Times they are a changin'. Corruption and hypocricy within th Bush WH and the GOP has reached such a fever pitch in the last month that even the minion mainstream media can't ignore it. Time Magazine, the last bastion of dig-your-feet-in-conservative-blind-loyalty, will publish an editorial entitled, "Bush Clearly Unfit to Lead" in the coming days.
It's interesting to watch an arrogant and bullying person, or in this case, group of people, begin the spiral downward to which there is no return. There is a certain morbid curiosity that is involved, a transfixed detatchment, even guilt mixed in with glee.
Events of the past few weeks in the Bush docudrama have certainly veered the Bush administration and GOP from steady downward projection to outright freefall.
Just in the last 10 Days:
- Bush is called out for sidestepping Congress and appointing a Swiftboat donor to the Ambassadorship of Belgium http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
- McCain stages what is probably the most absurd--and tragic--press conference in history, http://www.cbsnews.com/... ,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
- Rove is heckled and pelted with objects at a college Republican speaking engagement, http://blogs.usatoday.com/...
- Wolfowitz is outed for advancing his incompetent girlfriend in job placement and salary--which surpasses the salary of the Secretary of State, http://www.whistleblower.org/...
- Cheney refutes Pentagon statement, and insists Saddam Hussein had a connection with Al Queda, http://www.cbsnews.com/...
- At the same time the Bush Family is tied to bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in an offshore bank scheme http://www.commondreams.org/...
- Amnesty International is calling Guantanamo military trials a "travesty of justice" http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
- a retired colonel reveals a secret military operation has been going on in Iran for months http://www.rawstory.com/... and
- plans for a US "massive attack" on Iran are underway http://www.spiegel.de/...
- more than 2,500 scientists issue "stark global warning" about the climate crisis, http://www.foe.org.au/... while the Bush administration scoffs,
- and the Supreme Court tells the Bush Administration to start acting on the global warming isssue http://www.cnn.com/...
- 12,000 new and poorly trained troops are being readied to ship out to Iraq http://www.redorbit.com/...
- While the President takes a 6-day vacation at his home in Texas, he criticizes Democrats for vacationing http://thinkprogress.org/...
- (even though Bush has far surpassed Reagan as the President who has taken the most vacation time http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
- and the Attorney General is outed for firing U.S. Attorney's who were "unfriendly" to the Bush administration http://www.bloomberg.com/...
- while three new U.S. Attorney's resign amid scandal http://www.chron.com/...
In fact, one can go to the trusty PBS-NOVA site and find an excellent tutorial on "freefalling", which explains it thus: http://www.redorbit.com/...
- When you are in a freefall you feel as though you are weightless.
- If there's nothing in your way, you can freefall for a long time (a profound point, duly noted).
- An object's speed determines whether or not it's in orbit. (Here we have an interesting thought: is the Bush administration "in orbit"?)
The site also has some nifty interactive tools, and explains them this way:
"The Earth in this activity has no atmosphere to slow down the box. Nor are there any mountains that might get in the way of the box."
As you can see, the metaphorical possibilities are limitless.