Down and dirty from Tom Gilroy at HuffPo

I try not to repost things here, but this article made me think so here you go....

White House in Chaos' & Other Utter Horseshit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gilroy/white-house-in-chaos-_b_10159.html

Nothing could be more damaging for the bridge club of armchair
politicians known as the Democratic Leadership than the recent spate of
sound bytes like ‘Bush’s worst week in Office,’ ‘A White House demoralized,’ and ‘Bushies on the Brink of Collapse’.

You can already feel Schumer, Dean, Hillary, and their media addicted
minions being taken over by that familiar self-satisfied stupor, validating their inaction and cowardice, even repositioning it as though it was part of a grand plan, an agenda, even an ideology.

It’s like a bunch of fat people on a couch learning about the obesity epidemic from 60 Minutes and concluding they must be skinny.

The problem with these snappy doomsday pronouncements—collective wishes really—is that they bear no relationship to reality. You really have to wonder what kind of bloated house-bound moron could think slumping
polls and plummeting approval ratings would worry a gang of fanatics
who stole two elections in a row, invaded a country they knew couldn’t
defend itself, and gave a male hustler White House security clearance.

As long as Democrats and their well-fed punditocracy measure Bush, et
al with a yardstick of morality, popularity or ethics, they will never
recapture the majority, and here’s why; Bush, et al aren’t driven by
morality, popularity, or ethics. They’re driven by money.

You can almost deduce what Rove will tell them to do next by simply
asking yourself what would be best for the rich. But ask yourself what
would any normal person do when their egregious gluttony, mendacity and
utter scorn for the common man was exposed and you’ll find the Bushies
actions baffling. You’ll wait for their humble confession until you’re
blue in the face—uninsured at an underfunded emergency room. Judge them by their drive to get at even more of our public resources and money, and suddenly you’ll recognize they’re still a well oiled machine.

So they don’t ‘Reel With Frustration’ or ‘Rethink Their Message’ or
‘Try to Recapture the Public Mood,’ that’s just delusional journalists
waxing poetic over how a decent person would behave. But these people
aren’t decent, they’re crooks, and crooks don’t give a shit about you
seeing them for what they really are. They don’t care what you see as
long as they’re getting you’re money.

But ‘On the Brink of Collapse?’ ‘A Crack in the Empire?’ Running
Scared?’ ‘Drowning in an Ethical Quagmire?’ ‘Crisis of Leadership?’
‘Humbled by the Damage to Their Legacy’?

Yeah, sure.

They’re so humbled they just last week passed landmark changes gutting
Florida’s Medicaid and Medicare programs, to be used as a model for
other red states so their Republican governors can appear fiscally
responsible. So you crippled grandmother better not exceed her spending
cap next year, or she’s shit out of luck; her dog food rations will
have to go up to 3 meals a week just to pay for her meds. Boy, thank
God the GOP’s been humbled by the ethical quagmire.

They’re so humiliated by their treasonous lies and media intimidation
in the lead-up to the illegal war, they just nominated a raving puritan
lunatic to the Supreme Court, a brown-shirted lemming so in thrall of
corporate power and totalitarian government control he makes Maggie
Thatcher look like a feminazi. Running scared!

Dick Cheney’s act of contrition for the public discovering he’d
sacrifice a CIA agent ‘s head on a silver platter so an illegal war
could funnel money to Halliburton was to replace his indicted chief of
staff with David Addington, a stealth gorgon who’s hatred of democracy
reaches back to Iran/contra and co-authoring Gonzales’s Torture Memo.

Dick’s so horribly ashamed he’s even bucking the entire Congress to
force a torture loophole into a bill that would otherwise compel
America to abide by The Geneva Conventions. You remember The Geneva
Conventions, those rules of ethics drafted by all of humanity in
response to the Nazis gassing 6 million Jews? Clearly, our VP is so
demoralized he must be triple popping Prozac just face his morning
coffee.

W is so decimated by the embarrassment of his (and his mother’s)
classism, racism and venal cronyism in the wake of Katrina, he could
barely muster the courage to eliminate minimum wages and environmental
protections in the great domestic funneling of cash to Halliburton ,
otherwise known as the rebuilding of New Orleans. Just look at the
chickenshit run! We got ‘im now!

Talk about cowering at the feet of liberals. That’s why they’re
offering up the olive branch of the Guest Worker Program, that nice
euphemism for a lot of poor people without constitutional rights,
occupational protections, health insurance, the ability to establish or
practice their culture, send their kids to school, or have a permanent
home—all for below poverty wages. Which is of course another way of
saying slavery. Boy, they’re in the final throes!

And the face man for torture and CIA-trained death squads from Honduras
to Nicaragua, John Negroponte, is still running Iraq, probably using an
Ottoman vase as a chamber pot while tallying up our weekly Geneva
Convention violations on a centuries-old Koran with a Sharpie.

Boy, are they reeling in humiliation. I’m surprised they can muster the
dignity to get out of bed in the morning, they ‘re so debilitated and
demoralized.

Here’s a little secret; they never reel because they are never
demoralized. They don’t measure success and failure they way you and I
do, by analyzing public benefit or desire, or even legality, or ethics.
They measure success by how much more money they feast on from the
public trough. And by that measure, they hogs are literally drowning in
shit.

So while you fold your arms in the triumphant reassurance that
Scooter’s indictment and the GOP’s plummeting ratings reveal the world
to be what you’ve always had faith it was, think again. The pendulum
you always talk about is not swinging back. The Truth has not come out.
What has happened is what you’ve known all along has merely been
reiterated. There is no new information, and so there will be no new
consequences. And while you smirk and feel validated they’ll go right
along gobbling up more and more, laughing at you between belches.

Because they don’t care about your moral indignation, your ethical
judgment, or what the public thinks. They don’t care what’s popular,
legal, or good for the country. They want your money.

So while the Democrats brunch and strategize about who to run in 2008
(choosing from the 3 frontrunners, all of whom want to INCREASE troop
numbers in Iraq), the dozens of Rove wannabees over at the The
Federalist Society are planning their fifth, sixth, seventh move from
now in their uninterrupted plunder. They’re thrilled you think they’re
running scared, because that means you’ll go back to watching ‘Sex &
The City ‘ marathons.

Because while you’re in your HBO or ‘Desperate Housewives’ coma,
they’re moving way beyond small potatoes stuff like Valerie Plame and
Patrick Fitzgerald. They’re plotting new ways to get at our money in
places you’ve never even thought of. They’re gonna spread those
Medicaid cuts to every state in the union, they’re gonna make billions
overcharging us for avian flu vaccine, they’re plotting ways to
dissolve land trusts via ‘eminent domain.’ They’re paying lawyers to
strategize ways to let every corporation in America out of honoring
pension and health insurance commitments.

While you’re smirking about them finally getting their comeuppance,
they’re hiring investigators to find out if Barack Obama ever had gay
sex, Elliot Spitzer ever paid a maid under the table, or Kenye West
ever went to a hooker. They’re plotting Phase II of the ‘social
security debate,’ and the PR sliming of China and Venezuela into the
new Russia and Cuba. They’ll have every anchorperson in America calling
environmental and animal rights activists ‘domestic terrorists,’
Homeland Security monitoring the email records of college students, and
the ATF following future Cindy Sheehans by tracking their EZ Pass.

Think I’m wrong? Ten years ago, could you have imagined evolution being
challenged, ‘affirmative action’ a political liability, or a pregnant
GI posing for torture photos?

If these are the actions of a humiliated cabal, imagine what an
emboldened one would try to get away with. The mind reels.