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"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." -- Kin Hubbard
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March's Lowdown
Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice
"For too long," wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, "some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process."
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has never been mistaken for a bleeding-heart liberal, so you can rest assured that his anguish over inequality did not concern the disenfranchisement of minorities or poor people--or any kind of people, for that matter. No, it is the tragic political deprivation faced by America's corporations that moved Mitch to such an outpouring of woe.
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AL NEEDS A JOB
Poor Al--he's all resume, no job. Sort of a yuppified version of "All hat, no cattle."
And what a resume he has: graduate of Harvard law school; chief lawyer for the president of the United States; and then U.S. attorney general, America's top lawyer.
Alberto Gonzales can't get a job. Having been forced to resign as attorney general, the Texan who flowered in the manure of George W's corporate-financed rise to power has been putting out feelers to the very corporate law firms that fueled his rise to the legal heights. They are not returning his phone calls.
Gonzales confused personal loyalty to the Bush regime with public responsibility. Legalize torture? He'd find a way. Use the Justice Department as a political hit squad? He was okay with that. Go before Congress and play a dummy? Hey, count on Al.
Unfortunately, this tail-wagging loyalty to the Bushites caused Gonzales to be seen as, let's say, less than truthful, even to Republican lawmakers. Plus, he's facing possible criminal charges for his prevarications.