The Cancer on the Presidency

Well, it looks like Bush/Cheney are going to win. Not the election, the race to keep all the scandals from doing them in before the election. Remember the lawsuit over Cheney’s energy meetings? Remember the Plame case? Remember the unanswered 9-11 questions? The DeLay bribery question? The Texas redistricting case? Bush’s AWOL from the National Guard? The Abu Ghraib torture chain of command? I’m sure there are more that I have forgotten – as it has been so long since any of them have featured in the news. And why have they not featured in the news? For the same reason none of Bush’s outrageous lies have not been exposed by the media. The same reason the polls are being manipulated to convince people the race for the Presidency is close. The corporate media are on the side of the Republicans because they are part of the fascist plot to take over America. As Jimmy Breslin said today on The Smirking Chimp, anyone who would believe the polls has to be insane. I believe he is right. And I also believe that without all the dirty tricks the election would not even be close.

But with armies of lawyers on both sides, and several lawsuits already filed, what will happen no matter who presumably wins? Can the outcome be tied up in the courts forever? And if so, who will be President? Will Bush continue as President until the issues are settled? Will Kerry, if he presumably wins, be installed as President on time? Or will there ultimately have to be a revolution? There is no way Bush/Cheney will give up no matter what the vote is. The consequences for them will be too grave. And it looks like Kerry/Edwards are just as determined to prevail. The only hope is that Kerry will win by such an overwhelming margin there simply cannot be any question about it. He may. Get out and vote. Make it eminently clear that Americans are absolutely fed up with Bush/Cheny and the neocons who have led us into this almost incomprehensible mess. Let us tell the world that we are sorry for this temporary aberration, this insanity that has poisoned our land, this obscenity that pretends to be the Government of the United States. As in the case of Nixon, there is a cancer eating away at the Presidency. We must get rid of it before it is too late.