[TAG] The Public Domain: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:06:19AM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> 
> Ironic they'd be raising rates when the prime rate has been at a historic
> low the past two years.  Oh, but we have a Congress that tightened
> restrictions on bankrupcy filings for poor people while not affecting
> corporate bankrupcies.  At least they're consistent.

>From Mark Morford's "Morning Fix":
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/09/09/notes090905.DTL&nl=fix

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Everyone is slamming poor Dubya. Everyone is saying, oh my God, he's
more inept than we ever imagined, he has no idea what's really going on,
he's oblivious and in denial and he pretty much let all those poor black
people die in filth and misery, and he basically ignored the massive
Katrina disaster for days before finally being pressured into cutting
his umpteenth vacation short and actually taking action.

[ ... ]

But it's so unfair, isn't it, to attack poor Dubya like this? Just a
little misplaced? After all, Bush has always been the rich white man's
president. He is the CEO president, the megacorporate businessman's
friend, the thug of the religious right, a big reservoir-tipped condom
for all energy magnates, protecting against the nasty STDs of
humanitarianism and progress and social responsibility.

He has always been merely an entirely selective figurehead, out of touch
and eternally dumbfounded, a hand puppet of the neoconservative machine
built and fluffed up and carefully placed for the very specific job of
protecting their interests, no matter what. Repeat: No. Matter. What.
Flood hurricane disaster war social breakdown economic collapse? Doesn't
matter. Corporate interests ?ber alles, baby. Protect the core, reassure
the base, screw everyone else unless it begins to affect the poll
numbers and then finger-point, deflect, prevaricate. All of a piece,
really. Because Bush, he was never actually meant to, you know, LEAD.
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