Unasked Questions
A few questions on my mind that no one seems to be asking:
- Why hadn't Libby resigned long ago? It is not at all unusual for a second term white house to have a scandal or two. What is usual is for high level white house staffers to be indicted while still in office; they almost always resign long before.
- What happened to Katrina, levees, and poor people? This was supposed to be the great flashlight, shinning onto the crippling poverty problems in this country. If a city underwater won't do it, what will?
- Does anyone else think in strange that we're up to Hurricane Beta? We went thru the entire alphabet. When hurricanes start sounding like rush week something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
- Did they ever find The Scream? It's not like it's something you can sell. You're not fencing a stolen bracelet here, it's a priceless iconic work.
- Where do republicans get off calling a grand jury inditement for perjury and obstruction of justice "a minor technicality" and "the criminalization of politics?" Clinton lied about a blowjob. There isn't a man or woman alive today that hasn't lied about oral sex. Libby lied about outing an undercover CIA operative for political revenge. This is within the context of fabricating a fictions cause for war. If the right gets to go crazy about a hummer with an intern, then everyone else gets to go crazy about high crimes and treason in the white house. Ok?
- Why would setting a timetable for troop withdraws in Iraq embolden the insurgency? Every time someone asks the white house about a timetable, they say that a timetable would make things worse. Why? If I was fighting to get a foreign army out of my country, and they announced that they were leaving in six months, this would make me happier - not angrier. I want to understand Mr President. Please. Please break out of speaking points and give a reason or two. I beg of you.
- Did you know that for every US troop that dies in Iraq, 12 Iraqis die? And that's using the official numbers. The real number is probably higher.
Comments
I can only help with #4: The quiet but unconfirmed word around the museum community is that after it was stolen, it was incinerated and is unrecoverable.
Posted by: Jamie // October 30, 2005 7:14 PM
I'm lying about a blowjob right now.
Posted by: Kyle // October 31, 2005 5:21 PM
re: libby resigning
the bush white house is rare for so many reasons, but one that bumfuzzles everyone is the lack of turnover. unlike on television shows, these people don't stay at these jobs for that long. they burn out, they lose their effectiveness, they get into trouble...
re:Iraq death tolls
Oct. was the deadlist month since Jan. for US troops, BTW.
Posted by: fat charlie // November 1, 2005 3:04 PM