots of Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Hannity would believe that Libby functioned in the Plame case outside the purview of his boss Cheney and the guru of political slime, Karl Rove.  

The question that remains is whether Libby will bite the bullet for the benefit of the team in the manner of the zealot G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon lore and higher ups will be protected at least during the remaining periods of current service.

Also in the news is the dismissal of two Guantanamo Prison defendants.  While Bush champions the cause of democracy more information surfaces about the level of brutality unleashed at Guantanamo.  

Bush's front man and fixer from his Texas days, Alberto Gonzales, wrote opinions justifying extreme conduct in defiance of the U.S. Constitution and international law on the theory that the incarcerated all fell within the blanket definition of "enemy combatants" and that such safeguards did not therefore apply.

Yet another area of government fraudulent misconduct has also surfaced with information released by the BBC and Greg Palast that Congressman John Conyers is intent on comprehensively investigating Tim Griffin, former U.S. Attorney for the Arkansas District.  

A close ally of Karl Rove, Griffin will be grilled in connection with vote "caging," the practice used by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris in Florida during the 2000 election to disqualify minority voters.  

While promises were made throughout Washington following the disgraceful 2000 election debacle that this practice would be stopped, there is evidence that Griffin was involved in an ongoing effort to achieve the same results as accomplished in Florida in the 2004 election to keep Cheney, Bush and Rove in the White House.

In George Bush's private world of twisted fantasy none of the aforementioned exists.  All is sweetness and light as he lectures the world on the vast benefits realizable through emulating his self-proclaimed pursuit of democracy.  

Tell the victims of Rumsfeld's "shock and awe" attacks based on lies about alleged weapons of mass destruction about Bush's democracy.  

Tell those who were tortured and held in cages at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib about Bush's democracy.  

Tell those who stood in a cold and driving rain for hours in Ohio and were denied an opportunity to vote for president in the 2004 election about Bush's democracy.