Originally Posted by roachboy

source:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...age_oversight/

sometimes it appears that the political legitimacy of the bush administration is so shot to hell that they've already begun to fade away.

sometimes it appears that most of us are simply so weary of these clowns that we prefer to look forward or elsewhere and avoid the simple reality that in american "democracy" the fact that "we the people" are political free one day every four years has consequences and central among these consequences right now is that this foul and incompetent administration is still in power.

but while we are perhaps wishing that the situation were otherwise, the bush people continue to do things. this is an example: an even further reduction in oversight, an even further undermining of transparency in the area of surveillance/espionage. now obviously, the figleaf for this is the same as the wiretapping, the same as many other such actions--the fictional "war on terror" which is, if you think about it, not a whole lot different structurally from the stalinist war on the hitlero-trotskyite wrecker--except less deadly.


i cannot for the life of me figure out how conservatives of the economic-to-libertarian stripe--the folk who support smaller government because (presumably) smaller institutions are more transparent (perhaps because they are simply less complex) continue to support this administration. i really cannot--the bush administration has nothing to do with these politics--it is an authoritarian-style conservatism, one with a kind of disconcerting disregard for the law.