No Class

There is going to be a vote of no confidence on monday for Alberto Gonzales. Why? It would seem to me a complete waste of time. Everyone with a brain larger than a split pea already has no confidence in Gonzales. He should be fired. And if Bush refuses to fire him he should be impeached (along with Bush/Cheney would be ideal). Apparently there will be a vote of no confidence in both the House and the Senate. There is a suggestion that Republicans might filibuster in the Senate to prevent a no confidence vote. What? There are Senators that believe we should have confidence in Gonzales? If so, we should have no confidence in them whatsoever. In the House there is nothing Republicans can do to stop a vote of no confidence. So...there will probably be a vote of no confidence, and Gonzales will be told once again he should resign.

If Gonzales had any "Class" he would of course resign. But as the entire Republican establishment has no such class he may continue to resist. If Bush/Cheney had any semblance of class they would have resigned long ago. With their record of almost unblemished incompetence, if they had been Japanese leaders they would probably have committed suicide by now. If they had been leaders in most other cultures they would almost surely have either resigned or been forced out of office some time ago. But they have no class and, I suspect, don't even recognize it when they see it. I think it is most interesting that Americans don't even expect them to resign. That is an implicit recognition on the part of the public that these are truly classless individuals.

There is more to this, however, than just a lack of class. Bush/Cheney and the neocons that lied us into this disastrous "war" don't believe they have failed (at least not yet, if ever). Why should they? They have made unbelievable fortunes for their corporate cronies. They have managed to keep the price of gasoline at exorbitant levels. They haven't yet given up on their plan to coerce the Iraqis into signing away their oil rights to the big oil companies; although they may not succeed they are still trying. One of the benchmarks the Iraqis are supposed to reach are the signing of the oil bill drafted in Washington D.C. They haven't even necessarily given up on their plan to control the Middle East as they still threaten Iran and Syria (pretty hollow threats under the circumstances).

Rudy Giuliani is either too stupid to know what Ron Paul was talking about or, if he did know, tried to get in a really cheap shot. He is a complete phony with no credentials other than having lived through 9/11 (for which he was totally unprepared in spite of the previous bombing of the trade center). The fact that he is apparently leading in the Republican polls tells you a lot about the dismal state of the Republican Party. All ten of these candidates together wouldn't make a pimple on a real candidate's butt. They seem to be in agreement that we need more "war," more torture, more bodies at Guantanamo, more tax breaks for the wealthy, and the usual Republican drivel. I guess they need Thompson or Gingrich to lead them into their glorious future as ex nitwits.