Things are starting to boil over
Take a minute to read the letters to the editor in today’s New York Times.
Inured as the public has become to scandal during a presidency that seems to consist of nothing BUT, this past week seems to have pushed people over the brink.
I quote the first letter in full below, but read through the rest of them if you can. It’s the first time I’ve seen the NYT looking like the comments section of a DailyKos diary.
“Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations” (front page, Oct. 4) and “Bush Vetoes Health Bill Privately, Without Fanfare” (news article, Oct. 4) make me feel sick and desperate about what this president has done, and continues to do, to our once-proud country in only seven years. Could he have done more to debase us if he had set out purposely to destroy us, our economy, our moral values and our dignity?
To him and to his minions who tar their critics as America-haters, I borrow Paul Robeson’s words from another bleak age: “You are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”
Monica Mori
Chicago, Oct. 4, 2007
Looks like Home Depot had better stock up on pitchforks…
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Indeed, they ought to be ashamed. But indeed, they are not. People capable of doing what the Bush adminstration has done are capable of many things: acrimony, paranoia, incompetence, deceit, greed, dishonesty and sheer nastiness. But they are incapable of empathy, and hence, they are incapable of shame.
Comment by Steve Alber — October 5, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
Exactly. How do you shame a petri dish full of e-coli?
Comment by Barb — October 5, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
Or, as Hamlet , like a dithering congressional Democrat, was trying to say: “You can prick the conscience of a king, but you can’t install a conscience in a prick.”
Comment by Al — October 6, 2007 @ 6:08 pm