“Even the most hardened cynics find themselves continually surprised by the ability of Rove and his minions to always hit that evasive new low, coming up with things that would shock a 60-year-old Greyhound-station hooker.”
And the best analysis of the day, also from Taibbi:
Rove is not a genius, or even very clever: He’s totally and completely immoral. It doesn’t take genius to claim, as Rove ludicrously did last fall, that it was the Democrats in Congress and not George W. Bush who pushed the Iraq War resolution in 2002. It doesn’t take brains to compare a triple-amputee war veteran to Osama bin Laden; you just have to be a mean, rotten cocksucker.
The reason Rove continues to survive is the same reason that Johnnie Cochran was called a genius for keeping a double-murderer on the golf course — because this generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime, and can’t bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers. He survives because an increasing number of Americans secretly agree with Rove’s vision of rules, laws and “the truth” as quaint, faintly embarrassing rituals that only a sucker would let hold him back.
Dear Ken – and you all –
You all have my sincerest sympathies for what has become of your political system – perhaps there are too many guilty parties to identify which might bear the greatest blame for allowing it to get this far, but you’ll have your own ideas, just as I have mine. And yours from first-hand whereas mine are filtered by reading as many accounts as possible and taking back-bearings to try and discover what shred of truth might exist.
You’re right : McCain is demented. He was only ever going to be a figurehead – and if that was ever in doubt, the reappearance of the Rovinator must surely set THAT record straight – and no, absolutely not one single thing will be allowed to get in the way of those behind Mccain getting what they want. Since the Paulson-directed removal of all your wealth to other hands, they now have your money. The purchase of the souls of the huge majority – saving your collective presence – were bought long since. They don’t want your houses, nor your cars : your children can be sacrificed in their wars at home or abroad, and you can continue to “pick yourselves up by your bootstraps” and make the whirlygig continue. Pay no attention to the fact that for harder work comes less reward – times are hard, remember ! They were for the Lehman Brothers CEO as well, these last 8 years, and he deserved his pay, he worked hard for it.
But my greatest concern, even eclipsing my fears for Senator Obama’s personal safety, is the risk posed by one single young man in your military out of all those in Iraq. Were anything to happen to Track Palin, then truly, the landslide of sympathy and confused patriotism would carry into power those who have given proof positive that they have surrendered any right to it. Those in opposition, even the weakened version we now have, may as well just go home and grow their own food until the Homeland Security forces come to collect them. Get that man out of harm’s way, for the love of whatever God you follow – even if you can’t get the rest of them out. He may quite simply hold your future in his backpack.
You have our prayers, because that’s all we have left to give you.
Kim