Sadly Instructive


Digby's essay entitled "The Art of the Hissy Fit" is particularly relevant in light of first, the completely unecessary and asinine Pete Stark apology in all its ritual lunacy, and second, the very deliberate NON-apology proffered by Condoleezza Rice to Maher Arar. Arar, you may remember, had the misfortune to pass through New York City while returning to his home in Toronto, resulting in a yearlong diversion to a Syrian torture mill...which probably defines Team Bush as well as anything: fascist, thuggish, and stupid (you see, Arar was the wrong guy).

You know, if anyone should be groveling for the next eternity and then some, it's yer GOP, who've managed to do a bang-up job of total fuck-up on an unprecedented scale. Yet, for whatever reason, it's the goddamned Dems who opt for the mea culpas and role of defendant in the show trial kabuki.

My guess is that its got something to do with the corporate donor base. Sad to say, the government really is a case of evil and more evil, and corporate dollars run the show, to the point where the national interest and special interests, at least in political shorthand, have managed a rather stunning 180 degree reversal. Under those circumstances, I guess it becomes a game of "no mea culpa, no money."

Which is too bad--because at times, one of life's pleasures, and one of the best electoral strategies, is telling someone in power to fuck off, especially when it's well deserved. And no one deserves a bigger F.U. than Team Bush.