Senor Delgado's picture and or Karl Rove's should be placed in the dictionary, next to the word "scoundrel".
Hang him alive in an iron cage on the Washington Mall so that small children can come on alternate Sundays and poke him through the bars with sharp sticks. For twenty years.
I could be persuaded to call that justice, member of the ACLU that I am.
I helped kill your child by prolonging the war to help the President stay in power. Karl Rove
That would apply to both Vietnam '69-'73 and Iraq '02-?. About half (28,000) of those names on the Vietnam Memorial, all on the future Iraq Memorial and 3,000,000+ unacknowledged innocent civilians were cut by Nixon/Agnew, Bush/Cheney et al. with substantial assistance from psychopathic political engineers like Karl Rove, veteran (at a distance) of both atrocities. And people wonder why they hate us and fight back.
1) If I were that Spanish judge, first I'd toss that case so fast it'd make that driver's head spin, and then I'd fine him twice his net worth for bringing such a frivolous (and blackhearted) case, and then I'd toss him in the clink for at least a month for the same reason.
2) That Karl Rove still lives is proof that the Wingnut fantasy of the evil, homicidal Clintons is utter bunk. If said fantasy was true, he'd be dead by now, probably by "suicide" or "accident." Hell, if I were an incoming Dem president, I'd be tempted to keep Bush's unconstitutional power-grab rules alive just long enough for that repulsive fucker to be sent to some secret prison where he'd die a very unnatural (and painful and prolonged) death. The fact that doing such a thing would be a bad precedent for the rest of us would be all that would stop me. I would, however, happily scoop him and all the Bush criminals up and send them to the Hague, where Bush pardons don't apply.
Bush, Cheney, Rove, Condi, Rumsfeld - the whole lot of them should be tried and hung, in public, on live TV. The forever more history classes in high school should be shown the video and told this is what happens to people that allow the lust for power to destroy their humanity and moral sense. Actually forget the trial, justice is not something they believe in or practice so they should be treated the same as they treated others.
Nice fantasy but we all know it won't happen. Hell the wussy Democrats can't even stand up to him when they have a majority. Clinton gets impeached for a blowjob while Bush and his cabal murder hundreds of thousands and walk away unscathed. Totally unbelievable.
Maybe Karl could hang out at Arlington...
For Rove and his ilk I always remember the B5 quote:
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me?
This is what depresses me the most, Jesse: I thought something very similar when the Reagan/Bush 41 years ended. And when Carter was elected ...
But the thing is, the damage never gets repaired. The Clinton years were basically just slapping a new coat of paint on a house that's still riddled with termites and reeks of mold.
And if the Big Dog's presidency wasn't as fiscally insane or anywhere near as shamelessly corrupt as the preceding or what followed, he still brought us NAFTA, and welfare "reform", and triangulated his own party into irrelevancy and near-oblivion. (If the Republican High Command's own in-bred arrogance and stupidity hadn't tempted them into a major fit of imperial overreach, they might well have achieved their permanent majority.)
We're all frustrated because we know damn well what's coming if a Democrat gets elected: Whoever gets the nomination, it'll be the Clinton years redux. Except much more nasty and over-the-top wingnutty, when our news media once again suddenly, miraculously rediscover their adversarial cojones in a Drudge-ruled infobubble.
The political fallout from closing the arterial wound of the Iraq occupation would by itself be enough to ruin most Presidents, and the next one will in all probability also be grappling with an economy gone to shit.
Plus there's the Patriot Act, habeas corpus, and that monument to self-reinforcing paranoia and bureaucratic inertia, Homeland Security.
And our justly-earned reputation as a rogue nation run by a mob of scared-witless, bloodthirsty, sadistic religious fanatics. Even if we've lately been showing some signs of returning sanity, after that rampage things can never again be the same.
There's nowhere near enough space to even begin to enumerate all the Chickens from Hell that are coming home to roost after 30 years of willful neglect of our public capital.
And all this is nowhere near a comprehensive list of the shit that's going to have to be dealt with.
Oh, good grief: I've just succeeded in making myself even more depressed.
We must always be mindful of the sociopathy involved in a high number of those that seek power. It is a disproportionate percentage to those in the general population and likely resembles the same proportion in a maximum security prison. Criminals are usually highly confident individuals with very little to no conscience. Remind anyone of any Presidents or Presidential candidates?
The American political process, as costly and byzantine as it is, probably pushes more sociopaths into power than more transparent societies allow. It is hard to imagine a man like Bush Jr. being elected in most countries, but the elements of our society contrived that it was to be so, with full validation coming only after 3,000 of our fellow people were burned and crushed into ash.
I am certainly ready for this nation's weaknesses to stop being exposed and for its strengths to reassert themselves. I hope that Obama is the anti-Rove, but I always fear that his talk of unity doesn't include the teeth needed to get us on the right track.
"What Karl Rove did for politics was eliminate any legitimate sense of community."
Uh, no.
What Karl Rove did for politics was eliminate any legitimate sense of DECENCY.
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