Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Aiding and Abetting
Tobias Seamon, writing in today's The Morning News, observes that, "While it’s refreshing to see the American media show some guts for the first time in ages, it would have been nice to see similar vigor during the 2000 election when Jim Crow tactics repeatedly turned blacks away from voting booths and GOP operatives bashed down the doors in Florida and physically halted the recount process."
But to answer his rhetorical question, "How can this [Katrina calamity] be happening in America?,” one has to go back twenty years to a time when the Democratic party still held a majority in the US Congress, and made a conscious choice not to impeach Reagan and Bush Senior, and thus precipitated the pardoning of the plethora of felons now aiding and abetting Bush Junior.
As Seamon notes, "New Orleans will be ripe for a wave of carpetbaggers unseen since the Civil War, when Union General Benjamin Butler set up shop in the Big Easy and made an underground fortune in illicit cotton sales." Only this time, the carpetbaggers will be flying in on Air Force One.
But to answer his rhetorical question, "How can this [Katrina calamity] be happening in America?,” one has to go back twenty years to a time when the Democratic party still held a majority in the US Congress, and made a conscious choice not to impeach Reagan and Bush Senior, and thus precipitated the pardoning of the plethora of felons now aiding and abetting Bush Junior.
As Seamon notes, "New Orleans will be ripe for a wave of carpetbaggers unseen since the Civil War, when Union General Benjamin Butler set up shop in the Big Easy and made an underground fortune in illicit cotton sales." Only this time, the carpetbaggers will be flying in on Air Force One.
