Pay Attention to This

Posted on January 24, 2007 — A. Couts
Filed Under Politics |

After you recover from the resulting hangover from last night’s SOTU (Do we really need an acronym for this? Jesus, we’re lazy.) drinking game last night, do two things: Read The New York Times‘ State of the Union editorial, it’s the only review you’ll need, and then focus all your attention on this, the rapidly unfolding trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former advisor, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

 As we concentrate on the President’s babbling off of renewed false promises and unsatisfactory health care reform, the first of what will hopefully be many judicial inquiries into this administration’s handling of the lead-up to the Iraq War is currently unfolding. It’s not the legal bloodbath many of us get a chubby one dreaming of, but it is a gleaming sliver of hope that our laws and Constitution mean more than toilet paper.

That said, I am not actually happy about any indictment of a high ranking American governmental official. As much as I enjoy even the tiniest vindication for the debacle in which we are currently engaged–not just the Iraq war, but the increased chance that our immediate future holds little but fear, pain, and possible devastation of life as we know it, and the aid given to this grevious scenario by the Bush administration through their lies, blunders and folly–legal proceedings involving the Vice President and his closest adviser concerning such serious matters as outing an undercover CIA agent and, more importantly, doing so to justify and unjustifiable war are merely symptoms of a greater illness with which we are all too familiar by now.

After listening to the President’s sixth State of the Union last night, I realized that, short of another disaster, this administration’s fate holds nothing but the crumbling mound of mediocracy it has been attempting to stand upon for the last six years. But if we are to have another disaster, this slow erosion will quickly transform into a rushing avalanche of amateurish administrative missteps for which I can only assume will lead to even greater catastrophe and worldwide volatility. So pick up your leftover beer. Here’s to hoping the next few years are merely lackluster rather than hellish. Cheers!






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