Buyer's Remorse: Their Purchase, Our Regret

[babylonsister]

Buyer's Remorse: Their Purchase, Our Regret
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-09-28 00:06. Media

By David Michael Green, Regressive Antidote

I don’t know about you, but I for one am getting sick and tired of all these right-wing hacks righteously and publicly jumping ship on the Bush administration and the national nightmare they’ve been so kind as to bequeath to us this last awful decade.

This has been going on for some time, of course, but the revelations of the last week or two have been especially hard to swallow.

What you’re supposed to read in between the lines of this Bush-bashing is a sub-text along the lines of “I had nothing to do with this disaster!”, or, at the very least, “Gosh, I had no idea it would turn out like this!”

Yeah, well, pardon me if I reject this new line of garbage from the likes of Alan Greenspan and Sandra Day O’Connor. I liked the old line of garbage much better. Whatever else you could say about it, it reeked a lot less of rank hypocrisy.

The list of the deluded publicly waking up to what the regressive movement has wrought at home and abroad is long and seems to grow larger each month. Generally, the pattern is the same. Somebody who was highly instrumental in creating this Category 5 destructive force of nature decides that their conscience can’t quite handle the amp load anymore. So they go public with inside dope on the machine they previously had themselves helped to ram pall-mall into our bodies and our hearts. The White House smear machine then goes into hyper-drive, and the offending former-insider is derided as somehow mentally unbalanced or the equivalent, just like Rove did to McCain in South Carolina’s 2000 primary. Meanwhile, something (and, boy, wouldn’t we all like to know what) gets said behind the scenes, and next thing you know there’s some sheepish humiliating half-retraction. It pretty much always goes down that way.

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[lazer47]

1. "Caveat emptor"

[babylonsister]

2. Like we had any choice in the matter. nt

[lazer47]

3. It's like somebody handing you half gelled Jello,,

it may look good,, but you can't hold onto it