July 11, 2005

• Personal responsibility.  Is this just an abstract concept to
  those in power today?  I don't understand it.  I was raised
  to take responsibility for my actions - I make a mistake, I own up to
  it, say I am sorry and try to make it right.

  But typical of the right-wingers currently in office, Shrub and his
  lackeys appear to be avoiding personal responsibility.  Sure, when
  the name of the person who leaked a CIA operative's name to the press
  was just an anonymous press leak, the Bush White House took the hard
  line.

  "The White
  House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they
  would no longer be in this administration," said Senate Minority Leader
  Harry Reid, D-Nev. "I trust they will follow through on this pledge. If
  these allegations are true, this rises above politics and is about our
  national security."

  ...

  The
  disclosure also left in doubt whether Bush would carry out his promise
  to fire anyone found to have leaked the CIA operative's identity. Rove
  is one of the president's closest confidants - the man Bush has
  described as the architect of his re-election, and currently deputy
  White House chief of staff.
  
  
  
  (From Excite News)
  
  Today, it came to light that Karl Rove, one of those closest to Shrub,
  is one of the people responsible for leaking the operative's
  name.  Has the White House done anything about this?  Have
  they fired him?  Have they pulled his security clearances? 
  No, nothing doing.  The hard line rhetoric has proven to be just a
  line of crap fed to us by a whole bunch of suit-wearing weasels. 

  Same thing with Rush Limbaugh.  "Yes, all drug users and dealers
  should be locked up and the key thrown away!"  Six months
  later..."Well, I didn't mean ME of course - I am sick, I have an
  illness!!  You can't have my medical records!  Wah fuckin'
  wah!!"

  Damned hypocrites.  Not that liberals are less hypocritical, I guess.  They are just less bold about it.

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