Coming Event: The October Surprise

"George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history." -Sean Wilentz, "The Worst President in History?", Rolling Stone Magazine

Are we all collectively holding our breath wondering what kind of an October surprise the bozos in the Bush Administration will come up with to keep from losing either the House or the Senate or both on November 7 ... and stay out of prison?

My god, the drumbeat of revelations about the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal, their prized pets—G.W. and Karl Rove—and the token Christian being readied to be thrown to the lions, Condi Rice ...

Starting with the full article referenced above:

The Worst President in History?, by Sean Wilentz, in Rolling Stone Magazine

A Spy Speaks Out, on 60 Minutes, CBS News:

"(CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

"He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.

Why Iraq Was a Mistake, by Lieut. General Greg Newbold (Ret.), TIME Magazine:

"Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon's top operations officer, voiced his objections internally and then retired, in part out of opposition to the war. Here, for the first time, Newbold goes public with a full-throated critique:"

And Carl Bernstein's outspoken, courageous, and rational call for an investigation to find out the truth:

Senate Hearings on Bush, Now, by Carl Bernstein, Vanity Fair:

"In this VF.com exclusive, a Watergate veteran and Vanity Fair contributing editor calls for bipartisan hearings investigating the Bush presidency. Should Republicans on the Hill take the high road and save themselves come November?"

We the people should never outgrow the demand for the truth from our elected leaders.

Or are we a bunch of cowards? Are we going to sit back while Rummy and Cheney concoct the next plot to take over the government through fear? (What other reason can there be for keeping Rumsfled around, except his loyalty to the Neocon cabal now afraid of landing in prison if they lose the House or the Senate or both in Novemeber?)

It’s simple. We demand the truth. We call and write our elected officials at all levels and tell them, “WE WANT THE TRUTH! AND IF YOU WON’T GIVE IT TO US, WE’LL ELECT SOMEONE WHO WILL!”

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (King James Version of the New Testament, http://www.blueletterbible.org)

Or do we buy into the line from the Jack Nicholson's wacko character, Col. Nathan R. Jessep, in A FEW GOOD MEN, "You can't handle the truth!"?

We don't have to violate the law to honor the pledge of our founders:

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." - Signers of our Declaration of Independence.

But we do have to exercise our rights as free citizens of the country that still remains the beacon of hope for a free world with liberty and justice for all. Or we could lose it all to a bunch of bozos.

My god, how did an emotionally stunted garden variety schoolyard bully (with a brain) like Karl Rove ever wind up working in our White House for our President? Is everybody at that level of politics so interested in their own selfish goals that they can be picked off like that, one by one? I just shake my head in disbelief every time I read Karl's political history.