Firing Rummy
p2pnet.net news view:- When Representative Jack Murtha suggested last November that the troops come home it created a public furor among republicans, but privately they reacted with glee. Surely this will be the democrats’ downfall they gloated, so out of step are they they think pulling out of Iraq will resonate with patriotic Americans…
We know the result. After watching those democrats take over the House and all but seal the Senate, President George W. Bush did what he insisted last week he would never do: he fired Donald Rumsfeld. It may be he simply can’t afford having Rumsfeld subpoenaed by Nancy Pelosi, and if inconvenient truths emerge before his presidential term ends the next subpoena may well be his.
He could be right, but firing Rummy isn’t going to help if he’s looking for a safety net. If there’s anything there something will come out somewhere that leads to more questions that cascade into inevitable torrents that end with a President in front of a shocked nation, under oath, disgraced and finished. His dad is doing all he can to prevent the scenario, bringing in the old guard to form a defensive circle around his boy, but it remains to be seen whether this unprecedented familial Whitehouse takeover will ultimately protect the President or just delay the unavoidable, but that’s a! story for another day.
Here at Napsterites the story for today is the opportunity this mid term election upset presents to us as internet users and file-sharers, so the reasons it has occurred are somewhat less pressing. We have for six long years dealt with a hostile Washington group determined to suppress our constitutionally guaranteed rights of free speech, assembly and the ability to access and distribute information. Whatever minor gains we may occasionally receive from a grudging judiciary we lose to an increasingly fanatical Justice Department, and with the exception of a handful of progressives in Washington, we have not been able to get a fair hearing anywhere near that town. All the levers of power are held by our enemies and the legislators they have bought off in the House and Senate.
These powerful old men are so arrogant and hostile they haven’t even attempted an illusion of fairness, they simply treated us with open contempt, secure in the belief their rich friends in international media would insulate them from our anger. When Orrin Hatch proposes to destroy your computer without due process because it contains legal, non-criminal content that might be in violation of minor civil ordinances, we don’t need a crystal ball to judge his motives, they are sitting plainly in front of us.
Until now.
Because the democrats have regained control of congress, Orrin will no longer reprise his performance as a sometime Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee so this part time composer won’t be conducting any more hearings on that or any other stage. This will be repeated at every committee that affects us, as republican chairmen leave from Copyrights, Commerce and countless others, all the way up to and including the powerful FCC itself. There is even the possibility we will be able to revisit the disastrous CARP ruling that imposed fees so onerous onto internet radio it silenced innumerable voices and some 40,000 unique stations overnight.
We don’t have much time.
Already lobbyists at major media concerns are calling in markers for the most expensive election in US history so we’ll have to move fast, but with democrats in power there is at least a presumption the public will receive better reception than it got from shielded republicans.
Might I suggest something as simple as a telephone call to start? Perhaps one of a congratulatory nature to your new and returning representatives and senators, and to those freshly minted chairmen of the committees that sound our future with every gavel’s bang. They will be approachable only for as long as the fundamentals remain foremost in their minds: that their time may yet be brief, that to achieve a more substantial future they must listen to their true constituents; the ones who call from modest homes, not those jetting in this week from glass encased corporate castles.
Jack Spratts – p2p-zone
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November 13th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
My Friend Fict is a very close advisor to George. He was with George when George told Rummy the bad news, “you are fired”. This is what Fisc told me about the conversation at the firing.
GWB: Sorry Rummy, but I decided this morning that need a scapegoat.
Rummy: What do you mean?
GWB: Well, you are the first cabinetician that walks into my office and I have to decide fast, so you are it. I need some good news for the people to counteract the election debacle.
Rummy: Thats no fair. After all the mess we are in is your and your hunter buddy’s fault.
GWB: My fault? Look, I’m just a c-minus college student who went into politics to make daddy and his Saudi friend happy. Its not my fault.
Rummy: Yes, but it was you who decided to take over Irak. I told you it was a mistake, that no one would understand a war there. But you insisted.
GWB:No one would understand? And just what it is that you tell the soldiers you send to Irak? They don’t understand either? Well, let me tell you something, I don’t understand myself. You were supposed to come up with an explanation the common people like me could understand, but you never did.
Here Fict intevenes
Fict: Hey you guys, stop bickering or you both will wind in the history book just after Watergate and Iran-Contra. Here is what you should do. George, you go public saying what a great job Rummy made, being careful so as not to repeat the “heck of a job” mistake after Katrina or mention the word petroleum like you did last week. You explain that a fresh aproach is needed for obtaining the Irak democracy you decided they want over there. You Rummy, play it cool. Just be happy that you no longer have to worry about the liberated Irakis or their petroleum. Just let George here work this out with his Dad.
GWB: That what I like about you, Fict. That was a heck of a performance. I need more advisors like you.
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