Like many, I have been closely monitoring the constant flow of
news, especially from the White House. First, I must say that
the attempts to trivialize this governmental failure by the
predominant cabinet and congress Republicans are shameful. But
there is a more shameful issue here, which is the White
House’s deliberate quest to dodge any responsibility for this
failure, which further exposes the true values and motives of
this reprehensible group of men and women.
“[We are going to focus on] solving problems,” seems to be the
steel wall that the President and his constituents have raised
to dodge questions specific to queries of accountability. It
is repeated over and over by Mr. Mclellen in his press
conferences. The President utters it whenever he reaches a
corner. It is unacceptable, but it is nothing new. Rather, it
has been the thesis of this administration’s political
strategy since the beginning.
For years, we have been subjected to the attempts by this
administration to sway us into its institutional delusion. We
have been deceived on countless occasions. We have been forced
to take a bite of the rotten apple and told that it is ripe
and sweet.
We have been reduced to accepting illogical sentence
structures “what went right and what went wrong” when no one
in their right mind would ever speak that way.
We have been inundated by ridiculous slogans such as “the
armies of compassion,” “the axis of evil,” and worst of all,
“the war President.”
Any logical person would dismiss these statements and
classifications as remnants of fascist philosophy; however, by
utilizing Mr. Rove’s vast knowledge of subversion and public
manipulation, this administration has been very successful in
galvanizing its base and desensitizing its opponents by sheer
repetition.
Where he is brilliant and effective in his work, Mr. Rove
suffers from the same delusions that brought men like
Mussolini, Hussain, and Amin to their knees. Further, he
suffers the same affliction of his “superior(s).” I am hopeful
that he and his will soon find that aversion to reality is not
sustainable.
I am hopeful that the downfall is swift.
I am hopeful that the bad apple is exposed and discarded.
As an apple may have an appearance of sweet ripeness, one only
has to slice it in half to discover whether worms have
decimated it from within, turning its once sweet fruit into a
brown and unappetizing mash of rot and stench. Thus, the whole
apple is ruined. And with disregard for its rosy skin, it is
discarded as a whole.
Beneath the thin skin of rosy congratulations and swift
repetition of dodging statements, this administration suffers
the same affliction. Like the apple, those on the surface are
fighting to keep its appearance shiny and clean while the
worms eat away at the core.
The worms, with their many segments; with their glaring
contempt for the poor, with their cronyism, with their
priority to feed themselves above all other priorities, with
their delusional notion that there is nothing outside of the
core; the worms, in their ravenous hunger, are running out of
sustenance, thus the apple is collapsing from within and must
soon be discarded for the sake of the orchard.
We can plainly see that the worms; the Roves, the Cards, the
O’reillys, are running out of fodder. The once sweet and
satisfying fruit has bittered, thus the list of responses is
growing shorter and each is becoming more improvisational in
his or her dialogue to try to make up the difference, grabbing
at straws until one answer sticks for a short period, and
clumsily reaching for another when the former is squashed.
The response of the President and his constituents reflects
what many of us have been screaming from the rooftops all
along. And now more Americans seem to be wiping the haze from
their eyes to witness first hand the consequence of delusional
support for a delusional White House. The taste, the stench;
the brown sickness of the rotten apple is becoming less
palatable.
Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi made the first direct attempt from
anyone in our House to expose the narcissism of our President
and his sharp detachment from reality. Her eyes were wide open
and in astonishment as she spoke, just as many of our own eyes
have been for the duration of this man’s Presidency.
She spoke angrily, she spoke clearly, and she spoke for all of
us in spite of those who have not awakened. Recounting her
query about firing FEMA Director, Michael Brown in her
discussion with the President, she stated, “He said ‘Why would
I do that?’” “ ’I said because of all that went wrong, of all
that didn’t go right last week.’ And he said ‘What didn’t go
right?’ “Oblivious, in denial, dangerous.”
Her descriptions of the President represent the sum of his
character. Many of us have known this for years. Hopefully,
many more will realize this very soon.
Based on the stark realities of the consequences for allowing
our nation to be controlled by a group of delusional men and
women, we must assert that our best defense is to remove this
President and his cabinet from office. We must discard the
rotten apple for the sake of the orchard. We must not wait
until its skin wrinkles and collapses; we must dissect it
quickly to reveal its rotten innards before the rot spreads to
the other trees in the orchard as the worms seek a new home.
I never thought I would say this in my lifetime, but it seems
that the press has grown in its effectiveness to dissect the
pandering of this horrid administration. As a result, we can
see that the machine is running out of steam, its components;
its Mclellans and its Mehlmans, its Rumsfelds and its Rices,
its Browns and its Chertoffs, are more and more left to fend
for themselves to subvert the quest to expose their delusion
and incompetence in the absence of effective talking points.
I have said it before, but it is more significant today:
Consequence is unavoidable. Reality cannot be ignored for more
than just a little while. And so, we must all face the
ultimate reality:
Your President has failed you. Your government has failed you.
Where we go from here is a collective choice. Shall we lay
back and wait until the greater public loses its outrage?
Shall we let the Administration dole out random and ever more
improvisational lies until one manages to stick? Shall we
force ourselves to devour the rotten apple when we can see
clearly the depth of its decay and smell the rank of its
stench?
With all of my soul, I hope not.
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