Some time ago there was a feature article in the Far Eastern Economic Review (a Hong Kong –based magazine owned by Dow Jones) which claimed that the best way to characterize the regime in North Korea was to picture Kim Jong-Il as a mafia god father. The article asserted that the North Korean rulers had no ideology other than to maintain power and bleed the country of as much as they could get.
Likewise consider the GOP as Mafia and everything else falls into place. In every area that the Bush regime has touched "Mafia" fits...
Who is the godfather? Certainly not Bush himself, but a group – hidden or semi-hidden.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Haynes, Feith, Yoo, Rove, Delay as well as fellow travelers like Abramoff and Cunningham. And then some stooges like Gonzales, Meir, and Rice, and Brownie, and some suckers like Powell.
What have they not done?
• Used the ploy of 9/11 to develop the "all fear all the time" plan which justifies any offence against the Bill of Rights.
• Wanton warrant-less wire tapping.
• Homeland security which has spent massive amounts on infrastructure to interfere with our freedoms – but without a significant improvement in security of our chemical plants or ports, or our ability to address a natural disaster.
• Invasion of countries which had nothing to do with 9/11 – but had lots of oil.
• A massive build-up in sales of sophisticated weapons abroad.
• Violations of international law regarding torture.
• Used the power of the government to steal from the poor and give to the rich Mafiosi. Wealth becoming ever more concentrated in the top 0.2% of the population.
• Destruction of unions.
• Tax laws which favor the wealthy.
• A minimum wage that in real dollars is the lowest in 30 years.
Destruction of every government agency.
• EPA
• Department of Justice
• Department of the Interior.
Then we come to the current presidential campaign where the GOP has put up two sock puppets. A doddering old codger, and a totally unqualified hockey mom/ kristian taliban.
For the Mafia no lie is too low to get these malleable fools into the White House where they can be controlled even more easily that Bush.
Just think Mafia and it all fits.