Dick Cheney is evil

I just tried scribefire after having so many problems with blogger. I wrote an entire post which then magically erased itself. Have I mentioned how much I despise blogging software? If I write a post in Word, the spacings get all screwy. Yet, I am sure to lose at least part of each post I write when I write it on blogger. Yes, I am whining. I'm sick, I'm allowed to whine.

Did you hear about Dick Cheney and the suggestion that Navy Seals be used as bait to give us an excuse to invade Iran? I can't imagine how betrayed the soldiers and soldiers' families who voted for these "people" must have felt when they heard this story. It takes a special brand of evil to consider using soldiers as bait just so that we can get what we want, not because it will do some good. This is the sort of thing that gives the 9/11 conspiracy nuts more fodder and the sort of thing that makes us all that much more distrustful of our country. The fact that this kind of evil is allowed to prosper, is allowed to make decisions for us is abominable. This is the kind of evil that doesn't masquerade behind a benign countenance; it is the kind of evil that lays it bare and then laughs at anyone who objects. It is this totalitarian thinking, this idea that we can do whatever we wish simply because no one will be there to stop us that has caused such a serious rift between reality and politics in this country. Who is watching the watchmen?

And yet, what has the highest ranking democrat done about any of it? Nothing. First, Nancy Pelosi states that impeachment is "off the table" for Bush. Then she says she's willing to entertain it, but doggone it! there just isn't time before he leaves office. Now she has stated through a spokesperson that she will not decide on the contempt citation for Karl Rove until September. What in the name of all things good and true is she waiting for? If I were a conspiracy nut I might be inclined to believe that Pelosi is a highly successful republican plant. I am left to wonder if she is nothing more than a power player who, like Dick Cheney, cares for nothing other than her own power and her own gratuitous fortune. One thing I do know for sure: she has misled people when she claimed to be a democrat.

What do politicians think will happen if we continue on this road to extreme gaps in earning? Do they really think the people will not rise up and revolt against their lack of opportunity? Do they really not know that the soaring crime rates are exactly that? I don't get it, I really don't. How can so many people be so divorced from reality and so cut off from the common person that they think people will quietly starve to death, or die of kidney failure on the street, or die in a random shooting? Did you know that if you're homeless and you're in renal failure, if it takes you more than a few days to die they kick you out of the charity hospital? You only get so long for your final death throes before you are either kicked back to the street or put in a medicare nursing home. And spare me the, oh, but they chose to be homeless! rhetoric. No one chooses to be homeless. When you were a kid did you think, I want to grow up to be a homeless crack addict! Of course not. No matter the road that brought you to homelessness, being homeless or begging on the street is not a happy place to be.

Yet, we do nothing. We sit back in our comfortable homes, paying $350 a month for air conditioning and $200 a month to water our pristine lawns full of non-native flowers and we shake our heads at the evil of it all while sipping our iced tea. If you don't think you have as much responsibility in this whole ridiculous situation we're in, think again. You, me, everyone in this country who is capable of speaking out has the duty to stop this shit. Now. Stop the reign of terror brought about by the Bush administration. Bring back checks and balances to government. Stop the devaluation of life as a basic necessity, not a luxury! You realize that, don't you? Life is now a luxury. Can't afford to feed/house/care for yourself? Sucks to be you. Dick Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, even you Barack Obama, you can all do those things. What about us?

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