No Shit!
I cannot imagine more of an emergency than we are currently enduring.
Robert C. Koehler Common Wonders:
"We call our disillusion with democracy 'politics' and let it go at that. It's raw, it's dirty. The fix is always in. You've got to be a cynic to go into it, able to tolerate the stench of moral compromise. You've got to serve the shadowy interests of the powerful; you've got to play their game.
Yeah, sure, the Bush Administration is a disaster and the Democrats are no better, but they're on the other side of that foul moat we call politics and they're going to do what they want, right? Most Americans oppose the war; Bush's approval rating is in the 30s, down to the true-believing core. But he has only scattered, Quixotic opposition in Congress, even as the virulence of his policies gets public exposure and the electorate looks on, appalled and helpless. And now the fanatics who wrecked Iraq are seriously eying regime change in Iran. Is there no way to stop them?
There's no pressure from Congress, not to take military action, writes Seymour Hersh in the April 17 New Yorker, quoting an anonymous congressman about Iran. The only political pressure is from the guys who want to do it.
Speaking of President Bush, the House member said, 'The most worrisome thing is that this guy has a messianic vision.'"
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