More and more, idiocy seems to be running amok in America, from the antics of what passes for celebrities  Paris, Britney, Lindsey, Rosie et al  to the machinations of The Decider™, his Dr. Strangelove-like veep and a whole cast of supporting neocon idiots.
But plenty of up-and-coming players are emerging from the ranks of ordinary Americans. Take the case of an otherwise bright, successful lawyer infected with an especially drug-resistent form of tuberculosis.
Posts from ‘May, 2007’
Idiots have taken over and they’re helping each other
You expected a coordinated disaster response by now?
President Bush and the right-wing noise machine began milking the 9-11 attack and terrorist threat for all the political gain they were worth while the fires at Ground Zero were still burning. This fearmongering and political hay-making reached fever pitch leading up to the ‘04 election.
. . . Not surprisingly, scarcely a week has gone by that failed to produce fresh evidence Bush, his backers and enablers were wrong, lying like champs or both.
Sheehan became a player without learning the rules
What Sheehan and others fail to recognize is that, unlike politicians, single-issue activists are free and usually willing to go to the wall  or over a cliff  to win their one issue.
Most politicians, especially officeholders and particularly legislators, have multiple, diverse constituencies counting on them. Some, in their heart, might want to follow the single-issue activist in going all out, but they owe people  lots of people.
Iraq blame game as inevitable as 2008 election
Quote: . . .”The political theater now being played out between Capitol Hill and the White House over funding the war, bluntly put, is each party seeking to avoid future blame when the question is inevitably asked: Who lost Iraq?—
Iraq — central front in the war on accountability
Bush’s troop surge isn’t working. Iraqis know it, our forces know it, Republicans in Congress know it and so does the Bush White House.
Which is all the more reason to crank up a propaganda offensive, holding out the specter of Iraq as the springboard for terrorist attacks on the U.S., as illogical as that is.
Immigration bill likely to end many political careers
The electorate is already doing a very long, slow burn over the complete lack of headway in getting our troops out of Iraq. This bad-on-all-counts immigration bill will be the absolute final straw for most.
Not how America was supposed to be
Quote: “Greed and wealth now allocate power in our society. And that power is used in turn to further increase and concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few.’’
Arrogant hot-air merchants make lousy war strategists
A few nostalgic neocons probably share Newt Gingrich’s fantasies about his suitability for the presidency.
They, if not he himself, should be jarred back to reality by Gingrich’s crackpot chatter on “Meet the Press†yesterday. The man demonstrated precisely the kind of bad thinking and arrogant, self-promoting banality that got us into President Bush’s deadly, costly quagmire in the first place.
Decider working on another appointment from hell
It’s hard work, but President Bush is working hard to come up with a suitable replacement to head the World Bank, now that Paul Wolfowitz has finally resigned.
Oh!pinion’s inside-the-beltway informant tells us he’s seen a worksheet The Decider™ is using for his A-list. Here, exclusively and in reverse order, are the top five Bush is considering . . .
Even the Green Zone has become a death trap
This is a perfect example of Bush administration mismanagement: Stupidly put people in harm’s way who have no business being there in the first place, then order them not to talk about the danger they’re being subjected to or the deterioration of their situation.
As always, politics and perceptions trump everything else. Candor is considered tantamount to subversion.
