This week, no scratch that, this past year, have not been good to Republicans. For those of you keeping score at home, there's the Tom Delay indictment. Justice never felt so good. There's the Rove investigation into whether he leaked a covert CIA agent's name to the press for payback. There's the investigation into Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of his stock--mysteriously--right before the price went swirling down the crapper. There's Iraq. Katrina. Mike Brown. Halliburton. The deficit.
And if we dial up the Wayback Machine, there's the whole propaganda scandal that broke last year. Briefly, it went a little something like this (hit it):
- President Bush-Cheney wants his policies praised in the media.
- President Bush-Cheneyy hires certain columnists and news types to praise his policies.
- Said columnists never tell anyone they're on the President's dime.
- This qualifies as 'covert propaganda' under federal law.
In other words, the most paranoiac of left-wing conspiracies, (that media figures colluded with administration officials to alter public perception on any number of issues) is true.
So let's recap, shall we? The Prez pays people to give him glowing reviews, the 2nd most powerful man in Washington gets indicted on corruption and money laundering charges, the 3rd most powerful man in Washington is being investigated for stock fraud, and everyone's under scrutiny for the outing of Valerie Plame.
This must be what George meant in 2000 when he wanted to bring 'honor' back to the White House.
Time to toss the bums out.
Along those lines, Mrs. Dr. Inallymyyears and I are going door-to-door today collecting signatures to get Christine Cegelis on the ballot here in Illinois. So far, over a dozen, and I'm meeting with my neighbors, which is nice.
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