That Republican mantra of the 2004 campaign was on point. "You don't change horses midstream". Surely, if John Kerry had won in that election the real work of the President would never have been fully realized. George W. Bush had a job to do, and dammit he's doing that work with every last bit of strength the Dark Lord Satan can channel into him.
Could we have had an Executive that would actually veto expanding healthcare for needy children under a successful heart surgeon turned successful governor like Howard Dean? NO. SCHIP would be some kind of damned safeguard against promoting dead children. If you're afraid to die and go up (or down) to meet his Creator than you don't deserve to live anyway Timmy!
Could we truly have known the shame and disgrace that comes with being the last remaining superpower, yet still willing to torture detainees in secret prisons located the world over in some distopian like nightmare? Under decorated veterans or staunch anti-war activists like John Kerry or dare I say... Dennis Kuchinich, could we? War is now what it has always been. The business of privelaged draft dodgers who were stoned out of their minds when it came time for them to actually do some fighting. How much coke did he snort again?
What about politicizing the Department of Justice? Who else could have taken it to the hole like but Dubya? To the point that the entire American citizenry no longer can rest easily knowing that justice in this nation were truly blind? Would a successful 'trial lawyer' like John Edwards had the balls to do what the President did? Two words: "I object!!" Pussy.
And let's not forget stacking a government with so many hacks and cronies that it makes Tamany Hall look like a meritocracy for the ages. A strategy that brought you the all time salutable faces of former horse breeder turned FEMA head Michael Brown, eco-terrorist turned EPA head Christy Todd Whitman, and legal aces like John Ashcroft (a payback appointment to the conservative right) and Alberto Gonzalez and attempted SCOTUS appointee Harriet "Lucy Number 9" Meirs. For further details on this administations high esteem for merit read my blog entry "The Bush Hackocracy".
No, America. Changing horses midstream would have been a bad idea. A better idea would have been shooting the horse with the bum leg in the head before you even got out there in the first place. Instead we should have stuck with the horse associated with the previous eight years of good fortune and stabilty. You know, the horse that really won and not the horse that was appointed by the Supreme Court in a Florida recount. Yeah, that horse. Giddy up, America. We're goin back to Crawford; where the cowboys are all hat and no cattle.
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