This editorial was written by DUer
CrackpotAmerica. It was originally posted in the Editorials forum, but I think it deserves a wider audience.
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.
“ 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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