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Just another scam at 1600 Penn
By DOUG THOMPSON
Apr 21, 2006
Questions most often asked at power breakfasts around Washington this
week center on the White House staff "shakeup."
-----What does it mean?
-----Will it change how Bush conducts its presidency?
-----Can Bush's presidency be saved?
-----Does Bush finally realize he is in trouble?
The answers: Not much, no, no and no.
The so-called White House shakeup is cosmetic, a reshuffling of the
same power players who have advised and served Bush's agenda of false
optimism, fake assessments and outright deceit since they took over
the West Wing on January 21, 2001.
Karl Rove still sits at the right-hand of the self-proclaimed
messenger of God, dispensing the same Orwellian advice.
A new press secretary will have to stand up in front of reporters day
after day and lie through his teeth to try and protect Bush's failed
presidency.
Bush isn't bringing in fresh blood.
He's recycling the same tired stuff, the blood infected with multiple
viruses of deception, distrust and destruction of the Constitution and
the freedoms that hallowed document once guaranteed.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld still calls the shots on the Iraq
debacle,
a complete failure that will forever tag the United States as an
international bully willing to wage war on the flimsiest of excuses,
hiding behind false pretenses and willing to kill at random to further
a failed political agenda.
***** Cheney still sits in the VP's office or one of his "undisclosed"
locations,
greasing the skids for the nation's downward plunge into mediocrity
while doling out bloated, no-bid contracts to his cronies at
Halliburton and other fatcat friends.
The "please sir, may I have some more" Greek chorus on Capitol Hill
still runs Congress, driving the nation deeper into debt with
record-deficit budgets, lavish pork-barrel spending and other
legislation for sale to the lobbyist with the biggest bank account.
No, nothing changes with the meaningless reassignments at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Crooks still run the country, lining their pockets while the nation
drowns in a whirlpool of debts, deceit and damnation.
Some members of the mainstream media fell for the ruse, writing long,
uninformed puff pieces about the new approach of the Bush
administration, falling for the sham that Bush can change and things
can improve.
But nothing has, or will, change until Bush and his cabal are driven
from the White House, either led away in chains by federal Marshalls
or rejected by American voters.
Nothing will change as long as Congress remains in the grip of an
extremist right-wing that places polarization above compromise and
party loyalty above the best interests of the nation.
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Harry
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