Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Stopped Buck

Here's where Barry went wrong:

He should have, Day One, launched investigations in to every single, questionable, thing that happened during the Bush-Cheney years...all eight of those years.

Start with the 2000 election, move through the Cheney energy meetings, proceed to the Iraq War and glide along with Katrina, Gonzales, Abu Ghraib, Valerie Plame and the Wall Street "Meltdown." Not to mention Enron, Guantanamo and all of the other events of 2000-2008...

No need to be partisan or vindictive. I hear ya..."Post-Partisan Politics" and all.

Don't want to "look back."

Got it. A new page...a "New Dawn."

"Just the facts M'am."


Send in Joe Friday...uh, I mean Henry Waxman.

Find out what happened. Really.

Then, once that's been "accomplished" you can assess responsibility...you can point the finger.

You can assign blame.

You can stop the bleeding that's going on, right now, in the Media, in Washington, on Main Street.

Everybody's yelling at Obama. Everbody's saying that it's all his fault.

Well, maybe some of it is. But maybe some of it ain't.

Maybe the mess we're in, or "deep, deep Gumbo" as the great Bob Herbert called it, is not Barry's fault.

Maybe he inherited it. And maybe it doesn't matter at all how much time goes by between the birth of the problem and it's solution. Maybe the people who started it will still be responsible...

...and not on a beach somewhere counting their money, sipping cold drinks and laughing while Rome, and every other world capitol, burns...some literally.

Maybe some people will go to jail. Maybe some will have to pay the money back and give back their medals (there were allegations made about Paul Bremmer and, if proven true, he could get a twofer there...) Maybe some will have to go to the homes of the families of the thousands of fallen heroes on the Fourth of July and explain to the grieving mothers and fathers why in God's good name their children are dead.

Maybe then Barry's presidency will have fulfilled the Promise of Denver.

Maybe then "change" will really happen.

Maybe pigs will fly.

BLT anyone...?

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