TheAgitator.com
Oh, Bama.
Monday, February 23rd, 2009New era of transparency, my butt.
The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
Two advocacy groups suing the Executive Office of the President say that large amounts of White House e-mail documenting Bush’s eight years in office may still be missing, and that the government must undertake an extensive recovery effort. They expressed disappointment that Obama’s Justice Department is continuing the Bush administration’s bid to get the lawsuits dismissed.
During its first term, the Bush White House failed to install electronic record-keeping for e-mail when it switched to a new system, resulting in millions of messages that could not be found.
The Bush White House discovered the problem in 2005 and rejected a proposed solution…
om Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, noted that President Barack Obama on his first full day in office called for greater transparency in government.
The Justice Department “apparently never got the message” from Obama, Blanton said.
Oh, I think they got the message.
I’d make a funny one-liner about “change” but this shit has just gotten fucking sad over the last four weeks. It’s one thing after another. Obama has sold us some bad, bad snake oil.
Like I said before the election. It doesn’t matter which asshole you choose, the problem is that you only have assholes to choose from.
Which is worse? The sale of the snake oil, or that there were millions of Americans who tripped over themselves to buy it?
Let’s not forget that Obama is just a symptom of the disease.
Every time a liberal is denied hope and change by Obama, an angel gets its wings.
What is truly the worst is the fact that no one thought that lowering the barrier to voting to the point that anyone with a room temperature IQ could vote would somehow prevent demagogues from gaining power.
Sadly, these types of decisions play really well with your typical person who considers himself up on politics. Obama seems “reasonable” and “bipartisan” here. When i point this out to my Obama loving friends, they always say “well you can’t expect to agree with him on everything!” As though this is some policy debate. These issues about following the law because that’s the essence of our democratic and free society, and that not following the law because you feel like it or because you can get away with it is anathema to the basic founding principle of our country, don’t really go over big with even your average smart person.
So many decisions are boiled down to “policitcal savvyness” that you sound like some hyper-technical nerd when you talk about following the law for its own sake.
I want my vote back.
People laughed at me when I told them I refused to vote for McCain or Obama on the basis of the fact that my vote was wasted. My logic was that it was a foregone conclusion that one of them would be elected. I thought both were bad for the country in different ways.
Therefore I lodged a protest vote for Ralph Nader.
Here’s the rub: How do you convince people that thinking doesn’t suck and that it might actually do you a little good from time to time?
You had a choice between two steaming bowls of $h!t, the only difference was the smell.
Full disclosure, I am rooting (actually betting) for the full destruction of every ideal outlined in the Constitution. It is inevitable, so I might as well make a few dollars…er…gold ounces off it. So, when these jackals (worshipped by jackasses) make mistake after mistake and tell lie after lie I at least get to cheer a bit.
Usually one hot shower washes the icky feeling away. At least I still have an icky feeling (I’m looking your way Congress).
ktc2,
I believe the cultural reference is now “a giant douche” or “a turd sandwich”.
Ahhh…South Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd
I try to follow the principle of primum non nocere. Conseqently, I haven’t voted in a presidential election since I have been eligible to do so because I never felt like voting for either candidate was less harmful than not voting, if for no other reason than the psychic harm to me of voting for someone whose policies I might agree with about 20% of the time on average.
It’s always mind-boggling to me when libertarians claim that voting for one party or the other is better because we agree with one more than the other. If you disagree on fundamentals about the size, scope and authority of government, then what does it matter if you agree on the constitutional protection of flag-burning as speech?
The same thing goes for “teaching them a lesson.” Voting for one party to discipline the other tends to create a larger majority for the party you’re voting for, thereby increasing the size, scope and authority of government, while perhaps protecting flag burning for a while, until the flag burners are critical of the party then in power; then, watch out!
All of this makes me thing that voting booths should all carry Dante’s warning, “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.”
Or, for a less literary reference, “Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.” Toss the carrot, people.
Ahhh I’m tempted to laugh at those who thought Obama would usher in an era of real change, but…oh what the Hell.
Bwahahahahahahahaha.
Went to dinner with my in-laws last night. My sister-in-law is a federal agent, customs dept.
I asked her if anything’s different under the new administration.
Her three letter answer? “Nah.”
“I want my vote back.”
Next time, try NOT voting.
#14: Cynical: “Next time, try NOT voting.”
If things continue in this direction, Cynical, I will probably follow your advice.
[...] more transparency: The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit [...]
ktc2 sez:
“You had a choice between two steaming bowls of $h!t, the only difference was the smell.”
There was a difference? My nose must’ve been fritzed.
Each succeeding regime acts to protect its predecessors secure in the knowledge that its prevarications, irregularities and (horrors) criminality will in turn be kept from the sheeple.
I trust you are a man of your word Helmut. Don’t let us down!