Intentionally Dividing the Country
The Emperor, obviously feeling the heat generated by dropping poll numbers, didn't bother analyzing the reason for the general discontent with him and then do something about it. Instead, he lashed out at familiar targets: those evil gays and the even more evil judges who would give them civil rights. The NY Times editorial today got it right.
President Bush devoted his Saturday radio speech to a cynical boost for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. It was depressing in the extreme to hear the chief executive trying to pretend, at this moment in American history, that this was a critical priority.
Mr. Bush's central point was that the nation is under siege from "activist judges" who are striking down anti-gay-marriage laws that conflict with their own state constitutions. That's their job, just as it is the job of state legislators to either fix the laws or change their constitutions.
...All this effort to divert the nation's attention to issues that divide and distract would be bad enough if the country were not facing real, disastrous problems at home and abroad. But then, if that weren't the case, Mr. Bush probably wouldn't feel moved to stoop so low. [Emphasis added]
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are going disasterously, US foreign policy in general has lost all credibility, joblessness and job creation figures both stink, fuel costs are dangerously high and fianlly having an impact on the cost of necessities like groceries, the economy is tanking, domestic freedoms have been cavalierly wiped away by governmental spying, and people are finally getting the picture. The solution? Wave the shiny keys and murmur "9/11, 9/11."
It's an election year.
Maybe this time the people will leave their couches and do something about all of these problems: elect a Congress with more sense.
President Bush devoted his Saturday radio speech to a cynical boost for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. It was depressing in the extreme to hear the chief executive trying to pretend, at this moment in American history, that this was a critical priority.
Mr. Bush's central point was that the nation is under siege from "activist judges" who are striking down anti-gay-marriage laws that conflict with their own state constitutions. That's their job, just as it is the job of state legislators to either fix the laws or change their constitutions.
...All this effort to divert the nation's attention to issues that divide and distract would be bad enough if the country were not facing real, disastrous problems at home and abroad. But then, if that weren't the case, Mr. Bush probably wouldn't feel moved to stoop so low. [Emphasis added]
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are going disasterously, US foreign policy in general has lost all credibility, joblessness and job creation figures both stink, fuel costs are dangerously high and fianlly having an impact on the cost of necessities like groceries, the economy is tanking, domestic freedoms have been cavalierly wiped away by governmental spying, and people are finally getting the picture. The solution? Wave the shiny keys and murmur "9/11, 9/11."
It's an election year.
Maybe this time the people will leave their couches and do something about all of these problems: elect a Congress with more sense.
posted by Diane at 3:55 AM
1 Comments:
Great post. I wish people get out there and vote!
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