{"id":1047,"date":"2007-03-15T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/15\/feels-like-old-times\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T00:59:13","slug":"feels-like-old-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/15\/feels-like-old-times\/","title":{"rendered":"feels like old times…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, here we are again. The Bush Administration has fired eight U.S. Attorneys because they wouldn’t play ball. Bush, Harriet Miers, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, and others were involved. Just with the evidence that’s already public we already know exactly what happened. The denials are cached in carefully contrived phrases – true things saying lies. The stories change to explain the new information as we receive it – carefully designed to not contradict the last story, carefully phrased so as to not be in and of themselves lies, always discounting criticism without giving evidence of any kind. It’s sort of a "catch-me-if-you-can" scenerio that has worked to date – until Libby got cornered. Rove says nothing unless forced, and never uses tracable media. President Bush blusters around making denials, mostly denying that he’s been involved in anything.<\/p>\n

Week after week, month after month. The same game over and over. It’s hard to imagine that Alberto will survive this one. The evidence is stacked around him. Even if he stays, he’ll be basically rendered impotent. People will yawn when he talks and anything he does will be put under a microscope. Karl Rove is hard to corner. He’s just very careful. No paper trail. No direct involvement. He knows what he’s doing in the way a cat burglar does. Stealth, quiet, under cover of night.<\/p>\n

What gets my goat is that it doesn’t dawn on enough people that we’re in the position of fighting our own government. Our own government, the bastion of our laws and principles is the agent of criminality here. Congress is bogged down in trying to corral our own Executive, rather than conducting te government’s business. And it happens over and over. We’re so used to seeing Bush on T.V. denying things and saying he has confidence in this or that official who just screwed us over that we don’t even remember that that’s not what Presidents usually talk about on T.V. We’re so used to the Administration coming out in force to do a sales job on some policy or program that we’ve forgotten that Presidents and Cabinet members aren’t usually salesmen, they’re statesmen.<\/p>\n

If we ever get a real leader, we’re going to have to relearn how they are supposed to act. We’re so used to Talking Points, we’ll have to relearn what just plain Talking sounds like… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, here we are again. The Bush Administration has fired eight U.S. Attorneys because they wouldn’t play ball. Bush, Harriet Miers, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, and others were involved. Just with the evidence that’s already public we already know exactly what happened. The denials are cached in carefully contrived phrases – true things saying lies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}