A single scandalous fish in a river full of crimes (sofa king)

  The transgressions of the Bush Administration run so thick and so deep that future historians will be able to look at no single act of this Presidency without considering that act part of an enormous school of criminal deeds, all swimming in dark formation in the muddy water they intentionally left churned.

sofa king -- Democratic Underground     March 28, 2007 -- The other day I was speaking with someone about this latest raft of Bush Administration scandals, specifically the attorney firings, when I had an unusual realization. I mentioned in passing something about the "day-to-day pattern of criminal behavior" those brigands in the White House are exercising.     "What do you mean?" said my friend.     And that's when I realized that even at this advanced date, few people have seen what I saw. Though many of us have been reading about the crimes of the White House in the murky (but better and more honestly reported) depths of the alternative media, few people have actually seen what I mean by a day-to-day pattern of criminal behavior.   Those attorney firings? They're not concealing a single crime, or a few crimes. Those firings are designed to cover up a criminal assault upon our nation the likes of which I have never seen before nor ever studied about, though I spent the better part of a decade researching government-sanctioned crimes in the field of Indian Affairs. I'm talking about crimes committed every single day, some large, some small, all of them affronts to our national dignity and a disgrace to our country's name.   About this time of year on the Potomac River, the shad run through Washington, D.C., to spawn -- millions of 'em, so many that you can simply dip a net in the water and pull out a handful of six-inch long appetizers. Similarly, the transgressions of the Bush Administration run so thick and so deep that future historians will be able to look at no single act of this Presidency without considering that act part of an enormous school of criminal deeds, all swimming in dark formation in the muddy water they intentionally left churned.   So remember this when I tell you this little story: it's but one story among a myriad, only a few dozen of which I have seen myself. It's a crime which will never be prosecuted, probably never even acknowledged, first because there are so many bigger fish to fry, second dipping your net in the waters of the Bush Administration will always yield a criminal fish -- but probably not a single one of the fish I watched swim by.   more   READ MORE: Democratic Underground