I have to say I am impressed with my own resistance to cynicism. Because, after six years of constant idiocy, corruption, malfeasance, authoritarianism, ad nauseum, I am still capable of being shocked. I pulled up the Washington Post to find this article about how Bush is defending the firing of the US Attorneys because of their failure to investigate election fraud. I really need to replace my irony meter, it's a 1999 model and only goes to eleven. In the legal field, we have a thing called "the straight face test." This is a much-needed internal check because lawyers will really say anything to win (hey, don't blame us, it's the system). I think Bush, no forget it, Bush wouldn't understand the straight face test. I imagine Bush actually thinks this does pass the straight face test. I mean, the guy's defense to firing the USAs is that these Republican loyalist political appointees weren't prosecuting politically-motivated election fraud cases? Are you fucking kidding me? (Hey, Washington Post, when you're reporting on a story where the administration is suggesting some kind of pro-Democrat bias, you really, really, let's add another really, need to be clear about nature of the people accused of that bias).
The more I think about it, the more I like the White House angle. Because I think, unfortunately for Bush, that this scandal is actually simple enough for the average person to understand in thirty seconds. And then there's that part about how Bush only is president in the first place because of, you know, Florida, where the election was contested, where his brother was governor at the time. Way to start from a position of moral authority there.
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