Disintegrating

I actually wrote a blog last night. But I lost it. I have no idea what went wrong. Anyway, what we seem to be witnessing at this very moment is the slow but inevitable disintegration of the Bush/Cheney neocon administration. It will be somewhat ironic if this business about the firing of eight attorneys is what finally brings them down, what with their long and consistent record of war crimes and constitutional violations. But it looks more and more like that is what may happen. The "Bushies" will probably not give in, trusting that their colleagues on the Supreme Court will ultimately rule in their favor. In any case they will be able to stonewall and delay and obfuscate until after the 2008 election when the incredible mess they have made will be dumped on whoever the next President happens to be. There seems to be little doubt they were purging Prosecutors who were not doing what they wanted them to do (stop prosecuting Republicans and start more actively prosecuting Democrats). They could have done this legally with little or no fuss but their pathological lying exposed the whole disgusting episode.

Bush has made the Democrats an offer they cannot help but reject. He wants Rove, Meirs, and others to simply discuss what they know in private, not under oath, and with no transcripts. He regards this somehow as a generous offer. Tony Snow seems to believe they would not lie whether they were under oath or not and that this would be the best way for Congress to learn the truth about what happened. Tony Snow lacks even the ability of the worst carnival barker, and apparently even the intelligence of a turnip. If they have done nothing wrong why should they refuse to testify under oath? Why in private? Why with no transcript? Bush's generous offer is simply absurd. So now we will have a constitutional crisis that will probably end up in the Supreme Court where Bush's appointees will have the last say. Wonderful. Democracy in action. At this point in time would anyone believe anything any of these criminals might say?

Another school levy vote coming up. As a Democrat, and as a believer in democracy, I truly believe that we can only succeed if we have a well-informed and educated population. This is why we opted to have a system of Public Education in the first place. I believe in this wholeheartedly. Does this mean I have to support a system of bad Public Education? Here in Idaho we have an absurd situation in which the Republican run state refuses to adequately fund education so every year or two we have to vote on a supplemental levy to keep the schools running (not very well, just running at all). As one of our more astute Republican legislators recently observed, "if we give them an education they'll want jobs." Whee! I love it here. It's like living in the 18th century. This system is little more than Republican blackmail as they depend upon the fact that no one wants to hurt the children so they go along with this nonsense year after year. In Idaho this is a Republican problem. They should have to fix it (but they consistently refuse to do so).