Reply #173: The outrage at DU

[Jakes Progress]

has become laser focused. Don't tread on Obama and bash bush. Both of those are worthy focuses, but they are all consuming. No matter the merits of the piece or the sagacity of the action, if someone says something bad about bush or even hints so, he is a god regardless of his motive or other actions. He is given a pass on anything. Similarly, if someone voices a concern about some action by the PE, he is a devil to be scourged regardless of motive and prior or subsequent action. Anything he does is tainted.

It has always reminded me of high school football mentality. Because there is a contest on the field once a year, that school over there is evil incarnate. The students at that school are the stupid and nasty. Their whole town or neighborhood is fair target for vandalism and disdain.

So Fitz made some effort in the Plame affair. From a contingent here at DU, that exempts him from any complaints for the rest of his life. Logic and reasoning don't enter into it. Why Blago now? Why not Plame? Why not Perry. Besides his pandering to the panderers, there is his unholy deal to transfer millions of tax dollars directly into a sorry reading program owned by relatives of bush by mandating that schools only receive money when they us it to buy that product. Millions were wasted and children were harmed by losing years of development. Not a peep from Fitz about this republican governor.