Is it just me?
Watching the B*sh Junta messily unravel under the slow fires of the treason investigation, the pitiful response to hurricane Katrina, and the 30 or so other corruption scandals makes me think that it's like being a bystander after a couple of clown cars had a head-on collision; It's amazing just how many bodies the paramedics are bringing out of the wreckage.
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"Optimistic" is not really the word I'd use to describe myself; I'm still the person who is trying to argue my family into getting migrant visas into Canada (gay marriage [x], primarily english speaking [x], not as barkingly insane as every other english speaking country in the entire world [x], might let us in [x]), and I fully expect that when the charges begin to roll out, so will the pardons.
But I don't think that a lot of the people on the periphery of this clown-car wreck realize this, and given that Mr. Fitzgerald doesn't seem to be leaking, well, anything, a lot of people appear to be slowly freaking out.
The tempest over the bagman, mk 2, is a pretty good sign of this; there are a lot of conservatives that are going absolutely freaking apeshit over the trivial detail that ohMYgodshe'sgotaVAGINA!!! and ignoring the not so trivial detail that she's will be the fourth "won't ever convict B*sh for anything" vote.
I'm a bit of a pessimist about the future of the United States -- I don't think that the diehard Evil Party supporters will stop supporting it until they are forced to move out of their McMansions and into their H2s -- but I do enjoy it when the Evil Party reacts with the sort of irrational hysteria that, until now, has been an exclusive charactaristic of the Democratic Party
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I wish I could be as optimistic as you, but unfortunately I peek over the fence, and see that Bush's supporters aren't getting the same news that you and I are. So hideously high percentage of people who get their news from Fox still believe that Saddam had WOMD, was responsible for 9/11, and was best buddies with Osama. Likewise, they believe that outing Valie Plame, rather than a cynical attempt to discredit an inconvenient fact, was a brave attempt to prevent an out of control intelligence agency from subverting the government. And Mike Brown was incompetent, he was hampered by incompetence at the state and city levels. And they believe that any inconvenient facts are spin from a biased liberal media. And so on and on.
We're not going to get rid of Bush, or even reduce the damage he's doing, because his real supporters control the media that's spoon feeding crap to the people who vote for him in spite of the damage he's doing to them.