December 05, 2005



The 'wheels are coming off'
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Posted: December 01, 2005
by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today

Incompetence and scandal shock the country
''Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.''
~Lord Acton (1834 - 1902), historian
When there is no balance, the people suffer. Such is it today that the five-year, one-party dominance of the United States has made the Republican hegemony nearly complete. But just when it seemed that such hegemony would necessarily translate into a policy lock-up by far-right fundamentalists, scandal, mendacity and corruption saturate the news.
The neo-conservative movement's recent achievement - gaining complete command of a super-powerful and largely united Republican Party - increasingly seems more a national problem which has begun to irritate American sensibilities.
Arrogance has been exposed in the sudden rise of oil prices that followed hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast. *snip*
While its ultimate outcome remains to be seen, Americans are increasingly beginning to see Bush in an entirely new light: as incompetent, uncurious and, most damagingly, as dishonest. This is particularly stunning given the establishment of a domestic partisan propagandistic media and well-documented instances of media manipulation by the Bush administration. It is a world where even the acerbic populist radio talk show host Don Imus recently commented in his morning program: ''It feels like the wheels are coming off the car.'' *snip*
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