RainWaterCafe
I'd like to welcome you to RainWaterCafe, my blog. As you can see, the
blog was started a few years ago, and has sputtered and stalled since.
Now I will be dedicating the majority of my time to my own blog, where
I will be free to discuss anything I wish, and have an open exchange
with my commenters.
The news cycle is hot just now with Imus finally sinking away and the
White House email problem looming ever more menacing to the Bush
Regime. I see on some of the other blogs that, as usual, bloggers are
seeing daylight and ways to proceed aggressively to bring down the
Regime. We will see what Congressional leaders make of this
opportunity. Will these criminally erased emails join the long list of
other high crimes and misdemeanors which have been swallowed and passed
over until now, or will the Congress at long last act as the
Constitution requires them to act?
I have been using the term "kerfluffle" for a while now to describe the
process by which major crimes and the resultant scandals morph from
large and simple to smaller and complicated, and then to some shameful
accommodation and dismissal, first from the news cycle and then from
the government and the agencies which should be protecting our
Constitution and our laws.
The Iraq Holocaust is a massive case in point. Democrats were elected
to end the occupation, but instead have rushed, not only to fully fund
the future the future of this atrocity, but fully fund with
supplemental pork. Bush asked for 106 billion, Pelosi/Reid rushed him
a bad check for 122 billion. Enter the kerfluffle: magical and
apparently disappearing strings. The outline of the fundamental
betrayal has been obscured by a kerfluffle over timelines, benchmarks,
and strings. Democratic voters are coached yet again to become
impassioned over these invented details, while the War Machine gets the
avalanche of cash on schedule. If Bush caves or fights, all is well,
the booboisie are entertained and the appearance of opposition is
maintained... unless, of course, you are living in Iraq, or have skin
in the game, but none of the bloggers and none of the poo-bahs actually
do. And the checks keep getting cut and sent.
Will we see the same technique used in the email confrontation? Will
these clear and undoubted crimes be finessed and kerfluffled into
procedural skirmishes, won or lost to no particular effect, and then ON
TO THE NEXT?
Time will tell.
posted by gregory_lyons at 10:49 AM
9 Comments:
Hellooo there to the RainWaterCafe man from drought-ish San Francisco Bay Area. Your insights are fresh, clearly stated and hopefully to continue for many months to come! I am wondering what Senator John McCain has to offer on the recent suicide truck bombing in Baghdad. This must have been a DIFFERENT Baghdad than the one which he recently declared as "safe to walk in". Also curious as to how the current Administration will softpeddle it's ongoing Occupation in which thousands of innocents have been killed, maimed and displaced all in the name of establishing a Democracy. I am sicksicksick of the ongoing pretense of an opposition party. Until the Democrats stop sidestepping the issues of the shrinking U.S. Treasury; immigrant harrassment; Health care; and, most important, the current regime's dismantling of the Constitution, none of us can count ourselves as either safe or free.
Did you ever consider this? It could be that there are some Democrats who know that if they blow the whistle, really expose all the crimes that the Republicans have committed against America, the game is over. The books just won't stand up to a thorough examination - the dollar and the economy would collapse, and the US would lapse into a post-industrial holocaust.
Had that dismal thought reading your line about the bad cheques being handed over to Bush by the damn fools in Congress. It's so sad that it's probably true, but I hope not.
Great blog, Greg.
I am very curious to see what will happen. I would like to see the criminal email erasing punished hard, but time will tell...
Hi, Gregor,
:)
Gregory!
THEY let YOU have a blog??? uh, oh - I'm tellin' Nancy Pelosi! LOL :)
Have to say there's something about a Gregory Lyons with free-reign to 'comment at will' that makes me smile! :)
And yes, I too think the Dems really need to pursue this hard - investigate, subpoeana, INDICT! I Guess I kind of equate it with taking down Al Capone on tax fraud charges... sometimes the indirect path is the best option...
Anyway, it's always a pleasure, Mr Lyons... I'll be back to harrass you! :)
Hi Gregory and congrats on your new blog.
I can understand some wisdom of staying out of Leahy's way and allowing him to conduct these hearings, but another part of me says, "Why aren't the leading Dems backing this up with lots of noise about what is coming to light i.e. 5 MILLION MISSING EMAILS."
The Repukes would not hesitate, ney, they would fight each other to get onto the airwaves and bloviate and scream and stomp around about the horrifying and oh-so-unethical/corruptness of missing emails.
What are your thoughts (and others, please)?
Thanks for the comments my friends.
kozmika! McCain offers a case study in depravity and multi-faceted Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome with Stockholm overtones. Torture destroys.
As to your other points, I see Republicans cannibalising their own USA, with Democrats passing the sauce boat.
To the inimitable SadButTrue: a massive economic dislocation is long overdue. To everyone, plant a garden. The results my surprize us all by their ultimate mildness and profound richness. New values certainly... no holocaust necessary.
Ellie... you're on the pulse point with what Jump mentioned. We may all cheerlead the Dems to do the right thing, but these emails actually threaten the Regime with an ouster. Dems may well back off; they surely will if they are in fact protecting the Regime, which DOUBTLESS many are.
Hi, Gregory.
Gregory, you must stay a litte more current with your threads, my friend. Laugh. How are you, sweetie? I am pleased to see you have your own place, and I love the title.
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