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November 22, 2005

Another Truly Frightening Story . . .

It's news like the story below (via Daily Kos) that makes me wonder if the "adults" in the Republican Party are eventually going to turn on Bush the way they did on Nixon. I've always figured Watergate must have been less about the heroism of the Fourth Estate and more about internal government power struggles. Both the revelation that Deep Throat was the #2 guy at the FBI, and that Woodward is even more of a servant to power than previously thought, provide evidence for this hypothesis. Nixon must have just made too many enemies within his party and within the permanent government. Combine that with the JFK assassination, and it means 2 out of 3 presidents in that era were more or less pushed aside through coups of some sort. Follow that up with the Clinton impeachment and the ballot irregularities in 2000 and 2004, and the smooth transition of power through the electoral process starts to look less like the rule in modern America, and more like the exception.

If that's a very scary thought - and it is - it also leads one to wonder if the bells may soon toll for Bush, Cheney & Co. What happens as all the Republican donors who aren't in the oil business start looking at how those high prices affect their own bottom lines? It's understandable that the party owns the extractive industries, but you'd think the manufacturing and service sectors have vested interests in low energy prices, international stability, and Brand America. Plus, they may even be wondering if shifting the insurance burden to government might be the only way to salvage crushing benefits responsibilities. You figure top Foutune 500 execs may be greedy and "conservative," but they're not stupid. Or, I don't know, maybe they are . . .

Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: BUSH PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY

Posted by tedf at November 22, 2005 02:04 PM

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