We sit, night after night, watching the news, on the brink of intra-cranial explosions, with little to no voice to ask the questions which need so badly to be asked and, actually, answered, for a freakin' change. The questions are endless. They go back to (s)election 2000, to 9/11, to the Iraq War Lies, the tax policy, energy policy and on and on, ad nauseum.
The guys and gals on Cabal news and the the MSM, who make the big bucks to inform us of what the hell is going on in this country and around the world, don't have a freaking clue what the questions are, let alone the answers, apparently. Either that, or their fat salaries are hush money; a distinct possibility
They are either stupid beyond all comprehension or they care more about their huge salaries than they do about the truth, without which this country, and possibly the world, is doomed.
Can someone please explain that to me?
Oh, nevermind. We all know the answer, generally.
Frankly it makes me so mad I could scream, tear my hair out....or worse.
*The following, terrific article was sent in and, unfortunately, we have not a clue where it came from. If anyone knows please comment or sometihing so we can give credit.
The author certainly deserves it credit.
Crumbling Rocks of Incredulity
Not long ago, sometime before the 2006 elections I think, I witnessed former presidential adviser David Gergen experience what amounted to -- for him -- an emotional breakdown on a political talk show. It was a sight to see. Here was this normally mild-mannered and intrepid courtier practically breaking out in a sweat, fidgeting and trembling, rambling and dissolving, right on camera.
What prompted the poor man's meltdown? In the most general terms: The System. That is to say, the political system, the campaign system, the trivializing media system; our system, specifically, in which politicians fudge, evade and promise the heavens without ever engaging the nuts and bolts of structurally mountainous problems or ever suggesting even the meagerest of popular sacrifice.
And that day, whatever day it was, on whatever talk show it was, there sat Mr. Gergen, reeling off a litany of these problems, from the deficit to Iraq, and decrying with each utterance how the pols of both major parties are blowing right past them with idiotic, simplistic pabulum and ignoring the colossal "train wreck" -- those are the words I recall him using -- we're headed for.
As he inched to the end of his fuse, I was sure he would blow. It was, I guess, his Mike Gravel moment. Then, a cut to commercial, a new panel, fresh troops from the catastrophic front -- intrepidity reinstated, more familiar talk of inconsequence.
Mr. Gergen may have lost his famous composure that day, but that he was onto something big, there is no doubt. Rome is indeed burning all around us, while The System fiddles and obsesses over what's on top of John Edwards' head rather than, let's say, the vacuum in Fred Thompson's.
So it was with a profound sense of déjà vu that I read yesterday of former Gov. Mario Cuomo's similarly frantic bell-ringing, in which "every week or so [he] prepares a private political memo, called the Update, and e-mails it to friends and allies in hopes of provoking thought and debate.
The Update’s central thesis is that there are Great Issues at stake in the 2008 presidential election -- [Iraq, health care, Medicare and Medicaid, the Middle East, global warming, immigration, trade and budget deficits] -- and that the candidates should be judged on their ability to discuss them in detail, 'in a way,'" as the governor put it, 'that measures more than glibness, memory and theatricality.'"
Take taxes, for instance, as did Gov. Cuomo in an interview with the New York Times' Patrick Healy. Other than promising to roll back the egregiously insane Bush tax cuts for the filthiest of the richest, the leading Democratic presidential candidates, said the governor, "don’t want to talk about other taxes they might raise, or what the definition of middle class is for the purposes of tax cuts or tax increases. They don’t want to get into that because they say, 'People will misunderstand if the Republicans attack us or lie about our plans,' and they will get hurt as a result.'"
The gaping flaw in their rationalization, of course, is that Republicans will attack them no matter what they mumble about taxes. So why not be direct, clear and honest? But the hell of it is, even should one of these candidates make it to the White House by saying nothing of real consequence, he or she will then do nothing of real consequence either, because -- you got it -- people will misunderstand if the Republicans attack him or her or lie about his or her plans, and he or she will get hurt as a result.
So the inertia of superabundant pusillanimity will persist, as the oncoming trains keep barreling down the national tracks.
Mr. Gergen, meet Mr. Cuomo. Mr. Cuomo, meet Mr. Gergen. Perhaps the two of you can room together in the Home for the Politically Pixilated when you both mentally collapse out of frustration with all the reigning nonsense.
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