Company Man

I really cannot stand the Bush Administration right now. And it's not like I can remember a time when I could stand them. But 7 years ago, as a naive and idealistic college student, I thought Al Gore was a sellout for not embracing Nader and the issues he was championing. And while, even then, I realized Bush would be bad news for this country ... I must admit that when the Supreme Court (basically) handed Bush the presidency I thought to myself, how bad could it really be. Ayup, I actually said that to myself. In my defense, at the time I had no idea the Bush campaign had push-polled McCain so egregiously in South Carolina, nor that minority voters in Florida had been disenfranchised.

After 7 years of corruption, incompetence, and draconian measures the answer, for me at least, is quite clear. Though it took 6 years for most of the nation to see through the veil, something I find equally appalling but that's for another post (though I'm not even sure how that post would begin: "umm, thank you former pro-Bush'rs for realizing you made a colossal mistake"?!?!?). In any case, the Bush Admin is currently in the news for two major, tragic fiascoes.

The first is the widely reported and discussed firings of US Attorneys due to their views not being in line with the Bush Admin's. Not only does the utterly retarded Atty General, Alberto Gonzales, represent a corrupt and incompetent regime, he got the job in the first place because he's uber-loyal to Bush and Company. For those that are not familiar with "Fire-Gate" here's the cliff notes version (also check out Slate's coverage of the fiasco which was very, very early):
1. US Attys were fired, they claimed it was political.
2. AG and the Bush Admin said this was not the case.
3. Evidence (like emails which basically say, "Hey, how about we fire people that don't agree with us?") shows the firings were political.
4. AG and Bush Admin basically say, "Okay, maybe they were political, but no one at the top knew anything about it."
5. Evidence, in the form of AG's chief of staff testifying in front of Congress, shows that AG knew about everything and had meetings about the firings.

How the hell is Alberto Gonzales (AG) still in office? I mean this is beyond ludicrous. I really have no clue why AG is still around. And the worst part is that I don't want to be cynical and pessimistic, but it is so hard not to when a venal Attorney General should be fired and yet, absurdly, remains in office.

2008 cannot come any sooner.