The Accident Waiting To Happen

In the 2000 election campaign season, a former Republican candidate said that he would "Bring Honor, and Integrity back to the White House." The people who voted for him, some conservatives who saw the opportunity to remove liberals from government although the Clinton Administration was one of the most conservative since Regan. Others, Evangelical Christians who saw the chance at removing the promiscuous philanderer, Bill, from influence.

Aren't we all happy about that?

George W. Bush's administration has been characterized by scandal, after scandal. To enumerate them:

The White House Press Corps. 'invaded' by an unofficial reporter, who with no journalistic background eluded security review and entered the white house as a reporter - Jeff Gannon, someone let him in the back door in more ways than one - any one ever heard of Jack Ruby?

Or how about Alberto Gonzalez, remember him, the former Attorney General of the United States who said that torture of persons in the face of the threat of terrorism is acceptable even in the case of citizens whether the person(s) are proven to be terrorists or not.

How about the fact that as the highest ranking law enforcement officer in the land he was charged with perjury in an official investigation of firings which were politically based prior to his resignation in September of 2007. He still has yet to answer the congressional inquiry into these charges.

And how about that Harriet Miers, someone without any proven judiciary experience, or background in the adjudication of law nominated by a president who valued loyalty over ability with a history they shared going back to his days of an unsuccessful run for a Texas representatives seat in 1972.

What about that Scooter Libby, who under the direction of the Vice President, Richard "Dick" Cheney leaked information to the press about a C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame, defeating her covert position as a Intelligence operative because her husband expressed critisizm of the Bush Administration. This occurred after Bush declared such actions an act of treason, and so does the constitution.

Or how about Karl Rove, who still will not answer congressional subpeonas requiring testimony on the Gonzalez, and Libby incidents, and a few other things. Essentially he is in contempt of congress. The last people I remember doing that were doing Clinton's administration where for almost 7 of his 8 years in office he was being investigated. Individuals were incarcerated for contempt of congress/refusal to cooperate after refusing to give further testimony. These People, Rove, Miers, and Gonzalez have flat out refused...

And no one has locked them up...

Then the secrecy of the white house, and the few honest forthright people have been discredited, ridiculed, and debased from administration official statements, but all were loyal public servants, do your research, try Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill, Scott McClellan, just to name a few, and how about the fact that Dick Cheney, never resigned from Halliburton as its Chief Executive Officer but took a leave of absence.

And why didn't old Dick know that in pursing contracts for the Iraqi reconstruction it might be considered a conflict of interests for him to recommend Halliburton, and its subsidiaries to receive multi-year multi-billion dollar contracts which by Pentagon policy was limited to one year, after which the bid was to be opened to competition. Corruption is in this company's culture, how should we expect any better?

So what is happening in our economic system is no surprise, and the fact that George W. Bush would bankrupt his own government, was illustrated years before when he ran his own companies into the financial ground. Research Arbusto Energy, Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy. All of these ventures, Bush had control of the direction each took, and each time needed to be bailed out.

George Soros, an investor in Spectrum 7 in an Article in the Sydney Morning Herald stated,

"we were buying political influence, I didn't know him, He [George W. Bush] was supposed to bring in the Gulf connection. But it didn't come to anything. We were buying political influence. That was it. He was not much of a businessman."

Wow, that's a revelation isn't it...

And so the economic vehicle drifts slowly off the road into the ditch of oblivion called, History repeating itself, as Bush once again is needing to be bailed out. This time he want's us to do it.