assorted washington scumbaggery

as you’ve probably heard, vice president dick cheney and former attorney general alberto gonzales have just been indicted for prisoner abuse and organized crime. that would be racketeering, as in the mafia. no, they’re not exactly breaking the legs of local business owners.

poor gonzo, as if he didn’t already have his hands full defending himself against another federal lawsuit, for the illegal partisan firing of six government attorneys last year. so poor, in fact, that his defense is being financed by US: your dollars hard at work again. almost makes you proud to be an american, don’t it?

meanwhile, joe “am i a democrat or not” lieberman has just escaped congress with nary a slap on the wrist for spending the entire presidential campaign attacking and slandering his own party’s candidate. are the fucking democrats EVER going to grow a pair? they just won the election in the biggest landslide we’ve ever seen, and they are still diddling around? still ignoring phone calls from their constituents and making nice-nice over there in the senate? fuck that and fuck them: join the movement to defeat turncoat joe in 2012. if our representatives can’t bring themselves to do it, we’re going to have to get it done ourselves.

and what is our scumbag-in-chief up to in these dog days of his administration? oh, just more of the same — doing everything he can to prevent women who need abortions from getting them and giving as much of our heritage as he can away for free to his cronies in the oil & gas industry.

i am sick and tired of having this international pariah as the public face of our country. his “peers” in other governments won’t even shake his hand any more! is this embarassing or what?

until january 20th comes, i can’t look at the government in front of us. i’d rather look at the government behind us, and there’s no better place to do it than on google’s brand-new site of every life magazine photo ever published (and many that weren’t) since 1750.

hang in there. just a little bit longer to go now. drink plenty of water and take your vitamin C.