Going nowhere

Okay, I give up on Gannon/Guckert. Having written about this many times not only on this blog but also to our local newspaper, it appears that no one is interested in why a known homosexual prostitute with no press credential or experience was repeatedly given passes to White House news conferences and even given passes to the White House when no press conferences were even scheduled.

The same thing seems to be happening with the Rove treason scandal. It is known for a fact that he discussed Plame with Novak, and thus leaked something that should have been highly classified, but Bush has done nothing to discipline him and, indeed, keeps praising him. No one seems to be pressing him on this. It's like the Gannon/Guckert scandal, just keep ignoring it and it will eventually go away.

Similarly, the White House is refusing to release 50,000 pages of information about Roberts, even though the Senate is entitled to see such information. They also refused to reveal information about Bolton even though that should have been made available. The Democrats response to this outrageous behavior on the part of the White House is to say they will try to find out in other ways. That's it, don't stand up for your legal and constitutional rights, just try fo find another way to get the information. Democrats are hopeless, spineless, and at the moment basically useless.

Given what is going on (or not going on) at the moment I suggest we simply cancel tomorrow for lack of interest.

But wait! There is one ray of hope on the horizon. A 48 year-old woman named Cindy Sheehan who mourns her son and is single-handedly taking on the Bush/Cheney liars. Camped out not far from Bush's fake ranch, and attracting more and more supporters, she is calling out for the truth. But of course the truth is not in Bush/Cheney. They dare not tell the truth because to do so would be to admit to horrendous war crimes. So we get pious pronouncements from Bush as to how he sympathizes with her, how much he feels her pain, etc., but will not (indeed, dare not) meet her face-to-face.

Both Gary Hart and Arianna Huffington wrote pieces today praising Sheehan and pointing out that basically what she is doing is filling the void in leadership that exists in both the Democratic and Republican parties. And it is true. The major Democratic players, such as Hilary Clinton, Kerry, and others like Biden foolishly committed themselves to this illegal, unconstitutional "war" and now cannot pretend otherwise. Dean and Kucinich who were right about this stupid "war," were destroyed by the major media in the Republican camp, so there are no viable Democratic anti-war candidates (at least at the moment). And as there are no honorable Republicans, who at the moment are the only ones that could do something about this terrible disaster that has befallen our country, there does not seem to be much hope.

One can only wonder how much longer the American public can continue in their abysmal ignorance about the Bush/Cheney destruction derby.