Running Jurisprudence Through the Shredder
It’s a popular rant to accuse George Bush of being the captain of the wrecking crew that’s trashed our international reputation and run the country aground on the rocks of special interest and debt. 60% of the country is no longer in his camp, if camp there exists.
My personal hunch is that the nation will be forgiving in its confusion come November 7th. The cowboy president who knows not how to ride will thus remain in the metaphoric, if not actual, saddle.
But it amuses me (in the most pessimistic sense) that Hewlett Packard is being taken apart on the rack of public scorn for tracing the phone records of its board members. Meanwhile, the Bush administration gets a pass on its totally unsupervised telephone interceptions—not on a ten-member board, but on the three hundred million of its citizens.
Nary a whimper. Wolf Blitzer defanged, Katie Couric enthralled.
The media breathlessly reports ‘negotiations’ between John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Warner and the administration on torture …