And now, behind door number three we have -- Alberto Gonzales. Direct your attention there. Don't look behind door number two -- terror alerts. Don't look behind door number one --Iraq. Just focus on door number three.
What if the Bush administration is smarter than we give them credit for? What if Gonzales is just a diversion to keep our attention focused away from other administration horrors right now?
The accusation that Gonzales has been deceptive in his public remarks has erupted this summer into a full-blown political crisis for the Bush administration, as the beleaguered attorney general struggles repeatedly to explain to Congress the removal of a batch of U.S. attorneys, the wiretapping program and other actions.
In each case, Gonzales has appeared to lawmakers to be shielding uncomfortable facts about the Bush administration's conduct on sensitive matters.
Washington Post
I agree that Gonzales has done a terrible job, should resign, ought to be impeached. I have signed petitions demanding his impeachment. But I am also troubled that we are only looking at him, and we are not asking what it is that the administration doesn't want us to look at. Perhaps it is as simple as Bush et al not wanting the Democrats to pass any legislation that would benefit the general public. Or perhaps it allows Bush to blame the Democrats for focusing mainly on Gonzales. Set Gonzales up as the bad guy and then use him to keep the Democrats from doing anything constructive. Or perhaps there are things going on that we don't know about yet and the Gonzales story is hiding them.
It has gotten pretty bad in this country when you look at everything the administration does and ask "What are they trying to cover up? What are they trying to hide?" whenever anything happens. None of the news they generate seems to be true: fake terror alerts, fake terror events, speeches full of lies. Even the medical stories have you wondering whether they aren't designed to generate sympathy for Bush and Cheney. Poor Bush--he had polyps. Surprise--he is so full of it that his body couldn't cope and generated polyps. Poor Cheney--he has heart problems. Surprise--he has no heart, no wonder his battery is overworked trying to compensate.
Along the same smoke-and-mirrors line, I was astounded when I read Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," and saw chapter after chapter of incompetence in the so-called reconstruction effort. It dawned on me that it must be next-to-impossible to find so many incompetent people. Then I realized that the goal of year one of the reconstruction of Iraq was not to succeed, but to insure that we couldn't leave because we had created such a mess.
We have elected (or been illegally saddled with) an administration which is doing things in the name of our country that most Americans would not stand for if they understood. And they don't understand because of the smoke and mirrors, the sleight of hand.
I think that we have to question everything this administration does. Don't take anything for granted. Ask what they are trying to hide. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that someone isn't really out to get you.