We/2 Told You So
Spin is in, has been for too long. Framing is everything, at least when there are cardboard cut-outs in charge. New words pop up like mushrooms: how many times have you heard the verb "to blame-game" used in the last 10 minutes? (One would suggest that Rove shouldn't press the "blame-game" vocabularly too much lest the rhyme suggest the equally childish "to named-Plame-blame-game".)
So, I've heard two framing-for-history suggestions for popular names to attach to the New Orleans Debacle (i.e., the name-lame-blame-game):
Both seem useful to me.
And who will investigate the excruciating laxity of the administration's response to the storm? Yes, the most trusted investigator in America – George W. Bush. (Because he's a guy who can admit a mistake, right?) And I'm sure there are plenty of wing-nuts who can't even imagine why that is a stupid idea.
Besides, the idea of politicians investigating themselves has a certain appeal — I can just hear the the slogans about who should know a politician's failings better than the politician!
My latest suggestion for a T-shirt aphorism:
Disaster Relief: Bush Quits
How likely is that, we wonder? Well, consider how petulent he's looked lately having to take trips he wasn't looking forward to and not getting to ride his bicycle and having to end his vacation early which left him un-crisp and un-presidential. I don't think he's a happy camper.
I'm pleased enough by all the conservative voters who are beginning to see what they are responsible for, but could we do it a little faster please? This "Bush is horrible but I'm still glad he's President" dichotomy denial phase tends to induce vertigo and nausea. And, frankly, I've had enough of the weak excuses from neo-cons who invoke the We as they attempt to spread the blame for Bush and his quiver full of failures around to everyone — excuse me, but We/2 did tell you so, quite loudly, so let's just drop all this failure-to-see-of-the-We crap.
Is it time yet to return to the progressive agenda that what it is today (or, more precisely, what it was a few years ago before the Bush League began looting — um, finding)?