“Feel Good, Inc.” (+ OPEN THREAD)
By SusanUnPC on July 15, 2007 at 5:50 AM in Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs
By SusanUnPC … Sent to me by both Butters, our great blog programmer, and Leslie, our regular contributor, a terrific ‘toon by Nick Anderson of The Houston Chronicle:
Have you given up shrimp? Yeah, I loved it too. Dammit. Now take a look at how Maureen Dowd extracts an example for moral behavior and contrition suggested for Bush and Cheney out of the Chinese food and product safety scandal:
There’s not much lately that we’d like to import from China.
Certainly not the yummy steamed buns stuffed with shredded cardboard soaked in a caustic agent used to make soap. Or the tasty toothpaste laced with an antifreeze ingredient. Or the scrumptious seafood with a chemical kick. Or those pet foods with kibbles and bits of poison.
But there is one thing made in China we could use: mea culpas of high officials.
Zheng Xiaoyu, a top regulator who helped create China’s Food and Drug Administration, accepted $850,000 in bribes from drug companies and became enmeshed in the mistakes that flooded the market with dangerous drugs. Before he was executed Tuesday, he wrote a short confession titled “How I Look on My Mistakes.”
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Just as the Communist Party helped the late Mr. Zheng compose his thoughts, I volunteer to ghost-write our leaders’ self-scrutiny:
“How I Look on My Mistakes,” by George W. Bush
The people trusted me with an important position. I didn’t live up to expectations. I let Dick supersize the executive branch and cast Democrats as whiners and traitors. Why did I not suspect that Dick might be power-hungry when he appointed himself vice president? Why did I let him take over my presidency and fill it up with warmongers? I was so afraid to be called a wimp, as my father once was, I allowed Dick and Rummy to turn me into a wimp. I should never have allowed Dick to conspire with energy lobbyists and steer contracts to Halliburton. A tip-off should have been when Dick kept giving himself all the same powers that I had. Or when he outed that pretty lady spy.
Dowd lists a litancy of Bush’s mistakes and crimes, including:
If I had left the gym long enough to read about Algeria or even one of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, then I might have not gotten bogged down in Iraq and let North Korea, China and Russia slide.
Being the Decider is so confusing. I regret stealing the presidency and wish I could give it back.
“Stealing the presidency.” Alright, Maureen! Then she concludes with:
“How I Look on My Mistakes,” by Dick Cheney
Buzz off.
by Ronald Scott
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