The Sound of the Crowd

Kinda scary column about Bush blocking another investigation, this time into 9/11.

…to which the answer is “yes.” And not only that, “yes,” with a big, slowly growing smile on my face. Once again, Josh Marshall says a lot of what I wanted to say, this time about the prewar “intelligence faliures.” Only he says it a lot better than I do.

Go, read.

As comes as a surprise to no one who has been paying attention, “President” George W. Bush has declined to back an inqury into the “intelligence faliure” that got us into Iraq. Presumably this is because such an inquiry will reveal that Bush, “Vice-President” Cheney and etc. have done their jobs with some incompetence. To put it mildly. And as a direct result, we’re waking up to nearly daily headlines about soldiers dying.

I don’t want to let Democrats off the hook about this, either–Senators like John Edwards and John Kerry flatly failed to do their jobs, too. And the next generation will judge them just as surely as mine did those who got the US into Vietnam, Republican or Democrat. Although, that’s easy to say with 20/20 hindsight, and I’m not sure if, at the time, the futility of Vietnam was as evident as Iraq II was. And it was, from the very beginning. Dean’s presumptive frontrunner status may have turned out to be greatly exaggerated, but he will always have this over every one of the candidates except Clark and, of course, Kucinich: He was right about Iraq, and they were wrong.

I would love to see which of them will be the first to say it (come on, John Edwards! Confession is good for the soul!).

In this issue, I melt Marshmallow Coast, take a dip into Sea Ray, bag and board Crystal Method, and sing a few songs from the big chair with Underworld.

I’ve been busy.

ETA: And then, breaking the tape in a photo finish, Hurry Up Offense has run.

This is a shout goin’ out…

…I think the only sane response to this item is “Wait…there’s a statue of Yoda worth…”

…what the hell, I am an ’80s man. I like the photo of John Kerry that goes with this article about the debate in South Carolina. I still think Dean, Clark and Edwards (in roughly that order, for the moment) are more in agreement with me…but that is one snazzy picture.

John “lost an election to a dead man/scared of breasts” Ashcroft says the war in Iraq was too so justified, whether we ever find the WMD or not. Because, after all, we know that Hussien did once have chemical weapons. And how do we know this? Because we sold them to him. Shh.

…that was the gayest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen Pet Shop Boys live in concert.

According to this Newsweek poll, a majority of Americans want an alternative to Bush because they’re realizing he was deceptive at worst, dumb at best about Iraq, that his tax policies screw 99% of the people, that he has no understanding of what it means to be in a working family, that his foreign and national defense policies are making us more hated and not a lick more safe. Yet the Democrats have so far failed to yield a candidate appealing enough to make that same majority think that Bush can and will be beaten. What’s up with that? How can people want Bush replaced yet not think he will be? Don’t they know they’re the ones who can replace him? Here’s hoping a lot of them see those figures and realize there’s a lot more of us…