Soapbox

Gonzo

Well I can’t say I didn’t see it coming. President Bush says that poor Alberto Gonzales resigned because of "mud slinging."

Yes, that’s the new term for asking someone to tell the truth, if that someone is a member of the Bush administration. And trying to find out the truth anyway when the Bush flunky refuses to answer questions, ignores lawful subpoenas and Freedom of Information act requests: why that’s called a witch hunt. Just ask Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly and the president’s other designated mouthpieces- they’ll be telling us this all week. It was all nothing but a witch hunt!

Forget the late night verbal assault on ailing A.G. Ashcroft in his hospital bed and subsequent lies about it. Forget attempts to pressure United States Attorneys into filing lawsuits for purely political reasons and subsequent lies about it. Forget the ever-shifting stories about warrantless spying on Americans, blatantly ignoring the U. S. Constitution when one sees fit, the justification of torture, and letting Karl Rove and the White House virtually run the justice department. Forget about all of it! That’s what you must do, if you swallow Bush’s manure about "mudslinging" and "witch hunts."

Some of us, however, will not forget, though we know we will be called "partisan hacks" for it. We know we will be accused of hating America, of being rabid liberals and wanting terrorists to win (and probably of hating Jesus, just for good measure) for thinking that the rule of law is more important than the rule of Bush.

But we won’t forget any of it. Because we want our country back, and we’re just crazy enough to think that if we keep looking for the truth, we might one day find it, buried under all that manure.