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What’s new is I’ve got one heck of a headache. And honestly I think the Bush administration is partly responsible.
Anyone else ever feel like you’ve got scandal/outrage fatigue?
Pax
Oh yes. Had it for a couple of months now. Soem days it seems hopeless, but I force myself to find stories every day to write about.
I rarely go 24 hours without reading, but some days I have absolutely nothing worth contributing, even as a comment. The entire system disgusts me, it’s hard to pick out specific points. Healthy democracy shouldn’t be this susceptible to fraud and manipulation.
Somedays it’s just one big long “F” word for me. Then I think to myself, this can’t be healthy….so I take a break. Come back….things seem brighter and better and slowly I’m flushed down the commode again.
I mostly unwind by working on several novels, one about bureaucracy and one about gun control, that seem to be populated more and more with politicians who die in spectacularly horrible ways.
But this is not a case of art imitating life. 😉
Unfortunately not, unless Senator Frist has been mummified recently and trapped in a glass display case by people who didn’t realize he had only lost the first of his nine lives.
We haven’t had a healthy democracy since FDR I think, but it really took a downturn under Bush 2.
I was born during Nixon’s 1st year in office, and I think this is the lowest downturn during my lifetime. It’s not like all of this type of thing hasn’t happened before, but it still feels different this time.
One of the major bloggers, I think either Digby or Greenwald, pointed it our recently: Republicans have spent 30 years sabotaging the credibility of everyone who could be a check on unlimited executive power; the media, judiciary, congress etc. don’t have any credibility left and Bush has destroyed the credibility of the Executive branch too.
Truth is now irrelevant to the political process, and somehow changing that is the key to finding a way out of this mess. We need to begin punishing lying again.
I’ve been known to remark that my outrage meter long ago snapped its restraining peg and is now in continuous spin, doubling as a desk fan.
When this administration is dealt its richly deserved reward, I’d like to think I’ll have the energy to do the Snoopy Dance down Fourth Avenue in Seattle, but honestly, I think I’ll more likely just sink down into a comfortable chair, sigh heavily, and say to myself, “Thank FSM that’s over.”
My candidate for District Attorney is running unopposed – yippee! As a campaign player for the last 5 months life just got amazingly simple.
Now I’m going to have time to work for McNerney in CD-11 here in CA and boot Pombo out…
Pombo?!! You have my sympathies.
He’s in the neighboring district so we are all going to help boot him out. A 20-30 minute drive across the bridge…and I’m ready to walk precincts or whatever. They united us all right…every major group is coordinating to boot him! ;^D
I have Lynn Woolsey…too moderate for me but a good solid Dem and I haven’t seen any contenders against her yet.
who’s going to yearlykos in vegas?
i’ll be there!
Ooh, ooh, me. < waving arms >
from the wings the whole time. Not aiming for you guys so just dodge.
All the cable channels including Headline News have been covering the Joseph Smith sentencing hearing non-stop for at least the last half-hour. I think the judge is trying to torture the convicted murderer by talking forever without ever getting to the actual sentence.
And Headline News has cut away to report on child porn arrests. The goal of 24-hour news channels seems to be depressing people so much that they never tune in again, which could explain their mediocre ratings.
Balkanization?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/15/14355/0177
this is happening tonight! 5 pm est
Incoherencies, Eponymies: Proofs of Accusations Often Skimpy
Just to see how flimsy the rationale ofr detaining some of these men has been. It doesn’t mention the al Jazeera correspondent held there & tortured to reveal the “connections” between AJ & AQ . . .
from Booman’s “Enemy” — A
liberal catnip gets a visit and a comment from CENTCOM
I’m not sure about this, but firedoglake posted today that New Jersey’s junior senator is backing Russ Feingold’s resolution censuring the President.
…and
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has become the first co-sponsor to Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wis.) controversial resolution to censure President Bush for authorizing an allegedly illegal domestic surveillance program, ROLL CALL reports.
Huh. Harkin but not Boxer, not Kennedy, not Durbin, not Obama. Strange times. Hopefully the rest are just taking their time and keeping the story alive. That would be a great strategy, come to think of it: every day or two, a couple more senators sign on to the Feingold resolution until it’s close to a majority. Drip drip drip. The suspense puts it at the top of the news every night for a month. Not that I think that IS the plan, but it would be a great one.
I think we should all pretend that that is the plan. If it isn’t, it oughtta be.
I would bet that a GOPr supports it before Friday night or at least before the Sunday am newsertainment shows.