When you're slapped...

"When you're slapped you'll take it and like it." This line from one of Humphrey Bogart's films (I think The Maltese Falcon) perfectly describes Bush/Cheney's treatment of Congress and the American people. What else might one think when every request from Congress is simply slapped down and Alberto Gonzales thumbs his nose at them at every turn. Gonzales is lying, Congress knows he is lying, the country knows he is lying, and he does it with the same smirking grin he learned from Bush. He just goes on lying, they just go on knowing that he's lying, but they do nothing about it. They go so far as to tell him they don't trust him but he pays no attention as he knows Bush will protect him. Congress likes being slapped in the face, in public no less. I have always known that Bush/Cheney have no shame, I didn't think the same was true of Congress until just now. I would not have thought it possible to find so many completely spineless people and place them all in Congress at the same time. I have come to the conclusion that this entire exchange between the White House and Congress is nothing more than a charade. It is meant to distract and entertain and confuse the American public while our politicians (almost all of them)just keep on transferriang tax dollars from the people to their corporate masters.

I watched a reply of the "debates" last night. Pretty boring but the MSM is trying to make something of it. The much ballyhooed questions from the public were hardly spontaneous and direct. Obviously they had been selected from hundreds or thousands submitted. Some of the questions were pretty good and some were basically silly, but it didn't matter because the candidates didn't answer them without reframing them anyway. As usual it was basically a lost two hours of television time. They are trying to make a big deal about a 15 second exchange between Hillary and Obama when Hillary sort of one-upped Obama over a technicality. Like much of the MSM news it is much ado about nothing.