Bush is the King of Hearts in wonderland

The emperor has no clothes ...

Bush 43 isn't King of the USA, he is the King of Hearts in Wonderland ... absurd ... where down is up, and up is down.

How did our great nation get to this point? It happened when our leaders abandoned skepticism in the pursuit of truth for the corporate monopolist/neocon dictum that the pursuit of self-interest trumps truth.

It isn't just Bush who is absurd. Look in the mirror, America.

We have plans for success for our children in preschool ... I mean the kind that plot out the steps to high-paying adult careers, for chrissakes!

And you think that's going to turn around anytime soon?

I repeat, we as a society have bought--hook, line, AND sinker (the perfect pun)--the corporate monopolist/neocon dictum that the pursuit of self-interest trumps the pursuit of truth.

We have abandoned skepticism toward both our understanding of "what is" AND our choices of "what ought to be" ... and in doing so we have become absurd.

Instead of listening to leaders like Congressman Charles Rangel and his concepts of governance taken from the New Testament Book of Matthew, we listen to the likes of Tim Russert who discusses the issues with an eye on ratings.

And worse ... We are the ones who sit glued to the tube watching the news of Anna Nicole Smith's death unfold. We are the ones who spend more time tracking the contestants on American Idol than the policy statements and records of our political candidates.

We are a combination of Rome with the circuses in the Coliseum and Nazi Germany with the fear of others. We are absurd.

Sadly, with the sell-out of labor rights in globalization, we drove off the cliff. Now we have nothing to support a renewal.

And we have no prophets to call us to repentance ... sack cloth and ashes don't wear well in the board room.