Nothing made me want to puke more...
Nov. 3rd, 2004 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThen reading Bill "I don't know when to hold 'em" Bennett crowing that Bush's re-election is "a mandate for cultural change," and then reading his statement (which NPR repeatead) that "more than half of the people who voted for Bush cited moral values as their reason for voting for him." Bennett claims that Bush "restored decency to the White House."
What a narrow, horrible notion of dencency. Apparently, "decency" means not screwing with an intern, but screwing a country instead. Bush has pandered like a two-dollar-whore to every pressure group with the finances necessary to make its voice heard. The steel folks got what they wanted until the automakers were getting screwed, then Bush backed off. The farmers are still getting subsidies. Drug and insurance companies are getting their subsidies. The day before the election, Bush signed a bill defining engineering contractors as "manufacturers" for tax-break purposes. Other than those getting the benefits, there is not a single voice calling the bill "good policy."
And so on. It is indecent when our tax codes are not neutral to all parties. It is indecent when our intellectual property laws are not neutral towards the commons. It is indecent when our civil rights laws are abrogated in the name of some nebulous but ineffective security. It is indecent when the Supreme Court is on the verge of adopting the Bork principle that "the moral gratification of the many outweighs the personal gratification of the individual." It is indecent that we left in office a man who prosecuted and continues to prosecute an unjust war.
What a narrow, horrible notion of dencency. Apparently, "decency" means not screwing with an intern, but screwing a country instead. Bush has pandered like a two-dollar-whore to every pressure group with the finances necessary to make its voice heard. The steel folks got what they wanted until the automakers were getting screwed, then Bush backed off. The farmers are still getting subsidies. Drug and insurance companies are getting their subsidies. The day before the election, Bush signed a bill defining engineering contractors as "manufacturers" for tax-break purposes. Other than those getting the benefits, there is not a single voice calling the bill "good policy."
And so on. It is indecent when our tax codes are not neutral to all parties. It is indecent when our intellectual property laws are not neutral towards the commons. It is indecent when our civil rights laws are abrogated in the name of some nebulous but ineffective security. It is indecent when the Supreme Court is on the verge of adopting the Bork principle that "the moral gratification of the many outweighs the personal gratification of the individual." It is indecent that we left in office a man who prosecuted and continues to prosecute an unjust war.
