And Then There Is(are) The Borg

No sense crying over spilt milk, that'’s closing the barn door after the cows gone and a litany of other quaint sayings must be running through this administrations collective '“Borg'” brains. Just skimming through the papers this morning the headlines are mind boggling. Just a quick synopsis: '‘Four US Troops Killed in Iraq'’, '‘American Toll Nears 2,000'’, '‘Cover-up Issue is seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry'’, '‘Rove Told Jury Libby May have Been His Source In Leak Case', '‘Bush Ponders Life without Rove'’, '‘Rove, Libby Traded Info About CIA Operative'’, '‘Aide Says FEMA Ignored Warnings'’, '‘Why Delay Smiled for His Mug Shot'’, '‘Delay in Court for Arraignment'’, '‘U.S. Afghans Probe Desecration'’, and not last nor least is '‘Protecting Pork in The Senate'’.

Now some folks think we shouldn'’t focus on these events and they even say that the same sorts of things occurred during the Clinton years. Well you'’re wrong on that and wrong (sort of) on that.

In reverse order first, if you go back to the newspapers of the Clinton years what you will find will not be the broad spectrum of corruption and graft within that administration that is so apparent in this one. What you will find is a focus on a relative few such incidents and the Republican members of Congress and the Federal Government spending $67 million dollars on a Special Prosecutor to try to find something and finding nothing because there never was anything to find. What you will also find is a President who let his raging testosterone get the better of him and who disgraced and horribly damaged his own family. I'’m also not so sure that such conduct is any worse than snorting cocaine and driving drunk and I know it isn'’t as offensive as lying to the American people to take them to war. Additionally what you won'’t see in those newspapers is the gross incompetence that is so obvious in this Bush administration.

Now why we should talk about these headlines is pretty obvious in my mind. Our country is headed in the wrong direction and the reason for that is sitting in the oval office and presiding over the House and Senate. In my experience with leadership I have found that there is one leadership '‘constant'’. Organizations assume the attitude and traits of their leaders. This administration and Congress have assumed the attitude and traits of their leaders. Dishonesty begets dishonesty (ala Rove and Libby) and corruption begets corruption (ala Delay and Frist). This country needs to move back to the reason of the center. We are not a Theocracy even though the extreme right would like us to be. We are also not the great Satan that the Muslim world sees us as. Our nation was built on a foundation of fair play and right now the game is rigged. Instead of fair taxes and true tax reform this administration is locked in a pattern of using the current tax code to reward the wealthy at the expense of the poor. They are fighting a wrong war, in a wrong place, at a wrong time and at the expense of thousands of innocent people and yes I mean American and Iraqi.

These are just a few of the reason we need/must talk about what'’s going on in our country. These are the reasons we need a press that is not liberal or conservative but independent and honest to a mortal pain. Right now, unfortunately, our press in general kowtows to big money and the NeoCons are controlling the purse strings.

One last thing. WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?

Special note: Delays Face
My first reaction was to be angry but it never actually came to fruition. As I looked at Tom Delays face the swell of anger just dissipated before it could ever form and was immediately replaced by complete amazement. I was amazed because there, plastered on the front page, was the face of absolute and complete contempt. There was the contempt for the American justice system which he has so often demonstrated. And there was the face of a man (?) who was contemplating how he could best manipulate the system once more to his advantage. It became clear to me that here was someone who does not care for any one or anything that is not inseparably associated with making money for and garnering more power for Tom Delay. It is my fervent hope and belief that justice will be served in this case as well as in Plame Gate.


Those are The Sergeant Majors thoughts on that.