CommonDreams: Bush Mendacity Will Shock Historians

[DesEtoiles]

 Published on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 by the Niagara Falls Reporter


Bush Mendacity Will Shock Historians


by Bill Gallagher

 

When historians write about our times, they'll shake their heads and wonder how so many people could believe so many lies for so long. They might actually write two parallel books -- one describing the cascading lies and deceptions George W. Bush and the Republicans sold and the other telling the truth.

We're told, in effect, that trampling on civil liberties and eroding freedom are a sure way to protect us from terrorists who envy our freedom. That colossal lie will be one of the lasting stains on this era, and I fear the day coming when the Busheviks or their political heirs, gripped in fascist fever, will silence those who expose the fraud.

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The proposal is really aimed at immigrants and has nothing to do with terrorism. It would create a bureaucratic nightmare, impose an unfunded mandate on state governments and do nothing to protect us from al-Qaeda. What it means is that many laborers in California and Texas will no longer have a driver's license.

While the ignorant are licking up the lie that national ID cards will make us safer, the Bush administration is making it easier for Saudis to get visitor visas. That's right. The same folks who brought us 15 of the 19 hijackers on Sept 11, bin Laden himself, and the hateful Wahhabi sect will now have their tightened visa restrictions lifted.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0510-32.htm

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[Catch22Dem]

1. That's bullshit

Everyone knows books will be banned long before then. It'll be a regular Fahrenheit 451 by then. Just watch your giant TV wall and we'll burn this copy of 1984, Brave New World, etc... for you.

[Sparkly]

2. Yet Chimp told Woodward, "We'll all be dead."

He doesn't care. :mad:

[Jon_da_brockman]

3. Unfortunately...

It seems that history is going to be the ONLY thing that judges the neocons harshly. They got too good a grip on the reigns of present day America.

[chaumont58]

4. They are also going to shake their heads when they contemplate

the performance of today's beltway press corps. The bushies lie because they can get away with it. The whore press can't be bothered to report the truth. Years from now, historians will compare today's press corps to the yellow journalism of the late 1800s.

[ReadTomPaine]

5. There are ample opportunities here for ambitious Democrats.

The bitter truth is we won't win until we want it more than they do, and most current Democratic leaders aren't up for this type of political knife-fight. There aren't too many daring, ambitious Democrats in DC anymore anyway so this may be a moot point.

The hidden benefit to Bush's overreach is the possibility of a long term realignment of the political trajectory in the beltway should the Bush administration be disgraced, prosecuted and brought to justice.

A powerful liberal progressive close to a post-Bush "corruption cleanup" White House could undo much of the damage done here with a carefully prioritized DC agenda.

In a House/Senate where the GOP members are fighting to stay out of federal prison, scores of liberal appointments to courts would pass with barely a whisper of opposition compared to what they otherwise would have faced.

Bills as outrageous to the GOP as "Clear Skies" and NCLB are to Dems could be passed while Republican Senators spend much of the day giving depositions to the FBI under Elliot Spitzer's Justice Department.

The other option would be decades of reform and frankly I don't think the GOP will learn this lesson without the slap that a careful dismantling and prosecution of the Bush legacy in its entirety will provide.

America shouldn't have to wait for decades what it should have had since 2000. Americans deserve their future back, now. With interest.

[omega minimo]

6. I believe the term is "mendaciousness"

Heh heh heh he he heh shrug heh heh smirk



Well folks, consider how they rewrote the history of another bumbling and dangerous fool-- Ronald Reagan.