Trust Issues
Feb 12th, 2006 at 2:47 pm by Susie
There’s the whole mixed emotions thing - I’m glad the Times has finally started to use their powers for good, and yet I still wonder what the hell took them so long:
We can’t think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust him. We also can’t think of a president who has deserved that trust less. [...]
Like many other administrations before it, this one sometimes dissembles clumsily to avoid embarrassment. (We now know, for example, that the White House did not tell the truth about when it learned the levees in New Orleans had failed.) Spin-as-usual is one thing. Striking at the civil liberties, due process and balance of powers that are the heart of American democracy is another.
I’m realizing that Katrina was the straw that broke this camel’s back. You know, spin and lies and illegal wars to enrich your buddies are one thing, but this whole “standing by and watching people die”, too much. I guess I thought there was a bottom to the muck.