Welcome To Karl's "AmeriKa"

An eye-opening description of the "New AmeriKa" according to Karl Rove should send chills down your spine. But first you have to care enough to understand it. Unfortunately too few bother to even try. Paul Krugman wrote in the NYT yesterday What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern. What a sad, sad commentary on what has become of a wonderful country, when it willingly let's itself be led around by the nose by a slimeball like Karl. This (man?), no I can't refer to him as that!! Let's use his boyfriends' name for him "Turdblossom" much more fitting. Back to what I was saying, how sad that the people let themselves be lead around by turdblossoms' view of things. As Krugman points out in his op-ed, the most telling example is the use of 9/11 for political gain. But the real demonstration that Mr. Rove understands American politics better than any pundit came after 9/11. Every time I read a lament for the post-9/11 era of national unity, I wonder what people are talking about. On the issues I was watching, the Republicans' exploitation of the atrocity began while ground zero was still smoldering. Mr. Rove has been much criticized for saying that liberals responded to the attack by wanting to offer the terrorists therapy - but what he said about conservatives, that they "saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war," is equally false. What many of them actually saw was a domestic political opportunity - and none more so than Mr. Rove. We need look no further than the rising and lowering of the terror alert in unison with King George's approval ratings. And now there is the uproar over Heil Karl's involvement in the Plame leak. Look at the way his spin machine is at work since the facts of his involvement came out. Instead of the media going after him (longer than two or three days), they are now lapping up the slime like a cat to milk in order to cover his ass. We don't know yet if he committed a crime or not, but what we DO KNOW is that he definitely damaged the country's national security for purely partisan political reasons. And to hell with the consequences. But what we're getting, instead, is yet another impressive demonstration that these days, truth is political. One after another, prominent Republicans and conservative pundits have declared their allegiance to the party line. They haven't just gone along with the diversionary tactics, like the irrelevant questions about whether Mr. Rove used Valerie Wilson's name in identifying her (Robert Novak later identified her by her maiden name, Valerie Plame), or the false, easily refuted claim that Mr. Wilson lied about who sent him to Niger. They're now a chorus, praising Mr. Rove as a patriotic whistle-blower. As Krugman so rightly points out, this is, in the long run about Bush. He knew this man was a thug and a slimeball just by the way he helped get his daddy elected through smear attacks. And that is exactly why Jr. didn't make any attempt to find out if he was the leaker. My opinion is he didn't have to ask him, he knew all along, and now he is sitting back and letting him shaft the American people once again. Krugman asks at the end of his piece, "How did our political system get to this point?" The answer is quite simple in my opinion. We have a kiss-ass, spineless press corps who doesn't ask questions, and when they do, and get a diversionary response, they won't push, and push harder to find the truth. Then there is the public that cares more about Michael Jackson's latest nose job and some nut-case who runs away from her wedding than they do about not only the future of their country, but their own civil rights and freedoms that are being pissed away by a corrupt government.