The Wonderful World of George:


What a wonderful world George has passed along to us…

Even the makeup of the government he bestowed on us would be laughable if we examined their qualifications and merits if it weren’t so damned personal.

To spare us that agony, let us just conclude that virtually every Cabinet appointment was either a sinecure or an appointment from the industry that said appointee was supposed to monitor and control. (Didn’t we all know that they were going to return from where they came as soon as George returns to the ranch?)

All along, we folk, naïve as we are, had assumed that the Interior Secretary would have a stake in being concerned about the interior.

That would seem to have a certain logic to it.

We did not dream that the Interior Secretary would be hard-driving advocate of economic development of the Interior with the focus on drilling, clear-cutting, and mining—three things considered inimical with the Secretary’s obligations.

And you can go right down the line and find the same parallels in virtually every Cabinet appointment made by our Pasha of self-interest.

Look at FDA, populated by people from the food and drug industries, they are sworn to monitor and control the industries they oversee, and if that gives you fits, it is quite reasonable under the circumstances. These are the same folk who allow medicines, food supplements and other consumable products into our country that are not tested or inspected at all. And when approached about their obligations, simply blow it off!

Of course, Americans are big believers in trust so we have to factor that in….that is until there is some kind of a National scandal as there is now, and as there was over the past eight years of fumbling the ball.

You can look at Treasury. We just appointed a new Attorney General who thinks of water boarding as a sport and would rather be somewhere else than having to make legal decisions….. Seems rather incongruous wouldn’t you think?

At least there’s OSHA. What about OSHA? Aren’t they the folks who postponed the clear air and clean water acts for another ten years. And postponed legislation already on the
books because the dirty industries were not quite ready to clean up!

Nothing so irregular with HUD.

Really, didn’t they just ask the Chair to resign for money irregularities…..i.e. bribes and kick-offs which were vehemently denied until the wealth of evidence was overwhelming….

How about the past?

Well, Christy Whitman—a Bush appointee-- swore on a stack of bibles that the air right after 9/11 had been tested and there was nothing to worry about.

We wonder why then so many “first responders” are now coming down or dying from air-related diseases?

And need we mention, Mr. Brown, who distinquished himself according to GW for doing such a great job of bailing out New Orleans and helping “the locals.” That’s the place John McCain would have visited if he had known about the disaster although he was said to be right next store in Arizona celebrating his birthday with G.W. Bush, who later realized it might be necessary to fly over the destroyed city and wave a flag or something for a photo op on his way back to the ranch.

As a postscript, if I recall, all the money went to developers, when it did come and they used that money to bring in new businesses and gambling ventures.

And then when we had to do something, they gave everybody who bitched and moaned about the government’s failings, a mobile home that would eventually kill them off from the fumes they inhaled. I guess that’s one solution.

I mean you and I both know we could go on and on and quote chapter and verse about this government of personal economic opportunity and ensuing chaos.

But why bother. We all know that already.


PS Dennis has been patently unsuccessful in lining up support for the Impeachment of George W. Bush for lying to Americans about starting a war against Iraq.

What will they then do about Iran?

Was that the Statue of Liberty shedding a tear?

The Armchair Curmudgeon

Les Aaron
The Power of One Society.