Pierce: The only issue that matters

Charles Pierce Altercates:

There really is only one issue in this election.  Since the Extended Florida Unpleasantness, this has been an Adminstration utterly unconcerned with any restraints, constitutional or otherwise, on its power.  It has been contemptuous of the idea of self-government, and particularly of the notion that an informed populace is necessary to that idea.  It recognizes neither parliamentary rules nor constitutional barriers.  (Just for fun, imagine that the Senate had not authorized force in Iraq.  Do you think for one moment that C-Plus Augustus wouldn't have launched the war anyway, and on some pretext that we'd only now be discovering was counterfeit?)  It does not accept the concept of principled opposition, either inside the administration or outside of it.  It refuses to be bound by anything more than its political appetites.  It wants what it wants, and it does what it wants.  It is, at its heart, and in the strictest definition of the word, lawless.  It has the perfect front men: a president unable to admit a mistake because he's spent his entire life being insulated from even the most minor of consequences, and a vice-president who is viscerally furious at the notion that he is accountable to anyone at all.  They are abetted by a congressional majority in which all of these un-American traits are amplified to an overwhelming din.

So, now we are faced with the question:  Do you want to live in a country where these people no longer feel even the vaporous restraints of having another election to win?

BUSH-CHENEY UNLEASHED.  Up or down? Yes or no?

That's the only issue that matters.

I don't usually quote so extensively, but Pierce just sums up the situation so well: "...a president unable to admit a mistake because he's spent his entire life being insulated from even the most minor of consequences, and a vice-president who is viscerally furious at the notion that he is accountable to anyone at all."

How can anyone justify voting for these people? As the bumper sticker says: If you're not outraged, you haven't been paying attention. To which I would add: If you haven't been paying attention, you have no business voting.