Frustration Is So Tiring
Sparxafire!
I remember now why I disentangle myself from politics. It’s just too frustrating! I reel at the greed and the outright stupidity. I grow faint with despair when your president mangles our language. I fling my head into my hands when Nancy Pelosi basically says, (and I’m paraphrasing) “OK, America, even though you are paying me to do this job, I’m not gonna do it. Impeachment is off the table. Knee deep in high crimes, misdemeanors and lies…. there’s nothing, but nothing you can do or say to make me step up and do my job. Besides, there’s nothing you can do about it anyway. So, shrug.”
My eyes sting with hot tears of frustration when I learn that Bush is determined to “restore” the presidency to the powers it had before Nixon “screwed it up.” Whaaaaa? Setting up the Nixon presidency as some ideal??? Executive privilege, exECutive PRIVilege, dammit! What does that mean, exactly? Here’s my multiple choice test, see if you can get the right answer:
Executive privilege is invoked when:
A. We have broken laws that could send us to jail.
B. We have done things for the good of the country that would scare you to death you if you knew.
C. We have done shameful, greedy, sneaky things that are unlawful.
D. We have done things that are really so complicated, you just wouldn’t understand.
E. We have done things that are really against your best interests and you’d be really upset if you knew.
F. All the above.
So. When they invoke executive privilege, who could possibly respect the notion, and who could possibly think anything but that there are crimes and slimes going on??? Who invented executive privilege and signing statements, anyway??? Certainly not the founding fathers. I’m pretty sure I know the position they would take on these arrogant and royal throne-like notions.
I wish I could just close my eyes and it would all go away.
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