The Furious Spinner

Great piece by Jane Smiley. She rips into those who are newly outraged by the Emperor (including Sandra Day O'Connor). I share Smiley's outrage but she articulates it so much better than I have. She writes, "...and all the rest of you newly-minted dissenters from Bush's faith-based reality seem, right now, to be glorying in your outrage, which is always a pleasure and feels, at the time, as if it is having an effect, but those of us who have been anti-Bush from day 1 (defined as the day after the stolen 2000 election) have a few pointers for you that should make your transition more realistic.

"1. Bush doesn't know you disagree with him. Nothing about you makes you of interest to George W. Bush once you no longer agree with and support him...2. Bush doesn't care whether you disagree with him...4. President Bush is your creation. When the US Supreme Court humiliated itself in 2000 by handing the presidency to Bush even though two of the justices (Scalia and Thomas) had open conflicts of interest, you did not object...5. Tyranny is your creation. What we have today is the natural and inevitable outcome of ideas and policies you have promoted for the last generation...the ideology of the unregulated free market has created the world we live in today...The unregulated free market has operated to produce a government in its own image."

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