Of course, the wingnuts are now pretending that it's all well and good for the president to ignore any law he feels like because, after all, we're in a war on terror and will be forever because no one can or will define victory. If you try to argue that the president is throwing our civil liberties in the shitcan, the wingnuts try to make it a false choice: If we try to beg our Boy King to abide by the principles of the constitution, then we are giving terrorists freedom to come over here and kill us all. How can Dear Leader protect us when he's handcuffed by this quaint piece of paper with all of these complicated articles and amendments?
You know what? Fuck that. It is abundantly clear that this administration abuses power and tries to keep it secret. When the secret is blown by some outraged insider who has finally seen enough, the wingnuts attack the leaker while the administration tries to bluster it's way out of a corner by repeating 9/11 as many times as is necessary to make the media shut up.
And so it goes with every scandal worthy of serious investigation, except the Plame case, which thankfully is in the hands of a professional prosecutor and not the media or the useless Congress.
Maybe not this time, because maybe they've done enough to finally wake up the people who pretend to call themselves libertarians while voting Republican straight down the line. Maybe people will remember that long ago, Americans were given the choice between having liberties or caving in to fear, and they went with Patrick Henry. Give me liberty or give me death. Don't all these stupid fucks realize that by changing our entire political system into a monarchy, we are allowing the terrorists to win by destroying our freedoms? We're allowing the world to think that we're just as bad as the bad guys (and, under Bush, that's sounding more and more like a fair criticism).
What makes me the most ill is not the idiots and cynical liars in charge of our government. Not the Boy King, Cheney, Rumsfeld, DeLay, Frist, etc. No. It is the vast swath of Moron Americans who vote for these fucks. And Democrats. Jesus. If the Democrats don't start fighting back, we're doomed. We cannot just keep saying to ourselves, "Surely, the wingnuts will wake up NOW and realize how fucked up everything is," because that'll just never happen. Crap, we're at the point now where I'm starting to take "and then they came for me" arguments seriously.
I guess I need to finish Franken's book and get back to Star Wars so I can numb myself until this is all over and we're back to living in America.